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Mar 4, 1394
Prince Henry
Help usher and the salve and trade -
Mar 14, 1488
Bartholomeu Dias
1st European mariner to round the southern tip of Africa opening a way for a sea route -
Jul 21, 1492
Columbus
Came to the new world -
Apr 2, 1497
john Cabot
Went to Canada thinking it was Asia -
Jul 15, 1507
Amerigo Vespucci
Named the new world -
Jan 27, 1513
Vasco Nunez de Balboa
1st to see the pacific ocean -
Jan 27, 1513
Francisco Pizzaro
helped Vasco Núñez de Balboa discover the Pacific Ocean than found its capital -
Jul 27, 1513
Juan Ponce De Leon
looking for gold he found Puerto Rico -
Jan 27, 1518
Hernandez Cortez
over threw Aztec and won the crown of spain -
May 24, 1519
Ferdinand Magellan
He led the 1st people to circumnavigate the globe -
Jan 27, 1534
; Jacques Cartier
gave canada its name and explored a river -
May 27, 1535
Francisco Coronado
found grand canyon -
Apr 27, 1539
Hernando de Soto
Spanish explorer that found Mississippi river -
Jul 27, 1577
Sir Francis Drake
passed through south America -
jacques Marquette
best known for mapping -
Rene-Robert de La Salle
went down Mississippi river -
Luois Jolliet
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Sir Walter Raleigh
