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May 17, 1450
Prince Henry
He is most famous for the voyages of discovery that he organized and financed. He was a smart person. At the age of twenty he pesauded his dad to go against a muslim port. -
May 18, 1450
John Cabot
John Cabot was born in Genoa Italy around 1450. The idea that a northern way was there started the search for the Northwest Passage to the Indies. He made his first trip to North America in 1497. The ship was called the Matthew and had a crew of 18 people. -
May 18, 1454
Amerigo Vespucci
Amerigo Vespucci was born in Florence, Italy in 1454.He was educated by his uncle and became a businessman. Amerigo Vespucci is important because he was one of the early explorers of America. -
May 17, 1460
Vasco Da Gama
Led an expadition at the end of the 15th century that opened the sea route to India. Many years of portugeuse exploration down the west african coast had been rewarded. Four ships left Lisbon on july 8, 1497 that Vasco sailed. -
May 18, 1460
Ponce de Leon
Ponce de Leon was fighting Muslims in southern Spain. He use to be on Spain's side. Later then a arguement with the king made him turn against Spain -
May 18, 1467
Pedro Carbal
Was well educated just like family. He was the first European to see brazil in the 1500s. Pedro came from a noble Portuguese family and his father attended the Portuguese court. -
May 17, 1475
Bartolomeu Dias
The first European to see the cape of good hope which is at the bottom of africa. He entered the gold and ivory trade. Italy was growing rich from trade with india. -
Jan 1, 1478
Francisco Pizzaro
Francisco Pizzaro was a spanish conquistador. He traveled much of the coast of America and along Peru. He discovered the Incan empire and conqured it as well. -
May 18, 1480
Ferdinand Magellan
A arguement with the Portuguese King Manoel II turned him against the Portuguese. He selled to the east many times. Also to the african cape of good hope. -
May 18, 1485
Hernan Cortes
Hernan Cortes was a Spanish explorer who is famous because of his march in Mexico and conquering the Aztec Empire in Mexico. First he went to the island of Santo Domingo in 1504. He was only 19 years old. -
May 20, 1485
Giovanni Verrazzano
Giovanni was an Italian navigator. He explored the NorthEast coast of North America. He went t spain and then later landed at cape fear. -
May 19, 1490
Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca
Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca was born about 1490 near Cadiz, Spain. His parents were Francisco de Vera and Teresa Cabeza de Vaca. -
May 17, 1492
Christopher Columbus
He was born in ganoa. He was the oldest in his family of five. He was the first european to go to america. -
May 19, 1494
Treaty of Tordesillas
The Treaty of Tordesillas agreed that the Spanish and the Portuguese make peace. Portugal tryed to find a direct quicker route to the India and China. Arab merchants who owned trade routes were'nt able to make money off European trade. -
May 18, 1500
Jacques Cartier
He lived from 1491 to 1557. Cartier made his first trip to the America in 1534. His second voyage started in 1535. After returning the indian. Jacques Cartier started to explore the St. Lawrence River. -
May 18, 1513
Vasco Nunez de Balboa
1475 he was born. He was from a poor spanish family and was uneducated. 1510 he went to San Sebastian the explorers found out it was set on fire. Balboa persuaded his partners and Nicuesa and Enciso to finish their exploration towards the southwest. Balboa had visited this land from his previous voyage -
May 17, 1540
Sir Francis Drake
What happened was he went to went agaisnt spanish main. Most of his ships were sunken by them. Then later he went to get his revenge and he got it. -
May 20, 1542
Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo
Cabrillo left from the port of Navidad Mexico on June 27, 1542 1519 he served in the army of the famous conquistador Hernan Cortes. He died in 1543 from a shatered limb. -
May 20, 1565
Henry Hudson
He was an english explorer. He navigated parts of the Artic Ocean. The Hudson river, Hudson bay, and Hudson Strait is akk named after him. -
John Davis
he was born in 1550. In 1585 he started on his first northwestern trip. He discovered the falkland isand.
