John Cabot The first documented European to arrive in North America after the Norse was Giovanni Caboto. ... King Henry VII of England authorized Cabot to "seek out, ...

The Venetian explorer John Cabot sailed from the English port of Bristol in 1497 and again in 1498. Finally, in 1499, Weston directed a British-led expedition, with the king's support, the letter ...

Cabot led a second, larger, expedition the following year to explore the new land, with support from King Henry VII, but a third expedition undertaken by Weston in 1499 with the support of the ...

Impressed by Cabot, the Bristolians arranged an audience with King Henry VII in London, and on 5 March 1496, Cabot secured letters patent (a letter of authority to make a voyage and claim lands on ...

On this day: On June 24, significant historical events include Henry VIII's coronation as King of England in 1509, ... In 1497, John Cabot, an Italian explorer sailing for England, ...

Take John Cabot, an explorer under the reign of King Henry VII, whose voyages took him to the coast of Canada. And after him, Walter Raleigh, a favourite explorer of Elizabeth I, ...

Farther north, Cabot became the first European since Leif Ericson and the Vikings to land on North American soil when he made three voyages ‬for England's Henry VII between the summers of ...

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.

Known as a half groat, the coin dates to the reign of England’s first Tudor king, Henry VII, ... coin was minted around the time John Cabot arrived in England in 1495,” Gilbert tells CBC News.