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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.
1830 – English explorer Richard Lander and his brother John descend the Niger for more than 643 kilometres (400 mi) from Bussa to its mouth. [5] 1831–32 – John Biscoe discovers Enderby Land; following year discovers Adelaide, Anvers, and Biscoe Islands. [78] 1833 – Andrei Glazunov and Semyon Lukin discover the mouth of the Yukon River. [29]
1527: Fishermen are using the harbor at St. John's, Newfoundland and other places on the coast. 1531: Spanish found Puebla de Zaragoza and Santiago de Querétaro. 1535: Jacques Cartier reaches Quebec. 1536: Cabeza de Vaca reaches Mexico City after wandering through North America.
1497-98 - John and Sebastian Cabot explore east coast of North America for England. They kidnap three Micmac men. 1497 - Giovanni Caboto (John Cabot, 1450–98), a Venetian in English service, during a voyage underwritten by Bristol merchants, claims Newfoundland for England on June 24, laying the basis for English claims to Canada and ...
Genoese navigator and explorer Giovanni Caboto (known in English as John Cabot) is credited with the discovery of continental North America on June 24, 1497, under the commission of Henry VII of England. Though the exact location of his discovery remains disputed, the Canadian and United Kingdom governments' official position is that he landed ...
This is a timeline of events in maritime history. Prehistory About ... 1497: John Cabot reaches North American mainland, as first European since the Vikings.
1497 – First voyage of John Cabot, searching for the Northwest Passage. [1] 1498 – Vasco da Gama reaches India. ca. 1500 – First African slaves taken to Hispaniola. 1513 – Ponce de León in Florida. 1519–21 – Hernán Cortés conquers the Aztec Empire. 1531–33 – Francisco Pizarro conquers the Inca Empire.
Byron, John Italian: England: Cabot, John ... Timeline of maritime migration and exploration; References and notes