Exploration

By cassadysa
  • Sep 3, 1300

    Marco Polo

    People in Europe read of Marco Polos travel to China and other existing Asian lands.
  • Period: Sep 3, 1300 to

    Exploration

  • Sep 3, 1400

    Europeans Branch Out

    People in Europe began to look at seas. Some wanted to go on aventure and others wantd to spread Christianity everywhere. The age of Exploration and discovery had begun.
  • Sep 3, 1492

    Christopher Columbus and Ferdinand and Isabella

    Columbus led his first expedition west ward. He landed in the Bahamas, islands that he believed to be near Asia. Columbus reached South America, and later a mapmaker labeled this new continent "America" for another explorer, Amerigo Vespucci. Columbus persuaded the king and queen of Spain to support and expedition. Then Columbus gave them credit.
  • Sep 3, 1497

    Vasco de Gama

    Portugese explorer Vasco found a route and sailed all the way to India
  • Sep 3, 1497

    The Northwest Passage

    King Henry VII sent Cabot on a voyage West. The English thought that there might be a water route through the Americas that would lead north and west to Asia.They called this sought-for route the Northwest Passage.
  • Sep 3, 1508

    Juan Ponce de Leon

    Juan Ponce de Leon was a spanish offical in the New World. He explored and settled the island of Puerto Rico. Then King Ferdinand authorized Ponce de Leon to explore lands north of Cuba.
  • Sep 3, 1520

    Lucas Vazquez de Ayllon

    Lucas Vazquez de Ayllon was spanish and had his eyes on the mainland north of Flordia. He seen someof the Alantic coastline of this region on an expedition.
  • Sep 3, 1524

    Verrazano's Expedition

    King Francis I of France sent Italian navigator Giovanni da Verrazano westward. Verrazano first reached land at North Carolina's outer banks. Across the narrow islands he thought he saw the Pacific Ocean.
  • Sep 3, 1539

    Hernando de Soto

    Hernando de Soto sailed with a military expedition from Havana,Cuba, to the west coast of Flordia. Then his soldiers went northward to a site near present-day Tellahassee, Flodia.
  • Sep 3, 1562

    Jean Ribault and Huguenots

    France sent a colony under the command of Jean Ribault to North America. the colonists were Huguenots, or Franch Protestants. Sometimes thay were killed.
  • Sep 4, 1564

    Rene de Laudonniere

    A band of Huguenots, led by Rene de Laudonniere, settled at Fort Carolinw, on the north Flordia coast.
  • Sep 4, 1565

    Pedro Menendez de Aviles

    Spain sent troops under Pedro Menendez de Aviles to Flordia. Then Pedro Menendez de Aviles built a fort at St, Augustine.
  • Sep 4, 1566

    Pedro de Coronas

    He was the leader of the expedition, marked their landing by placing a wooden cross on the shore.
  • Sep 4, 1566

    Juan Pardo and Hernando Boyano

    Juan Pardo and Hernando Boyano led a small group of men to the South Carolina coast.
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    Exploration