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May 17, 1450
Henry the Navigator
He set up the first European school for navigators in Sagres, Portugal. He is from Portugal. He also had trades slaves. -
May 17, 1473
Bartolomeu Dias
They had crossed the Equator and found out that it was not a home of a great monster. But they had found it to be very warm and tropical instead of delayed destroyed and monster infestead. -
Aug 17, 1492
Christopher Columbus
He sailed on the Mayflower. He was a skilled navigator from Genoa, Itlay. Queen Isabella of Spain agreed to support him in his enterprise to the Indies. He sailed the El nina, the Pinta, The Santa Maria and a crew of 90 people. -
May 19, 1494
Treaty of Tordesillas
The Portugese did not like the way that the land was divided so they protested for a meeting to move the line about 500 miles to that west. This helped Portugal claim Brazil. -
May 17, 1497
Amerigo Vespucci
Explored Atlantic coast of South America 1497-1504 one of the first to believe he had made it to the New World. He had made it here but he was still not the first person to reach THE NEW WORLD. He was from Spain and Portugal. -
May 19, 1497
John Cabot
He is English and he was an Italian navigator. He went to the Far East by a Northwestern route. He set with a handful of men. He explored the coasts of Newfoundland and Nova Scotia. He established claims for England with the Americans. -
May 20, 1497
Vasco de Gama
He led a convoy down the river of lisbon, portugal. He used a ship called the Tagus. He sailed to an island can Mozambique then to Malindi. He found coconuts, cloves, pepper, gold, silver pearls and precious stones he took them home. -
May 17, 1500
Pedro Cabral
He discoverd Brazil. Then later sailed East to Inda and had eventually made it back to tell people about what he had done. He was Portuguese. -
May 18, 1513
Vasco Nunez de Balboa
First European to sight the Eastern part of the shoreline of the Pacific Ocean crossing the Isthmus of Panama. He was in search of pearls and gold along the Northern Coast of South America and in The Gulf of Uraba. -
May 19, 1513
Ponce de Leon
Sailed North to Puerto Rico to what is now Florida. He met Vasco Nunez de Balboa and they crossed the Isthmus of Panama together. -
May 18, 1519
Hernan Cortez
He crossed Isthmus of Panama and became first European to cross the Great South Sea. -
Jan 17, 1523
Giovanni Verrazano
He was an Italian navigator who wanted to find a North Passage. -
May 19, 1528
Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca
He was from Spain. He explored Florida and Gulf region from Texas to Mexico. He and his crew faced a lot of hurricanes throughout the expedition only 15 of his men survived. -
May 19, 1532
Francisco Pizzaro
He had invaded Peru within 5 years, he had congured the Inca Empire. -
May 19, 1534
Jacques Cartier
He was a French navigator. He sailed up the St. Lawerence River all the way up to what is now Montreal. This helped the French claim to eastern Canada. -
May 19, 1542
Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo
He had when out to explore the Pacific Coast Prakes bay near Francinsico. -
May 17, 1575
Ferdinand Magellan
He sailed the entire way to South America. On the way home many of the people that were aboard his ship had caught many sicknesses including scurvy. -
May 19, 1577
Sir Fancis Drake
First ENGLISH man to sail around the whole world. -
John Davis
He was English. He explored the West Coast of Greenland in search of Northwestern Passage to Asia. -
Henry Hudson
English navigator. He explored the Hudsan river. Hence the last name. He then went on a voyage there.
