Voyages of Zheng He
Hundreds of Ming ships sail as far as Africa
Admiral Zheng He's fleet of hundreds of ships made seven voyages across the Indian Ocean, reaching Arabia and the East African coast. The expeditions displayed Ming power, but the court halted them after 1433.
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Zheng He's first fleet sailed in 1405, 93 years before Vasco da Gama reached India. Later Chinese voyages went as far as East Africa.
Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Europe
- 1385 Union of Krewo — 20 years earlier
- 1429 Joan of Arc relieves Orléans — 24 years later
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1380 Battle of Kulikovo — 25 years earlier
- 1410 Battle of Grunwald — 5 years later
- c. 1411 Andrei Rublev's Trinity — 6 years later
Alive at the time
- Timur (aged 69)
- Johannes Gutenberg (aged 5)
- Ibn Khaldun (aged 73)
- Ashikaga Yoshimitsu (aged 47)
- Andrei Rublev (aged 45)
- Sigismund (aged 37)
- Zheng He (aged 34)
- Henry V (aged 19)
- Sejong the Great (aged 8)
- Charles VII (aged 2)