Exploration Timeline

  • Sep 9, 1394

    Prince Henry The Navigater

    Prince Henry The Navigater
    He Was a Roal Prince. He Sent many sailing expiditions.First European to sail beyond Cape Bojador,And returned alive. He was a teacher
  • Sep 9, 1450

    Cabot John

    Cabot John
    He was a explorer and a navigator.He was born in italy. He saild to canada.He explored the canadian costline.
  • Sep 9, 1451

    Christopher Columbus

    Christopher Columbus
    The first trip was in 1492,The second trip was in 1493, and his third trip was in 1502. His very last trip was in 1502
  • Sep 10, 1457

    Dias, BARTOLOMEU

    Dias, BARTOLOMEU
    led the first European expedition to sail around Africa's Cape of Good Hope, leaving Tagus, Portugal. He spotted land at Espírito Santo in Brazil,
  • Sep 10, 1460

    Vasco Da Gama

    Vasco Da Gama
    He sailed from Lisbon, Portugal, around Africa's Cape of Good Hope and back to india.
  • Sep 9, 1474

    Sebation Cabot

    Sebation Cabot
    He was a explorer,mapmaker,and navigator.He was employed by britian.He sailed around the world.
  • Sep 10, 1478

    Francisco Pizarro

    Francisco Pizarro
    He landed at the San Mateo bay in 1532
  • Sep 9, 1480

    Ferdinad Megellan

    Ferdinad Megellan
    Explorer who led the first expidition.He sailed aroud the eath
  • Sep 10, 1485

    Giovanni Verrazzano

    Giovanni Verrazzano
    He explored the northeast coast in 1524. He landed at Cape fear in 1524.
  • Sep 10, 1499

    Amerigo Vespucci

    Amerigo Vespucci
    Vespucci discovered the mouth of the Amazon and Orinoco Rivers in South America. The second round he mapped some of the eastern coast of South America
  • Sep 10, 1500

    Hernando De Soto

    Hernando De Soto
    He sailed the Atlantic Ocean and was the first European to explore Florida and the southeastern US.conquered the Inca empire.
  • Sep 10, 1500

    Estevanico

    Estevanico
    He wen on the Narváez expedition to Tampa Bay, Florida, in 1528. Found the fabled seven cities of Cibola.
  • Sep 10, 1510

    Francisco Coronado

    Francisco Coronado
    He fabled 7 Golden Cities of Cibola.He travled through Northern mexico and Southwesten USA.He only found Zuñi, Hopi, and Pueblos,
  • Sep 10, 1519

    Hernan Cortes

    Hernan Cortes
    He discovered the capital of the Aztec empire.He sailed with 11 ships to Cuba to the Yucatan penisula.
  • Sep 10, 1545

    Francis Drake

    Francis Drake
    sail around the world in a voyage lasting from 1577 to 1580
  • Sep 10, 1554

    Walter Raleigh

    Walter Raleigh
    led expeditions to both North America and South America; he was trying to found new settlements, find gold, and increase trade with the New World. In 1585, Raleigh sent colonists to the east coast of North America
  • Sep 10, 1565

    Henry Hudson

    In 1608, he sailed to Novaya Zemlya.Hudson sailed into New York's harbor on September 3, 1609 and noted what an excellent harbor it was. Hudson sailed up the river about 150 miles (240 km) and noted the abundance of rich land, but realized that this was not a waterway to India.
  • Sep 10, 1580

    Peter Minuit

    Peter Minuit (1580-1638). Minuit bought land from the Native Americans and founded Fort Christina (near what is now Wilmington, Delaware, USA). Minuit died in a hurricane in the West Indies while on a trading mission in 1638.
  • Jacques Marquette

    (1637-1675) .Jacques Marquette (and five others) found the Mississippi River in 1673.
  • Robert La Salle

    (1643-1687).He explored north america,Went the length of the mississippi river,and got stranded in teaxas.He did not succed .
  • James cook

    October 27, 1728 - February 14, 1779.he sailed to Tahiti on the Endeavor.he sailed from Plymouth, England, to Brazil, around Cape Horn, and to Tahiti. He sailed to New Zealand.to Antarctica and to Easter Island
  • Leif Ericsson

    Leif Ericsson
    He was the first to sail to north america.He sailed around the year 1000