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Explorers born active died
unknown 1510s unknown
a cabin boy of the expedition of Juan Díaz de Solís to the Río de la Plata. His last name seems to come from his origin, El Puerto de Santa María. There are no known facts about his life in Spain . On October 8, 1515 he embarked as a cabin boy on the aforementioned expedition, which departed from the port of Sanlúcar de Barrameda with three ships. At the beginning of February 1516, the ships entered the River Plate , an enormous expanse of fresh water that forms the estuary of the Paraná and Uruguay rivers, mistaking it for an arm of the sea for what was called the Sweet Sea.
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Francisco del Puerto unknown 1510
1519 unknown
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... Jorge Alvares unknown 1510 1521 1521, Jul 8 credited as the first European explorer to have reached China and Hong Kong by sea. Álvares made... Francisco Serrao unknown 1511 1521 1521 a Portuguese explorer and a cousin of Ferdinand Magellan. His 1512 voyage was the first known Eur... 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 ... Juan Sebastian Elcano 1476 1509 1526 1526, Aug 4 a Basque explorer who completed the first circumnavigation of the Earth. After Ferdinand Magellan... Giovanni da Verrazzano 1485 1508 1528 1528 an Italian explorer of North America, in the service of King Francis I of France. He is renowned ... 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... Panfilo de Narvaez 1470 1510 1529 1528 Explorer Gonzalo Guerrero unknown 1510 1530 1530 ca a sailor from Palos, in Spain who shipwrecked along the Yucatán Peninsula and was taken as a sl... Diego de Almagro 1475 ca 1510 1538 1538, Jul 8 a Spanish conquistador and a companion and later rival of Francisco Pizarro. He participated in t... Hernan Ponce de Leon unknown 1510 1539 unknown a Spanish conquistador who participated in the discovery of Panama, Costa Rica, and Nicaragua in ... Francisco Alvares 1465 1515 1539 1536~1541 a Portuguese missionary and explorer. In 1515 he traveled to Ethiopia as part of the Portuguese e... Pedro de Alvarado 1485 ca 1510 1541 1541, Jul 4 a Spanish conquistador and governor of Guatemala. He participated in the conquest of Cuba, in Jua... 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... Francisco Xerez 1495 1514 1549 1565 ca a Spanish explorer-turned-historian, the personal secretary of conquistador Francisco Pizarro. He... Sebastian de Belalcazar 1479/80/95 1507 1551 1551 a Spanish conquistador. He entered Nicaragua with Francisco Hernández de Córdoba in 1524 during... Fernao Pires de Andrade unknown 1510 1552 1552 a Portuguese merchant, pharmacist, and official diplomat under the explorer and Portuguese Malacc... Piri Reis 1467 ca 1481 1553 1553 an Ottoman admiral, geographer, and cartographer. Piri began engaging in government-supported pri... Pedro Mascarenhas 1470 1512 1555 1555, Jun 16 a Portuguese explorer and colonial administrator. He was the first European to discover the islan... 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... Diogo Rodrigues 1495 ca 1507 1577 1577, Apr 21 a Portuguese explorer of the Indian Ocean who sailed as an ordinary helmsman under the command of... 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...
