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A Norse explorer from Iceland. He is thought to have been the first known European to have set foot on continental North America (excluding Greenland), approximately half a millennium before Christopher Columbus.
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Prince Henry the Navigator in the 15th century European Maritime discoveries and maritime expansion.
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in 1488, sailed from portugal southward made it to the bottom of Africa.discovering the southern tip of Africa, the cape of good hope.
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He was determined to find a direct water route west from Europe to Asia, but he never did. Instead, he stumbled upon the Americas. Though he did not really “discover” the New World—millions of people already lived there—his journeys marked the beginning of centuries of exploration and colonization of North and South America.
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Italian sailor John Cabot, sailing for the English, searched for a passage to the Pacific Ocean along the coast of Canada and Newfoundland. This became the basis of Englands claim to North America.
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in 1497 , sailed all around Africa and all the way to India, winning the European race for a sea route to Asia.
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America was named for Amerigo Vespucci, who sailed to South America in 1501.
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Juan Ponce de Leon explored Florida in search of a Youth Fountain.
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Vasco Nunez de Balboa crossed central America to discover the Pacific Ocean.
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Ferdinand Magellan headed an Expedition in 1519 that circumnavigated, the world.
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Explored Mexico in 1519, conquered the Aztecs.
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Francisco Pizarro explored the Andes Mountains of South America and conquered the Inca Empire.
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Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca accompanied by Estevanico, and others, explored the North American Southwest looking for 7 cities of gold.
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Hernando de Soto explored Florida and North Carolina.
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Francisco Vasquez de Coronado explored North American Southwest looking for the 7 cities of gold and found the grand canyon.
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Frenchman Jacques Cartier sailed down the Saint Lawrence river all the way to present-day Montreal, claiming lands for France.
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Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo explored the West Coast of North America, undertaken on behalf of the Spanish Empire.
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He made between 21 and 29 trips across the Atlantic Ocean, and founded Quebec, and New France, on 3 July 1608.
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The English captain Henery Hudson led a Dutch expedition to present-day New York in 1609.
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Henry Hudson explored the Arctic waters in 1610.
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René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle was a 17th-century French explorer and fur trader in North America. He explored the Great Lakes region of the United States and Canada, the Mississippi River, and the Gulf of Mexico
