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EXPEDITION
(1525)
LOAISA
CABOT
EXPEDITION
(1526)
CABOT
John Cabot was an Italian navigator and explorer whose
1497 discovery of parts of North America under the
commission of Henry VII of England is commonly held to
have been the first European encounter with the mainland
of North America since the Norse Vikings visits to Vinland
in the eleventh century. The official position of the
Canadian and United Kingdom governments is that he
landed on the island of Newfoundland.
SAAVEDRA
EXPEDITION
(1527)
SAAVEDRA
lvaro de Saavedra Cern was one of the Spanish
explorers in the Pacific Ocean. It is unknown the exact
date and place of his birth, but he was born in the late
15th century or early 16th century in Spain. Hernn
Corts was his relative, whom he accompanied to Mexico
in 1526.
VILLALOBOS
EXPEDITION
(1542)
KING FELIPE
Ruy Lpez de Villalobos was a Spanish explorer who sailed
the Pacific from Mexico to establish a permanent foothold
for Spain in the East Indies, which was near the Line of
Demarcation between Spain and Portugal according to the
Treaty of Saragossa in 1529. Villalobos gave the
Philippines their name, after calling them Las Islas
Filipinas in honor of the Infante of Asturias at the time,
Philip II of Spain.
LEGAZPI
FATHER URDANETA
LEGAZPI
EXPEDITION
(1564)
SALCEDO
CONQUEST
(1573)
SALCEDO
TREATY OF
ZARAGOSA
(1529)
The Treaty of Zaragoza also referred to as the capitulation
of Zaragoza was a peace treaty between Spain and
Portugal signed on 22 April of 1529 by King John III and
the Emperor Charles V, in the spanish city of Zaragoza.
The treaty defined the areas of Spanish and Portuguese
influence in Asia to resolve the "Moluccas issue", when
both kingdoms claimed the Moluccas islands for
themselves, considering it within their exploration area
established by the Treaty of Tordesillas in 1494. The
conflict sprung in 1520, when the expeditions of both
kingdoms reached the Pacific Ocean, since there was not