Late Middle Ages · South America · Exploration
1499
Amerigo Vespucci's First Voyage
1499
The Florentine navigator sailed on a Spanish expedition to the northern coast of South America and began to suspect that these lands were not Asia at all but an entirely unknown continent. His letters, printed and reprinted, would eventually persuade a German cartographer to label the new world with his first name.
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Also in 1499 (5 other events on record)
- Battle of Zonchio · Europe · War
- Swiss Win Independence at Dornach · Europe · War
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- Second Ottoman-Venetian War Begins · Europe · War
- Alonso de Ojeda Maps Venezuelan Coast · South America · Exploration
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Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.
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