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Aug 3, 1492
Christopher Colombus First Voyage
On his first trip, Columbus led an expedition with three ships, the Niña, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria, and about 90 crew members. he wanted to go to the Asia but found North America instead. Lived 1451-1506 -
May 30, 1493
Christopher Columbus Second Voyage
sailed with 17 ships and 1,200 to 1,500 men to find gold and capture Indians as slaves in the Indies. Columbus established a base in Hispaniola and sailed around Hispaniola and along the length of southern Cuba. -
May 10, 1497
Amerigo Vespucci First Voyage
Vespucci was the navigator under under the command of Alonso de Ojeda. On this trip, Ojeda and Vespucci discovered the mouth of the Amazon and Orinoco Rivers in South America, thinking it was part of Asia. Lived 1454-1512) -
May 30, 1498
Christopher Columbus Third Voyage
Columbus sailed farther south, to Trinidad and Venezuela. Columbus was the first European since the Viking Leif Ericsson to set foot on the mainland of America. -
May 11, 1501
Amerigo Vesspuchi Seccond Voyage
he mapped some of the eastern coast of South America, and came to realize that it not part of Asia, but a New World. -
May 9, 1502
Colombus' Fourth Voyage (Last Voyage)
Columbus sailed to Mexico, Honduras and Panama and Santiago. -
Sep 10, 1513
Francisco Pizarro
Pizarro was a Spanish conquistador who traveled through much of the Pacific coast of America along Peru. He "discovered" the Incan empire and conquered it brutally and quickly. Lived 1478-1541 -
Aug 2, 1518
Herman Cortes
Known for: Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire
He went with the expedition to Cuba and
Known for the Spanish Conquest of the Aztec Empire
Lived 1480-1521 -
Sep 6, 1522
Ferdinand Magellan
Ferdinand Magellan was a Portuguese explorer who led the first expedition that sailed around the Earth. Magellan also named the Pacific Ocean. Lived 1480-1521 -
Sep 10, 1524
Giovanni Verrazzano
Giovanni da Verrazzano was an Italian navigator who, in 1524, explored the northeast coast of North America from Cape Fear, North Carolina to Maine while searching for a Northwest passage to Asia. -
Sep 10, 1532
Hernando De Soto
First European to explore Florida and the southeastern US. Lived 1500?-1542 -
Dec 13, 1577
Francis Drake
Sailed by Panama, Led the seccond voyage around the world. Drake and John Hawkins were on a slave-trading trip to the West Indies that ended with an attack by the Spanish fleet at San Juan de Ulua, near Veracruz, Mexico. and to an island near southern mexico.The Spanish called him El Draque, meaning "The Dragon." Lived 1545-1596 -
Sir Walter Raleigh
Sir Walter Raleigh (1554-1618) was a British explorer, poet, historian, and soldier. Raleigh led expeditions to both North America and South America; he was trying to found new settlements, find gold, and increase trade with the New World. In 1585, Raleigh sent colonists to the east coast of North America; Raleigh later named that area Virginia, in honour of Elizabeth, the Virgin Queen. He is often credited with bringing tobacco and potatoes from the New World to Britain, but they were already k -
Henry Hutdson
Henry Hudson (1565-1611) was an English explorer and navigator who explored parts of the Arctic Ocean and northeastern North America. The Hudson River, Hudson Strait, and Hudson Bay are named for Hudson. He tried to find the Northwest Passage farther south. Hudson sailed to Nova Scotia, He found what is now called the Hudson River. -
Peter Minuit
Peter Minuit (1580-1638) was the first director general of New Amsterdam, a Dutch colony in America. He bought the island of Manhattan, -
Jaqk Marquette
(1637-1675) was a French Jesuit priest and explorer. He sailed to Quebec in 1666 and in 1671 started a Chippewa mission at Chequamegon Bay. found the Mississippi River in 1673; they were the first Caucasians to see the Mississippi River. They travelled along Lake Michigan to Green Bay, canoed up the Fox River, and went downstream on the Wisconsin River to the Mississippi River. They travelled almost to the mouth of the Arkansas. -
James Cook First Expedition
James Cook (October 27, 1728 - February 14, 1779) was a British explorer and astronomer who went on many expeditions to the Pacific Ocean, the Antarctic, the Arctic, and around the world. He sailed to Tahiti on the Endeavor in order to observe Venus as it went between the Earth and the sun. -
Cooks Seccond Expedition
He went to Antarctica and to Easter Island on a voyage intended to show there was no large southern continent. Cook's two ships on this voyage were the Resolution and the Adventure. -
Cooks FInal Expedition
He serched for a Northwest Passage across northern North America to Asia - he searched from the Pacific Ocean side of the continent. Cook arrived at Capetown, South Africa, and sailed to the Indian Ocean and on to New Zealand the Cook Islands, and Tonga. Heading for Alaska, Cook sailed to and named the Christmas Islands. He then sailed to and named the Sandwich Islands.
