Polo, make their first trading venture through Central Asia. 1271-95. They make their second journey, accompanied by Marco Polo; and about 1275 arrived at the Court of Kublai Khan in Shangfu, whence Marco Polo was entrusted with several missions to Cochin China, Khanbalig (Pekin), and the Indian Seas. 1280. Hereford map of Richard of Haldingham. 1284. The Ebstorf _Mappa Mundi_. _bef._1290. The normal Portulano compiled in Barcelona. 1292. Friar John of Monte Corvino, travels in India, and afterwards becomes Archbishop of Pekin. 1325-78. Ibn Batuta, an Arab of Tangier, after performing the Mecca pilgrimage through N. Africa, visits Syria, Quiloa (E. Africa), Ormuz, S. Russia, Bulgaria, Khiva, Candahar, and attached himself to the Court of Delhi, 1334-42, whence he was despatched on an embassy to China. After his return he visited Timbuctoo. 1316-30. Odorico di Pordenone, a Minorite friar, travelled through India, by way of Persia, Bombay, and Surat, to Malabar, the Coromandel coast, and thence to China and Tibet. 1320. Flavio Gioja of Amalfi invents the compass box and card. 1312-31. Abulfeda composes his geography. 1327-72. Sir John Mandeville said to have written his travels in India. 1328. Friar Jordanus of Severac. Bishop of Quilon. 1328-49. John de Marignolli, a Franciscan friar, made a mission to China, visited Quilon in 1347, and made a pilgrimage to the shrine of St. Thomas in India in 1349. 1339. Angelico Dulcert of Majorca draws a Portulano. 1351. The Medicean Portulano compiled. 1375. Cresquez, the Jew, of Majorca, improves Dulcert's Portulano (Catalan map). _cir._1400. Jehan Bethencourt re-discovers the Canaries. 1419. Prince Henry the Navigator establishes a geographical seminary at Sagres (died 1460). 1419-40. Nicolo Conti, a noble Venetian, travelled throughout Southern India and along the Bombay coast. 1420. Zarco discovers Madeira. 1432. Gonsalo Cabral re-discovers the Azores. 1442. Nuño Tristão reaches Cape de Verde. 1442-44. Abd-ur-Razzak, during an embassy to India, visited Calicut, Mangalore, and Vijayanagar. 1457. Fra Mauro's map. 1462. Pedro de Cintra reaches Sierra Leone. 1468-74. Athanasius Nikitin, a Russian, travelled from the Volga, through Central Asia and Persia, to Gujerat, Cambay, and Chaul, whence he proceeded inland to Bidar and Golconda. 1471. Fernando Poo discovers his island. 1471. Pedro d'Escobar crosses the line. 1474. Toscanelli's map (foundation of Behaim globe and Columbus' guide). 1478. Second printed edition of Ptolemy, with twenty-seven maps--practically the first atlas. 1484.