New timeline - Timeline

800 A.D. - 1050 Vikings' existance

1450-1500 Bartholomew Diaz - First European to sail around the southernmost tip of Africa

1451-1506 Christopher Columbus- Sailed the wrong way around the world on purpose and "discovered America" on accident, allowing passage and trading in America

1497 exploration John Cabot - Known for exploring the coast of America

1475-1519 Vasco Núñez de Balboa - first European to lead an expedition to have seen or reached the Pacific from the New World.

1480 -1521 Ferdinand Magellan - He started the first circumnavigation of the Earth

1485 - 1528 Giovanni da Verrazzano - He is the first European to explore the Atlantic coast of North America between Florida and New Brunswick

1491 - 1557 Jacques Cartier - Jacques Cartier was the first European to describe and map the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and the shores of the Saint Lawrence River. *Claimed Canada for France