9 Death of Columbus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1504
170 Amerigo Vespucci finds Trinidad and Venezuela . . . . . . . 1499
175 First Map of the New World by Juan de la Cosa . . . . . . . 1500
177 Vasco da Gama reaches India by the Cape . . . . . . . . . . 1497
181 Pedro Cabral discovers Brazil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1500
188 Francisco Serrano reaches the Spice Islands . . . . . . . . 1511
192 Balboa sees the Pacific Ocean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1513
203 The First Circumnavigation of the World . . . . . . . . 1519-22
206 Cordova discovers Yucatan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1517
206 Juan Grijalva discovers Mexico . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1518
209 Cortes conquers Mexico . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1519
217 Pizarro conquers Peru . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1531
221 Orellana discovers the Amazon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1541
225 Cabot sails to Newfoundland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1497
228 Jacques Cartier discovers the Gulf of St. Lawrence . . . . 1534
236 Sir Hugh Willoughby finds Nova Zembla . . . . . . . . . . . 1553
238 Richard Chancellor reaches Moscow _via_ Archangel . . . . . 1554
240 Anthony Jenkinson crosses Russia to Bokhara . . . . . . . . 1558
244 Pinto claims the discovery of Japan . . . . . . . . . . . . 1542
245 Martin Frobisher discovers his Bay . . . . . . . . . . . . 1576
249 Drake sails round the World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1577-80
260 Davis finds his Strait . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1586
269 Barents discovers Spitzbergen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1596
275 Hudson sails into his Bay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1610
281 Baffin discovers his Bay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1616
285 Sir Walter Raleigh explores Guiana . . . . . . . . . . . . 1595
290 Champlain discovers Lake Ontario . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1615
298 Torres sails through his Strait . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1605
299 Le Maire rounds Cape Horn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1617
302 Tasman finds Tasmania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1642
306 Dampier discovers his Strait . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1698
312 Behring finds his Strait . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1741
322 Cook discovers New Zealand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1769
326 Cook anchors in Botany Bay, Australia . . . . . . . . . . . 1770
333 Cook discovers the Sandwich Islands . . . . . . . . . . . . 1777
338 La Perouse m