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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.
This is a chronology and timeline of the European colonization of the Americas, ... c. 1450: Norse colony in ... John Cabot reaches Newfoundland. [8]
1497-98 - John and Sebastian Cabot explore east coast of North America for England. They kidnap three Micmac men. 1497 - Giovanni Caboto (John Cabot, 1450–98), a Venetian in English service, during a voyage underwritten by Bristol merchants, claims Newfoundland for England on June 24, laying the basis for English claims to Canada and ...
1830 – English explorer Richard Lander and his brother John descend the Niger for more than 643 kilometres (400 mi) from Bussa to its mouth. [5] 1831–32 – John Biscoe discovers Enderby Land; following year discovers Adelaide, Anvers, and Biscoe Islands. [78] 1833 – Andrei Glazunov and Semyon Lukin discover the mouth of the Yukon River. [29]
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 ...
1497 – First voyage of John Cabot, searching for the Northwest Passage. [1] 1498 – Vasco da Gama reaches India. ca. 1500 – First African slaves taken to Hispaniola. 1513 – Ponce de León in Florida. 1519–21 – Hernán Cortés conquers the Aztec Empire. 1531–33 – Francisco Pizarro conquers the Inca Empire.
This is a timeline of in North American prehistory, ... 200–1450: Hohokam cultures ... Italian navigator John Cabot sails from England to Newfoundland.
c. 1450: Norse colony in Greenland dies out [citation needed]. 1473 – João Vaz Corte-Real perhaps reaches Newfoundland; writes about the "Land of Cod fish" in his journal. 1479 - Treaty of Toledo ends the War of the Castilian Succession. Portugal won the exclusive right of navigating, conquering and trading in all the Atlantic Ocean south of ...