European Exploration

  • Period: Mar 1, 1485 to Mar 1, 1524

    Giovanni da Verrazano

    In 1524, Giovanni da Verrazano sailed to the east cost from North Carolina today. His object had the same intensions as Jacques Cartieras voyages, to claim a new land. . He explored the Gulf of St. Lawrence and discovered the St. Lawrence River.
  • Aug 2, 1492

    Spanish

    Columbus set sail with three small ships and crew of 87 men.
  • Oct 12, 1492

    Spanish

    They made landfall on in the Bahamas he called San Salvador.
  • May 6, 1493

    Spanish

    persuaded Pope Alexander VI to issue an edict giving spain all land west of an imaginary line through the Altantic.
  • Sep 3, 1497

    John Cabot

    to new found land, english claim to north america
  • Period: Nov 6, 1498 to Aug 6, 1500

    Spanish

    Two voyages to the caribean and the Northern coast of South America
  • Period: May 12, 1502 to May 3, 1504

    Spanish

    They made it to the coast of central America
  • Mar 1, 1524

    Giovanni da Verrazano Route

    Giovanni da Verrazano Route
  • Dec 2, 1524

    french

    giovanni da verrazzona searched for northwest passage
  • Period: Jan 1, 1567 to

    Samuel De Champlain

    He was a French explorer and navigator that mapped most of the northeastern North America
  • Sep 3, 1576

    Sir Martin Frobisher

    search for northwest passage (Canada/Frobisher Bay)
  • Period: Sep 3, 1576 to Sep 3, 1578

    Sir Martin Frobisher

    search for northwest passage (Canada/Froshiber Bay)
  • Period: Sep 3, 1576 to Sep 3, 1578

    Sir Martin Frobisher

    search for northwest passage (Canada? Frobisher Bay)
  • Period: Sep 3, 1577 to Sep 3, 1580

    Sir Francis Drake

    first english circumnavigation
  • Period: to

    Jean Nicollet

    He was a french explorer. Who was the first to travel through the Great Lakes.
  • Bartholomew Gosnold

    explored new england coast
  • John Smith

    jamestown founded
  • Spanish

    Santa Fe and New Mexico was the chief result of almost a century of spanish exploration.
  • Accidentally

    Accidentally
    Henry Hudson and his dutch men explored America accidentally.
  • Anchors Away!

    Anchors Away!
    May 4, Henry Hudson decided to leave and find a quick and safe route to the spice island with eighty-ton yacht with 18 sailors
  • To The Americas

    To The Americas
    May 5, Henry Hudson headed toward North America with a new route his friend drew up on a map.
  • I'll Call It...

    I'll Call It...
    In September Henry Hudson came across a river and he nameed it the Hudson River
  • pilgrams

    arrival at cape cod
  • purtians

    arrival at Massachusetts Bay
  • Period: to

    Pierre Esprit Radisson

    Frech explorer and a fur trader that settled in canada in 1651
  • french

    louis joilet explored upper mississppi basin
  • french

    siuer de la salle explored uper mississip and lake michigian areas
  • french

    sieur beinville founded new orleans and explored mississipi valley
  • french

    sieur d'lberville first to enter from gulf of mexico