May 20 » Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama discovers the sea route to India when he arrives at Kozhikode (previously known as Calicut), India.
July 31 » On his third voyage to the Western Hemisphere, Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to discover the island of Trinidad.
August 1 » Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to visit what is now Venezuela.
August 17 » Cesare Borgia, son of Pope Alexander VI, becomes the first person in history to resign the cardinalate; later that same day, King Louis XII of France names him Duke of Valentinois.
August 29 » Vasco da Gama decides to depart Calicut and return to Kingdom of Portugal.
September 20 » The Nankai tsunami washes away the building housing the Great Buddha at Kōtoku-in. It has been outside since then.
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