Spain and Portugal moved closer to finalizing their division of the New World along a north-south meridian, reshaping the colonial map of the Americas.

Christopher Columbus sighted the island of Jamaica for the first time on May 3, 1494, during his second voyage to the Americas, naming it Santiago.

Spain and Portugal signed the Treaty of Tordesillas on June 7, and by June 10 the papal ratification process moved forward, splitting undiscovered lands along a meridian.