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File 3 - 1450-1500 - Merchants and Bankers Listings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23) |
 | | Columbus is threatened by his creditors and retreats to the monastery of Santa Maria de la Rabida, in 1484 or early 1485. |
| | Juan de la Cosa, an "eminent navigator" and companion of Columbus, who turned from cartography to slaving, and died from a poison arrow while slaving on the coast of Colombia. |
| | In 1509 the Portuguese viceroy Francisco de Almeida destroyed the combined fleets of the Sultan of Egypt and the Samorin of Calicut. |
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