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Oct 4, 1492
Christopher Columbus
He led his first expedtion westward and landed in the Bahamas which he believed was near Asia -
Sep 3, 1496
John Cabot
Was an Italian living in England -
Sep 2, 1497
Vasco Da Gama
He was a Portuguese explorer and he found such a route and sailed all the way to India -
Sep 6, 1497
King Henry VII
He sent Cabot on a voyage to the West. The English thought that there might be a water route through the Americans that would lead north and west to Asia -
May 1, 1498
Christopher Columbus
He thought Asia could be reached by sailing west from Europe -
Sep 2, 1498
Christopher Columbus
On another voyage he reached South America -
Jan 4, 1499
Ferdinand and Isabella
To support an expedition or trip of exploration -
Jan 1, 1500
Spain
Spain claimed many of the New World lands in the early 1500's Spain was taking control of much of South and Central America and many of the Caribbean islands -
Sep 3, 1508
Juan Ponce De Leon
He was a spanish official in the New World he explored and settled the island of Puerto Rico -
Aug 6, 1513
Juan Ponce De Leon
He set out with ships and crew. His expedition landed on the east coast of Flordia, Ponce De Leon derived from the spanish word for "flowers" -
Sep 7, 1520
Spain
Spain was the most powerful nation in the world. Spanish explorers had claimed huge tracks of land in the New World. -
Dec 12, 1520
Lucas Vazguez De Ayllon
He had seen some of the Atlantic coastline of this region on an expedtion in 1520. -
Nov 2, 1524
King Francis I
He lived in France and sent Italian navigator Giovanni Da Verrazano westward -
Sep 3, 1526
Lucas Vazquez De Ayllon
He led a group of over 500 men, women, and childeren to a river he called "Jordan" (for the Jordan River in ancient Palestine) -
Apr 2, 1539
Hernando De Soto
He sailed with a military expedtion from Havana, Cuba, to the west coast of Flordia. From there his soldiers marched northward to a site near present-day Tallahassee, Flordia. -
Mar 22, 1562
France
France sent a colony under command of Jean Ribault to North America. The colonists were Huguenots, or French Protestants. -
Sep 3, 1564
Colonists
Colonists gave up in 1564 and returned to France. That same year another band of Huguenots, led by Rene De Laudonniere -
Mar 27, 1565
Pedro Menendez De Aviles
Spain sent troops under Pedro Menendez De Aviles to Flordia. -
Feb 3, 1566
Juan Pardo & Hernando Boyano
They led a small group of men to the South Carolina coast. From there they pushed north and west an nearly the same route that De Soto had taken 25 years earlier -
Sep 4, 1566
Chesapeake Bay
An expedition set out for Chesapeake Bay from the West Indies to set up a Catholic mission -
Nov 21, 1566
Pedro De Coronas
A leader of the expedtion, marked their landing by placing a wooden cross on the shore