Amerigo Vespucci
Florentine explorer, financier, navigator and cartographer
8 dated entries naming Amerigo Vespucci, drawn from 7 separate years between 1451 CE and 1512 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.
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15th century
- 1451March 9 – Amerigo Vespucci, Italian explorer (d. 1512)source
- 1497May 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.source
- 1499August 24 – Lake Maracaibo is discovered, by Alonso de Ojeda and Amerigo Vespucci.source
16th century
- 1501Amerigo 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.source
- 1501November 1 (All Saints) – Amerigo Vespucci discovers and names Baía de Todos os Santos, in Brazil.source
- 1507April 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.source
- 1508March 22 – Ferdinand II of Aragon appoints Florentine merchant Amerigo Vespucci to the post of Chief Navigator of Spain.source
- 1512February 22 – Amerigo Vespucci, Italian merchant and cartographer, after whom the Americas are named (b. 1451)source