Timeline-CJ

Timeline of Explorers from 900 - 1650

982- Eric The Red discovers Greenland 1002- Leif Ericson discovers North America 1271- Marco Polo goes to China 1450- Prince Henry builds a school for sailers 1487- Bartholomeu Dias discovers the southern tip of Africa 1492- Columbus sails to the New World 1497- John Cabot discovers Newfoundland 1502- Amerigo Vespucci returns from the New World 1513- Vasco Balboa discovers the Eastern Shore of the Pacific Ocean, Juan Ponce de Leon searches for the Fountain of Youth in Florida 1519- Ferdinand Magellan and his crew sail around the world 1521- Hernando Cortez defeats the Aztec Empire 1533- Fransisco Pizarro defeats the Inca Empire 1534- Jacques Cartier The St. Lawrence River and The Great Lakes 1539- Hernando de Soto explores the southeastern United States 1540- Fransisco Coronado explores the southwestern United States and the Grand Canyon 1577- Sir Francis Drake becomes the first englishman to sail around the world 1609- Henry Hudson discovers and explores the Hudson River