Continuing our current theme of the history of exploration today’s timeline looks at some of the most important explorers from the Age of Discovery. On a mobile device? Unfortunately Histropedia isn't yet optimised for mobiles or tablets. For the best experience you’ll want to bookmark this and check it out on the Desktop. "The Age of Discovery is a historical period of European global exploration that started in the early 15th century with the first Portuguese discoveries in the Atlantic Archipelagos and Africa, as well as the discovery of America by Spain in 1492, and the discovery of the ocean route to the East in 1498, and by a series of European naval expeditions across the Atlantic and later the Pacific, which continued until the 18th century"