The Great Adventure

  • Period: Sep 16, 1300 to

    The Great Adventure

  • Nov 17, 1300

    Marco Polos travles Cathy China

  • Dec 14, 1400

    People in europe began to look the seas

  • Sep 15, 1492

    Columbus first adventure to the New World

  • Jul 24, 1497

    Vasco da Gama finds a route to India

  • Sep 15, 1497

    Sent Cabot on a voyage westward

  • Sep 15, 1498

    Noy Voyage to south america

  • Sep 15, 1500

    Spain claims the New World in the 1500s

  • Sep 15, 1508

    Juan Pounce de Leon settled in Puerto Rico

  • Sep 15, 1524

    King Francis I sent Itialian navigator Giovanni da Verrazano

  • Sep 15, 1526

    The 150 remaining colinist returned to Hispaniola

  • Sep 15, 1539

    Hernando de Soto sailed with the military expedition fron Havana Cuba

  • Sep 15, 1539

    The military spen the winter of 1539-1540

  • Sep 15, 1560

    The atlantic coastal region had seen a flurry of spanish activity

  • Sep 15, 1560

    Spaniards focused their attention southward

  • Sep 15, 1562

    France sent a colony under the command of Jean Ribault to North America

  • Sep 15, 1562

    Ribualt Hugentots attempted to settle near present day Port royal Soth Carolina

  • Sep 15, 1564

    The colinist gave up

  • Sep 15, 1565

    Spain sent troops to florida

  • Sep 15, 1566

    Jaun Pardo and Hernando Boyano led a small group of men into the south carolina coast