European Exploration of the Americas

By samgarrett15
  • Sep 4, 1506

    Giovanni Da Verranzo

    Began navigating in Dieppe, France
  • Nov 4, 1522

    Spanish treasure was captured

    As a pirate Giovanni Da Verranzo captured a spanish treasure ship laden with gold.
  • Dec 4, 1523

    The New World was explored

    Giovanni Da Verranzo was given authority by the King Francis 1 of France to command a voyage.
  • Sep 4, 1524

    Giovanni Da Verrranzo and Jacques Cartier partner up!!

    Giovanni Da Verranzo and Jacques Cartier both take on a expedition and explore the northeast coast of North America.
  • Sep 4, 1525

    Allyson Expdition

    Carried out in 1525 by two ships from Peuto Rico who landed in SC in 1521
  • Sep 4, 1534

    The French went on a search for Gold!!!

    Jacques Cartier recieved authority to "discover certain Islands and lands where it is said there is a large amount of gold and other riches to be found."
  • Sep 4, 1540

    De Soto Expedition

    In the spring an army of 600 spanish soilders marched from Florida into southest Georgia for riches.
  • Jan 3, 1543

    Ponce de Leon

    Juan Cabrillo was the first conquestador to explore California
  • Sep 4, 1559

    De Luna Colony

    Aftermath of De Soto, 1559 they launched a huge colonial adventure under the Tristan De Luna
  • Period: Sep 3, 1580 to

    English go to the Americas

    by the 1580s the English hadnt made it to the Americas yet the Spainish were in South, Centrel and part of North America the French were in the Northern part of North America and by 1587 the English made three expiditions to the Americas they landed at Roanoke Island this colony is the ill-fated lost colony

  • Jamestown is found

    the first permanent English colony is found at Jamestown in 1607

  • Population

    by the 1609 there were 500 colonists at Jamestown
  • Period: to

    Famine

    during the winter of 1609 to 1610 there was a huge famine in the Jamestown colony people ate anytjing they could to survive by the spring of 1610 there were only about 60 colonists left

  • More colonists

    even with the faminethat winter the English were not going to lose the Americas to the French or Spainish so they atarted sending more colonist to Jamestown