Vasco de Gama (1460-1524) : the gi-eat Portuguese

navigator. Doubling the Cape of Good Hope, he visited Mozambique, Melinda, and Calicut, and established the first Portuguese faetory in the Indies. 4. Christophe Colomb, who was born at Genoa about 1436 and died at Valladolid in 1506, discovered the New World in 1492.

14. l'imprimerie est inventée : block-printing was known as early as the tliirteenth century, but the invention of raovable types, probably due to Coster of Haarlem, seems to date from about 1430. In 1452 Gutenberg, with his partners Fust and Schoffer, invented matrices for casting types, and soon after printed the Latin Bible with cast letters.