Exploration Colonization

By hollybroyhill
  • May 10, 1400

    Henry the Navigator

    Henry(a prince) began looking for ways to bypass Venice's hold on the spice trade.He got the sea captains to explore, he wanted them to find a route to the Spice Islands, near India.
  • Jun 5, 1492

    Ferdinand and Isabella

    The queena and of Spain(Ferdinand and Isabella) , they allowed Columbus to go on an expedition. They got credit for his idea by Columbus.
  • Sep 2, 1492

    Christopher Columbus tried to sail to Asia

    In 1492-1498-Christopher Columbus got the king and queen from spain to support his expedition. He was trying to get to Asia by going westward, but he landed in America.
  • Dec 6, 1497

    Vasco da Gama Found a Route

    Vasco da Gama, a portuguese explorer found a route to the Spice Islands and sailed all the way to India.
  • Dec 29, 1497

    John Cabot- Northwest Passage

    John Cabot was sent on a voyage to the West by King Henry VII. They thought that there might be a water route that woudl lead north and west to Asia.He failed to find the Northwest Passage.
  • Sep 3, 1508

    Juan Ponce de Leon

    Juan was a Spanish official in the new world. He explored and settled the island of Puero Rico. He revealed that large tracts of land ripe for exploration lay to the north of Carribean islands on his expodition.
  • Jun 3, 1524

    Giovanni da Verrazano

    Giovanni was sent westward by King Francis I. He went and reached the North Carolina Outer Banks, went across the islands and he was looking at the Pamlico and Albemale Sounds. When he returned to France the king was busy so he didn't sponsor any more voyages to the Americas.
  • Sep 4, 1526

    Lucas Vazquez de Ayllon

    Ayllon led over 500 people to the Jordan River. Hisorians think that it was really North Carolina's Cape Fear River. This colony failed because disease and starvation. He took the colony to South Carolina and it didnt help they still were overwhelmed with the disease and starvation.The remainy 150 colonist returned to Hispaniola.
  • Sep 3, 1539

    Herdando de Soto

    Herdando sailed with the Milatary expedition from Havana, Cuba, to the west coast of Florida. in spring he crossed Georgia and South Carolina and passed throygh the western tip of North Carolina. Him and his men were the first people to see the regions.He died on the trip they took after that to south and west, many of the men returned to Mexico.
  • Sep 4, 1564

    Rene de Laudonniere

    WHen the conolist gave up and returned to France, Rene he was a band of the Huguenots, settled at Fort Carolina, on the north Florida coast.