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.
The first recorded attempt to discover the Northwest Passage was the east–west voyage of John Cabot in 1497, sent by Henry VII in search of a direct route to the Orient. [17] In 1524, Charles V sent Estêvão Gomes to find a northern Atlantic passage to the Spice Islands .
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 ...
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.
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]
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.
For the 150th anniversary of Lincoln's assassination, take a road trip along John Wilkes Booth's escape route through Washington, Maryland and Virginia.
John Franklin's party encamped at Point Turnagain, the furthest point he reached. HMS Investigator, on the northwestern coast of Banks Island, 20 August 1851. Map drawn by Robert McClure detailing the Northwest Passage, including the 1851 route of the Investigator. The first ascent of the Matterhorn, by Gustave Doré.