24 janv. 1505 - Under the terms of the Treaty of Tordesillas, Pope Julius II sets the line of demarcation in the New World between Spain's and Portugal's territory as a line of longitude 370 leagues west of the Cape Verde islands.[3] The ambiguous definition of the measure of a league places the line between 42°30' W to 49°45' W
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Date:
24 janv. 1505
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~ Il y a 520 ans