Explorers of the New World

By MoodRingTarot
  • Jul 11, 1481

    Bartolomeu Dias Navigates around Africa

    Bartolomeu Dias made his trip around the tip of Africa, finding the nations around it.
  • Apr 20, 1492

    Christopher Columbus

    Christopher Columbus, an Italian explorer sailing for Spain made his way in the ocean, trying to find Asia, but found what was really North America. There, he traded with the Natives, and started the Columbian Exchange.
  • May 13, 1492

    The Columbian Exchange

    Starting the same year Christopher Columbus discovered America, (discovered once again used very loosely), and thus began the trading of food, spices, materials, animals, and even diseases throughout America and Europe.
  • Oct 17, 1497

    Vasco de Gama

  • Oct 17, 1497

    John Cabot

  • Oct 17, 1500

    Pedro Alvars Cabral

  • Oct 17, 1501

    Amerigo Vespucci

  • Oct 17, 1513

    Vasco Nunez de Balboa

  • Oct 17, 1522

    Ferdinand Magellan

  • Oct 17, 1534

    Jacques Cartier

  • Henry Hudson

  • Leif Ericksson

    Although the exact date is unkown, Lief Ericksson explored the New World in the year 968 AD. He was son of the famous Viking explorer Erik the Red, and is famous for discovering the New World for Europe (although everyone knows that the Native Americans discovered it first)