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Accounts differ as to Sebastian Cabot's place and date of birth. The historian James Williamson reviewed the evidence for various given dates in the 1480s and concluded that Sebastian was born not later than 1484, the son of John Cabot, a Venetian citizen credited with Genoese or Gaetan origins by birth, and of Mattea Caboto, also Venetian. [1]
Leon or Leone Pancaldo, ( 1481, 1488 or 1490 – 1538) was a Genoese explorer. Pancaldo was born in Savona, but appears to have grown up in both Spain and Portugal. His father, a wool merchant. Leon met Diego Colon, and transacted business with a trip to Hispañola in 1514.
Juan Díaz de Solís (c. 1470–1516), [5] Portuguese or Spanish navigator and explorer, appointed in 1512 following the death of Vespucci [6] Sebastian Cabot [3]: 321 [7] (c. 1474–c. 1557), Venetian explorer, Pilot Major of Spain from 5 February 1518 to 25 October 1525, succeeding Díaz de Solís, [5] and again from 1533 to 1547 [3]: 73 [8]
Hugh Eliot and Thorne seem to have been the principal organisers of the 1504 voyage from Bristol to the new found land, on which Sebastian Cabot (John Cabot's son) served as a pilot. Thorne did not, however, take part in the 1504 voyage personally, since he was called on to serve as a Sheriff of Bristol at the start of 1504, following the ...
On this voyage Sebastian Cabot (John Cabot's son) served as a pilot. [16] The 1504 expedition seems to have been the last undertaken by a group known as the Company Adventurers to the New Found Land. Relationships among the patentees broke down.
[1] [2] He acquired additional geographical and maritime proficiency from the explorer Sebastian Cabot and the geographer John Dee. Cabot had always been interested in making a voyage to Asia through the Arctic , and for this purpose an association of London merchants chartered the Company of Merchant Adventurers in 1552–1553, with the Duke ...
Crew on board an oil tanker accused of sabotaging undersea power and communications cables in the Baltic Sea were poised to cut other cables and pipelines when Finnish authorities boarded the ...
Sebastian Cabot (explorer) Richard Chancellor; G. Ernest Giles; P. Martin Pring This page was last edited on 20 April 2022, at 13:30 (UTC). Text is available under ...