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  Columbus left spain to find the new route
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  Christopher Columbus landed on a island off the coast of North America and named it San Salvador
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  First to sail west
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  later in Columbus`s life he was arested
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  in 1493 the king and queen were inpressed with columbus and gave him 17 ships to make another voyage
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  Attaked by indians and was evantually killed
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  1st person to map Texas coast
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  did not treat indians good
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  Lived 3 years with the kawakawas as a slave
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  Meet an indian who told him about Quivira ( land of the riches)
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  1st person to travel across Teexas
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  Led an expediton from a french colony in what is now Canada
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  Sailed down the Mississippi river to the Gulf of mexico claiming land for the french
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  Crossed the panhandle of Texas
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  1st known european in Texas