August 9 » Sources cite biggest caravan trade between Podvisoki and Republic of Ragusa in 1428. Vlachs committed to Ragusan lord Tomo Bunić, that they will with 600 horses deliver 1500 modius of salt. Delivery was meant for Dobrašin Veseoković, and Vlachs price was half of delivered salt.
March 15 » Christopher Columbus returns to Spain after his first trip to the Americas.
May 4 » Pope Alexander VI divides the New World between Spain and Portugal along the Line of Demarcation.
July 12 » Hartmann Schedel's Nuremberg Chronicle, one of the best-documented early printed books, is published.
November 3 » Christopher Columbus first sights the island of Dominica in the Caribbean Sea.
November 18 » Christopher Columbus first sights the island now known as Puerto Rico.
November 19 » Christopher Columbus goes ashore on an island called Borinquen he first saw the day before. He names it San Juan Bautista (later renamed again Puerto Rico).
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