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 ...