Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
John Cabot (Italian: Giovanni Caboto [dʒoˈvanni kaˈbɔːto]; c. 1450 – c. 1499) [2] was an Italian [2] [3] navigator and explorer.His 1497 voyage to the coast of North America under the commission of Henry VII, King of England is the earliest known European exploration of coastal North America since the Norse visits to Vinland in the eleventh century.
Rut's voyage was a 1527–1528 English maritime voyage of exploration to Northern America and the West Indies, led by John Rut, and commissioned by Henry VIII.It is thought to have been the earliest English voyage to the West Indies, and to have resulted in the earliest known English letter sent from North America.
His precise landing place is a matter of much controversy, with Cape Bonavista or St. John's in Newfoundland the most likely sites. There is a statue of John Cabot located on the Cape of Bonavista, Newfoundland in his honour. Cabot went ashore to take possession of the land, and explored the coast for some time, probably departing on 20 July.
The 1497 English expedition authorized by Henry VII of England was led by Italian Venetian John Cabot (Giovanni Caboto); it was the first of a series of French and English missions exploring North America. Mariners from the Italian peninsula played an important role in early explorations, most especially Genoese mariner Christopher Columbus.
That Weston was a deputy or assign of Cabot, seems likely given the King's personal support for the Bristol explorer. That Cabot and Weston were working together is further supported by Henry VII's having made a 40-shilling reward to Weston in January 1498. [14] Historians take this to mean that Weston was on Cabot's 1497 voyage.
Patent from King Henry VII, authorizing John Cabot and his sons to explore new lands in the west. A seminal event in Arctic exploration occurred in 1409, when Ptolemy's Geographia was translated into Latin, thereby introducing the concepts of latitude and longitude into Western Europe. [15] As a result navigators were better able to chart their ...
King John reportedly knew of the existence of such a mainland because "canoes had been found which set out from the coast of Guinea [West Africa] and sailed to the west with merchandise." [117] [118] Italian explorer John Cabot probably reached the mainland of the American continent in June 1497, [119] although his landing site is disputed. [120]
Last voyage of exploration Arctic [1] North Atlantic Indian Pacific South Atlantic Southern; Portuguese: Portugal de Abreu, António: 1507: ... Cabot, John ...