Exploration Timeline

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  • Jan 1, 1300

    Marco Polo

    Marco Polo
    Marco Polo travels to Cathay (China) and other excited Asian lands.
  • Jan 1, 1400

    Europe

    Europe
    In the early 1400's people in Europe began to look to the seas and beyond.
  • Jan 1, 1450

    Henry the Navigator

    Henry the Navigator
    The Prince Henry from Portugal urged sea captins to explore southward along the coast of Africa. He wanted someone to find a route around that continent to the Spice Islands, near India.
  • Jan 1, 1492

    Columbus sail the ocean

    Columbus sail the ocean
    In 1492 Columbus sailed the ocean bkue. On his first voage he landed in the Bahamas.
  • Jan 1, 1492

    Columbian Exchange

    Columbian Exchange
    When Coumbus went to the "New World" He interacted with the people there and they traded food, animals, and diseases.
  • Jan 1, 1497

    Vasco da Gama

    Vasco da Gama
    The Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama found such a route and sailed all the way to India.
  • Jan 1, 1497

    John Cabot

    John Cabot
    King Henry VII sent Cabot on a voyage to the West. The English thought that there might be a water route through the Americasthat would lead north and west to Asia.
  • Jan 1, 1498

    Columbus 2nd voyage

    Columbus 2nd voyage
    Columbus reached South America and later a mapmake labeled the new continent "America" for another explorer, Amerigo Vespucci. The name stuck.
  • Jan 1, 1500

    Native Americans

    Native Americans
    Around 1500 A.D. North Carolina was peopled by native American living in villages.
  • Jan 1, 1500

    Spain

    Spain
    Spain was taking control of much of South and Central America and many Caribbean isalnds, including Cuba and Hiuspaniola.
  • Jan 1, 1508

    Juan Pponce de Leon

    Juan Pponce de Leon
    He was the Spnaish official in the New World. He explored and settle the island of Puerto Rico.
  • Jan 1, 1513

    Juan Ponce de Leon

    Juan Ponce de Leon
    Leon set out ships and crew and his expedition landed on the east coast of Florida
  • Oct 1, 1526

    Ayllon

    Ayllon
    Ayllon took colonists to a site in present-day South Carolina. Many of the people got sick in South Carolina.Ayllon died in South Carolina.
  • Jan 1, 1539

    Hernando de Soto

    Hernando de Soto
    Soto sailed with a military expedition from Havana, Cuba, to the wst coast of Florida.
  • Jan 1, 1542

    Giovanni da Verrazano

    Giovanni da Verrazano
    King Francis I of Frace sen Italian navigator Giovanni da Verranzano westward. Verrazano first reached land at North Carolina's Outer Banks.
  • Jan 1, 1560

    Spaniards

    The Spainards start focusing their attention southward after the 1560s.
  • Jan 1, 1562

    Jean Ribault

    Jean Ribault
    France sent a colony under4 the command of Jean Tibault to North America.
  • Jan 1, 1564

    Rene de Laurdonniere

    Rene de Laurdonniere
    Rene de Laudonniere settled at FortCaroline on the north Foida coast.
  • Jan 1, 1565

    Pedro Menendez de Aviles

    Pedro Menendez de Aviles
    Spain snt troops under De Aviles to Florida.
  • Jan 1, 1566

    Cathloic Mission

    Cathloic Mission
    In 1566 an expedition set out fro Chesapesake Bay from the West Indies to set up a Catholic mission.
  • Jan 1, 1566

    Juan Pardo and Hernando Boyano

    Pardo and Boyano led a small group of men to the South Carolina coast and from there they pushed north and west on nearly the same route that de soto had taken 25 years earlier