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Alessandro Valignano (1579, Italy) was an Italian Jesuit priest and missionary who helped supervise the introduction of Catholicism to the Far East, and especially to Japan. He first visited Japan in 1579. William Adams (1600, England) – The first Englishman to reach Japan. Among the first Westerners to become a samurai, under Shōgun ...
William Adams (Japanese: ウィリアム・アダムス, Hepburn: Uiriamu Adamusu, historical kana orthography: ウヰリアム・アダムス; 24 September 1564 – 16 May 1620), better known in Japan as Miura Anjin (三浦按針, 'the pilot of Miura'), was an English navigator who, in 1600, became the first Englishman to reach Japan.
Jean Batten in 1937. Aleko Konstantinov – a cosmopolitan traveler, was the first Bulgarian to write about his visits to Western Europe and America. His visits to the World Exhibitions of Exposition Universelle (1889) in Paris, General Land Centennial Exhibition (1891) in Prague and World Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893 – including a visit to Niagara Falls – provided Bulgarian ...
As the foremost saint from Navarre and one of the main Jesuit saints, Francis Xavier is much venerated in Spain and the Hispanic countries where Francisco Javier or Javier are common male given names. [95] The alternative spelling Xavier is also popular in the Basque Country, Portugal, Catalonia, Brazil, France, Belgium, and southern Italy.
Only one ship, commanded by Juan Sebastián Elcano, returns to Spain in 1522 with 18 men remaining, accomplishing the first World circumnavigation in History. 1524: Third trip of Vasco da Gama to India. 1542: António da Mota is thrown by a storm to the island of Tanegashima, establishing the first European contact with Japan.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 15 December 2024. Leif Erikson (c.970–c.1020) was a famous Norse explorer who is credited for being the first European to set foot on American soil. Explorers are listed below with their common names, countries of origin (modern and former), centuries of activity and main areas of exploration. Marco ...
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Here, for the first time since the beginning of sakoku in the previous century, was a meeting between two great scholars from the civilizations of Japan and western Europe. [1] Among other things, Sidotti told Hakuseki that, contrary to what the Japanese believed at that time, Western missionaries were not the vanguards of Western armies.