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Feb 9, 1000
Vinland
Vinland is an island covered in rines that was discovered by vikings in 1000 AD. It is located on the coast of Canada,north America. It is a famous place because it was a place for the vikings in the winter to fish and hunt. -
Apr 21, 1000
Leif Eriksson
Leif Eriksson was a viking Exploror. Lief and his crew set sail to find the new land they had heard of. They countinude there journey untill finaly they had found the New Land. When they came ashore they started building houses. There were plenty of fish in the river. There would be no snow there so they wouldn't have to keep the materials they used to keep in winter. Leif Eriksson liked the land very much and later named it Vinland. -
May 18, 1000
vikings
Vikings are people who lived in Northen Europe which today is Sweden, Denmark, and Norway. Vikings sailed west to build settelments in Northern Canada and Greenland in 1000 AD. Today vikings are known as the first Europiens to set foot on America. They wrote the Greenlanders Saga to describe their travels. -
Nov 26, 1271
Marco Polo
Marco Polo was an exploror and a trader. He traveled to places in Asia and wrote books about his travels which inspired other famous explorers to go to Asia. Some of the places he went to in Asia ar Venice, India, Persa, and China. -
Aug 31, 1400
Prince Henry
Prince Henry started navigation school in Portugal. He tought Europiens how to make maps, build maps, and make tools. One of the tools were compasses. -
Dec 19, 1445
Bartholomeu Dias
Bartholomeu Dias was a Portugese navigator.King John II assigned Dias, to command a voyage with both spiritual and material aspirations. His voyage was to challange the Muslim to trade with Asia. On his way he found the Cape of Storms but renamed it the Cape of Good Hope. In 1497 he accompined Vasco da Gama no a voyage to the Cape Verde islands. Later Dias's ship was in the middle of a storm and Dias dyed in the sea. -
Sep 24, 1453
Costantinople
Costantinople is a huge trading city for Europiens and Asians. It is between Europe and Asia, and near the black sea. It was found in 1453 and before. Before it was a very commenly used trading ground. -
Nov 30, 1460
Vasco da Gama
Vasco da Gama was a Portuguese exploror. He sailed from Lisbon,Portugal heading west to the east where he found a route to Asia. -
May 19, 1492
Christopher Columbus
Christopher Columbus was an Italian born Spanish exploror hoping to find a route to India. He made a total of 4 trips to South America. On his first trip he took 3 ships and 90 crew members. He explored islands for golds to loot. Columbus returned to Spain, arriving on March 15, 1493. -
Oct 12, 1492
Guanahani
Guanahani is an island which Cristopher Columbus reached in October 12, 1492. The Native Americans had named the island Guanahani but Christopher Columbus changed the name to San Salvador. Christopher Columbus claimed Guanahani to Spain by raising his flag in his left hand. -
Mar 8, 1497
Giovanni Caboto
Giovanni Caboto was an Itallian sailor. He explored the Canadian costlines and named many of its islands. His mission was to search for the northwest passage to Asia. Sadly, he was unsuccesful. Caboto took a second trip. He might have reached America. Caboto's voyage were the first of Britian's claim for Canada. -
Mar 3, 1499
Amerigo Vespucci
Amerio Vespucci was an Italian. He sailed to a place south of where Columbus had landed in 1499. He is known today because he had found a new land. -
Apr 1, 1513
Vasco Nunez de Balboa
Vasco Nunez de Balboa was a Spanish and African soldier. He said that the Pacific Ocean belonger to spain in 1513. He also proved that Vespucii was right and that Columbus had not been to Asia but to the new found land which is today North America. -
Jun 18, 1519
Ferdinand Magellan
Ferdinand Magellan was a Portuguese Exploror. He set an expedition to find a way to reach Asia by sailing west around America. -
Martin Behaim
Martin Behaim was a Europien cartographer. He made maps and globes of the world and was paid by Germeny. When Vasco Nunez de Balboa came to America he told Martin Behaim that there was another land. Martin Behaim added the land to his globe. He is known today for creating the first globe.
