Late Middle Ages · North America · Exploration
1498
Cabot's Second Voyage Lost
1498
John Cabot sailed from Bristol with five ships on a second North Atlantic voyage and was never reliably heard from again. Fragmentary reports suggest one ship returned; the others and Cabot himself likely perished. England's first attempted follow-up to Columbus ended in open-ocean silence. The disappearance ended England's first transatlantic exploration attempt and left the coast to Iberian claimants for another century.
In context
Also in 1498 (5 other events on record)
- Vasco da Gama Reaches Calicut · South Asia · Exploration
- Columbus's Third Voyage Sights South America · South America · Exploration
- Durer Publishes Apocalypse Woodcuts · Europe · Culture
- Savonarola Executed in Florence · Europe · Religion
- Louis XII Becomes King of France · Europe · Politics
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Era
Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.
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