History of Explorers By Sherm90 Period: 1450 to 1500 Bartholomew Dias Period: 1451 to 1521 Amerigo Vespucci Period: 1451 to 1506 Christopher Columbus Period: 1460 to 1524 Vasco Da Gama Period: 1478 to 1541 Francisco Pizarro Period: 1480 to 1521 Ferdinand Magellan Period: 1485 to 1547 Hernan Cortes Period: 1488 to 1559 Cabeza de Vaca Period: 1500 to 1542 Hernando de Soto Period: 1510 to 1554 Francisco Coronado Period: 1540 to 1596 Francis Drake Period: 1565 to 1611 Henry Hudson Period: 1681 to 1741 Vitus Bering Period: 1728 to 1779 James Cook Period: 1730 to 1794 James Bruce Period: 1734 to 1820 Daniel Boone Period: 1764 to 1820 Alexander Mackenzie Period: 1769 to 1859 Alexander Von Humbolt Period: 1771 to 1806 Mungo Park Period: 1774 to 1809 Merriweather Lewis Period: 1776 to 1862 Simon Fraser Period: 1779 to 1813 Zebulon Pike Period: 1784 to 1817 Johann Ludwig Burckhardt Period: 1790 to 1886 George Everest Period: 1794 to 1826 Alexander Laing Period: 1799 to 1838 René Caillié Period: 1813 to 1873 David Livingstone Period: 1821 to 1865 Heinrich Barth Period: 1821 to 1861 Robert O'Hara Burke Period: 1821 to 1890 Richard Francis Burton Period: 1827 to 1892 James Grant Period: 1834 to 1902 John Wesley Powell Period: 1835 to 1885 Gustav Nachtigal Period: 1836 to 1925 George Schweinfurth