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CHRONOLOGY OF MAJOR EVENTS HISTORY IN EUROPE, ASIA, AFRICA AND THE WORLD, BUT 4.ooo AC AND BY THE END OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
Exploring the world by the fifteenth century
China, Japan, the Americas, Latin Christendom
The Central Atlantic and the Caribbean
Azores and Canary Islands
Christopher Columbus in the old world
Landing of Columbus in 1942
The four Atlantic voyages of Columbus
The West African coast
Vision Portuguese West Africa 1508
Islands of Cape Verde
The Strait of Magellan
The North Atlantic
North America
South America
The search for el dorado
Colombia and Venezuela
The Silver River, the Orinoco and the Amazon
The Indian Ocean
| Routes of survivors of shipwrecks Portuguese
The Pacific
The measurement of the globe
Longitude at sea
Africa from the eighteenth century
African Connection
The Congo Basin and the principles of imperialism
Expeditions imperial and colonial research
The last horizons
The polar regions
Desbravando pole
Present and future
PART TWO: Christopher Columbus
Charter boating Pizzigano map, Venice 1424
The planisphere 'canteens', Lisbon 1502
The map of the world of John Vespucio, Italy 1524
The maps of the voyage of Magellan, Antonio Pigafeta
The letter from the world of Edward Wright, London, 1599 |
