Age of Exploration
1418–1779 · Event
European maritime discoveries from Prince Henry the Navigator's Atlantic voyages to the Pacific charting of Cook; reshapes the world.
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More from Age of Exploration
- Vasco da Gama reaches India (1498)
- Columbian Exchange begins (1492)
- Zheng He (1371)
- Marco Polo travels to China (1271)
- Columbian Exchange ends (1700)
- Christopher Columbus (1451)
- Magellan-Elcano circumnavigation (1519)
- Diaz rounds the Cape of Good Hope (1488)
Around 1418
- Leonardo da Vinci (1452)
- Fall of Constantinople (1453)
- Gutenberg's printing press (1440)
- Ming dynasty (1368)
- Renaissance (1400)
- Wars of the Roses (1455)
- Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (1387)
- Mehmed II (1432)
- Gutenberg prints the 42-line Bible (1455)
- Forbidden City built (1406)