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Major discovery/ Destination Main explorer Year Funding by Congo River: Diogo Cão: 1482: John II of Portugal: Cape of Good Hope Indian Ocean: Dias: 1488: John II of Portugal: West Indies: Columbus: 1492: Ferdinand and Isabella: India: Vasco da Gama: 1498: Manuel I: Brazil: Cabral: 1500: Manuel I: Spice Islands Australasia (Western Pacific ...
Lorraine Jenifer Daston (born June 9, 1951) is an American historian of science.She is director emerita of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG) in Berlin, [1] visiting professor in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago, [2] and an authority on early modern Europe's scientific and intellectual history. [1]
Columbus before the Queen, imagined by Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze, 1843. This timeline of European exploration lists major geographic discoveries and other firsts credited to or involving Europeans during the Age of Discovery and the following centuries, between the years AD 1418 and 1957.
The “beautiful valley” celebrated the 175th anniversary of pioneers striking gold in Coloma.
The Polish composer, who died 175 years ago at age 39, has a new waltz attributed to him thanks to its discovery by a curator at the Morgan Library & Museum in New York; it’s his first unknown ...
Archaeological discoveries with year of discovery missing (8 P) 0–9. 1446 archaeological discoveries (1 P) 1471 archaeological discoveries (1 P)
[179] [180] A letter to Piero Soderini, published c. 1505 and purportedly by Vespucci, claims that he first voyaged to the American mainland in 1497, a year before Columbus. [181] In 1507, a year after Columbus's death, [182] the New World was named "America" on a map by German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller. [183]
The Des Moines Register, literally born in a log cabin, became Iowa's leading newspaper. See a timeline, 50 photos from Register and Iowa history.