Vasco da Gama reaches India

Name: Vasco da Gama reaches India
Start: 1498

The sea route to the spices opens; Europe’s economy shifts from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic.

Meanwhile, elsewhere

Within twenty-five years of 1498 — the context national timelines leave out.

6 years earlier 1492 Spain
19 years later Luther’s 95 Theses Germany
8 years later Building of St Peter’s Vatican City
18 years later Erasmus edits the Greek New Testament Netherlands
18 years later Ecclesiastical principality Montenegro
19 years later Skaryna’s Bible Belarus
25 years later Gustav Vasa Sweden
1 year later Swabian War Switzerland

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Which long period

Periods overlap: they are landmarks, not boxes.

Renaissance 1400 – 1600 Printing, humanism, and the opening of ocean routes.

Countries involved

Portugal

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What was written of it

Europe will not be made all at once, or according to a single plan. It will be built through concrete achievements which first create a de facto solidarity.

Déclaration du 9 mai 1950 1950

Schuman Declaration, Salon de l’Horloge, Paris