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Explorers born active died
1451, Oct 1473-1505 1506, May 20
an Italian explorer, navigator, colonizer and citizen of the Republic of Genoa. Under the auspices of the Catholic Monarchs of Spain, he completed four voyages across the Atlantic Ocean. Those voyages, and his efforts to establish permanent settlements on the island of Hispaniola, initiated the Spanish colonization of the New World. Explored the Caribbean.
Timeline 03/21/1492 - Pedro Alonso Nino , pilot, sails with Christopher Columbus 04/17/1492 - Christopher Columbus signs contract with Spain to find the Indies 04/30/1492 - Christopher Columbus is given royal commission to equip his fleet 08/03/1492 - Christopher Columbus sets sail from Palos, Spain to Canary Islands for supplies 09/06/1492 - Christopher Columbus' fleet leaves San Sebastián de la Gomera, Canary islands, heading west. 10/11/1492 - Christopher Columbus' ships sight 'unusual light' 10/12/1492 - Christopher Columbus lands on San Salvador Island (in the Bahamas), discovering the New World 10/14/1492 - Christopher Columbus leaves San Salvador, arrives in Santa Maria of Concepcion 10/15/1492 - Christopher Columbus notes first recorded reference to tobacco 10/16/1492 - Christopher Columbus' fleet anchors at "Fernandina" (Long Island, Bahamas?) 10/19/1492 - Christopher Columbus sights "Ysabela" (Long Cay, aka Fortune Island, Bahamas) 10/25/1492 - Christopher Columbus' fleet sights Las Islas de Arena (Ragged Island Range, Bahamas) 10/28/1492 - Christopher Columbus discovers Cuba and claims it for Spain 11/05/1492 - Christopher Columbus learns of maize (corn) from Indians of Cuba 11/21/1492 - Pinta under Martin Alonso Pinzon separates from Christopher Columbus' fleet 12/05/1492 - Christopher Columbus discovers Hispaniola (El Espanola/Haiti), at Mole Saint Nicolas 12/05/1492 - Christopher Columbus' ship Santa Maria lands at Santo Domingo 12/26/1492 - First Spanish settlement in New World founded by Christopher Columbus 01/09/1493 - First sighting of manatees by Christopher Columbus (who thinks they're mermaids) 01/15/1493 - Christopher Columbus leaves new world on return from first voyage 01/16/1493 - Christopher Columbus returns to Spain on his first trip 03/15/1493 - Christopher Columbus returns to Spain after first new world voyage 09/24/1493 - Christopher Columbus sails with 17 ships on second voyage to America 11/03/1493 - Christopher Columbus discovers island of Dominica 11/13/1493 - Christopher Columbus sights the island Saba 11/19/1493 - Christopher Columbus discovers Puerto Rico, on his second voyage 05/05/1494 - On his second voyage to the New World, Christopher Columbus sights Jamaica, names it "St. Iago" 05/30/1498 - Christopher Columbus departs with six ships for third trip to America 08/01/1498 - Christopher Columbus lands on "Isla Santa" near Venezuela 08/07/1498 - Christopher Columbus arrives in Caribbean 08/14/1498 - Christopher Columbus lands at the mouth of the Orinoco River in Venezuela 11/25/1500 - Governor Francisco De Bobadilla of Santo Domingo captures Christopher Columbus 05/11/1502 - Christopher Columbus begins fourth and last trip to the "Indies" 09/18/1502 - Christopher Columbus lands at Costa Rica on his fourth and last voyage 05/10/1503 - Christopher Columbus discovers Cayman Islands 02/29/1504 - Christopher Columbus uses a lunar eclipse to frighten hostile Jamaican Indians 05/19/1506 - Christopher Columbus selects his son Diego as sole heir 05/20/1506 - Christopher Columbus dies in Valladolid, Spain
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Christopher Columbus 1451, Oct 1473
1505 1506, May 20
John Cabot 1450 ca 1470 1500 1500 ca an Italian navigator and explorer whose 1497 discovery of parts of North America under the commis... Bartolomeu Dias 1451 ca 1480 1500 1500, May 29 a nobleman of the Portuguese royal household, was a Portuguese explorer. He sailed around the sou... Pero de Barcelos unknown 1498 1501 unknown a Portuguese navigator who explored the coasts of North America with João Fernandes Labrador, h... Joao Fernandes Lavrador 1453 1498 1501 1501 ca a Portuguese explorer of the late 15th century. He was the first modern explorer in the coasts of... Nicolau Coelho 1460 ca 1490 1502 1502 an expert Portuguese navigator and explorer during the age of discovery. He participated in the d... Miguel Corte-Real 1448 1502 1502 unknown a Portuguese explorer who charted about 600 miles of the coast of Labrador. In 1501, he disappear... Goncalo Coelho unknown 1501 1504 unknown a Portuguese explorer who belonged to a prominent family in northern Portugal. He commanded two e... Ludovico di Varthema 1470 ca 1502 1507 1517 an Italian traveller, diarist and aristocrat known for being the first non-Muslim European to ent... Diogo de Azambuja 1432 1450 1509 1518 a Portuguese noble. He was a knight of the Order of Aviz in the service of the Infante Dom Pedro,... Jean Cousin unknown 1480 1509 unknown a 15th-century French Normand navigator who was said to have discovered the New World in 1488, fo... Pedro Alvares Cabral 1467 1484 1509 1520 a Portuguese nobleman, military commander, navigator and explorer regarded as the discoverer of B... Diogo Dias unknown 1490 1509 unknown a 15th-century Portuguese explorer. He was the brother of Bartolomeu Dias and discovered some of ... Andre Goncalves [1] unknown 1490 1509 unknown A Portuguese explorer that accompanied Pedro Álvares Cabral in the discovery of Brazil. Gonçalv... Alonso de Ojeda 1465/66/68 1490 1509 1515 a ruthless and cunning explorer who first sailed to the New World on Columbus’ second voyage in... Luis Pires unknown 1490 1509 unknown a Portuguese explorer who accompanied Pedro Álvares Cabral in the discovery of Brazil, being one... Amerigo Vespucci 1454, Mar 9 1497 1509 1512, Feb 22 an Italian explorer, financier, navigator and cartographer who first demonstrated that Brazil and... Lourenco de Almeida 1480 ca 1500 1509 1508, Mar a Portuguese explorer and military commander. He was born in Martim, Kingdom of Portugal, the son... Pero de Ataide 1450 ca 1500 1509 1504, Feb/Mar a Portuguese sea captain in the Indian Ocean active in the early 1500s. He was briefly captain of... Vasco de Ataide unknown 1500 1509 unknown a Portuguese sailor whose ship was a part of Pedro Álvares Cabral 1500 expedition to India. His ... Joao da Nova 1460 ca 1500 1509 1509, Jul a Galician explorer of the Atlantic and Indian Oceans at the service of Portugal. He is credited ... Sebastian de Ocampo unknown 1500 1509 unknown a Spanish navigator and explorer. He is believed to have been the first navigator to have circumn... Diogo Fernandes Pereira unknown 1500 1509 unknown a Portuguese 16th-century navigator, originally from Setúbal, Portugal. Diogo Fernandes was the... Francisco de Almeida 1450 ca 1490 1510 1510, Mar 1 a Portuguese nobleman, soldier and explorer. He distinguished himself as a counsellor to King Joh... Pero de Alenquer 1480 ca 1500 15109 1514 ca
a 15th-century Portuguese explorer of the African coast. Pêro was born in Alenquer, and accompan... Afonso de Albuquerque 1453 ca 1471 1515 1515, Dec 16 a Portuguese general, a "great conqueror," a statesman, and an empire builder. He is generally co... Juan Diaz de Solis 1470 1500 1516 1516 In 1500 and 1508, Diaz de Solis joined Vincente Pinzón on two voyages exploring along the coast ... Antony Welser unknown 1500 1518 1518 One of the first Europeans to use the sea route to India discovered by Vasco de Gama. Diego Velasquez de Cuellar 1465 1490 1519 1524, Jun 12 a Spanish conquistador. He first visited the New World with the crew of Christopher Columbus' sec... Antonio de Abreu 1480 ca 1500 1519 1514 ca a 16th-century Portuguese navigator and naval officer. He participated under the command of Afons... Vasco Nunez de Balboa 1475 ca 1500 1519 1519, Jan 12/21 a Spanish explorer, governor, and conquistador. He is best known for having crossed the Isthmus o... Binot Paulmier de Gonneville unknown 1500 1519 unknown French navigator of the early 16th century, was widely believed in 17th and 18th century France t... Duarte Fernandes unknown 1500 1519 unknown a Portuguese diplomat and the first European to establish diplomatic relations with Thailand, whe... Fernao de Loronha 1470 ca 1500 1519 1540 ca a prominent 16th-century Portuguese merchant of Lisbon He was the first charter-holder (1502–15... Ferdinand Magellan 1480 1495 1521 1521 a Portuguese explorer who organised the Spanish expedition to the East Indies from 1519 to 1522, ... Duarte Barbosa 1480 ca 1500 1521 1521, May 1 a Portuguese writer and Portuguese India officer between 1500 and 1516–1517, with the post of s... Vasco da Gama 1460s 1480 1524 1524, Dec 24 a Portuguese explorer. He was the first European to reach India by sea, linking Europe and Asia f... Goncalo Alvares unknown 1490 1524 1524 a Portuguese explorer who actively participated in the age of discovery starting from the second ... Cristovao Jacques 1480 ca 1500 1529 1530+ a Portuguese noble of Aragonese descent. In 1516, in command of two caravels, he was in charge of... Hernan Cortes 1485 1504 1547 1547, Dec 2 a Spanish Conquistador who led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire and brought... Piri Reis 1467 ca 1481 1553 1553 an Ottoman admiral, geographer, and cartographer. Piri began engaging in government-supported pri... Sebastian Cabot 1474 ca 1494 1557 1557, Dec an Italian explorer, likely born in the Venetian Republic. He was the son of Italian explorer Joh... Pero Escobar unknown 1470 159 unknown a 15th-century Portuguese navigator who discovered São Tomé, Annobon, and Príncipe islands, to... Gaspar de Lemos unknown 1500 162 unknown a Portuguese explorer and captain of the supply ship of Pedro Álvares Cabral's fleet that discov...
