Voyages of discovery — A chronicle
The voyages of discovery on which seafarers embarked in the previous millennium would not have been possible without the knowledge of how to use the direction and speed of the wind.
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Voyages of discovery
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| 1271-1295 |
Marco Polo |
Overland to China, return by sea |
| 1492-1493 |
Christoph Kolumbus |
Hispaniola (America) |
| 1487-1488 |
Bartolomeu Diaz |
Cape of Good Hope |
| 1497-1498 |
Vasco da Gama |
Africa to India |
| 1501-1502 |
Amerigo Vespucci |
South America, Río de la Plata |
| 1519-1522 |
Fernando Magellan |
First voyage around the world |
| 1534-1535 |
Jacques Cartier |
North America/Canada |
| 1576-1578 |
Martin Frobisher |
North America/Labrador |
| 1577-1580 |
Francis Drake |
West coast of America up to Canada |
| 1610-1611 |
Henry Hudson |
Hudson Bay |
Source: Das Jahrtausend der Orkane, Joachim Feyerabend, 2001