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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 28 February 2025. Leif Erikson (c. 970 – c. 1020) was a famous Norse explorer who is credited for being the first European to set foot on American soil. Explorers are listed below with their common names, countries of origin (modern and former), centuries of activity and main areas of exploration ...
This is a list of place names originally used in England and then later applied to other places throughout the world via English settlers and explorers. This list is incomplete ; you can help by adding missing items .
First English Civil War at the Battle of Marston Moor, 1644 Maps of territory held by Royalists (red) and Parliamentarians (green) during the English Civil War (1642–1645) King Charles I, who was beheaded in 1649. The First English Civil War broke out in 1642, largely due to ongoing conflicts between James' son, Charles I, and Parliament.
One of his men, William Morton, reaches as far north as Kap Constitution (81°22’N). [ 119 ] 1853–56 – Livingstone becomes the first to traverse Africa from west to east, traveling from Luanda in Angola to Quelimane in Mozambique ; also explores much of the upper Zambezi and discovers and names Victoria Falls .
Map of Henry Hudson's 1609–1611 voyages to North America for the Dutch East India Company (VOC) The 1497 English expedition authorized by Henry VII of England was led by Italian Venetian John Cabot (Giovanni Caboto); it was the first of a series of French and English missions exploring North America. Mariners from the Italian peninsula played ...
Later populated by escaped slaves from Mozambique and Java, then by English in 1659. [114] South Atlantic / Central Africa: Annobón: 1543: Alvaro da Cunha requested Portuguese royal charter in 1543 and by 1559 had settled Africans slaves there. [115] North Atlantic: Bermuda: 1609: Settled by English survivors of the Sea Venture shipwreck, led ...
Map of early human migrations based on the Out of Africa theory; figures are in thousands of years ago (kya). [2]The peopling of the Americas began when Paleolithic hunter-gatherers (Paleo-Indians) entered North America from the North Asian Mammoth steppe via the Beringia land bridge, which had formed between northeastern Siberia and western Alaska due to the lowering of sea level during the ...
The English people are an ethnic group and nation native to England, who speak the English language, a West Germanic language, and share a common ancestry, history, and culture. [8] The English identity began with the Anglo-Saxons , when they were known as the Angelcynn , meaning race or tribe of the Angles .