Age of Exploration
Explore Age of Exploration on Ever-When, an interactive timeline of history from the Big Bang to the present day.
Key events on this timeline
- Columbian Exchange begins (1492)
- Columbus reaches the Americas (1492)
- Age of Exploration (1418)
- Vasco da Gama reaches India (1498)
- Marco Polo travels to China (1271)
- Zheng He (1371)
- Captain Cook's first Pacific voyage (1768)
- Columbian Exchange (1492)
- Columbian Exchange ends (1700)
- Magellan-Elcano circumnavigation (1519)
- Treaty of Tordesillas (1494)
- Zheng He's treasure voyages (1405)
- Diaz rounds the Cape of Good Hope (1488)
- Zheng He's voyages begins (1405)
- Zheng He reaches East Africa (1418)
- Amundsen reaches the South Pole (1911)
- Hernán Cortés (1485)
- Ibn Battuta (1304)
- Marco Polo at the Yuan court (1271)
- Leif Erikson (970)
- Francisco Pizarro (1478)
- Zheng He's voyages ends (1433)
- Bartolomeu Dias rounds the Cape (1488)
- Ferdinand Magellan (1480)
- Henry the Navigator (1394)
- Cabral reaches Brazil (1500)
- Horse reintroduced to the Americas (1493)
- Drake's circumnavigation of the globe (1577)
- Sir Francis Drake (1540)
- David Livingstone (1813)