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May 16, 1400
Prince Henry
Prince Henry wanted to trade gold. He saw it as a way to extend Portugal's trade and power.He set up the firt European school for navigators in Sagres. he organized a way for other to learn the most skilled way to sail. He sent parties of explorers south along Africas west coast. -
May 20, 1450
John Caabot
Was an Italian navigator and explorer whose discovery of parts of North America is the first European voyager to travel to the continent of North America since the Norse Vikings in the eleventh century. The official position of the Canadian and United Kingdom governments is that he landed on the island of Newfoundland. -
May 17, 1473
Bartolomeu Dias
Exploration went on after Prince Henry's death. In 1473 the equator was crossed. In 1487, He readied ships for long, hard voyage. He was well educated and his career was a navigator and explorer. -
May 20, 1485
Giovanni Verrazano
was an Italian explorer of North America.He is the first European since the Norse colonization of the Americas around to explore the Atlantic coast of North America between the Carolinas and Newfoundland, including New York Harbor and Narragansett Bay. -
May 22, 1485
Giovanni Verrazano
Was an Italian explorer of North America, in the service of the French crown. He is the first European since the Norse colonization of the Americas to explore the Atlantic coast of North America. Including New York Harbor and Narragansett Bay in 1524 -
May 19, 1491
Jacques Cartier
French explorer of Breton origin who claimed what is now Canada for France.He was the first European to describe and map of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and the shores of the Saint Lawrence River. -
May 17, 1492
Christopher Columbus
Christopher was a well known navigator and explorer.Everybody thought that the world was flat but he knew it was round. He tried to prove it to everybody so he took a trip around the world to prove it but on the way he found land which is now America but before that the vikings found it (we found that out later in history) He came back later in 1493. -
May 18, 1493
Ponce de Leon
He sailed with Christopher Columbus on his journey to the new world in 1493. He was the first european to set foot in Flordia. He went to Flordia to find the foundation of youth. -
Jun 7, 1494
Treaty of Tordesillas
7 June 1494, divided the newly discovered lands outside Europe between Spain and Portugal along a meridian 370 leagues west of the Cape Verde islands (off the west coast of Africa). This line of was about halfway between the Cape Verde Island and the islands discovered by Christopher Columbus on his first voyage. -
May 17, 1497
Vasco de Gama
He led a convoy of four ships down the Tagus River from Libon. After four nomths at sea they rounded the Cape of Good Hope. Although most of the crew was sick and the supply of food and water as going bad they still went on. They landed on an Island Mozambigue and then at Malindi. -
May 18, 1497
Amerigo Vespucci
he explored the Atlantic coast of South America. Amerigo was one of the first people to think that he made it to a new land. Made at least two transatlantic trips to the New World. -
May 18, 1500
Pedro Alvares
He was a Portugal explorer who discovered Brazil and sailed east to india in 1500-1501. King jon made him the leader of a expodition to sail to the indies. Saided to cape of good hope. -
May 18, 1513
Vasco Nunez de Balboa
Vasco was the first European to sight eastern shore of the Pacific Ocean. He claimed the Pacific Ocean and all its shores for Spain, which opened the way for Spanish exploration and conquest along the western coast of South America. -
May 18, 1519
Ferdinand Magellan
He set sail form Sapin with five ships altogether. the crew had 256 people. he sailed around the tip of South America and it took a month and it is named after him today. he was the first person to sail from the Atlantic ocean to the Pacific. -
May 18, 1519
Hernan Cortez
In 1519 He left his home home in Cuba in order to explorer Mexico. He was convinced he could obtain more riches on the mainland. -
May 18, 1524
Francisco Pizzaro
Francisco Pizzaro discovered a healthy empire in Pero which was called Inca Empire. -
May 19, 1528
Alvar Cabeza
He explored Florida and Gulf region from Texas to Mexico. In early 1527 Cabeza de Vaca departed from Spain as a part of a royal expedition intended to occupy the mainland of North America. -
May 18, 1542
Juan Rodiriguez Cabrillo
He was from spain. He explored the Pacific coast to Drake's bay near San Francisco in 1542. Portuguese explorer noted for his exploration of the west coast of North America on behalf of Spain. Cabrillo was the first European explorer to navigate the coast of present day California in the United States. He helped found the city of Oaxaca, in Mexico -
May 20, 1577
Sir Francis Drake
He was the first Englishman to sail around the world. On his voyage back home, the sailors decided they should paint a picture for him being the second person in history to circumnavigate the world. -
John Davis
A English explorer who explored the west coast of Greenland in search of northwest passage to Asia in 1585. He was Born in Sandrige, Devon, England. He died from being murdered. His occupation was he discovered falkland islands.
