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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 27 January 2025. Florentine explorer of North America for France "Verrazzano" redirects here. For other uses, see Verrazano (disambiguation). Giovanni da Verrazzano Born 1485 Val di Greve, Republic of Florence (present-day Italy) Died 1528 (aged 42–43) Unclear; possibly Guadeloupe (uncolonized ...
This year marks the 500th anniversary of Giovanni da Verrazzano’s historic voyage to the New World and the first documented visit by a European to Rhode Island. This fact should not go unnoticed.
In 1524, Italian explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano sailed for King Francis I of France, and is known as the first European since the Norse to explore the Atlantic coast of North America. Arriving near the Cape Fear River delta, he explored the coastlines of present-day states of North and South Carolina , entering the Pamlico Sound , and ...
Girolamo de Verrazzano's 1529 map of his brother Giovanni's 1524 voyage along the East Coast of America. Verrazzano's fellow Italian, Christopher Columbus, [note 2] in the service of the Catholic Monarchs of Spain, had reached the New World in 1492, and over the next thirty years, three European nations — the English, Portuguese and Spanish —investigated the new continent, claiming land ...
In 1524, Florentine explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano visited the bay of New York, in service of Francis I of France. [4] On his voyage, Verrazzano sailed north along the Atlantic seaboard, starting in the Carolinas. Verrazzano sailed all the way to New York Harbor, which he thought was the mouth of a major river.
1524. Giovanni da Verrazzano explored the East Coast of North America from Florida to presumably Newfoundland in 1524.. 1534. Jacques Cartier made a series of voyages on behalf of the French crown in 1534 and explored the St. Lawrence River.
In 1524, Florentine explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano – sailing in service of the king Francis I of France – was the first European to visit the area that would become New York City. It was not until the voyage of Henry Hudson , an Englishman who worked for the Dutch East India Company, that the area was mapped.
In 1524 the Florentine explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano (Italian: [dʒoˈvanni da (v)verratˈtsaːno]) was the first European to explore the Atlantic coast of North America between Florida and New Brunswick in 1524. [15] The geographic information derived from this voyage significantly influenced 16th-century cartographers. [16]