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 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 ...