Explorers Timeline

Explorers Timeline

This History Timeline has been developed to provide a 'snapshot' of the famous people and
events during this historical time period. Important dates in a fast, comprehensive,
chronological, or date order providing an actual sequence of important
past events which were of considerable significance to the
famous people involved in this time period.
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	1001	Leif Ericson explores North America
	1265	Marco Polo begins his exploration of China and Asia
	1432	:Portuguese navigators discovered the Azores
	1445	Dinis Dias sails the west coast of Africa
	1456	:Cape Verde islands are explored by Portuguese
	1470	Portuguese begin African exploration
	1488	:Bartholomeu Dias of Portugal sails from the Iberian Peninsula to the south of Africa.
	1492	:The Discovery of America by Christopher Columbus
	1497	:John Cabot and his son Sebastian discover Canada, landing on the coast of Newfoundland
	1498	:Vasco da Gama sails around the Cape of Good Hope and reaches India
	1499	:Alonzo de Ojeda explores Columbia and Venezuela
	1500	: Vicente Pinzon and Juan Dias de Solis discover Brazil
	1501	: Amerigo Vespucci explores the coast of South America
	1500	: Rodrigo de Bastidas and Juan de la Cosa discover Panama
	1508	: Juan Dias de Solis explores Argentina
	1513	Vasco Nunez de Balboa explores the Pacific coast of Panama and discovers Pacific Ocean Juan Ponce de Leon explores Florida
	1516	:Juan Dias de Solis explores Uruguay
	1517	:Francisco Hernandez de Cordoba explores Yucatan
	1518	:Juan de Grijalava explores Mexico
	1519	Ferdinand Magellan is the first to go around the world Hernando Cortez kidnaps Aztec Emperor Montezuma and loots the Aztec gold Alonzo de Pineda explores gulf Coast of America
	1522	:Gil Gonzales de Avila and Francisco Hernandez de Cordoba explore Nicaragua & Granada
	1524	Giovanni Verrazano discovers New York Bay Hernando Cortes explores the Honduras Pedro de Alvarado explores Guatemala and El Salvador
	1526	:Francisco Montejo explores Yucatan
	1528	Panfilo de Narvaez conquers Cuba and explores Florida Alvar Cabeza de Vaca explores Texas, Arizona and New Mexico
	1531	: Francisco Pizarro explores Peru
	1532	: Francisco Pizarro invades and loots the Incan Empire
	1533	: Sebastian de Benalcazar explores Ecuador
	1534	:Jacques Cartier explores the Great Lakes and the the St. Lawrence River
	1536	:Pedro de Mendoza explores Paraguay
	1539	Hernando de Soto explores south-eastern North America
	1540	Francisco Vázquez de Coronado explores south-western North America Discovery of the Grand Canyon by Garcia Lopez de Cardenas Francisco de Orellana explores Amazon River
	1541	Francisco Vásquez de Coronado explores Kansas
	1542	Cabrillo explores and discovers the Californian coast Rey Lopez de Villalobos explores the Philippines Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo discovers San Diego Bay, California
	1559	Tristan de Luna explores North America
	1562	John Hawkins sails to Africa
	1563	Francisco de Ibarra explores New Mexico
	1576	Sir Martin Frobisher explores Baffin Bay and the Hudson Strait
	1577	Sir Francis Drake circumnavigates the world - December 13 1577 to September 26 1580
	1584	Philip Amadas and Arthur Barlowe (both in the service of Sir Walter Raleigh) explore the coast of North Carolina
	1585	Sir Walter Raleigh establishes the Roanoke colony
	1593	Sir Richard Hawkins travels to the South Pacific
	1595	Sir Walter Raleigh seeks golden city of El Dorado in South America Cornelis de Houtman discovers Sea Route to Indonesia
	1598	Juan de Archuleta explores Colorado
	1607	Captain John Smith explorer and founder of Jamestown
	1609	Henry Hudson explored parts of the Arctic Ocean and northeastern North America including the Hudson River
	1642	Abel Tasman explores Tasmania and New Zealand
	1652	Jan van Riebeeck explores Africa and founded Cape Town
	1768	Captain James Cook discovers New Zealand
	1791	George Vancouver explores Canada
	1804	Meriwether Lewis and William Clark explore the Louisiana Territory
	1820	Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen becomes the first person to see the Antarctic continent
	1843	Dr. David Livingstone explores Africa
	1897	Adrien de Gerlache explores Antarctica
	1912	Roald Amundsen first on the South Pole followed by Robert F. Scott, Edward Wilson, Edgar Evans and Lawrence Oates
	1959	Yuri Gagarin becomes the first Man in Space
	1969	Moon Landing Neil Armstrong commander of the Apollo 11 mission, accompanied by Buzz Aldrin while their team mate Michael Collins controlled the command module Columbia

Explorers Timeline

Explorers Timeline
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