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In 1342 the Canary Island, already known to Genoese seafarers, were officially discovered under the patronage of the Portuguese king
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Prince Henry began learning the trade routes to Africa and Asia, believing that control of these sea routes could offer Portugal unprecedented wealth.
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Methodical expeditions started along West Africa's coast under the sponsorship of prince Henry the Navigator
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In 1446 prince Henry formed a fleet of caravels that were to show the Portuguese flag along the African coast and explore the river of Senegal. In 1446 Dinis Diaz reached Cape Verde, which he called by the name from it green appearance
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Columbus set sail from Spain in three ships: the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria. Italian explorer Christopher Columbus started his voyage across the Atlantic Ocean.
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Italian explorer Christopher Columbus made landfall in what is now the Bahamas. Columbus and his ships landed on an island that the native Lucayan people called Guanahani. Columbus renamed it San Salvador.
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Columbus stumbled upon the Caribbean islands of the Native Americans and took them as the Indians. He didn't realize another continent lay in front of him, and he believed he had reached Asia. At that time Europeans called Asia the Indies, so Columbus called the people who lived on the island Indians.
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He explored and settled Puerto Rico, founding the colony's oldest settlement, Caparra, near what is now San Juan.
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He was credited with being the first European to reach Florida. Ponce de León departed San Juan on his second expedition to Florida, accompanied by two ships and around 200 people
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In 1534, navigator Jacques Cartier called northern North America for France, naming the area around the st. Lawrence river New France
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They were trying to find Asia and then landed in the Caribbean and thought it was a bad thing but figured out they have a lot of gold and silver
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In 1607, 104 English men and boys arrived in North America to start a settlement. On May 13 they picked Jamestown Virginia for their settlement which was named after their King James 1.
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On July 24, 1701, Antoine de La Mothe Cadillac, accompanied by approximately 100 fellow Frenchman and an additional 100 Algonquian Indians, established fort Pontchartrain du Detroit on a site that is today in downtown Detroit.
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Where are the French found the city of New Orleans and 1718 they did so at a site that I’ve been used for centuries by Native Americans as a gathering place for trading forming alliances and hunting.
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Starting in the late 17th century, French explorers arrived. Spain took over in 1763 in a trading company led by Pierre Laclede and Augusta Chouteau establish the settlement of St. Louis in February 1764
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On June 24, 1497, Cabot and his crew aboard the Matthew reached North America either Labrador, Newfoundland, or Cape Breton Island.