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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.
John Colter (c.1770–1775 – May 7, 1812 or November 22, 1813) was a member of the Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804–1806). Though party to one of the more famous expeditions in history, Colter is best remembered for explorations he made during the winter of 1807–1808, when he became the first known person of European descent to enter the region which later became Yellowstone National ...
James Felix Bridger was born on March 17, 1804, in Richmond, Virginia. [5] His parents were James Bridger, an innkeeper in Richmond, and his wife, Chloe. [5] About 1812, the family moved near St. Louis at the eastern edge of America's vast new western frontier. [5]
The Explorer, a novel by W. Somerset Maugham, 1908; The Explorer, a 1975 novel by Philip Temple; The Explorer, a 2017 children's book by Katherine Rundell; The Explorer, student newspaper of Hudson High School (Ohio), U.S. "The Explorer", a poem by Rudyard Kipling from his 1903 collection The Five Nations
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 ...
Italian explorer, mountain climber, geologist and cartographer [5] Alf Howard: 1906–2010: 104: Australian explorer, scientist and educator [6] Helge Ingstad: 1899–2001: 101: Norwegian explorer [7] Jean Malaurie: 1922–2024: 101: French explorer and anthropologist [8] Dame Freya Stark: 1893–1993: 100: British explorer and travel writer [9 ...
John Gregory (14 July 1831 [1] – 20 May 1922) [2] was a shoemaker, poet, peace activist and trade unionist, [3] sometimes referred to as 'the poet-shoemaker of Bristol' or the 'poet cobbler'. [ 1 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] He has been called "a pioneering figure in the development of an independent working-class movement in Bristol".
John Davis (c. 1550 – 29 December 1605) was one of the chief navigators of Queen Elizabeth I of England. He led several voyages to discover the Northwest Passage and served as pilot and captain on both Dutch and English voyages to the East Indies .