Major Explorers during the Age of Discovery

By Tanitakok
  • Period: Jan 1, 1400 to

    Major Explorers during the Age of Exploration

  • Oct 29, 1450

    John Cabot

    Exploring the coastline of Canada the subsequent
    colonization of Canada. Cabot was the second
    famous explorer to find North America (after
    Christopher Columbus)
  • Oct 29, 1451

    Christopher Columbus

    Discovery of the New World
  • Oct 29, 1469

    Vasco de Gama

    Discovery of an ocean route from Portugal to the
    East
  • Oct 29, 1478

    Fransisco Pizarro

    Famous Explorer who conquered the Incas of Peru
  • Oct 29, 1480

    Ferdinand Magellan

    First voyage around the World
  • Oct 29, 1485

    Hernando Cortes

    Spanish conqueror of Mexico and the Aztec Empire
  • Oct 30, 1487

    Amerigo Vespucci

    Florentine navigator who explored the coast of South America, helped to show that the land discovered by Columbus was not in the Far East, but rather was a new continent that the German Cartographer Martin Waldseemuller named "America" in his honor
  • Oct 29, 1491

    Jacques Cartier

    Led three expeditions of exploration to Canada
  • Oct 29, 1540

    Sir Francis Drake

    Circumnavigates the World
  • Oct 29, 1552

    Sir Walter Raleigh

    The Discovery of Guiana and establishing the Virginia colony of Roanoke Island in 1584
  • Oct 29, 1567

    Samuel de Champlain

    Famous explorer and founder of Quebec City.
    Known as 'The Father of Canada