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Explorer Amerigo Vespucci dies in Seville, Spain. His contribution is the letters he wrote regarding his exploration of the Americas, which popularized the subject. |
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Amerigo Vespucci is appointed "piloto mayor" or chief pilot of Spain, an office which he holds until his death. |
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Explorer Amerigo Vespucci receives Spanish letters of naturalization. |
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Amerigo Vespucci and Alonso de Hojeda sail for South America and eventually reach the mouth of Amazon. |
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Florentine merchant, navigator, and sea explorer Amerigo Vespucci is born Florence, Italy as the third child of a respected notary. |
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A leading geographical scholar named Martin Waldseemuller publishes a world map in Strasbourg. It shows the entire coastline of Africa as mapped by the Portuguese explorers; and it was the map which named America after Amerigo Vespucci. |
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