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1402
The Ming Yongle Emperor begins his 22-year reign in China
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YU ZHENG/CHINASTOCK
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1405
Zheng He's fleet leaves Nanjing on its first voyage
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1406
Ptolemy's Geography is translated into Latin and changes the way Europeans look at the world
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1406
The Chinese fleet reaches Calicut on the west coast of India
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1411
Zheng He invades Sri Lanka and captures its King
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1415
Defeating an army of thousands, Zheng He captures the usurper to the Sumatran throne and sends him to China, where he is executed
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MARY EVANS PICTURE LIBRARY
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1415
Zheng He's fleet reaches Hormuz and explores the Middle East
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1415
Henry the Navigator, at the head of a Portuguese armada, defeats the Moors at Ceuta in Morocco
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1417
Zheng He bolsters Cochin against neighboring rival Calicut
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RHYTHMS MONTHLY
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1418
Meeting resistance, the Chinese armada shells a walled town near Mogadishu in its first trip to the East African coast
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1420
Portuguese sailors reach the Madeira Islands and begin to explore the west coast of Africa
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1427
Portuguese ships sail to the mid-Atlantic Azores, 1,500 km from Lisbon
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DAVID MCINTYRE/BLACK STAR FOR TIME
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1433
Zheng He, 62, dies and is most likely buried at sea, and not in his tomb in Jiangsu province
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1434
Portugal's Gil Eanes rounds West Africa's dreaded Cape Bojador, off the Western Sahara
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CHINASTOCK
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1436
China issues an imperial ban on the construction of oceangoing ships
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1443
Henry the Navigator makes Cape Sagres the center of a movement promoting navigation, astronomy and cartography
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1448
Portugal establishes a fort on Arguin Island off today's Mauritania
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