Italian navigator, John Cabot is believed to have been the first European to reach the North American mainland, in the year 1497. He is believed to have landed on the island of Newfoundland. Cabot sailed under the sponsorship of England.
Christopher Columbus never really found North America. He found an island in the Caribbean, and the whole time he thought he was in the Indies. Amerigo Vespucci is the first explorer who actually came up with the idea it was more than an island. That is why the Americas are named after him.
The Viking explorer Leif Ericson is believed to have reached northern North America around 1000 AD. The first documented arrival of Europeans in the Americas was by Christopher Columbus (an Italian sailing for Spain) in 1492.
the explorer who gave its first claim to north america
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in 10,00 B.C people from Siberia crossed the barring straight during the last ice age or they were Asians
Christopher Colombus was one of the first adventurers to explore North America. Christopher Colombus was looking for Asia but instead found a totally new land, America.
St Brendan from Ireland of course.
The Spaniards (Spain) were the first European settlers in North America.
ChamplainItalian-born Giovanni da Verrazano was the first to explore the region between Florida and Newfoundland for a route to the Pacific Ocean. He later claimed Florida for France, making him the founder of the first "permanent" French colony in North America. Because there are no French colonies left in America today, none of them were completely permanent.
Around 560 people lived in North America when Europeans first arrived. Around 560 people lived in North America when Europeans First arrived.
Coronado was the first person to explore North America's Southwest.
Spanish explorers were the first Europeans to explore North America.
Spanish explorers were the first Europeans to explore North America.
Spanish explorers were the first Europeans to explore North America.
He was the first European since the Vikings to explore the mainland of North America and the first to search for the Northwest Passage.
The first colonists to arrive in South America were the Spanish conquistadors, in the 15th Century.
The first European to explore the New Jersey coast was Giovanni da Verrazzano. He was a Florentine who explored North America in the name of King Francis I of France.
He was a European who was born in Iceland. He was the first known European to set foot on and explore North America, except for Greenland.
John Cabot
Spanish explorers were the first Europeans to explore North America.
Robert Peary
The Vikings sailed to Canada 1000 years ago.