Economy and Exploration
- 1252
- First minting of a successful gold coin (florin) in the West
since the fall of Rome
- 1275
- Marco Polo leaves for China
- 1342
- Failure of Bardi and Peruzzi banks
- 1397
- Founding of the Medici bank
- 1401
- Taula founded in Barcelona
- 1407
- Bank of St. George founded in Genoa
- 1434
- Gil Eannes rounds Cape Bojador
- 1451
- fall of Jacques Coeur
- 1492
- Columbus' first voyage
- 1498
- Vasco da Gama
- 1509-1515
- Albuquerque in Asia
- 1519
- Cortès in Mexico
- Magellan sets sail
- 1600
- Creation of the English East India Company
- 1602
- Creation of the Dutch East India Company
- 1607
- founding of Jamestown
- 1609
- Bank of Amsterdam