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Sep 15, 1254
Marco Polo
September 15, 1254 – January 8–9, 1324 was a Venetian merchant traveller whose travels are recorded in Livres des merveilles du monde (Book of the Marvels of the World, also known as The Travels of Marco Polo, c. 1300), a book that introduced Europeans to Central Asia and China.
He learned the mercantile trade from his father and uncle, Niccolò and Maffeo, who travelled through Asia, and met Kublai Khan. In 1269, they returned to Venice to meet Marco for the first time. -
Oct 31, 1450
Columbus
Crisovac Colombo; born between October 31 ,1450 and October 30th, 1451, died 20 May 1506 , he was an Italian explorer, navigator, and colonizer, citizen of the Republic of Genoa. Under the auspices of the Catholic Monarchs of Spain. He completed four voyages across the Atlantic Ocean. Those voyages, and his efforts to establish permanent settlements on the island of Hispaniola, initiated the Spanish colonization of the New World. Columbus' proposal to reach the East Indies by sailing westward. -
Apr 27, 1521
Magellan
Fernando de Magallanes, April 27 1521 was a Portuguese explorer who organised the Spanish expedition to the East Indies from 1519 to 1522, resulting in the first circumnavigation of the Earth.Born into a wealthy Portuguese family in around 1480, Magellan became a skilled sailor and naval officer and was eventually selected by King Charles I of Spain to search for a westward route to the "Spice Islands." -
Jun 26, 1541
Pizarro
June 26, 1541 was a Spanish conquistador who conquered the Incan Empire. Pizarro González was born in Trujillo, Spain, the illegitimate son of Gonzalo Pizarro, an infantry colonel, and Francisca González, a woman of poor means. His exact birth date is uncertain, but is believed to be sometime in the 1470s,. Scant attention was paid to his education and he grew up illiterate. He was a distant cousin of Hernán Cortés. On November 10th 1509, Pizarro sailed from Spain -
Dec 2, 1547
Cortes
December 2, 1547 was a Spanish Conquistador who led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire and brought large portions of mainland Mexico under the rule of the King of Castile in the early 16th century. Cortés was part of the generation of Spanish colonizers who began the first phase of the Spanish colonization of the Americas. In 1519, he was elected captain of the third expedition to the mainland, an expedition which he partly funded. His enmity with the Governor of Cuba, Diego -
Dec 31, 1557
Cartier
December 31, 1491 – September 1, 1557 was a French explorer of Breton origin who claimed what is now Canada for France. Jacques Cartier was the first European to describe and map the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and the shores of the Saint Lawrence River, which he named "The Country of Canadas", after the Iroquois names for the two big settlements he saw at Stadacona Quebec City and at Hochelaga Montreal Island. -
da Gama
December 23,1524 was a Portuguese explorer. He was the first European to reach India by sea, linking Europe and Asia for the first time by ocean route, as well as the Atlantic and the Indian oceans entirely and definitively, and in this way, the West and the Orient. This was accomplished on his first voyage to India 1497 – 1499. -
Boyle
Boyle January 25th 1627 to December21 1691 was an Anglo-Irish, natural philosopher, chemist, physicist and inventor born in Lismore, County Waterford, Ireland. -
Newton
December 25 1642 - March 20 1726 as an english physicaist and mathematcian, as described in his day a natural philosopher. He had obtained his B.A degree in August 1665. Newton had a book puublished in 1687 , which was called "Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematia". -
Prince Henry
September 15th 1984, known as Prince Harry, the first is the younger son of Charles, Prince of Wales, and Diana, Princess of Wales. He was commissioned as a second lieutenant into the Blues and Royals of the Household Cavalry Regiment, serving temporarily with his brother, and completed his training as a troop leader. In 2007–2008 he served for 77 days in Helmand, Afghanistan but he was pulled out following publication of the story in an Australian magazine.
