1492
in 1620
Because the Vikings were the first to sail across the open ocean. No one else would try that, because believing the Earth was flat, they were afraid they would sail off the edge.
In 1507, named after the Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci, the "New World" had been replaced with it's new name America.
They denied Christopher Columbus' request to said to the New World.
Balboa sailed to the New World in 1500.
1758
southeast
Yes.
Balboa sailed to the New World in 1500.
The first explorer to sail across the Atlantic for England was John Cabot, an Italian navigator and explorer. In 1497, he embarked on his voyage under the commission of King Henry VII of England, reaching the coast of North America, likely present-day Newfoundland. Cabot's expedition marked England's first exploration of the New World and laid the groundwork for future English claims in North America.
Spanish. [The Portuguese and English came close to discovering the New World, that being the Americas, but they did not sail far enough to the West.]