Cabot set a more northerly route then Columbus, settling into higher Atlantic currents. Four and a half weeks later he sighted land. On St. John's Day -- June 24, 1497 Cabot set into a bay and ...

In 1497 John Cabot and his crew set sail from Bristol to find a new trade route to Asia. Instead however he arrived on the coast of Newfoundland and therefore was the original discoverer of North ...

In 1497 Italian explorer John Cabot was one of the first modern Europeans to discover North America. While voyaging in search of Asia he instead found a new land and called it... Newfoundland ...