John Cabot
Italian navigator and explorer (c. 1450 – c. 1499) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
John Cabot (Italian: Giovanni Caboto, (1449 – 1499) was an Italian navigator and explorer.[1] In 1497, sailing westward from England in his ship Matthew, he landed in what he thought was Asia.[1] In fact he came to North America, in what is now eastern Canada, which he claimed for King Henry VII.[2] he landed in what is now known as Bonavista, Newfoundland. A town in the most eastern province of Canada. He died in England in 1499.[3]