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What size European countries explored the New World

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    European Exploration and Settlement in the New World

    Despite the common belief that Christopher Columbus was the first European discover of the New World, it is far more likely that Leif (or Leiv) Erikson (or Eriksson or Ericson) sailed west from Greenland around the year 1000 and landed somewhere in present-day Canada, probably the coast of Labrador. However, no permanent settlement ensued and the discovery was largely forgotten.

    The first European to discover America and remember was Christopher Columbus. As an Italian by birth, his name would have been Colombo then, and his Spanish sponsors would have called him Colon. For English speakers, his last name has been latinized.

    Date

    Explorer

    Representing

    Event

    c. 1000

    Leif Eriksson

    Norse

    Likely first European to Newfoundland

    1418

    (Prince Henry the Navigator)

    Portugal

    Offers training in navigation & cartography

    1431

    Gonzalo Cabral

    Portugal

    Discovered Azores

    1440s

    various

    Portugal

    Exploration along west African coast; slave trade

    1453

    (Fall of Constantinople)

    Muslim closure of eastward routes may have spurred westward push.

    1487-88

    Bartholomeu Dias

    Portugal

    Reached Cape of Good Hope

    1492

    Christopher Columbus

    Spain

    First voyage

    1494

    (Treaty of Tordesillas)

    Division of New World between Spain and Portugal

    1497

    John Cabot

    England

    To Newfoundland; English claim to North America

    1497-98

    Vasco da Gama

    Portugal

    Rounds Africa to India

    1497+

    Amerigo Vespucci

    Spain

    Portugal

    West Indies and South America

    1500-01

    Pedro Álvarez Cabral

    Portugal

    Brazil

    1513

    Ponce de Léon

    Spain

    Florida

    1513

    Vasco Núñez de Balboa

    Spain

    Crossed Panama to Pacific Ocean

    1519-22

    Ferdinand Magellan

    Spain

    Circumnavigation of world completed by crew

    1519+

    Hernán Cortés

    Spain

    Conquered Aztecs in Mexico

    1524-25

    Giovanni da Verrazzano

    France

    Searched for Northwest Passage

    1526

    Lucas Vazquez Ayllon

    Spain

    Temporary settlement in in the Carolinas

    1528-36

    Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca

    Spain

    From Gulf of Mexico into Texas

    1532+

    Francisco Pizarro

    Spain

    Conquered Incas in Peru

    1535

    Jacques Cartier

    France

    Gulf of St. Lawrence; established French claim to North America

    1539-42

    Hernando De Soto

    Spain

    Southeastern U. S. and Mississippi River

    1540

    Francisco Coronado

    Spain

    Northern Mexico and southwestern U. S.

    1542

    Juan Rodriquez Cabrillo

    Spain

    California

    1565

    Don Pedro Menendez de Aviles

    Spain

    St. Augustine founded

    1576-78

    Sir Martin Frobisher

    England

    Search for Northwest Passage

    1577-80

    Sir Francis Drake

    England

    First English circumnavigation

    1585+

    England

    Roanoke "Lost Colony"

    1598+

    Juan de Oñate

    Spain

    Settlement in New Mexico

    1602

    Bartholomew Gosnold

    England

    Explored New Englandcoast

    1603-15

    Samuel de Champlain
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