European Exploration and Discoveries in the New World

  • Leif Eriksson
    1000

    Leif Eriksson

    sailed off course on his way back to Greenland and landed on the North American
  • Bartolomeu
    1488

    Bartolomeu

    became the first European mariner to round the southern tip of Africa, opening the way for a sea route from Europe to Asia. Dias’ ships rounded the perilous Cape of Good Hope and then sailed around Africa’s ...
  • Christopher Columbus
    1492

    Christopher Columbus

    Christopher Columbus Discovers America, 1492. Columbus led his three ships - the Nina, the Pinta and the Santa Maria - out of the Spanish port of Palos on August 3, 1492. His objective was to sail west until he reached Asia (the Indies) where the riches of gold, pearls and spice awaited.colubus explore for spain for king Ferdinand.
  • John Cabot
    1497

    John Cabot

    Explorer John Cabot made a British claim to land in Canada, mistaking it for Asia, during his 1497 voyage on the ship Matthew.King Henry VII funded him and was from England.
  • Vasco da Gama
    1498

    Vasco da Gama

    da Gama is famous for his completion of the first all water trade route between Europe and India.Portuguese king and wan born in Spain.
  • Amerigo Vespucci
    1507

    Amerigo Vespucci

    The new new land was named after Amerigo Vespucci by Martin Waldseemuller.
  • Ponce de Leon
    1512

    Ponce de Leon

    Ponce de Leon discovered Florida and was funded by King Ferdinand. He was born in Spain.
  • Vasco Nunez de Balboa
    1513

    Vasco Nunez de Balboa

    He was the fist explore to travel across the Pacific Ocean. He was sponsored by Spain and was born in Spain
  • Ferdinand Magellan
    1519

    Ferdinand Magellan

    He was sponsored by Spain and he voyage took him first to the new world around the southern tip of South America and into the Pacific.
  • Giovanni Verrazano
    1524

    Giovanni Verrazano

    was an Italian explorer who charted the Atlantic coast of North America between the Carolinas and Newfoundland, including New York Harbor in 1524 he was sponsored by King Francis I of France.
  • Jacques Cartier
    1534

    Jacques Cartier

    Jacques Cartier was a Breton explorer who claimed what is now Canada for France and was sponsored by, France's King Francis and was born in France
  • Francisco Pizarro
    1535

    Francisco Pizarro

    Lima, a city that he had founded in 1535 and to which he devoted the last two years of his life he was born in Spain
  • Jacques Cartier
    1535

    Jacques Cartier

    Cartier set sail from Hochelaga (present-day Montreal) and tried to make it back to the Atlantic before ice blocked the river, he was born in France
  • Hernando de Soto
    1539

    Hernando de Soto

    Hernando de Soto was given the title Governor of Cuba by the king of Spain, Carlos ... The expedition set sail for Florida .he was born in Spain
  • Francisco Vasquez de Coronado
    1540

    Francisco Vasquez de Coronado

    Francisco Vázquez de Coronado y Luján was a Spanish conquistador and explorer who led a large expedition from Mexico to present-day Kansas through parts of the southwestern United States he was born in Spain which was also the place that sponsored him
  • Francisco Vasquez de Coronado
    1540

    Francisco Vasquez de Coronado

    Francisco Vázquez de Coronado y Luján was a Spanish conquistador and explorer who led a large expedition from Mexico to present-day Kansas through parts of the southwestern United States
  • Sir Francisces Drake
    1577

    Sir Francisces Drake

    secretly commissioned by Elizabeth I to set off on an expedition against the Spanish colonies on the American Pacific coast. He was born in Spain
  • Hernan Cortez

    Hernan Cortez

    Hernán Cortés, marqués del Valle de Oaxaca, was a Spanish conquistador who overthrew the Aztec empire and won Mexico for the crown of Spain. Was born in Spain.
  • Henry Hudson

    Henry Hudson

    Henry Hudson made 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. He was born in Spain