Explorers

Leif Erikson

Nov 16, 1000

Leif Erikson was a viking. He sailed from Greenland to Canada. He called the new settlement Vinland.

Guanahani

Nov 17, 1000

Guanahani was the name the natives gave to the island that Christopher Columbus called San Salvador when he arrived at the Americas. It was the first island he saw and visited in the Americas. Guanahani is one of the islands in the Bahamas.

Vinland

Nov 18, 1000

Vinland was the name given to a part of North America by the Norsemen. The vikings arrived in Northern America 500years before Columbus.It was the only Viking settlement in North America. It was in Newfoundland, Canada.

Vikings

Nov 18, 1000

Vikings are Norse explorers, warriors and merchants . These Norse men used longships to travel as far east as Constatinople.Vikings are from the North of Europe. They raided, traded, explored and settled in large areas of Europe, Asia and the North Atlantic islands such as Iceland and Greenland.

Marco Polo

Nov 17, 1271

He was a European that loved to tell stories about faraway places.He traveled to many places around the world.He went to places like India,China and Persia. He travelled the silk road across Asia.

Prince Henry

Nov 18, 1450

Prince Henry helped Portugal to search for a water route to Asia. He set up a school for navigation. He explored Africa's west coast.He built boats and maps, tools.

Constantinople

Nov 18, 1453

The fall of Constantinople happened when it was conquered by the Ottoman Empire.This was the end of the Roman Empire.It is now called Istanbul and is in Turkey.The Vikings went to Constantinople.It was important because the Middle Ages ended when Constantinople collapsed.

Bartolomeu Dias

Nov 18, 1487

Bartolomeu Dias was a Portugese navigator. In1487, he sailed around the southern tip of Africa. He opened sea routes between Europe and Asia. He was the first explorer to sail around the cape of Good Hope.He died at sea in the year 1500s.

BartoLomeu Dias

Nov 18, 1488

Bartolomeu Dias was a Portuguese explorer who sailed around the southernmost tip of Africa in 1488. He travelled along the west coast of Africa. He was the first European to sail around the Cape of Good Hope. He opened up trade routes for Europe. He wanted to sail to India. He died at sea in 1500.

Christopher Columbus

Nov 17, 1492

He was an explorer that wanted to travel to Asia.He sailed in the opposite direction and discovered America . He thought it was India so he named the people Indians.He was sent from Spain and found America.

Martin Behaim

Nov 18, 1492

Martin Behaim made a globe of the known world in 1492.He was a German mathematician and an astronomer.This first globe survived into the 21st century. The globe is on the display at Nuremberg, Germany.

Giovanni Caboto

Nov 16, 1497

Giovanni Caboto sailed to Canada in1497, but he thought he had found China. His voyage was paid for by England.

Vasco Da Gama

Nov 16, 1498

Vasco Da Gama was an explorer from Portugal. He sailed to India in 1498 around the Cape Of Good Hope. He found a sea route to India allowing trade.

Amerigo Vespucci

Nov 16, 1499

He was an Italian exploere from Florence who sailed to south America. He formed a conclusion that Columbus and Caboto had not sailed to asia. Vespucci thought that they had found annother continent. This continent was named America after him.

Vasco Nunez De Balboa

Sep 27, 1513

Vasco Nunez De Balboa was an explorer from Spain. He reached the Pacific Ocean in Panama, South America. This was important because it proved that Christopher Columbus had not reached Asia.

Ferdinand Magellan

Nov 16, 1519

Ferdinand Magellan He sailed west around the world in 1519. He discovered Brazil and South America.