Treaty of Tordesillas
Spain and Portugal split a world not yet discovered
Spain and Portugal divided the newly discovered lands of the world along a meridian 370 leagues west of the Cape Verde islands. That is why Brazil became Portuguese while the rest of Latin America became Spanish.
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Ivan III's law code (1497) appeared three years after Spain and Portugal divided the world between them at Tordesillas.
Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1478 Annexation of Novgorod by Moscow — 16 years earlier
- 1480 Great Stand on the Ugra River — 14 years earlier
Middle East
- 1501 Founding of Safavid Iran — 7 years later
Africa
- 1488 Dias rounds the Cape of Good Hope — 6 years earlier
Asia
- 1498 Vasco da Gama reaches India — 4 years later
- 1511 Portuguese capture of Malacca — 17 years later
Americas
- 1492 Columbus reaches the Americas — 2 years earlier
- 1519–1522 Magellan's circumnavigation — 25 years later
Alive at the time
- Christopher Columbus (aged 43)
- Leonardo da Vinci (aged 42)
- Nicolaus Copernicus (aged 21)
- Michelangelo (aged 19)
- Martin Luther (aged 11)
- Ivan III (aged 54)
- Isabella I of Castile (aged 43)
- Henry VII (aged 37)
- Maximilian I (aged 35)
- Moctezuma II (aged 28)