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Dec 1, 1492
Spanish Exploration
Christopher Columbus established first colony in Americas on Hispaniola and named it Navidad. -
Jan 1, 1494
Spanish Exploration
Columbus came back to find Navidad destroyed, then founded Isabella. -
Sep 3, 1496
Spanish Exploration
Isabella also failed. They finally established the first permanent settlement, Santo Domingo. -
Sep 3, 1509
Spanish Exploration
Juan Ponce de Leon was first spaniard to tough the present United States. -
Sep 3, 1513
Spanish Exploration
Vasco Nunez de Balboa in Columbia trecked across the Isthmus of Panama and discovered the Pacific Ocean -
Sep 3, 1513
Spanish Exploration
King Ferdinand awarded de Leon a patent to conquer the Bimini Islands in the Bahamas. It was believed that was where the fountain of youth was to be found. -
Sep 3, 1519
Spanish Exploration
Alonso Alvarez de Pineda took an expedition to prove that Florida was actually part of a continent. -
Sep 3, 1521
Spanish Expedition
Francisco Gordillo landed on South Carolina. -
Sep 3, 1522
Spanish Exploration
Vessel of the Ferdinand Magellan expedition completed the first circumnavigation of the globe. -
Jan 1, 1524
French - Giovanni da Verrazano
The king in France sent an Italian explorer, Giovanni da Verrazano, to search for a way to and through the New World. -
Jan 1, 1534
French - Jacques Cartier
http://www.history.com/topics/exploration/jacques-cartier/videosHe was sent by Francis, the king of France, to exlore the northeast part of the Americas to search for the passage to the Orient. -
Period: Jan 1, 1535 to Jan 1, 1536
French Exploration
The French came to the New World so that they can find money and to find a way to the Pacific Ocean. -
English - Roanoke
Sir Walter Raleigh set out for the new world in 1585. He landed on Roanoke Island, a small island on the coast of NC. -
Tension - English Exploartion
When the colonist on Roanoke Island supplies started to run low tensions started to rise. Raleigh and his mean ended up leaving after beheading the local Indian chief Wingina. -
We Come in Peace - English Exploration
In 1587 Raleigh and his men returned to Roanoke planning on peace but the indians had not forgotten what he had done. The Indians captured Raleigh and his wife and his Daughter and forced John white to return to England. -
War - English Exploration
John Whites intesions were to come back immediately after seeking help but a war broke out between Spain and England and his ship was ceased so that it could be used in the war. White wasn't able to return until 1590. upon his arrival he could not find anybody all he could find was a craving in a tree CROATOAN. -
French - Samuel De Champlain
He was credited for finding Quebec in 1608. -
French - Samuel De Champlain
Discovered a lake, and it is now named after him, Lake Champlain. The lake was named in 1609, and it is located on the border of New York and Vermont. -
French - Jacques Marquette & Louis Joliet
Joliet, Marquette, and five other men rode canoes along the shores of Lake Michian and then went on to the Mississippi. Marquette and Joliet walked over to an Illinois India village and were reognized by Marquette's robe and they were welcomed. When they left the chief of the village gave them a calumet, a piece pipe, and let his 10 year old son to help guide them on their way back home. -
Spanish Exploration
Juan Bautista de Anza II arrived in Monteray California.