Explorer Timeline

Leif Eriksson

Apr 15, 1000

Leif Eriksson was a viking explorer.He set sail from greenland heading west. Soon He discovered vineland also known as vinland. He was the first european explorer to find vineland.

Vikings

May 20, 1000

Vikings are people who lived in northern Europe, wich is now called Sweaten, Denmark, and Norway.They sailed west to build settlements in northern Canida, Greenland. The vikings were the first known Europeans to set foot in North America. They wrote the greenlanders saga to discribe their travels

Vineland/Vinland

Jul 15, 1000

Vinland is a land that is covered in vines like grapes and was discovered by the vikings. Vinland was located on the coast of North America. Vinland was like a base for the vikings. They came to fish and hunt. And there is many viking sagas accered.

Marco Polo

Aug 17, 1271

In 1271 Marco Polo lefthis home in Venice, Italy, to go to Asia with his father and his uncle.
Marco Polo was only 17 years old when he went on a trip with his father and his uncle. Marco Polo and the other Polos set sail for China. Marco Polo also wrote a book about China and people sailed out for China. In China they saw a palace called Kublai Khan.

Prince Henery

Oct 24, 1400

Prince Henery was a prince of Portigal. He had a navigation school where he taught Europeans and they made maps, boats, and compasses. This located in Portigal. Soon Prince Henrey came to death at 1460.

Constantinople

Sep 19, 1458

Constantinple is a city in a country now called Turkey. Constantinple is located on the border of Asia and Europe. Also in the Ottoman Empire, Coputered the city of Constantinople. European traders exchanged their goods for goods that traders from the Middle East had gotten in Asia. This happened in 1458 the turks, people from a huge land called the Ottoman Empire, captured Constanople.

Bartholomiew Dias

Feb 20, 1488

Bartholomiew Dias was the first to sail around the tip of Africa. there were a lot of storms on the way incuding sick people, hunger, and they get very frightened. Dias wanted to sail on to India but the his crew made him turn back.

Christorper Columbus

Aug 7, 1492

Christorper Columbus is a spanish sailor. He sailed to America, Italy, and Spain. He was the first European to find America

Martin Behaim

Sep 26, 1492

martin Behain got $75 to make a new kind of map. It happen in 1492, in the unknown world.

Guanahani

Oct 12, 1492

Guanahani was a island located near America. This was the island Culumbus first landed on and was were Culumbus first found the Indians. Guanahani island is full of exitement!

Vasco Da Gama

Aug 20, 1497

Almost 10 years later after bartholomiew Dias Vasco Da Gama sailed around the tip of Africa to India. Soon after he sailed back to Portigal with his ship full of spices. Da Gama finally found a new sea route to Asia, showing the way to future explorations.

Giovany Caboto

Nov 17, 1497

Giovany is an Italian sailor. He sailed across the ocean sea on a voyage paid for by England. This happened in Newfoundland, Ocean Sea, and Italy. He found there a palace called Kublai Khan wich means "Great land".

Vasco Nunez De Baboa

Sep 23, 1513

Vasco Nunez De Baboa was in a group of explorers , made up spanish and African soldiers and Native Aerican guides. They were walking up a mountain that is today called Isthmus of Panama. This happened East Coast.

Ferdinand Magellan

Sep 9, 1519

250 Sailors set sail from Spain into the Antlantic ocean. Ferdinand Magellan, a portugese explorer, led fleet. Magellan had convinced the king of spain to pay for his expedition. The reason for Magellan's expedition was to find the way to reach Asia by sailing west around the Americas. soon Magellan came across the Pacific wich means "Peaceful."