Global Connections and Voyages

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Life of Prince Henry the navigator of portugal

1394 - 1460

Bartolomeu Dias's first voyage into the Indian Ocean

1488

Christopher Columbus's first voyage to the western hemisphere

1492

Vasco de Gama's first voyage to India

1497 - 1499

Establishment of Portuguese trading post in Calicut, India

1500

Ferdinand Magellan's circumnavigation of the world

1519 - 1522

Spanish conquest of the Philippines

1565 - 1575

Establishment of Batavia by the Dutch on the Island of Jave

1619

Seven Years' War

1756 - 1763

Captain James Cook's voyages in the Pacific Ocean

1768 - 1780