Exploration

Exploration || ** Representing ** || ** Event ** || Portugal || West Indies and South America || England || Dutch claim to New York area; explored Hudson Bay || Jacques Marquette || France || Explored upper Mississippi Basin ||
 * ** Date ** || ** EEXPExLORATIONxplorer **
 * c. 1000 || Lief Ericson || Norse || Likely first European to Newfoundland ||
 * 1418 || Prince Henry the Navigator || Portugal || Offers training in navigation & cartography ||
 * 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
 * 1497+ || Amerigo Vespucci || Spain
 * 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 ||
 * 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. ||
 * 1565 || Don Pedro Menendez de Aviles || Spain || St. Augustine founded ||
 * 1577-80 || Sir Francis Drake || England || First English circumnavigation ||
 * 1585+ ||  || England || Roanoke]“Lost Colony” ||
 * 1602 || Bartholomew Gosnold || England || Explored New England coast ||
 * 1603-15 || Samuel de Champlain || France || Quebec, Great Lakes and Lake Champlain ||
 * 1607 ||  || England || Jamestown founded ||
 * 1609+ || Henry Hudson || Netherlands
 * 1585+ ||  || England || Roanoke]“Lost Colony” ||
 * 1602 || Bartholomew Gosnold || England || Explored New England coast ||
 * 1603-15 || Samuel de Champlain || France || Quebec, Great Lakes and Lake Champlain ||
 * 1607 ||  || England || Jamestown founded ||
 * 1609+ || Henry Hudson || Netherlands
 * 1609+ || Henry Hudson || Netherlands
 * 1620 ||  || England || Pilgrims arrive at Cape Cod ||
 * 1630 ||  || England || Puritans arrive at Massachusetts Bay ||
 * 1673 || Louis Joliet