{"slug": "amerigo-vespucci", "label": "Amerigo Vespucci", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amerigo_Vespucci", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q47674", "qid": "Q47674", "description": "Florentine explorer, financier, navigator and cartographer", "entries": 8, "years": 7, "span": [1451, 1512], "span_label": ["1451 CE", "1512 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 5}, {"title": "Births", "count": 1}, {"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 1}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "americas", "label": "Americas", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "europe", "label": "Europe", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "brazil", "label": "Brazil", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "ferdinand-ii-of-aragon", "label": "Ferdinand II of Aragon", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "new-world", "label": "New World", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "cadiz", "label": "Cádiz", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1451, "year_label": "1451 CE", "section": "Births", "date": "March 9", "text": "March 9 – Amerigo Vespucci, Italian explorer (d. 1512)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1358547324#Births", "title": "1451", "revid": 1358547324, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 1497, "year_label": "1497 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "May 10", "text": "May 10 – Amerigo Vespucci allegedly leaves Cádiz, for his first voyage to the New World. The account of a voyage (lasting until October 15, 1498) is doubted because the only mention of it is in a letter written six years later, and the course described would have traveled across the land of Mexico and into the Pacific Ocean.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372862240#April–June", "title": "1497", "revid": 1372862240, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1499, "year_label": "1499 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "August 24", "text": "August 24 – Lake Maracaibo is discovered, by Alonso de Ojeda and Amerigo Vespucci.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369343359#July–September", "title": "1499", "revid": 1369343359, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1501, "year_label": "1501 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "Amerigo Vespucci maps the two stars Alpha Centauri and Beta Centauri, as well as the stars of the constellation Crux, which are below the horizon in Europe.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360582028#Date_unknown", "title": "1501", "revid": 1360582028, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1501, "year_label": "1501 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "November 1", "text": "November 1 (All Saints) – Amerigo Vespucci discovers and names Baía de Todos os Santos, in Brazil.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360582028#October–December", "title": "1501", "revid": 1360582028, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1507, "year_label": "1507 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "April 25", "text": "April 25 – Martin Waldseemüller publishes his Cosmographiae Introductio (\"Introduction to Universal Cosmography\") and accompanying wall map, the first to show the Americas as a separate continent, naming them in honour of Amerigo Vespucci, his friend and idol.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367240730#April–June", "title": "1507", "revid": 1367240730, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1508, "year_label": "1508 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "March 22", "text": "March 22 – Ferdinand II of Aragon appoints Florentine merchant Amerigo Vespucci to the post of Chief Navigator of Spain.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1351320572#January–March", "title": "1508", "revid": 1351320572, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1512, "year_label": "1512 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "February 22", "text": "February 22 – Amerigo Vespucci, Italian merchant and cartographer, after whom the Americas are named (b. 1451)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1323795843#Deaths", "title": "1512", "revid": 1323795843, "section": "Deaths"}}]}