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Columbus sailed the ocean blue
1492
Greenlander seamen visit America
1000
Vasco Da Gama finds a new sea route to Asia
1498
Portuguese arrive at the Azores
1431
Alexander the Great reaches Indus
326 BC
Wars between the Persians and Greeks
5th Century BC
Followers of the prophet Mohammed fan out across the Mediterranean
7th Century
Battle of Poitiers
732
Fall of the Sultanate of Granada/ End of Reconquista
1492
Ottoman Empire established
13th Century
Capture of Constantinople
1453
Reign of Selim I (Ottoman)
1512-20
Reign of Sūleyman the Magnificent (Ottoman)
1520-66
Ming Dynasty comes to power
1393
Capital of China, Nanking is moved to Peking
1409
Peking is made the official capital of China
1421
Admiral Cheng-ho takes the first expeditionary fleet to large parts of Asia
1405
Shipbuilding is forbidden in China
1551
Charles V is born
1500
Charles V abdicates
1555
Netherlands rises in revolt
1568
Netherlands gains independence
1600
Treaty of Tordesillas
1494
Dutch admiral Piet Heyn captured a Mexican Silver fleet
1628
Pieter Dirckszn Keyzer and Cornelis de Houtman arrives at Bantam (Banten)
1596
The Dutch Long-Distance Campanies unite to form the VOC
1602
British East India Company created
1600