RPH
Cards (10)
- 1415 – Prince the navigator, Portuguese ships captured Ceuta, freed Christian slaves and found gold was not coming from Arab-India route but across Sahara.
- 1420 Captured Mediera Island
- 1432 – Azores
- 1434 – Cape Bojador
- 1445 – Cape Verde
- 1456 – Cape Verde Island
- 1462 – Sierra Leone
- 1471 – Gold Coast
- 1474 – SaoTome Island
- 1484 – Christopher Columbus submitted a proposal to King John II of Portugal, claiming he could reach India (4,000 km) via west. His advisers knew it was 16,000 km away.