Explorer Timeline

By jiyoonp
  • Jun 1, 1000

    Leif Eriksson

    Leif Eriksson was a viking explorer who sailed to America in search of a settlement. He went to Vinland, or Vineland. He stayed there for some time, but the Natives kicked them out. He never explored more of North America.
  • Vinland
    Aug 15, 1000

    Vinland

    Vinland, in 1000,was discovered by Leif Eriksson and several other Vikings. It is an island that exists on the coasts of Canada and North America. It was a base for vikings to fish and hunt during the winter. Many of the viking's sagas, or stories of heroes, happened there.
  • Vikings
    Nov 14, 1000

    Vikings

    Vikings were a group of people who lived in present-day Sweden, Denmark, and Norway. They sailed west to the North America to find settlements. They were the first historically known figures in Europe to arrive in America.
  • Marco Polo
    Nov 16, 1271

    Marco Polo

    Marco Polo was an explorer and a trader, both in Europe and China. He traveled to many other countries in Asia, and even stayed in China for some years. Later, he wrote some books about his travels that inspired future explorers.
  • Constantinople
    Dec 13, 1453

    Constantinople

    Constantinople was a very commonly used huge tradiing post for Europeans and Asian traders. It was located between the two continents, in the Black Sea. But in 1453, the Turks captured the city, forbidding the traders to pass by.
  • Bartholomeu Dias
    Nov 17, 1488

    Bartholomeu Dias

    Bartholomeu Dias was an European explorerwho was searching for a water route to Asia. He sailed all the way around the south tip of Africa, also called Cape of Good Hope. He was the first person in the whole world to sail around the Cspe of Good Hope.
  • Prince Henry
    Nov 16, 1490

    Prince Henry

    Prince Henry, a prince and an explorer of Portugal, started a navigation school that tought people how to make boats, make and read maps, and to use things like astrolabe and compass.He benefitted the exploration in Portugal greatly.
  • Christopher Columbus
    Nov 17, 1492

    Christopher Columbus

    Christopher Columbus was an Italian-born Spanish Explorer. He was attempting to find a sea route to India, but landed in America. However, Columbus thought that the land he had set his foot on was India. He calledd the people living there Indians. Christopher Columbus had been the first European to go to America.
  • Guanahani
    Nov 17, 1492

    Guanahani

    Guanahani is an island which is placed in the Americas. Christopher Columbus, the famous explorer discovered it, but thought it as India and named people there Indians.
  • Martin Behaim
    Nov 17, 1495

    Martin Behaim

    Martin Behaim was an European cartographer who made maps and globes of the world, paid by the Germans. He was so important because he'd made the world's first European-made globe. His maps helped many future explorers.
  • Giovanni Caboto
    Nov 17, 1497

    Giovanni Caboto

    Giovanni Caboto was an European sailor who sailed across the Ocean Sea, on a voyage paid by England. He arrived to the Newfoundlnd, but thought is as Cathay, which is now China, the land of great Kublai Khan.
  • Vasco de Gama
    Nov 17, 1498

    Vasco de Gama

    Vasco de Gama was an Portugese explorer who was, llike so manyothers, searching for a water route to Asia. He was, amazingly, the first person to actually find it. His discovery was a great benefit in trading in the future.
  • Amerigo Vespucci
    Nov 17, 1499

    Amerigo Vespucci

    Amerigo Vespucci wasan Explorer who thought that Columbus's idea that Asia covered half the Earth, but that he had discovered a new continent. So, he set sail to North America and claimed it to be a new continent. Amerigo Vespucci was the first European to call America a continent.
  • Vasco Nunez de Balboa
    Nov 17, 1513

    Vasco Nunez de Balboa

    Balboa was a Spanish soilder and an explorer. He proved that Asia was smaller then Christopher Columbus had thought, and claimed the Pacific Ocean for Spain. He also proved that Amerigo Vespucci was right about the new continent and named it after him, America.
  • Ferdinand Magellan
    Nov 17, 1519

    Ferdinand Magellan

    Ferdinand Magellan, a Portugese explorer, went on an important expedition to find a way to Asia by sailing west around the Americas. He died during his voyage, but one of his ships sailed all around the world, making him the first peron to have his ship sail around the world.