Exploration timeline

By zjya
  • Juan Ponce de Leon and Christopher Columbus
    Aug 19, 1508

    Juan Ponce de Leon and Christopher Columbus

    Both were on a voyage together to the New World , and Juan was the first governor of Puerto Rico.
  • Duke Charles
    Aug 20, 1516

    Duke Charles

    Duke Charles of Burgundy , beacame king of Spain
  • Fransisco Pizzaro
    Aug 19, 1524

    Fransisco Pizzaro

    Conqured the Inca empire
  • Jaques Cartier
    Aug 20, 1535

    Jaques Cartier

    discovered the NE part of th4e continent he discovered the St.Lawrence River.
  • Garcia Lopez Cardenas
    Aug 19, 1540

    Garcia Lopez Cardenas

    first exploreer to see the grand canyons
  • Sir Francis Drake
    Aug 21, 1545

    Sir Francis Drake

    he led the second voyage around the world lasting from 1577- 1580. Sir Drake was a slave trader, pirate working for the government , naval pfficer , and mayor of Plymouth, England.
  • St.Augustine
    Aug 19, 1565

    St.Augustine

    was founded by the the spanish and is now the oldest city in the USA
  • william the silent
    Aug 20, 1568

    william the silent

    when the nobels united, revolt began and the spanish controlled the land and the rebels controlled the seas
  • Aug 20, 1574

    important moment

    the dutch opened up the seawalls to sail across the farmland to defend besieged Leiden
  • Independance
    Aug 20, 1581

    Independance

    Ithe northern places declared their independence as The Netherlands or the Dutch Republic.
  • Samuel de Champlain

    Samuel de Champlain

    founded Quebec
  • William Dampier

    William Dampier

    Dampier was a pirate , he traveled to Austrailia , Southeast Asia , and the South seas . He also discorved New Britian.
  • Jacquees Marquette

    led an exploration with 5 other people and 2 other countries
  • Marquette Juliet

    Marquette Juliet

    along with Marquette Juliet went on the exploration and they found a tribe to attack known as St.Louis now. On the wayy back juliet left them to go on a different route in 1674.
  • James Cook

    James Cook

    for his first expedition he sailed to Tahiti in order to observe Venus as it passed between the Earth and the Sun ,in order to try to determine the distance between the Earth and the Sun, During this expedition, he also mapped New Zealand and eastern Australia
  • Sir Richard Francis Burton

    Sir Richard Francis Burton

    He was the first European to see many Muslim cities and Lake Tanganyika