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Early Modern era · 1494

Treaty of Tordesillas

The Treaty of Tordesillas, signed in Tordesillas, Spain, on 7 June 1494, and ratified in Setúbal, Portugal, divided the newly discovered lands outside Europe between the Kingdom of Portugal and the Crown of Castile, along a meridian 370 leagues (c. 2,100 km or 1,300 mi) west of the Cape Verde islands, off the west coast of Africa.

Treaty of Tordesillas
Treaty of Tordesillas · Original: Biblioteca Nacional de Lisboa Photo: User:Joserebelo, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
When
1494
Where
Tordesillas
Era
Early Modern

Topics

Spain264 BCE – todayPortugal305 CE – todayKingdom of Portugal1109 – 1910Spanish Empire1402 – 1976

Before and after

Hundred Years' Croatian–Ottoman War1493 – 1593Italian War of 1494–14951494 – 1495Show on timeline

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