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Leif Eriksen was the first European to arrive in America (Newfoundland, Canada) and did so in the year 1000 C.E. However, his arrival did not presage long-term European-American interaction; that would happen when Christopher Columbus arrived in America (Dominican Republic) in 1492.

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