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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.
The captain of the Matthew was an Italian explorer named Giovanni Caboto who is better known as John Cabot. [1] 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]
Matthew, the ship sailed by John Cabot in 1497, with two 1990s replicas MV Matthew I , a suspected drug-runner scuttled in 2013 Interdiction of MV Matthew , a 2023 operation of the Irish military against a 2001 Panamanian cargo ship
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 ...
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] June 13 – The Catholic Monarchs issue the ordinance of Medina del Campo, creating a money system based on the copper maravedí, creating the peso of 34 maravedis. In ...
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 ...
Cabot lands on the island of Newfoundland, the first European to explore the island since the departure of the Vikings four centuries earlier. 1497: King John II of Portugal orders navigator Vasco da Gama to lead an expedition of four ships and 170 men to seek a sea route to India.
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.