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 ...

John Cabot is a key figure in a strong controversy regarding the discovery of North America. In reality, his name was Giovanni Caboto, and he was of Italian origin, though his birthplace is unclear; ...

When in the late spring of 1497, John Cabot, middle-aged Italian navigator, hired out to England's Henry VII and sailed westward from Bristol, his destination was Asia, in particular Mecca, ...

John Cabot - or Giovanni ... In May 1497, with the support of ... Cabot sailed west from Bristol on the 70-feet long Matthew with a crew of 18, hoping to find a route to Asia. ...

In 1497, the first recorded sighting of North America by a European took place as explorer John Cabot spotted land, probably in present-day Canada.

John Cabot - also known as Zuan Caboto or Giovanni Chabotte due to his Venetian birth - made two voyages, one in the summer of 1496, one in 1497. On the second journey, he landed in Newfoundland.

An investigation worthy of a Dan Brown novel has shed new light on the voyages of John Cabot,‭ ‬the Italian navigator and explorer, revealing that he may have‭ ‬had‭ ‬knowledge of ...

The Matthew replica was built in the 1990s to commemorate the 500th anniversary of explorer John Cabot's voyage of discovery to Newfoundland in 1497. To mark the occasion, the ship repeated Cabot's ...

"The Departure of John and Sebastian Cabot from Bristol on their First Voyage of Discovery in 1497," as painted in 1906 by Ernest Board. Bristol's City Museum and Art Gallery May 3, 2012, 9:19 PM ...

On June 24, 1497, explorer John Cabot sighted land between Halifax and southern Labrador. (It was the first recorded landing on the North American mainland.)In 1763 Empress Josephine, wife of ...