Discovery de soto mississippi

Exploration From The 700 BC

  • 120

    year 120

    year 120
    Ptolemy creates the first flat map of the world.
  • 870

    870

    870
    Náttfari becomes the first permanent resident of Iceland.
  • 982

    982

    982
    Eric the Red discovers Greenland.
  • 1271

    1271

    1271
    Marco Polo goes to China.
  • 1418

    1418

    1418
    João Gonçalves Zarco and Tristão Vaz Teixeira discover Porto Santo.
  • 1434

    1434

    1434
    Gil passes Cabo de Não and rounds Cape Bojador.
  • 1492

    1492

    1492
    Columbus sails to the New World.
  • 1497

    1497

    1497
    Vasco da Gama sails to India and back.
  • 1502

    1502

    1502
    Amerigo Vespucci returns from his explorations of the New World. American continents named after him by German mapmaker.
  • 1513

    1513

    1513
    Vasco Nunez de Balboa discovers the eastern shore of the Pacific Ocean.