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Jan 1, 1450
Prince Henry the Navigator
Was a portuguese explorer, son of king the of portugal, saw a way to extend portugal's trade and power,was eager to explore the east coast of africa because he had heard that someone had discover gold there and eupope supplies of bullion was running out, the rest of the supplies was great. he set up the first european school for navigators in the 1400's. -
Jan 1, 1468
Pedro Cabral
was a Portuguese noble, military commander, navigator and explorer regarded as the discoverer of Brazil. Cabral conducted the first substantial exploration of the northeast coast of South America and claimed it for PortugalWhile details of Cabral's early life are sketchy, it is known that he came from a minor noble family and received a good education. He was appointed to head an expedition to India in 1500, following Vasco da Gama's newly opened route around Africa. -
Jan 1, 1473
Bartolomeu Dias
He crossed the equator in the 1473 and discovered the sea didn't boil and wasn't filled w/ monsters like they believed, had used the first supply ship that carried enough for the whole trip, on africa's west coastthe strong winds and stroms blew them all away down to the tip of Africa and he knew that because they could turn the corner to the east coast of Africa, he named it cape of storms but later the king of Portugal later renamed it the Cape of Good Hope because the Portuegese now -
Jan 1, 1474
Ponce de Leon
When the war against the Emirate of Granada ended, there was no apparent need for his military services at home and like many of his contemporaries, Ponce de León looked abroad for his next opportunity. In September 1493, some 1200 sailors, colonists, and soldiers joined Christopher Columbus for his second voyage to the New World. Ponce de León was a member of this expedition, one of 200 "gentleman volunteers. -
Jan 1, 1480
Ferdinand Magellan
was a Portuguese explorer. He was born in Sabrosa, in northern Portugal, and served King Charles I of Spain in search of a westward route to the "Spice Islands" (modern Maluku Islands in Indonesia). Magellan's expedition of 1519–1522 became the first expedition to sail from the Atlantic Ocean into the Pacific Ocean (then named "peaceful sea" by Magellan; the passage being made via the Strait of Magellan), and the first to cross the Pacific. -
Jan 1, 1485
Giovanni Verrazano
In 1485 Giovanni da Verrazzano was an Italian explorer of North America, in the service of the French crown. He was announced to be the first European since the Norse colonization of the Americans about 1000 A.D to explore the Atlantic coast of North America between the Carolinas and Newfoundland, including New York Harbor and Narragansett Bay in 1524. -
Jan 1, 1492
Christopher Columbus
believed the world was round so he went on a expidition to reach asia by going west instead of going east like every one thought. The sailors got scared after a while and threatened him mutiny if he didnt turn back. He reached the bahamas but thought he had reached the indies and called the people there indians. He found that tobacco grew there and was the first European to be in contact w/ tobacco. On christmas eve Santa Maria broke and so they had to settle on the island the first settlement. -
Jan 1, 1493
the Treaty of Tordesillas
Since the Spanish were afraid that portugal would take the riches back that Christopher had broung, the pope made an invisible from the north pole to south pole. Spain got the non-christian islands west the line and portugal had the non-christian islands east from it. Portugal didnt like it and called for a meeting ending up as th treaty of tordesillas. The line was moved farther west and Portugal was able to claim Brazil. The people of Europe now claimed where ever they wanted w/out popes help. -
Jan 1, 1497
Amerigo Vespucci
Explored Alantic Coastline and was one of the first to think he reached the new land.was an Italian explorer, navigator and cartographer. The Americas are generally believed to have derived their name from the feminized Latin version of his first name. -
Jan 1, 1497
John Cabot
In 1497 John Cabot was an italian navigator and the king got persuaded, to send him to he far east by a north west route, by english merchants. He set sail and explored the coast of Nova Scotia and Newfoundland and got claims of America for the English.Columbus never thought Vespucci had tried to steal his laurels. -
Jan 1, 1497
vasco da gama
they learned how to make a rope how to make a rope out of cocanut fiber at malindi then he went to calicut, which was a trading center on the coast of italy. Arab and Persian merchants thought that they would take over the african and indian trading route so they were planing on killing da gamma but didn't know and decided to leave and took as many spices as they could load and took off home. The men died of scuvry on the 13 month trip back home and all of them were threatned by storms -
Jan 1, 1513
Vasco Nunez de Balboa
In 1513 Vasco Nunez Balboa was the first european to see the great south. He crossed isthmus of Panama.He traveled to the New World in 1500 and, after some exploration, settled on the island of Hispaniola. He founded the settlement of Santa María la Antigua del Darién in present-day Colombia in 1510, which was the first permanent European settlement on the mainland of the Americas which was a settlement by Alonso de Ojeda the previous year at San Sebastián de Urabá had already been abandoned. -
Jan 1, 1519
Hernan Cortez
Invaded Mexico. With Gunas and small pox disease he destroyed The native american empire and their king Montezuma. Took lots of gold back to Spain.Hernán Cortés de Monroy y Pizarro, 1st Marquis of the Valley of Oaxaca was a Spanish conqueror 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. -
Jan 1, 1528
Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca
In 1528 explored florida and gulf region from texas to mexico.Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca was a Spanish explorer of the New World, one of four survivors of the Narváez expedition. He is remembered as a proto-anthropologist for his detailed accounts of the many tribes of Native Americans, first published in 1542 as La Relación (The Report), and later known as Naufragios which were Shipwrecks. -
Jan 1, 1532
Frasisco Pizzaro
invaded peru. within five years, he conquered the inca empire. l like cortez and his troops took great tresures of gold and silver from the native americans. 1502, Pizarro sailed from Spain with the newly appointed Governor of Hispaniola, Nicolás de Ovando y Cáceres, on a fleet of 30 ships. It was the largest fleet that had ever sailed to the New World. The 30 ships carried 2,500 colonists. -
Jan 1, 1534
Jasques Cartier
Was a French navigator and he sailed up to present-day Montreal, through the St. Lawrence river and got the french a claim to eastern Canada.Jacques Cartier (1491 – September 1, 1557) was a French explorer of Breton origin who claimed what is now Canada for France. He 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. -
Jan 1, 1543
Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo
In 1543 Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo was a Portuguese explorer noted for his exploration of the west coast of North America on behalf of Spain. Cabrillo was the first European explorer to navigate the coast of our day California in the United States. He helped find the city of Oaxaca, in Mexico.Cabrillo shipped for Havana as a young man and joined forces with Hernán Cortés in Mexico. -
Jan 1, 1560
Henry Hudson
In 1560 Henry Hudson was an English sea explorer and navigator in the early 17th century. After many voyages on behalf of English merchants to explore places Northeast Passage to India, Hudson explored the region around modern New York City while looking for a western route to Asia under the auspices of the Dutch East India Company. He explored the river which eventually was named for him, and laid thereby the foundation for Dutch colonization of the region. -
Sir Francis drake
Sir Francis Drake was an English sea captain, privateer, navigator, slaver, a known pirate, and a politician of the Elizabethan era. Elizabeth I of England awarded Drake to knighthood in 1581. He was second-in-command of the English fleet against the Spanish Armada in 1588, subordinate only to Charles Howard and the Queen herself. He died of an infectious disease in 1596 after unsuccessfully attacking San Juan, Puerto Rico. -
John davis
was one of the chief English navigators and explorers under Elizabeth I, especially in Polar regions and in the Far East. John appears to have submitted his design of a Northwest travling map to Francis Walsingham and John Dee there were various consultations followed. And in 1585 he started on his first north-western expedition.
