1497-John Cabot Sights Ireland
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1497 - John Cabot sights Newfoundland.
1498 - John and Sebastian Cabot explore from Labrador to Cape Cod.
1524 - Giovanni de Verrazano discovers the Hudson River before sailing north to Nova Scotia.
1534- 35 - Jacques Cartier explores the Gulf of St. Lawrence, travels up the St. Lawrence River to Quebec, Montreal and Prince Edward Island.
1578-1580 - Sir Francis Drake sails into San Francisco Bay.
1543 - Jean Alfonce explores up the Saguenay River, Quebec believing it is the Sea of Cathay.
1583 - Humphrey Gilbert founded the first English colony in America a small settlement on Newfoundland.
1584 - Sir Walter Raleigh funds the settlement on Roanoke Island and calls the land Virginia.
1607 - Henry