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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 15 December 2024. Leif Erikson (c.970–c.1020) was a famous Norse explorer who is credited for being the first European to set foot on American soil. Explorers are listed below with their common names, countries of origin (modern and former), centuries of activity and main areas of exploration. Marco ...
1826 – Scottish explorer Alexander Gordon Laing becomes the first European to reach the fabled city of Timbuktu, but is murdered upon leaving the city. [99] 1827 – Jedediah Smith crosses the Sierra Nevada (via Ebbetts Pass) and the Great Basin. [29] 1828 – French explorer René Caillié is the first European to return alive from Timbuktu.
Exploration When Who Northwest African coast (West Africa) about 500 BC Hanno the Navigator: The Mediterranean Sea: 5th century BC Himilco the Navigator: Around western Europe to Thule Island about 330 BC Pytheas of Marseilles Greenland, Iceland, and Faroes: 900 Gunnbjörn Ulfsson: Americas (North America) 999 Leif Ericson
Jean Batten in 1937. Aleko Konstantinov – a cosmopolitan traveler, was the first Bulgarian to write about his visits to Western Europe and America. His visits to the World Exhibitions of Exposition Universelle (1889) in Paris, General Land Centennial Exhibition (1891) in Prague and World Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893 – including a visit to Niagara Falls – provided Bulgarian ...
British explorer James Cook, who had been the first to map the North Atlantic island of Newfoundland, spent a dozen years in the Pacific Ocean. He made great contributions to European knowledge of the area, and his more accurate navigational charting of large areas of the ocean was a major achievement.
[clarification needed] The first, covering most of Homo sapiens history, saw humans moving out of Africa, settling in new lands, and developing distinct cultures in relative isolation. [2] Early explorers settled in Europe and Asia; 14,000 years ago, some crossed the Ice Age land bridge from Siberia to Alaska, and moved southbound to settle in ...
Notable best presidents include George Washington at No.2, Thomas Jefferson at No. 7, and Barack Obama at No. 12.
The Age of Discovery (c. 1418 – c. 1620), [1] also known as the Age of Exploration, was part of the early modern period and largely overlapped with the Age of Sail. It was a period from approximately the late 15th century to the 17th century, during which seafarers from a number of European countries explored, colonized, and conquered regions ...