Exploration and Colonization

By 2ndsabrinagoforth
  • Jan 1, 1400

    Europeans Branch out

    People in Europe began to look to the oceans, for things such as adventure, spread religious beliefs, and find riches. The age for exploration had began.
  • Jan 2, 1400

    The new routes

    Henry the Navagator urged captains to explore in the south to the coast of Africa.
  • Jan 1, 1447

    Vasco da Gama

    Vasco da Gama was a Poruguese explorer that sailed and found a route and sailed to India.
  • Jan 1, 1497

    Northwest Passage

    John Cabot was am italian living in England, in 1497 King Henry VII sent him on a voyage to the west. They thought there might be a water route through America.
  • Jan 2, 1498

    Christopher Columbus

    Christopher thought Asia could be reached by sailing west from Europe.
  • Jan 3, 1499

    Ferdinand and Isabella

    Ferdinand and Isabella, were the queen and king of Europe at the time. For them to support Columbus' expedition, Culumbus gave them the credit.
  • Jan 1, 1508

    Spanish Exploration

    Juan Ponce de Leon was a spanish offical in the new world. He explored and settled the island of Puerto Rico, taking a notice back to Spain.
  • Jan 1, 1520

    Lucas Vazquez de Ayllon

    Lucas Vazquez de Ayllon had his eyes on Florida, he had seen some of the Atlantic coastline of the region on his expedition in 1520
  • Jan 1, 1524

    Giovanni da Verrazano

    Giovanni da Verrazano was sent by King Francis I of France, westward. Verrazano first reached land in North Caralina's outer banks.
  • Aug 1, 1539

    Hernado de Soto

    Hernado de Soto sailed with a milatary expedition from Havana Cuba to the coast of Florida. His soldiers marched northward to the now day Tallahasse, Florida. The spent winter of 1539-1540 here. They then went through Georgia and South Carolina and passed through the western tip of North Carolina. They met the Cherokee Idians who were nice to them. Soto dies on this trip.
  • Sep 3, 1560

    The spanish set sights southward

    Spain decides to move south, in Mexico and Peru.
  • Jan 1, 1562

    France fights for Land

    Jean Ribault sent a colony of French to North America the colonists were protestants which were sometimes persecuted in Catholic France.
  • Jan 1, 1563

    Rene de Laudonniere

    Rene de Laudonniere was with another colon, they settled in Fort Caroline on the north Florida coast.
  • Sep 3, 1565

    Pedro Menendez de Aviles

    Pedro Menendez de Aviles was the leaer of some troops sent from Spain, they were going to Florida. They built St.Augustine, as Jean Ribault planned an attack. Pedro Menendez de Aviles captured Fort Caroline and killed many of the French.
  • Jan 1, 1566

    More Spanish Expeditions

    Pedro de Cornas was a leader on an expedition. Juan Pardo and Hernado Boyano led a small group of men to South Carolina.