Late Middle Ages · North America · Exploration
1497
Cabot Reaches North America
June 24, 1497
John Cabot, a Genoese sailing from Bristol under English letters patent, landed somewhere on the Newfoundland coast or Cape Breton. He claimed the land for Henry VII, saw cod so thick his crew scooped them up in baskets, and returned to become, briefly, an English celebrity. A year later he sailed west again and vanished.
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Also in 1497 (3 other events on record)
- Vasco da Gama Departs Lisbon · Europe · Exploration
- Bonfire of the Vanities · Europe · Religion
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Era
Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.
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