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Verrazzano Sets Out
Jan 17 Italian explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano's sets sail aboard French ship La Dauphine to find a passage to China - finds North America instead
Famous Deaths
- Jan 5 Marko Marulic/Marulus/Splichanin/Pechinich, Croatian poet, dies at 73
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