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He was a Portuguese royal prince, soldier, and patron of explorers. Prince Henry started the first school for oceanic navigation along with an astronomical observatory at Sagres, Portugal. In this school, people were trained in nagivation, map-making, and science, in order to sail down the west of Africa.
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Christopher Comumbus sail across the Atlantic Ocean in 1492, hoping to find a route to India. But he ended in america. He sailed for spain.(1451-1506)
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Dias led the first European expedition to sail around Africa's Cape of Good Hope, leaving Tagus, Portugal in 1487. This breakthrough of circumnavigating the Cape of Good Hope opened up lucrative trading routes from Europe to Asia.(1457-1500)
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Sail to find gold and capture Indians as slaves in the Indies. He saild for spain. He spotted and named the island of Dominica.
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Vasco da Gama sailed from Lisbon, Portugal, on July 8, 1497, heading to the East. At the time, many people thought that da Gama's trip would be impossible because it was assumed that the Indian Ocean was not connected to any other seas. Da Gama's patron was King Manuel I of Portugal. He sailed for Portugue.(1460-1524)
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Cabot landed near Labrador, Newfoundland, or Cape Breton Island. He sail for England. (about 1450-1499)
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He went and sail for spian. He was looking for Trinidad and Venezuela. But he was the first Europen since the vikings to step foot on inland America.
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Sailed for England. Cabot may have reached America, but that is uncertain. He died in 1499
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He was a Spanish nobleman, explorer and merchant. In 1602, Vizcaino sailed up te coast of California in three ships at the request of King Phillip II of Spain. Vizcaino named Monterey Bay and San Diego (Vizcaino arrived there on the feast day of San Diego de Alcala, November 12). One ship sailed as far north as Oregon. (1454-1512)
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Balboa sailed with Rodrigo de Bastidas from Spain to Colombia, South America. They searched for treasures. They were forced to abandon their leaky ship in Hispaniola. (1475-1519)
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In 1488, Dias led the first European expedition to sail around Africa's Cape of Good Hope, leaving Tagus, Portugal in 1487. This breakthrough of circumnavigating the Cape of Good Hope opened up lucrative trading routes from Europe to Asia.He sialed for Portugal
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Columbus sailed to Mexico, Honduras and Panama. He saild for spain. He died in Hispaniola.
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King Manuel I of Portugal then sent da Gama, now an Admiral, on another expedition to India (1502-1503). On this second trip, da Gama took 20 armed ships (anticipating problems from Muslim traders). On this voyage, da Gama killed hundreds of Muslims, often brutally, in order to demonstrate his power. He sailed for Portugue.
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Looking for Treasures purlls,gold and he wanted to colnize. First to see the pasific. Sialed for spian.
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He sailed with hundreds of Spaniards and Indians across the Gulf of Uraba to the Darien Peninsula. He was the first European to see the eastern part of the Pacific Ocean
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He was a Portuguese explorer who led the first expedition that sailed around the Earth (1519-1522). Magellan also named the Pacific Ocean (the name means that it is a calm, peaceful ocean).(1480-1521)
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Cortes sailed with 11 ships from Cuba to the Yucatan Peninsula to look for gold, silver, and other treasures. Hearing rumors of great riches, Cortés traveled inland and "discovered" Tenochtitlan, the capital of the Aztec empire. He then brutally killed the Aztec emperor Montezuma and conquered his Aztec Empire of Mexico, claiming all of Mexico for Spain in 1521. (1485-1547)
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HE was an Italian navigator who, in 1524, explored the northeast coast of North America from Cape Fear, North Carolina to Maine while searching for a Northwest passage to Asia.(1485-1528) Sailed for Itily.
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In 1524, he went on an expedition to Nicaragua, South America, with Francisco de Cordoba. De Soto sided with Pedro Arias de Ávila (also called Pedrarias Dávila) against Cordoba (who had tried to claim land for himself), and Cordoba was killed. De Soto lived for a while in Nicaragua, prospering by engaging in the slave trade.(1500?-1542)
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A series of hurricanes and fights with Native Americans killed many of the crew, and the pilot of the ship sailed to Mexico abandoning the men. The 250 to 300 stranded men hastily made 5 makeshift rafts on which they sailed west, hoping to reach a Spanish settlement in Mexico. (1500?-1539)
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Francisco Pizarro enlisted de Soto for an expedition to Peru (1531-1532). During this expedition they met and killed Atahualpa, the ruler of the Incas, and conquered the Inca empire.
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Pizarro landed at San Mateo Bay in 1532. After traveling through desert and snow-capped mountains, Pizarro and his men (who included Hernando de Soto) arrived at Cajamarca (in 1533), where they captured Atahuallpa, the 13th and last emperor of the Incas.(1478-1541)
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Jacques Cartier (1491-1557) was a French explorer who led three expeditions to Canada, one in 1534. Cartier sailed inland, going 1,000 miles up the St. Lawrence River.
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Jacques Cartier (1491-1557) was a French explorer who led three expeditions to Canada, one in 1535. Cartier sailed inland, going 1,000 miles up the St. Lawrence River.
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Jacques Cartier (1491-1557) was a French explorer who led three expeditions to Canada, one in 1541. Cartier sailed inland, going 1,000 miles up the St. Lawrence River.
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Sir Francis Drake (1545-1596) was a British explorer, slave-trader, privateer (a pirate working for a government) in the service of England, mayor of Plymouth, England, and naval officer (he was an Admiral).Drake led the second expedition to sail around the world in a voyage lasting from 1577 to 1580. Upon his return, the Queen rewarded Drake with a large sum of money.
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Sir Walter Raleigh (1554-1618) was a British explorer, poet, historian, and soldier. In 1585, Raleigh sent colonists to the east coast of North America; Raleigh later named that area Virginia, in honour of Elizabeth, the Virgin Queen. He is often credited with bringing tobacco and potatoes from the New World to Britain, but they were already known there.
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Little is known about Hudson's early life. Hudson was hired by the Muscovy Company in 1607, to find a waterway from Europe to Asia. Hudson made two trips (in 1607 and 1608), but failed to find a route to China. In 1607, he sailed to Spitzbergen (an island north of Scandinavia in the Arctic Ocean) and discovered Jan Mayen Island (a tiny island off eastern Greenland). He sailed for England.
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Peter Minuit (1580-1638) was the first director general of New Amsterdam, a Dutch colony in America. Minuit was dismissed from the Dutch West India Company, and in 1638 headed a Swedish group that founded New Sweden.
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Cook's first journey was from 1768 to 1771, when 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.(October 27, 1728- February 14, 1779) Sailed for Britian.
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Cook's second expedition (1772-1775) took him to Antarctica and to Easter Island. (October 27, 1728- February 14, 1779) He was a British exsplorer.
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(October 27, 1728- February 14, 1779) He was for Britian. Cook's last expedition (1776-1779) was a search for a Northwest Passage across North America to Asia. Cook was killed by a mob on Feb. 14, 1779, on the Sandwich Islands (Hawaii). At the time, he was trying to take the local chief hostage to get the natives to return a sailboat they had stolen.