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Mar 4, 1394
Prince Henry the Navigator's LifeSpan
Born in Oporto,Portugal.Henry gained power as the governer of the very rich, Order of Chirst -
Aug 25, 1451
Christopher Columbus's LifeSpan
He was born in between August 25 and October 31, 1451. He was born in Genoa, part of modern Italian Republic.Christopher Columbus discovered America. He called the people on America, "Americas" when it was really "Americans" -
Mar 9, 1454
Amerigo Vespucci's LifeSpan
He was born in Republic of Florence. He The letter, to Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de' Medici, claims that Vespucci determined his longitude celestially while he was on his voyage in August 23, 1449. Vespucci, written to Soderini, of a lengthy visit to the New World, leaving Spain in May 1497 and returning in October 1498. -
Dec 24, 1460
Vasco da Gama's LifeSpan
He was born in Sines, Southwest Coast of Portugal .He sailed four important voyages. He was the commander of the first ships to go to Europe and India. -
Mar 9, 1467
Pedro Alvares Cabral's LifeSpan
He was born in 1467 or 1468, it is an unknown birthday. He was born in Belonte.He got awarded an annual allowance worth 30,000 reais. -
Apr 27, 1480
Ferdinand Magellan
He was born in Sabrosa,Northern Portugal,he served King Charles. He was hired to be the queen's messenger in the Royal Court. -
Oct 10, 1486
Bartolomeu Dias' LifeSpan
Bartolomeu Dias was born in Portugal. His family and his father had attend the Portuguese Court. Got appointed Bartolomeu Dias leader of an expedition to sail around the southern most tip of Africa and make contact with a Christian ruler in the Indies called Prester John. -
Dec 24, 1494
John Cabot's LifeSpan
He was born in 1450 in Genoa or Gaeta, Italy. He was contracted to build and, for five months, worked on the construction of a stone bridge over the Guadalquivir river however this project was abandoned following a decision of the City Council. He On 5 March 1496 King Henry VII of England gave Cabot letters patent with a charge. -
Feb 13, 1508
Francisco Pizzaro's LifeSpan
He was born in Trujillo, Spain in 1471 or 1476. He sailed from Spain with the newly appointed Governor of Hispaniola, Nicolás de Ovando y Cáceres, on a fleet of 30 ships. He accompanied Vasco Núñez de Balboa in his crossing of the Isthmus of Panama and they became the first Europeans to view the Pacific coast of the New World in 1513. -
Mar 1, 1511
Vasco Nunez de Balboa's LifeSpan
He was born in Jerez de los Caballeros, Spain at around 1510. He and 17 others were forced to board an unseaworthy boat with few supplies, and were put out to sea. He founded the first permanent settlement on mainland American soil, and called it Santa María la Antigua del Darién. -
Apr 2, 1513
Ponce de Leon's LifeSpan
He first spotted land. He headed south in the warm current now known as the Gulf Stream. He sailed to Cuba, then headed north, again trying to find Bimini (but instead, finding Andros Island). -
Nov 8, 1519
Hernán Cortéz's LifeSpan
He was born in Medellín, Spain at around 1485. He was peacefully to the Spaniards and peacfully received by the Aztec Emperor Moctezuma II. He got in a war with Pánfilo de Narváez and Cortes arrived with 1,100 men to fight in April 1520. -
Jan 17, 1524
Giovanni da Verrazzano's LifeSpan
He was born in Val di Greve, south of Florence, Italy. After a stop in Madeira, complications forced La Normande back to home port, but Verrazzano’s ship, La Dauphine, piloted by Antoine de Conflans, departed he headed once more for the North American continent. Verrazzano and his crew came into contact with Native Americans living on the coast. However, he did not notice the entrances to the Chesapeake Bay or the Delaware River. -
Apr 15, 1528
Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca's LifeSpan
He was born in Spain around 1490. Within several months of their landing near Tampa Bay, Florida. Later called Naufragios (Shipwrecks), it is considered a classic of colonial literature. Cabeza de Vaca wanted to return to Florida and succeed Pánfilo de Narváez as governor, but King Charles had already appointed Hernando De Soto to lead the next expedition. -
Apr 22, 1529
Treaty of Tordesillas
The other side of the world would be divided a few decades later by the Treaty of Zaragoza or Saragossa, signed. The Treaty of Tordesillas only specified its demarcation line in leagues from the Cape Verde Islands. Although the treaty's Santo Thome island has not been identified, its "Islas de las Velas" (Islands of the Sails) appear in a 1585 Spanish history of China, on the 1594 world map of Petrus Plancius, on an anonymous map of the Moluccas in the 1598 London edition of Linschoten. -
Oct 2, 1535
Jacques Cartier's LifeSpan
He was born on 1491 in Saint-Malo, North-East Coast of Brittany. Jacques Cartier left his main ships in a harbour close to Stadacona, and used his smallest ship to continue up-river and visit Hochelaga (now Montreal). Cartier and his men arrived in Saint-Malo on July 15, 1536, concluding the second, 14 month voyage, which was to be Cartier's most profitable. -
Jun 27, 1542
Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo's LifeSpan
Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo was born in 1499.Cabrillo set out from Navidad (in Jalisco) in New Spain with three ships: the 200-ton galleon and flagship San Salvador, the ship La Victoria (c. 100 tons), and the lateen-rigged, twenty-six oared "fragata" or "bergantin" San Miguel. He October 8, Cabrillo came to San Pedro Bay, which was named "Baya de los Fumos" (English: the Bay of Smoke), after the burning chapperal that raised thick clouds of smoke. -
May 24, 1572
Franics Drake's LifeSpan
He was born in Tavistock, Devon, England in 1540. He left Plymouth with a crew of 73 men in two small vessels, the Pascha (70 tons) and the Swan (25 tons), to capture Nombre de Dios. He joined up with a French buccaneer, Guillaume Le Testu, in an attack on a richly laden mule train in 1573. -
Henry Hudson's LifeSpan
He was born in Mancall on 1560 or 1570s. He stayed to the north (some claim he deliberately stayed too far south on his Dutch-funded voyage), reaching Iceland on May 11. Hudson planned to use his Discovery to further explore Hudson Bay with the continuing goal of discovering the Passage; however, most of the members of his crew ardently desired to return home. Matters came to a head and much of the crew mutinied in June. -
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