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Aug 19, 1508
Juan Ponce de Leon
Juan Ponce de Leon accompanied Christopher Columbus on his second voyage to the new world.He was appointed the first Governor of Puerto Rico and is also credited with the first known European excursion to Florida -
Sep 18, 1519
Hernando Cortes
Hernando Cortes was part of the generation of the Spanish colonizers that began the first phase of the Spanish coloization of the Americas . Cortes formally claimed Mexican land for the Spanish crown in 1519 -
Aug 19, 1524
Francisco
Francisco Pizarro conquered the Inca Empire and took part in explorations of the northern Caribbean coast of South America. -
Aug 19, 1535
Jacques Cartier
JACQUES CARTIER explored the northeast part of the continent intending to find the elusive passage to the Orient. Sailing west of Newfoundland he "discovered" the St. Lawrence River and explored the region in three voyages between 1535 and 1541 -
England
England had sent three expeditions to Roanoke Island on the Atlantic coast and had established a colony there in 1587 -
Hernry Hudson
In 1621, leaders in the Netherlands sent an explorer by the name of Henry Hudson to North America in search of suitable land for setting up colonies. -
Hudson Bay.
Henry Hudson explored much of the region around New Amsterdam, and also discovered the Hudson Bay. -
South America
the Dutch went to South America, to Chile,Brazil, Gayana -
Jacques Marquette & Louis Joliet
JACQUES MARQUETTE & LOUIS JOLIE were sent to explore the Mississippi River in 1673 and answer two questions: Was the Mississippi the long-sought water passage to the Pacific Ocean? Were the fabled kingdoms of Quivira and Theguaio real? They are able to answer the first (no), but not the second -
SAMUEL DE CHAMPLAIN
SAMUEL DE CHAMPLAIN was the quintessential explorer. While aptly credited as the founder of Quebec in 1608, he spent little time there, leaving the small fortified post to others and heading further into the Canadian woodlands, where he functioned as the quintessential diplomat. -
Richard Hakluyt
RICHARD HAKLUYT was an English scholar and writer who compiled numerous accounts of European voyages into the mega-volumes known as Divers Voyages and Principal Navigations -
George Peckham's
FRANCIS DRAKE, MARTIN FROBISHER, and other well-known navigators contributed dedicatory poems for George Peckham's 1583 account of Sir Humphrey Gilbert's expedition to Newfoundland
