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Dias was the first European explorer to sail around the Cape of Good Hope.
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Columbus sets Sail and finds the "New World" (Today's San Salvador)
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Cabot sets sail for Newfoundland.
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Juan Ponce De Leon Exlored Florida looking for the so called Fountain Of Youth.
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Magellan sets sail for his journey around the world.
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Cortes reached Tenochtitlan where he captured and killed the leader of the Aztecs, Montezuma.
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Giovanni da Verrazano sailed to the New World for france. He was exploring the New World to find a passage way that would take him West but he never found one.
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Corronado was a Spanish explorer who was the first to find the Pueblo Indians.
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Sir Francis Drake was the first English explorer to sail around the world he also defeated the Spanish Armada and Claimed California for England.
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William Barents discovers Spitsbergen while searching for a sea route that goes North.
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Willem Janszoon sails to the Gulf of Carpentaria.
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Samuel de Champlain explored the Great Lakes and named one Lake Champlain. Champlain was also the first to investigate the eastern shore of Canada.
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Henry Hudson explored Hudson Bay, Hudson River, and Hudson Strait .. And obviously named them after himself.
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Adrian Block lands on an island which was later named Block Island. I wonder why?
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The Pilgrims founded a second English colony.
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The Dutch capture the Netherlands Antilles and Aruba from Span.
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Father Marquette and Louis Joliet discovered the Mississippi River and traveled down it as far as the Arkansas River then returned north.
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LaSalle travelled to the mouth of the Mississippi river and claimed it for later claimed it for France.
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Willem De Vlamingh discovered an island to the West of Australia.
