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The year that Verrazano search for a route to the Indies through the continent was in 1525. The mistook Chesapeake Bay to be an opening through to the North American continent to China.
According to Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_de_Verrazzano), he was the "first European to explore the Atlantic coast of North America...in 1524". Most notably, he traveled from France to New York Bay, stopping also at Cape Fear and Narragansett Bay.
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It was France.
He was in search of the West Indies or a path that lead to the West Indies.
Giovanni da Verrazano was a famous Florentine explorer. In 1524, he was commissioned by King Francis I to search for a Northwest Passage to Asia through North America.
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In 1524 France hired an Italian explorer named Giovanni de verrazano to contiued the search for a northeast passage
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King Francis I of France sent him to look for a sea route west to Asia.