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After a voyage which had got no further than Iceland, Cabot left again with only one vessel, the Matthew, a small ship (50 tons), but fast and able. The crew consisted of only 18 men. The Matthew departed 2 May 1497. [2] He sailed to Dursey Head (latitude 51°36N), Ireland, from where he sailed due west, expecting to reach Asia. However ...
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 map of Ireland is included on the "first European map" sections (Ancient Greek: Εὐρώπης πίναξ αʹ, romanized: Eurōpēs pínax alpha or Latin: Prima Europe tabula) of Ptolemy's Geography (also known as the Geographia and the Cosmographia). The "first European map" is described in the second and third chapters of the work's ...
The surviving Bristol customs account for 1503/4 refers to goods he imported or exported to Andalusia, Algarve and Ireland worth £164. [23] This included goods dispatched on the Matthew of Bristol, which had been employed by John Cabot on his 1497 expedition. [24] In March 1505 Eliot imported Bay salt from the well-known saltpans of Brouage in ...
Events from the year 1497 in Ireland. Incumbent. Lord: Henry VII; Events. July ...
May 10 – Amerigo Vespucci allegedly leaves Cádiz, for his first voyage to the New World. [4] May 12 – Pope Alexander VI excommunicates Girolamo Savonarola. [5] May 20 – John Cabot sets sail from Bristol, on the ship Matthew (principally owned by Richard Amerike), looking for new lands to the west (some sources give a May 2 date). [3]
1497. May Cornish Rebellion ... Cabot leaves Bristol on his second voyage to the Americas; he is never to be seen again. ... Lord Deputy of Ireland (died 1559) Henry ...
Historians take this to mean that Weston was on Cabot's 1497 voyage. At the time of the reward, Cabot was in London sorting out business related to a pension he had been granted by the King and making preparations for a new voyage. [15] Details of the reward were first reported in the Canadian press in August 2009. [16]