Explorer's Timeline

Prince Henry

Sep 10, 1418

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.

Christopher Columbus

Sep 10, 1451

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)

Bartolomeu Dias

Sep 10, 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.(1457-1500)

Crishtorpher's 2nd

Sep 25, 1493

Sail to find gold and capture Indians as slaves in the Indies. He saild for spain. He spotted and named the island of Dominica.

Vasco da Gam

Jul 8, 1497

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)

John Cabot

Sep 10, 1497

Cabot landed near Labrador, Newfoundland, or Cape Breton Island. He sail for England. (about 1450-1499)

Christopher 's 3rd

May 30, 1498

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.

John Cabot 2nd

Sep 10, 1498

Sailed for England. Cabot may have reached America, but that is uncertain. He died in 1499

Amerigo Vespucci

Sep 10, 1499

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)

Vasco Nunez de Balboa

Sep 10, 1500

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)

Bartolomeu Dias

Sep 10, 1500

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

Christopher's 4th

May 9, 1502

Columbus sailed to Mexico, Honduras and Panama. He saild for spain. He died in Hispaniola.

Vasco da Gam

Sep 10, 1502

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.

Vasco Nunez de Balboa

Sep 10, 1510

Looking for Treasures purlls,gold and he wanted to colnize. First to see the pasific. Sialed for spian.

Vasco Nunez de Balboa

Sep 10, 1513

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

Ferdinand Magellan

Sep 8, 1519

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)

Hernan Cortes

Sep 10, 1521

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)

Giovanni da Verrazzano

Sep 10, 1524

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.

Hernando De Soto

Sep 10, 1524

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)

Estevanico

Sep 10, 1528

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)

Hernando De Soto

Sep 10, 1531

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.

Francisco Pizarro

Sep 10, 1532

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)

Jacques Cartier

Sep 10, 1534

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.

Jacques Cartier

Sep 10, 1535

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.

Jacques Cartier

Sep 10, 1541

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.

Sir Francis Drake

Sep 10, 1577

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.

Sir Walter Raleigh

Sep 10, 1585

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.

Henry Hudson

Sep 10, 1607

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.

Peter Minuit

Sep 10, 1638

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.

James Cook

Sep 10, 1768

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.

James Cook

Sep 10, 1772

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.

COOK, JAMES

Sep 10, 1776

(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.