Explorers

Leif Erikson

Feb 2, 1000

founder of the first European settlement on what is now called Greenland.

marco polo

Sep 26, 1295

he wrote il milione known in english as the travels of marco polo.venetian merchant and adventurer marco polo traveled from europe to asia from 1271 to 1295

Bartolomeu Dias

Jun 16, 1488

discover the Cape of Good Hope.

christopher columbus

Oct 12, 1492

dicovery america

founded oldest settlement in puerto rico

Nov 3, 1493

juan ponce de leon founded the oldest settlement in puerto rico and landed in florida

vasco de gama

Dec 7, 1499

he was the first eoropan to reah india by sea,linking europan and asia for the firs time by ocean route,as well as the atlantic and the indiand oceans entirely and definitively,and in this way,the west and the orient.

amerigo vespucci

Aug 14, 1501

prior to vespucci discovery,explorers,including colombus,had assumed tha the new world was part of asia.vespucci made his discovery while saling nears the tip of south america in 1501.

hernan cortes

Dec 7, 1518

was a spanish concitodor and explorers who defeat the aztec empire and claimed mexico for spain.

first cirumnaviqatiion of the clobe

Sep 20, 1519

thanks to the eforts of ferdinad magellan the first trip around the planet was made proving

ferdinan magellan

Sep 9, 1521

the first circumnavigation of the earth,from europe to east,and to west,for the first expedition fom europe to asia by the west,and for captaing the first expedition across the atlanti ocean to the strait of magellane and across the pacifi ocean

Fracisco Pizarro

Mar 14, 1532

helped Vasco Nuñez de Balboa discover the Pacific Ocean and after conquering Peru, founded its capital city, Lima.

Hernando de Soto

Apr 28, 1539

discover the Missisipi river

john smith

Mar 19, 1609

was a british soldier who was a founder of the american colony of jamestowon in the ery 1600s.

sacaqawea leads the corps expedition

Apr 7, 1805

sacaqawea with her 2 months baby helps explorers lewis and clark duringtheir expedision troug the rock mountainsto the pacific oceanand bak.she recived no copasionfor it

lewis and clark crops expedition

Apr 7, 1805

by the appointment of thomas jeferson meriwather lewis and williams clark explorer more than 8000 milles with the help of s

jaques cousteau

Jan 5, 1956

he made a diving saucer SP-350,an experimental underwater vehicle which could reach a depth of 350 meters

yuri gagarin

Apr 9, 1961

was a Soviet cosmonaut who became the first man to travel into space.

neil armstrong

Jul 20, 1969

waiks on the moon