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Sep 17, 999
Leif Erikson
Leif Erikson was an Icelandic explorer considered by some as the first European to land in North America. -
Jul 30, 1487
Bartolomeu Diaz
Bartolomeu Diaz was a Portuguese navigator known for being the first European explorer to double the southern tip of Africa , reaching the Indian Ocean from the Atlantic , one of the most important in the history of sailing events. -
Oct 12, 1492
Christopher Columbus
Christopher Columbus, was a navigator , cartographer , Admiral, Viceroy and Governor General of the West Indies. It is famous for making the discovery of America , arriving at the island of Guanahani. -
Jul 8, 1497
Vasco de Gama
Vasco de Gama, count of Vidigueira, noted for being the commander of the first ships sailed directly from Europe to India the longest ocean voyage made till now. -
Dec 5, 1503
Amerigo Vespucci
Amerigo Vespucci said the land that Columbus had arrived was not part of Asian lands described by Marco Polo , but it was a new continent. This continent came to be termed "America", deriving its name from Americus, the Latin version of Vespucci's first name. -
Aug 12, 1508
Juan Ponce de Leon
Juan Ponce de Leon was a Spanish explorer and conquistador. He became the first Governor of Puerto Rico. He led the first European expedition to Florida, which he named. -
Feb 18, 1519
Hernan Cortes
Hernan Cortes was a Spanish conquistador who led the expedition that caused the end of the Aztec Empire and the conquest of Mexico. -
Aug 15, 1522
Ferdinand Magellan
Was a Portuguese explorer who organised the Spanish expedition to the East Indies from 1519 to 1522, resulting in the first circumnavigation of the Earth. -
Nov 3, 1522
Hernando de Soto
Hernando de Soto was ahead , Spanish conquistador and explorer. He traveled to America and participated in the 1522 expedition of Gil Gonzalez de Avila who discovered the coast of Nicaragua , and then in 1524 the conquest of this territory. -
Nov 16, 1532
Francisco Pizarro
Francisco Pizarro is remembered for having been imposed on the Inca Empire with the help of various local chiefdoms , conquering imperial State. -
John Smith
John Smith It is generally recognized to establish the first British settlement in North America, and her brief relationship with the Native American Pocahontas. -
Lewis and Clark
They led an expedition to the Pacific coast where almost 13,000 kilometers traveled by canoe , on horseback and on foot. -
Sacagawea
It was the only woman in the expedition Merriweather Lewis and William Clark who crossed on foot for the first time the American continent. -
EdmundHillary
Edmund Percival Hillary was a mountaineer , pilot and New Zealand explorer, famous for being the first to reach the summit of Everest and return alive from it. -
Yuri Gagarin
Yuri Alekséyevich Gagarin was a Soviet cosmonaut . Gagarin became the first human to travel into space. He did aboard ship. -
Neil Alden Armstrong
Neil Alden Armstrong was an American astronaut and the first person to walk on the Moon. He was also an aerospace engineer, naval aviator, test pilot, and university professor. -
Jacques-Yves Cousteau
Jacques-Yves Cousteau discovered underwater life through over 115 television documentaries and films, he brought to the knowledge of marine species , classification and behavior. In 1973, along with his two sons and Frederick Hyman, he created the Cousteau Society for the Protection of Ocean Life. -
Marco Polo
Marco Polo was a merchant and Venetian traveler's famous stories attributed travel to East Asia. It is said that he introduced gunpowder in Europe.
