Exploration Timeline

  • Prince Henry The Navigater
    Sep 9, 1394

    Prince Henry The Navigater

    He Was a Roal Prince. He Sent many sailing expiditions.First European to sail beyond Cape Bojador,And returned alive. He was a teacher
  • Cabot John
    Sep 9, 1450

    Cabot John

    He was a explorer and a navigator.He was born in italy. He saild to canada.He explored the canadian costline.
  • Christopher Columbus
    Sep 9, 1451

    Christopher Columbus

    The first trip was in 1492,The second trip was in 1493, and his third trip was in 1502. His very last trip was in 1502
  • Dias, BARTOLOMEU
    Sep 10, 1457

    Dias, BARTOLOMEU

    led the first European expedition to sail around Africa's Cape of Good Hope, leaving Tagus, Portugal. He spotted land at Espírito Santo in Brazil,
  • Vasco Da Gama
    Sep 10, 1460

    Vasco Da Gama

    He sailed from Lisbon, Portugal, around Africa's Cape of Good Hope and back to india.
  • Sebation Cabot
    Sep 9, 1474

    Sebation Cabot

    He was a explorer,mapmaker,and navigator.He was employed by britian.He sailed around the world.
  • Francisco Pizarro
    Sep 10, 1478

    Francisco Pizarro

    He landed at the San Mateo bay in 1532
  • Ferdinad Megellan
    Sep 9, 1480

    Ferdinad Megellan

    Explorer who led the first expidition.He sailed aroud the eath
  • Giovanni Verrazzano
    Sep 10, 1485

    Giovanni Verrazzano

    He explored the northeast coast in 1524. He landed at Cape fear in 1524.
  • Amerigo Vespucci
    Sep 10, 1499

    Amerigo Vespucci

    Vespucci discovered the mouth of the Amazon and Orinoco Rivers in South America. The second round he mapped some of the eastern coast of South America
  • Hernando De Soto
    Sep 10, 1500

    Hernando De Soto

    He sailed the Atlantic Ocean and was the first European to explore Florida and the southeastern US.conquered the Inca empire.
  • Estevanico
    Sep 10, 1500

    Estevanico

    He wen on the Narváez expedition to Tampa Bay, Florida, in 1528. Found the fabled seven cities of Cibola.
  • Francisco Coronado
    Sep 10, 1510

    Francisco Coronado

    He fabled 7 Golden Cities of Cibola.He travled through Northern mexico and Southwesten USA.He only found Zuñi, Hopi, and Pueblos,
  • Hernan Cortes
    Sep 10, 1519

    Hernan Cortes

    He discovered the capital of the Aztec empire.He sailed with 11 ships to Cuba to the Yucatan penisula.
  • Francis Drake
    Sep 10, 1545

    Francis Drake

    sail around the world in a voyage lasting from 1577 to 1580
  • Walter Raleigh
    Sep 10, 1554

    Walter Raleigh

    led expeditions to both North America and South America; he was trying to found new settlements, find gold, and increase trade with the New World. In 1585, Raleigh sent colonists to the east coast of North America
  • Sep 10, 1565

    Henry Hudson

    In 1608, he sailed to Novaya Zemlya.Hudson sailed into New York's harbor on September 3, 1609 and noted what an excellent harbor it was. Hudson sailed up the river about 150 miles (240 km) and noted the abundance of rich land, but realized that this was not a waterway to India.
  • Sep 10, 1580

    Peter Minuit

    Peter Minuit (1580-1638). Minuit bought land from the Native Americans and founded Fort Christina (near what is now Wilmington, Delaware, USA). Minuit died in a hurricane in the West Indies while on a trading mission in 1638.
  • Jacques Marquette

    (1637-1675) .Jacques Marquette (and five others) found the Mississippi River in 1673.
  • Robert La Salle

    (1643-1687).He explored north america,Went the length of the mississippi river,and got stranded in teaxas.He did not succed .
  • James cook

    October 27, 1728 - February 14, 1779.he sailed to Tahiti on the Endeavor.he sailed from Plymouth, England, to Brazil, around Cape Horn, and to Tahiti. He sailed to New Zealand.to Antarctica and to Easter Island
  • Leif Ericsson

    Leif Ericsson

    He was the first to sail to north america.He sailed around the year 1000