Age Of Exploration

Willem Schouten & Jacob Le Maire — Cape Horn passage and circumnavigation (1615–1617)

1614 - 1622

Waldseemüller's Universalis Cosmographia and the naming of America (1507–1516)

1505 - 2003

VOC Mapping and Exploration of Australasia and the Pacific (1601–1644)

1602 - 1644

Vasco da Gama's second India expedition and naval campaign (1502–1503)

1502 - 1503

Vasco da Gama's first voyage to India (1497–1499)

1497 - 1499

The Spanish response to early circumnavigation: policy, expeditions and refitting (1522–1550)

1522 - 1546

Spanish Pacific round‑trips and early Manila–Acapulco circuit (1565–1600)

1564 - 1600

Spanish conquest of the Maya lowlands and Yucatán (1527–1697)

1494 - 1850

Spanish conquest of the Canary Islands (1402–1496)

1402 - 1496

Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire (1519–1521)

Spanish conquest and colonization of Panama and the Central American isthmus (1513–1540)

1510 - 1538

Spanish colonization of Puerto Rico (1508–1535)

1493 - 1540