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The large ship illustrated below is an armed Portuguese merchant
carrack. It is thought to be the ‘Santa Caterina’. The ship was built 1510
the Portuguese East Indies trade. And is made of teak in their colony of
Cochin, India.” The painting courtesy of the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London.

Portuguese Explorers Timeline

1394 : Henry the Navigator, son of King John I of Portugal, is born
1415 : King John I conquers the city of Ceuta in northern Africa
1419 : Madeira Islands discovered by explorers Zarco and Tristao Vaz Teixeira
1427 : Azores Islands discovered by Portuguese explorer Diogo Silves
1434 : Exploration of the African coast begins
1438 : Afonso V of Portugal becomes king
1444: Discovery and colonisation of the Cape Verde islands
1481 : John II of Portugal becomes king
1484 : Diogo Cao discovers the River Congo
1487 : Bartholomeu Dias leads the expedition around the Cape of Good Hope
1492 : Christopher Columbus discovers the New World, but dies thinking its the Indies
1495 : Manuel I of Portugal becomes king
1498 : Vasco da Gama reaches India through navigation around Africa
1500 : Pedro Alvares Cabral discovers Brazil
1519 : Ferdinand Magellan leads the first voyage around the World
1521 : John III of Portugal becomes king
1542 : Portuguese explorers are the first Europeans to land in Japan
1557 : Sebastian of Portugal becomes king
1569 : Nagasaki, in Japan, is open to Portuguese traders
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