ch.2 Explorers timeline

  • 1000

    Erikson/Greenland

    He was the first European to set foot in North America
  • 1488

    Pedro/Portugal

    Pedro Álvares Cabral got is credited with discovering Brazil in South America.
  • 1488

    Barholomeu/Portugal

    He sailed around the southernmost tip of Africa in 1488
  • 1492

    Christopher C/Spain

    He was the first European to set to the Caribbean/South America
  • 1497

    John Cabot / England

    Expedition To North America
  • 1497

    Vasco/Portugal

    Vasco de Gama becomes the first European to reach India
  • 1507

    Amerigo/Spain

    Amerigo Vespucci was the first explorer to reach continental lands in the Americas when he discovered the Amazon River and Rio de Janeiro
  • 1513

    Juan Ponce De Leon/ Spain

    They went to the new world
  • 1513

    Vasco/Spain

    The first European to set Pacific
  • 1519

    Hernan/Spain

    He helped conquest the Aztecs
  • 1520

    Fredinand/Spain

    Ferdinand Magellan reaches the Pacific After sailing through the dangerous straits below South America
  • 1524

    Giovanni de Varrazano/ Italy

    He discovered what is now called New York Harbor
  • 1531

    Francisco Pizzaro/Spain

    Francisco Pizarro González was a Spanish conquistador, he helped Spain conquer Peru
  • 1534

    Jacques Cartier /France

    Jacques Cartier was sent by King Francis I to the New World in search of riches and a new route to Asia.
  • 1540

    Francisco Vasquez/Spain

    He went to an expedition to present day Kansas in the United States Of America
  • 1541

    Hernando/Spain

    He discovered the modern day Mississippi river
  • 1542

    Juan Cabrillo/Spain

    He discovered present day California
  • Louis and Jacques/France

    They discovered that the southern part of the Mississippi river flowed into the golf of Mexico
  • Robert Cavelier/France

    He claimed part of the Mississippi river (only the Louisiana part), he traveled the Mississippi river to the gulf of Mexico.