Vasco da Gama reaches India
1498 · Event
Portuguese fleet arrives at Calicut; opens direct European sea route to Asian spices.
On these timelines: Age of Exploration, Master, India
More from Age of Exploration
- Columbian Exchange begins (1492)
- Age of Exploration (1418)
- Zheng He (1371)
- Marco Polo's journey to China (1271)
- Columbian Exchange ends (1700)
- Christopher Columbus (1451)
- Diaz rounds the Cape of Good Hope (1488)
- Zheng He's voyages begin (1405)
Around 1498
- The Reformation (1517)
- Leonardo da Vinci (1452)
- English Reformation (1533)
- Fall of Constantinople (1453)
- Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire (1519)
- Wars of the Roses (1455)
- Spanish Reconquista last campaign (1482)
- Columbus reaches the Americas (1492)
- Magellan-Elcano circumnavigation (1519)
- Spanish conquest of the Incas (1532)