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| 1492 |
| | | The world's first globe is published by Martin Behaim without showing America, in the very year of Columbus' voyage | |
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| 1492 |
| | | Christopher Columbus, together with the brothers Martin and Vicente Pinzón, sails west from Palos in Spain | |
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| 1492 |
| | | After sailing for five weeks from the Canaries, Columbus and the Pinzón brothers step ashore in the Bahamas | |
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| 1492 |
| | | Columbus and his fellow explorers make landfall on the largest of the Caribbean islands, Cuba | |
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| 1493 |
| | | John I Albert summons the first recorded sejm, a parliament representing the whole of Poland | |
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| 1493 |
| | | Columbus returns to Spain, landing at Palos with news of his great discoveries | |
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| 1493 |
| | | On Topa's death his son Huayna Capac succeeds to the throne as Inca emperor | |
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| 1493 |
| | | Pope Alexander VI draws a line through the Atlantic, dividing new discoveries between Spain (west) and Portugal (east) | |
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| 1493 |
| | | The Nuremberg Chronicle integrates text and pictures in an ambitious history of the world | |
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| 1494 |
| | | In negotiations about the New World at Tordesillas, the king of Portugal insists on a new demarcation line which later brings him Brazil | |
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