EXXPLORERS

By Dyan513
  • 120

    Ptolemy creates the first flat map of the world.

  • 870

    Swedish Viking Garðar Svavarsson circumnavigates Iceland.

  • 870

    Náttfari becomes the first permanent resident of Iceland.

  • 874

    Ingólfur Arnarson builds his homestead in present-day Reykjavík.

  • 982

    Eric the Red discovers Greenland.

  • 1002

    Leif Ericson discovers North America.

  • 1271

    Marco Polo goes to China.

  • 1418

    João Gonçalves Zarco and Tristão Vaz Teixeira discover Porto Santo.

  • 1419

    Gonçalves and Vaz discover Madeira.

  • 1427

    Diogo de Silves discovers the Azores.

  • 1492

    Columbus sails to the New World.

  • 1497

    John Cabot discovers Newfoundland while he searches for the Northwest Passage.

  • 1497

    Vasco da Gama sails to India and back.

  • 1502

    Amerigo Vespucci returns from his explorations of the New World. American continents named after him by German mapmaker.

  • 1513

    Vasco Nunez de Balboa discovers the eastern shore of the Pacific Ocean.

  • Period: 1519 to 1522

    Ferdinand Magellan and his crew sail around the world