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1415
Prince Henry the Navigator
He finished mapping much of the coast of west-Africa, but they also succeeded in spreading Christianity, defeating Muslims, and establishing new trade routes. -
1487
Bartolomeu Dias
He was a man of the Portuguese royal house hold. He sailed around the south tip of Africa in 1488, the first European to do so, setting up the route from Europe to Asia . -
1492
Leif Erickson
Leif Erikson, was a Norse explorer from Iceland. He has been the first known European to be on the continent of North America, before Christopher Columbus. -
Aug 3, 1492
Christopher Columbus
Columbus and his crew set sail from Spain in three ships , the Nina, the Pinta and the Santa Maria. On October 12, the ships found land the Bahamian islands. -
1497
John Cabot
Italian explorer, sailing for the English, searched for a passage to the pacific ocean along the coast of Canada and Newfoundland. This became the basis of England's claim to North America. -
May 10, 1497
Amerigo Vespucci
Amerigo Vespucci was an Italian navigator. He participated in at least two voyages of the Age of Discovery, first on behalf of Spain and then for Portugal. -
Jul 8, 1497
Vasco da Gama
He was a Portuguese explorer and the first European to reach India by traveling by sea. His voyage to India was the first to link Europe and Asia by an ocean route. -
1509
Franciso Pizarro
Cortes’s success made other explorers go explore. Pizarro led his army into the Inca capital in Peru. They arrested the Inca leader and later executed him. Inca could no longer fight right without a leader. Later, he controlled most of the region and he was wealthy. -
1513
Vasco Nunez de Balboa
He was a Spanish explorer, he's best known for having crossed the Isthmus of Panama to the Pacific Ocean in 1513, reached the Pacific from the New World. -
1519
Ferdinand Magellan
He was a Portuguese explorer who organised the Spanish expedition to the East Indies from 1519 to 1522. -
1519
Hernan Cortes
He landed on the east coast of Mexico in 1519. Cortes, two years later, conquered the Aztec Empire. He found lots of gold which made him rich and Spain. -
1519
Jaun Ponce de Leon
He was the first Spanish explorer on the east coast of Florida in 1519. He wasn’t looking for gold, he wanted to find a fountain of youth. This led to the first Spanish settlement. -
1528
Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca
He seeked to become rich. He was a part of a Spanish expedition to Florida in 1528. They didn’t get along with the native americans so they sailed south towards Mexico. -
1532
Hernando de Soto
He and his men traveled miles throughout the region to search for gold ,fighting off Native American attacks along the way. In 1541, he and his men became the first Europeans to encounter the great Mississippi River and cross it, he died early the next year. -
1534
Jacques Cartier
He’s a Frenchman, he sailed down to the saint Lawrence river all the way to present day, Montreal, claiming lands of France for Canada. -
1540
Francisco Vasquez de Coronado
He searched for the “ seven cities of Cibola”. He went through northern Mexico, Arizona, until he reached Zuni in 1540. He thought there was no gold so Colorado to Kansas and still no gold. -
1542
Jaun Cabrillo
He was a explorer known for investigations of the West Coast of North America, undertaken on behalf of the Spanish Empire. He was the first European to explore California, navigating along the coast of California. -
Henry Hudson
his first voyage west from England in 1607, when he was hired to find a shorter route to Asia from Europe through the Arctic Ocean. -
Samuel de Champlain
Samuel de Champlain was a french navigator.He was the founder of the city of Quebec, and consolidator of the French colonies in the New World. -
Henry Hudson
On the voyage, he searched for a river because he thought that would be the way to discover a shorter route to Asia. He discovered what we know today as the Hudson River and New York and claimed it for the country of Holland,known as Netherlands. -
Rene-Robert De La Salle
He was a French explorer and fur trader in North America. He explored the Great Lakes region of the United States and Canada, the Mississippi River, and the Gulf of Mexico
