Explorers

By Wbarrick20
  • Sep 9, 1394

    Prince Henry The Navigator

    Prince Henry The Navigator
    He was a royal prince. He sent many sailing expeditions. First european to sail beyond Cape Bojador and returned alive. He taught navigation.
  • Sep 9, 1450

    Cabot, John

    Cabot, John
    He was born in Italy but moved to England in 1495. He was an explorer and a navagator. Born in Italy. He sailed to canada. He also explored the canadian coastline.
  • Sep 10, 1454

    Amerigo Vespucci

    Amerigo Vespucci
    He was an explorer. He sailed for spain on his first expedition and was looking for a passage through the new land. He mapped some of the eastern coast of South America.
  • Sep 10, 1457

    Bartolomeu Dias

    Bartolomeu Dias
    He was a navigator and an explorer. He explorer Africas coast. He led the first European Expedition. He was lost at sea after he died on his expedition.
  • Sep 10, 1460

    Vasco Da Gama

    Vasco Da Gama
    He was an explorer. He found an ocean route from Portugal to the East. He was sent to India as a Potuguese viceroy.
  • Sep 9, 1474

    Sebastion Cabot

    Sebastion Cabot
    Explorer, map maker and navigator. He was imployed by britan. He sailed around the world.
  • Sep 15, 1475

    Vasco Balboa

    Vasco Balboa
    He was an explorer. He wanted to colonize and he was looking for treasure. He was the firt European to see the Pacific Ocean.
  • Sep 10, 1478

    Francisco Pizarro

    Francisco Pizarro
    He was born in 1478. He was a spanish He travel most through the pacific coast of America Along Peru. He discovered te Incan Empire. He was looking for treasure.
  • Sep 9, 1480

    Ferdinand Magellan

    Ferdinand Magellan
    An explorer who led the first expedition. He saild around the earth.
  • Sep 9, 1485

    Hernan Courtez

    Hernan Courtez
    He was an adventurer and conquistador. He was a failed law student. He sailed with eleven ships. He looked for gold, silver and other treasures.
  • Sep 10, 1485

    Giovanni Verrazzano

    Giovanni Verrazzano
    He was an Italian navigator. He explored the Notheast coast of Noth America. He was also a mapmaker.
  • Sep 9, 1492

    Christopher Columbus First Voyage

    Christopher Columbus First Voyage
    An explorer who sailed across the atlantic ocean. He spotted the Carabean Islands. He led an expadition with three ships.
  • Sep 11, 1493

    Cristopher Columbus Second Voyage

    Cristopher Columbus Second Voyage
    He saild with seventeen ships. He went to find gold and capture indians as slaves. He spotted and named the island of Dominica.
  • Sep 11, 1498

    Christopher Columbuses Third Voyage

    Christopher Columbuses Third Voyage
    He sailed farther south. He was the first European to set foot on the mainland of America.
  • Sep 10, 1500

    Hernando De Soto

    Hernando De Soto
    He was an explorer. He sailed the atlantic ocean. He was the first european to explore florida.
  • Sep 10, 1500

    Estevanico

    Estevanico
    He was a slave. Huricanes and Native Americans killed many of his crew. Only 15 men survived.
  • Sep 11, 1502

    Christopher colombus Last Voyage

    Christopher colombus Last Voyage
    He sailed to Mexico, Honduras and Panama. He is buried in estern Hispaniola.
  • Sep 10, 1510

    Francisco Coronado

    Francisco Coronado
    He was a ruler, explorer and a conquistador. First European to North America's Southwest. He killed many native Americans during his expedition.
  • Sep 10, 1545

    Francis Drake

    Francis Drake
    he was a british explorer. He led the second expedition to sail around the world. He was involved in slave trade.
  • Sep 10, 1554

    Walter Raleigh

    Walter Raleigh
    He was an explorer. He was born in 1554. He led expeditions to both North and south America. He tried to found new settlements. He sent colonists to the east cast of North America.
  • Sep 10, 1565

    Henry Hudson

    Henry Hudson
    He was an explorer and navigator. He was looking for a northwest passage. Little is known about his earlie life. He sailed to an island North of Scandinavia in the arctic ocean. He died in 1611.
  • Sep 10, 1580

    Peter Minuit

    Peter Minuit
    He was the first director general of New Amsterdam. He is famous for buying the island of Manhattan. He died in a hurican in the west Indies while on a trading mission in 1638.

  • Marquette

    Marquette
    AHe was a French Jesuit Priest and an explorer. He traveled along Lake Michigan to Green Bay. He died of dysentery.

  • Robert La Salle

    Robert La Salle
    He was a french Explorer. He sailed for france. He sailed down the Mississippi River to the Gulf Of Mexico. He traveled frome France to Quebec.

  • James Cook

    James Cook
    He was a British Explorer and astronomer who went on many expeditions. He mapped New Zeland. He sailed to tahiti. He went to Antarctica and to Easter Island.

  • Leif Ericson

    Leif Ericson
    He was born in Iceland. He was an explorer who was possibly first European to sail to North America. He was born in Iceland and was one of the sons of the explorer Eric The Red.