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Christopher Columbus discovered the new worlds in the name of spain.
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John Cabot claims North America for England
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Amerigo Vespucci explores the coast of South America
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Ferdinand Magellan is the first to go around the world
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Alonzo de Pineda explores gulf Coast of America
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Giovanni Verrazano discovers New York Bay
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Panfilo de Narvaez conquers Cuba and explores Florida
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Alvar Cabeza de Vaca explores Texas, Arizona and New Mexico
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Jacques Cartier explores the Great Lakes and the the St. Lawrence River
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Hernando de Soto explores south-eastern North America
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Francisco Vázquez de Coronado explores south-western North America
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Discovery of the Grand Canyon by Garcia Lopez de Cardenas
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Francisco Vásquez de Coronado explores Kansas
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Cabrillo explores and discovers the Californian coast
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Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo discovers San Diego Bay, California
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Tristan de Luna explores North America
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Francisco de Ibarra explores New Mexico
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Sir Martin Frobisher explores Baffin Bay and the Hudson Strait
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Sir Francis Drake circumnavigates the world
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Virginia colony of Roanoke Island established by Walter Raleigh
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Walter Raleigh's fleet of seven vessels under Richard Grenville and Ralph Lane, with 108 men, reach Roanoke Island
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Philip Amadas and Arthur Barlowe (both in the service of Sir Walter Raleigh) explore the coast of North Carolina
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Walter Raleigh receives the patent to explore and settle in North America
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Captain John Smith explorer and founder of Jamestown
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Henry Hudson explores North eastern North America including the Hudson River