Maddy and Perry's timeline

By maddydwyer97
  • 500

    Polynesian exploration of Pacific

  • Period: 500 to

    Years

  • Oct 18, 1000

    Norse voyages

    to Iceland, Greenland, North America
  • Oct 18, 1271

    Marco Polo

  • Oct 18, 1325

    Ibn Battuta

  • Oct 18, 1405

    Zheng He

  • Oct 18, 1492

    Columbus

  • Oct 18, 1497

    John Cabot reaches Newfoundland

  • Oct 18, 1498

    Vasco de Gama reaches India

  • Oct 18, 1513

    Balboa crosses Isthmus of Panama, reaches Pacific

  • Oct 18, 1517

    Selim "the navigator" conquers Egypt

    Ottoman - key to accessing Indian Ocean
  • Oct 18, 1520

    Hernan Cortes explores Mexico, conquers Aztec empire

  • Oct 18, 1520

    Magellan circumnavigates the world

  • Oct 18, 1524

    Verrazzano explores the east coast of N. America

  • Oct 18, 1530

    Francisco Pizarro explores/conquers Peru for Spain

  • Oct 18, 1531

    Cartier finds St. Lawrence river

  • Oct 18, 1534

    Ibrahim Pasha, Ottoman conquers Iraq

  • Oct 18, 1576

    Frobisher discovers Baffin Island and Frobisher Bay

    while searching for Northwest Passage

  • Sir Walter Raleigh's men explore N. Carolina - find Chesapeake Bay

  • Henry Hudson finds Hudson River

    while searching for Northwest Passage

  • Hudson explores Hudson Bay, dies there after mutiny

  • James Cook explores Pacific Islands and circumnavigates earth

  • William Parry explores Arctic in search of Northwest Passage

  • Nansen reaches 86/13 north latitude

  • Robert Peary and Frederick Cook both claim to have reached N. Pole