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1000
Leif Erickson: spossered by the country of Scandinavia
was the first European to land on the cost of North America. Specifically in what is now present day Canada. -
1474
Juan Ponce de Leon was a spanish explorer
he was known for leading the first official European expedition -
1488
Bartholomeu Dias: sailed for the country of Portugal
sailed Southward down the coast of Africa making it to the southern tip of africa. He called this Southern tip of the "Cape of Good Hope". -
1488
Pedro Alverez: sponsered by the country of Portugal.
He is known for finding the country of Brazil in South America. He sets he starts a settlement there in 1488 -
1497
Vasco Da Gama
sailed around Aferica and all the way to India. -
1497
John Cabot was an Italian navigator and explorer
His voyage to the coast of North America under the commission of Henry VII of England is the earliest known European of coastal north America. -
1499
Juan Cabrillo was a maritime explorer
best known for investigations of the West Coast of North America -
1500
Hernan Cortes was a Spanish conquistador
he led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire -
1500
Hernando de Soto Spanish explorer and conquistador
involved in expeditions in Nicaragua and the Yucatan Peninsula -
1506
Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean blue in 1492.
Tried to reach Asia by sailing west across the Atlantic, landed in the Americas but believed he had reached Asia (even when he died in 1506) -
1510
Francisco Vasquez de Coronado was a Spanish conquistador
and explorer who led a large expedition from mexico to present day Kansas -
1519
Hernándo Cortés Conquered the Aztec
a conquistador who explored Mexico -
1519
Francisco Pizarro
a conquistador who explored the Andes Mountains of South America and conquered the Inca Empire -
1519
Ferdinand Magellan
circumnavigated, or sailed around, the world -
1524
Giovanni de Varrazano was a Florentine explorer of North America
In service of king Francis I of France. He is renowned as the first European to explore the Atlantic coast of North America between Florida and New Brunswick -
1527
Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca was a Spanish explorer
Spanish explorer of the new world, one of the 4 survivors -
Henry Hudson
Henry Hudson was an english sea explorer and navigator -
Henry Hudson
Henry Hudson was an english sea explorer and navigator. -
Robert Cavelier de La Salle french explorer
He explored the Great Lakes region of the United States and Canada -
Louis Jolliet
Louis Jolliet was a French-Canadian explorer known for his discoveries in North America -
Jacques Marquette
Jacques Marquette was a French-American Jesuit missionary who founded Michigan's first European settlement -
Jacques Cartier was a French-Breton explorer
who claimed what what is now Canada for France. Jacques Cartier was the first European to describe and map the Gulf of Saint Lawrence.
