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In 1,000 A.D. the Vikings reach North America, approximately 5 centuries before the voyage of Christopher Columbus.
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The renaissances period begins in the 1300's
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Prince Henry started the first school for oceanic navigation along with an astronomical observatory at Sagres, Portugal.
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In 1441, the first slaves were brought to Portugal from northern Mauritania
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Christopher Columbus was hoping to find a route to India in order to trade for spices.
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Seven years after Columbus's voyage to the West Indies, Italian Amerigo Vespucci sailed across the Atlantic in search of a passage to India.
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Juan Ponce de Leon lands on the east coast in 1513 and visits Florida.
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The Spaniards landed on the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico in 1519, where they found the advanced society of the Aztecs.
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In January 1531, a Spanish expedition led by Francisco Pizarro, on a mission to conquer the Inca Empire, landed on Puná Island.
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Sailing along the coast, he reached the Outer Banks of Carolina.
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St. Augustine is the oldest continuously occupied settlement of European and African-American origin in the United States.
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Over 100 men, women and children journeyed from England to Roanoke Island on North Carolina's coast and established the first English settlement in America. Within three years, they had vanished with scarcely a trace.
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The Renaissance period ends in the 1600's
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104 men set foot on Jamestown Island after a harrowing four-and-a-half-month voyage from England
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In 1608, Samuel de Champlain created the first truly permanent French settlement in the area around where Québec City stands today. It was a small settlement - no more than 60 colonists lived here by 1620.
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Explorer Henry Hudson and his crew aboard the Half Moon. Strong head winds and storms forced them to abandon the northeast voyage they had been assigned. Rather than return to Holland with nothing to report, the crew voted to look for the Northwest Passage, a legendary waterway that would carry a ship all the way from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean. They passed by the island we know toda
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English explorers and colonists named Hudson Bay after Henry Hudson, who explored the bay beginning August 2, 1610, on his ship the Discovery.
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1st Jan, 1611, De Champlain sets up permanent settlements in Montreal.
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The Mayflower Compact was signed aboard ship on November 11, 1620 by most adult men (but not by most crew and adult male servants).
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in 1624, the Dutch buily Fort Orange and found New Amsterdam, now known as New York City.
