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Eric the Red leads 1000 Iceland settlers to Greenland--colony perished by 1350
986
Discovery, Iceland
Leif Eriksson sails from Greenland to Vinland discovering North America
1000
Discovery, Americas
The Travels of Marco Polo written & later translated into many languages
1298
Discovery, Global
Bartolomeu Dias rounds the Cape of Good Hope at the southern tip of Africa
1488
Discovery, South Africa
Columbus sails to America
1492
Discovery, Americas
John Cabot discovers Labrador and Newfoundland for England
1497
Discovery, Americas
Vasca da Gama reaches India and breaks Venetian monopoly on spice trade
1498
Discovery, India
Cabral claims Brazil for Portugal
1500
Discovery, Brazil
Amerigo Vespucci surmises that Columbus discovered a new continent--America
1501
Discovery, Americas
Diego Velazquez founds Spanish settlement in Cuba
1511
Discovery, Cuba
Ponce de Leon founds Spanish settlement in Florida
1513
Discovery, United States
Balboa is first European to see Pacific Ocean
1513
Discovery, Panama
Magellan killed in Philippines during the first circumnavigation of the earth
1521
Discovery, Philippines
Spaniards led by de Soto in search for gold and silver--discover Mississippi River
1541
Discovery, United States
New Zealand is discovered by Dutch explorer
1642
Discovery, Austral Realm
Jacob Roggeveen discovers Easter Island
1722
Discovery, Pacific Islands
Captain Cook travels to Tahiti to determine distance from Venus to Earth
1769
Discovery, Pacific Islands
Captain Cook charts the eastern coast of Australia
1770
Discovery, Austral Realm
Captain Cook is killed by Hawaii islanders
1779
Discovery, Pacific Islands
Scottish doctor Mungo Park explores the River Niger for African Association
1796
Discovery, Sub-Saharan Africa
Lewis and Clark expedition opens way to conquest of the West
1805
Discovery, United States
Antarctica discovered
1820
Discovery, Global
Robert Peary is first to the North Pole
1909
Discovery, Global
Amundsen is first to reach South Pole
1911
Discovery, Global