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Dec 11, 1480
Ferdinand Magellan
Ferdinand Magellan was a Portuguese explorer that his parents died when he was 10. Ferdinand Magellan was a queens royal messenger. Magellan was the first person to sail around the world.Magellan left in 1505 when he was 25. -
Dec 10, 1492
Christopher Columbus
Christopher Columbus is a man from Europe that wanted to find shorter route to Asia.Columbus left on August 3,1492 a month or two later, Columbus died in a fight.A month later a man found land. Even know Columbus didn't set foot on land, his history was treasured gratley. -
Dec 11, 1496
Hernando De Soto
De Soto was a man that wanted wealih and power.Hernando was born in 1496 and died 46 years later in 1542.somepeople think De Soto was the first european explorer to see the mississippi river.De Soto led a big army through the american southeast,from todays florida to arkansas. He planed to conquer and colonize te area. -
Dec 21, 1497
Amerigo Vespucci
Amerigo Vespucci was an Italian explorer that was the first who demonstrated that brazil and the west indies did not represent Asia's eastern owtskirts. Amerigo was born in 1454 and died in 1512 -
Dec 21, 1497
John Cabot
John Cabot was a man that was a eruropean explorer.John was the first european explorer to find North America besides the Vikings. John was born in 1450 and dissappeared in1499 -
Dec 18, 1512
Juan Ponce De Leon
Juan Ponce De Leon was a man from Europe that went to florida for gold and the legendary fountain of youth.Juan Ponce De Leon was the first euopean to set foot in Florida. -
Dec 21, 1513
Vasco De Balboa
Vasco De Balboa was a man that was born in 1475 and died in 1519. Vasco was known for having crossed the Isthmus of panima to the pacific ocean in 1513 becoming the first European to lead an expadition to have reached the pacific from the new world. -
Dec 18, 1577
Sir Francis Drake
Sir Francis Drake was a man that was from Euope and he was the second euopean to travel arouned the world.Sir Francis Drake was a sea captain,privater,slaver and a navagator. -
Henry Hudson
Henry Hudson was a man from europe that was born in 1560 and nobody knows when he died.Henry wanted to find a non-ice path to asia.