The first documented European to arrive in North America after the Norse was ... his name was anglicized to John Cabot. King Henry VII of England authorized Cabot to "seek out, discover and ...

In 1497 Italian explorer John Cabot was one of the first modern Europeans to discover North America. While voyaging in search of Asia he instead found a new land and called it... Newfoundland ...

The 15th-century explorer John Cabot was born in Italy but sailed under the flag of England, commanding what were thought to be the first European voyages to North America since the Vikings.

and the English claim to North America. What is less well known is that Cabot’s arrival in London, and his every move afterwards, was being reported to Castile by agents of Columbus, who was ...

Five hundred years before Columbus "discovered" America, Leif Ericson and ... after Columbus landed in the West Indies, John Cabot, an Italian sailor in the employ of King Henry Vii of England, sailed ...