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 ...

When in the late spring of 1497, John Cabot, middle-aged Italian navigator ... Search for a shorter, climatically more favorable route went on. Long pondered by explorers like Ross, Franklin ...

To commemorate and cash in on John Cabot’s June 24, 1497 landing in North America ... five voyages that he had not discovered North America but had merely found a route to Cathay. Cabot, like Columbus ...

On June 24, 1497, explorer John Cabot sighted land between Halifax and southern Labrador, the first recorded discovery of the North American mainland. In 1942 the Dutch royal family arrived in the ...

The Matthew is a replica of John Cabot's caravel that sailed from the city in 1497 to try to establish a new trade route for spices. The volunteers take groups on trips around Avon Gorge and talk ...