As part of the ceremony at Bristol, England, in celebration of the Cabot fourth centenary, Lord Dufferin on June 24 officially laid the foundation of a memorial tower on Brandon Hill, a high point ...

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 ...

Cristoforo Colombo and Giovanni Caboto left Genoa separately as young men, went on to organize a few entrepreneurial sailing trips, and ended their lives as Christopher Columbus and John ... route to ...

It’s perhaps the most famous and important ship in Canadian history: the Matthew of Bristol, the 50-tonne vessel that carried Anglo-Italian explorer John ... Cabot’s ill-fated second voyage ...

You are in: Bristol > History > Historic Figures > John Cabot - c ... more funding began to plan a second expedition. In May 1498, he set out on a further voyage, again from Bristol, with a ...

On his third voyage, in 1498, he landed on the mainland of South America. But neither he nor John Cabot were the first ... When he arrived it was the second biggest port in England after London.