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Nov 30, 1490
Christopher columbus
Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506), Italian Spanish navigator who sailed west across the Atlantic Ocean in search of a route to Asia but achieved fame by making landfall in the Americas instead. -
Jan 1, 1491
Jacques cartier
Discovered St. Lawrence river. He studied navagation in dieppe, a major french center for navagators -
Jun 24, 1497
John Cabot
John Cabot was an Italian navigator and explorer who is popularly credited as the modern discoverer of the region that would become Canada. -
Dec 3, 1520
Francisco Pizarro
Defeated the inca Empire and claimed south america for spain -
Oct 15, 1522
Hernando Cortes
on the exploration that founded mexico -
Dec 1, 1540
Francisco Vasquez De coronado
leader of the expedition to the Seven Cities of Cíbola and Quivira, Coronado explored what became Arizona, Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Kansas and opened the Southwest to Spanish colonization and settlement. -
Jan 1, 1580
Sir Francis Drake
He set about plundering Spanish settlements along the coast of Chile and Peru, and managed to relieve a great Spanish treasure ship, ‘Cacafuego’, of its riches. After stopping in North America for repairs (believed to be somewhere near California), Drake sailed across the Pacific and Indian Oceans, and then under the southern tip of Africa
before returning to England. This made him the first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe. -
Father Jacques Marquette
Was on the exploration that lead to the dicovery the mississippi river . He also went to a school runned by jesuits priest. -
Rene-Robert de La Salle
was important because of his exploration of the Mississippi River in North America. He was the first European to sail down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico. He claimed the Mississippi River Basin, which he called the Louisiana Territory, for France. He is sometimes called "the Father of the Louisiana Territory." -
Louis Jolliet
Jolliet studied at the Jesuit seminary.
In 1673, Jolliet lead an expedition to explore the Mississippi.
Louis was granted the Island of Anticosti. Here he built a fortress, but the Island was captured in 1690 by the British. Jolliet was appointed the Royal Hydrographer, in 1693. Louis Jolliet died in 1700.
