Explorers and Conquistador

Henry the Navigator

Mar 27, 1400

sailed for the Portuguesse. Sailed to Africa.

Bartolomeu Dias

Mar 27, 1488

Sailed for Europe. Attmepted to sail around the southern tip of Africa.

Christopher Columbus

Mar 28, 1492

sailed for the Spanish from 1492- 1493. sailed across the Atlantic to the Caribbean.

Vasco da Gama

Mar 28, 1497

sailed for the Portuguese. sailed to India.

John Cabot

Mar 28, 1497

sailed for the English. he sailed to the Atlantic Coast.

Pedro Cabral

Mar 28, 1500

sailed for the Portuguese from 1500-1501. sailed to Brazil.

Amerigo Vespucci

Mar 28, 1501

sailed for the Portuguese from 1501-1502. sailed to the coast of South America.

Vasco Nunez de Balboa

Mar 28, 1513

sailed for the Spanish. sailed to Isthmus of Panama and was the first European to see the Pacific Ocean.

Hernan Cortes

Mar 28, 1518

sailed for the Spanish from 1518-1519. sailed to Mexico.

Ferdinand Magellan

Mar 28, 1519

sailed for the Spanish from 1519-1521. he sailed all the way around the world.

Giovanni da Verazzano

Mar 28, 1524

sailed for the French. sailed and discovered the Hudson river years before Henry Hudson.

Francisco Pizarro

Mar 28, 1532

sailed for the Spanish from 1532-1533. salied to Peru.

Jacques Cartier

Mar 28, 1534

sailed for the French from 1534-1536. sailed past the Newfoundland into the St. Lawrence River.

Sir Francis Drake

Mar 28, 1577

sailed for the English from 1577-1580. he said all the way around the world.

Samuel de Champlain

Mar 28, 1608

sailed for thr French. he founded the city of Quebec.

Henry Hudson

Mar 28, 1609

he sailed for the Dutch from 1609-1611. he sailed and found the Hundson river and the Hudson bay.

Rene-Robert La Salle

Mar 28, 1682

he sailed for the French. he canoed down the entire Mississippi River to the Gulf of Mexico.