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Leif Erikson , where he explored a region called Vinland. Is considered to be the first explorer in the American continent, beating Christopher Colombus by 500 years.
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After serving to Chinese ruler Kubla Khan for 20 years, Marco Polo returns to Europe, bringing the first taste of Asian culture to Europe.
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Portuguese explorer Bartolomeu Dias led the first European expedition round the Cape of Good Hope, the first European known to sail around the southermost tip of Africa, in 1488.
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Christopher Columbus, sponsored by King Ferdinand of Spain, sailing in La Niña, La Pinta and La Santa María, arrives to the today's coast of Cuba.
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Vasco the Gama is the first explorer to make a sea trip from Europe to India, by going around the African continent.
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Amerigo Vespucci departs on his 3rd and most famous trans-Atlantic Journey. In this voyage he discovers the present-day Rio de Janeiro and Rio de la Plata. Believing he discovered a new continent, he called this New world "South America".
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Juan Ponce de León, while looking for the "Fountain of Youth", lands in the Florida coast. This is the first detailed exploration to that zone.
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Thanks to the efforts of Ferdinand Magellan, the first trip around the planet was made, proving that the Earth is round and not plane as many believed.
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Cortés, with the help of many native allies who didn't liked aztecs, siege the capital city Tenochtitlán and conquers the aztecs.
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Francisco Pizarro, with the help of an Spanish army, conquest the Incan Empire by entering to Cuzco.
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Hernando de Soto and their crew reach the Mississippi River. They are the first documented European explorers who traveled through it.
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Jhon Smith and his crew founded the settlement named Jamestown, the first permanent British North American colony.
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Sacagawea, with her 2-months baby helps explorers Lewis and Clark during their expedition through the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean and Back. She received no compensantion for it.
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By the appointment of Thomas Jefferson, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark explored more than 8,000 miles with the help of Sacagawea. Lewis received his salary, 1,600 acres of land and named governor of Louisiana Territory.
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Jacques Costueau sails aboard the Calypso ship, a former US mine-sweeper, into the Red Sea. In there, the crew would return with valuable information about the unknown fauna and flora from the Red Sea's corals.
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Edmund Hillary, along with Tenzing Norgay, become the first people to reach the peak of the Mt. Everest and comebackalive.
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Aboard of the Vostok 3KA-3 (Vostok 1) spacecraft the Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first man to travel into space.
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Starship Apollo 11 lands on the moon, making Neil Armstrong the first man that leaves his footprint out of planet Earth.