Explorers of the New World

Bartolomeu Dias Navigates around Africa

Jul 11, 1481

Bartolomeu Dias made his trip around the tip of Africa, finding the nations around it.

Christopher Columbus

Apr 20, 1492

Christopher Columbus, an Italian explorer sailing for Spain made his way in the ocean, trying to find Asia, but found what was really North America. There, he traded with the Natives, and started the Columbian Exchange.

The Columbian Exchange

May 13, 1492

Starting the same year Christopher Columbus discovered America, (discovered once again used very loosely), and thus began the trading of food, spices, materials, animals, and even diseases throughout America and Europe.

Vasco de Gama

Oct 17, 1497

John Cabot

Oct 17, 1497

Pedro Alvars Cabral

Oct 17, 1500

Amerigo Vespucci

Oct 17, 1501

Vasco Nunez de Balboa

Oct 17, 1513

Ferdinand Magellan

Oct 17, 1522

Jacques Cartier

Oct 17, 1534

Henry Hudson

Oct 17, 1609

Leif Ericksson

Mar 2, 2022

Although the exact date is unkown, Lief Ericksson explored the New World in the year 968 AD. He was son of the famous Viking explorer Erik the Red, and is famous for discovering the New World for Europe (although everyone knows that the Native Americans discovered it first)