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Dec 31, 986
First settlement in Greenland
When Erik was himself banished from Iceland,he travelled further west to an area he named Greenland. -
Sep 15, 1254
Marco Polo´s travel begin
Marco Polo start his travels of marvels of the world. -
Mar 9, 1454
Italian explorer
Amerigo Vespucci (Italian pronunciation: [ameˈriːɡo vesˈputtʃi]; March 9, 1454 – February 22, 1512) was an Italian explorer, financier, navigator and cartographer who first demonstrated that Brazil and the West Indies did not represent Asia's eastern outskirts as initially conjectured from Columbus' voyages, -
Jun 28, 1471
Francisco Pizarro
Francisco Pizarro González (/pɪˈzɑroʊ/; Spanish: [piˈθaro]; circa 1471 or 1476 – 26 June 1541) was a Spanish conquistador who conquered the Incan Empire. Pizarro González was born in Trujillo, Spain, the illegitimate son of Gonzalo Pizarro, an infantry colonel, and Francisca González, a woman of poor means. His exact birth date is uncertain, but is believed to be sometime in the 1470s, probably 1471. Scant attention was paid to his education and he grew up illiterate.[1] He was a distant cousin -
Feb 3, 1488
Bartolomeu Diaz
He led the first European expedition to round the Cape of Good Hope, opening the sea route to Asia via the Atlantic and Indian oceans. -
Oct 12, 1492
Christopher Colombus
He discover America.
Christopher Colombus, sponsored by King Ferdinand of Spain, sailing in La Niña, La Pinta and La Santa María, arrives to the today coasts of Cuba. -
Jul 19, 1493
Ponce De Leon
He discover and conquer Florida and put Norteamérica in the map. -
Jul 8, 1497
First sea trip from Europe to India
Vasco the Gama is the first explorer to make a sea trip from Europe to India, by going around the African continent -
Sep 20, 1519
First circumnavigation of the globe
Thanks to the efforts of Ferdinand Magellan, the first trip around the panet was made, proving that the Earth is round and not plane as many belived. -
Aug 13, 1521
Aztec empire falls
Cortés, with the help of many native allies who didn´t liked aztecs, siege the capital city Tenochtitlán and conquers the aztecs. -
May 8, 1541
Hernando de Soto
Hernando de Soto and their crew reach the Missisipi River. They are the first documented Europan explorers who traveled through it. -
Dec 2, 1547
Hernan Cortes
Hernán Cortés de Monroy y Pizarro, 1st Marquis of the Valley of Oaxaca (Spanish pronunciation: [erˈnaŋ korˈtes ðe monˈroj i piˈθaro]; 1485 – December 2, 1547) was a Spanish Conquistador who led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire and brought large portions of mainland Mexico under the rule of the King of Castile in the early 16th century. Cortés was part of the generation of Spanish colonizers who began the first phase of the Spanish colonization of the Americas. Born in Mede -
Jamestown settlement founded
Jhon Smith and his crew fouded the settlement named Jamestown, the first permanent British North Ameica colony. -
Sacagawea leads the Corps expedition
Sacagawea, with her 2-months baby help explorers Lewis and Clark during their expedition through the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean and Back. She received no compensantion for it. -
Lewis and Clark corps expedition.
By the appointment of Thomas Jefferson, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark explored more than 8,000 miles with the help of Sacagawea. Lewis recived his salary, 1,600 acres of land and named governor of Louisiana Territory. -
French naval officer
Costeau´s discover his underwater world research in series of books. -
Gagarin
uri Alekseyevich Gagarin (Russian: Ю́рий Алексе́евич Гага́рин[note 1]; IPA: [ˈjʉrʲɪj ɐlʲɪˈksʲejɪvʲɪtɕ ɡɐˈɡarʲɪn]; 9 March 1934 – 27 March 1968) was a Russian Soviet pilot and cosmonaut. He was the first human to journey into outer space, when his Vostok spacecraft completed an orbit of the Earth on 12 April 1961. Gagarin became an international celebrity, and was awarded many medals and titles, including Hero of the Soviet Union, the nation's highest honour. Vostok 1 marked his only spaceflight -
First man lands on the moon
Starship Apollo 11 lands on the moon, making Neil Armstrong the first man that leaves his footprint out of planet earth. -
Edmund Hillary
Sir Edmund Percival Hillary KG ONZ KBE (20 July 1919 – 11 January 2008) was a New Zealand mountaineer, explorer and philanthropist. On 29 May 1953, Hillary and Nepalese Sherpa mountaineer Tenzing Norgay became the first climbers to reach the summit of Mount Everest. They were part of the ninth British expedition to Everest, led by John Hunt. Hillary was named by Time as one of the 100 most influential people of the 20th century. Hillary became interested in mountaineering while in secondary sch
