Exploration
- March 9–April 22 - Expedition of Pedro Álvares Cabral, with thirteen caravels, sails from Lisbon to Brazil, which he claims for Portugal.
- August 10 (St. Lawrence's day) - Diogo Dias becomes the first European to sight the island of Madagascar (which he names São Lourenço).
- Alonso de Ojeda and Amerigo Vespucci return to Spain from their expedition to Venezuela.
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Famous quotes containing the word exploration:
“I call her old. She has one family
Whose claim is good to being settled here
Before the era of colonization,
And before that of exploration even.
John Smith remarked them as he coasted by....”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
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“Typography tended to alter language from a means of perception and exploration to a portable commodity.”
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