John Cabot
(1450-1498)
Italian navigator and explorer (c. 1450 - c. 1500)
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John Cabot (Italian: Giovanni Caboto c. 1450 – c. 1500) was an Italian navigator and explorer. His 1497 voyage to the coast of North America under the commission of Henry VII of England is the earliest-known European exploration of coastal North America since the Norse visits to Vinland in the eleventh century. To mark the celebration of the 500th anniversary of Cabot's expedition, both the Canadian and British governments elected Cape Bonavista, Newfoundland as representing Cabot's first landing site. However, alternative locations have also been proposed.
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1450 Gaeta, Kingdom of Naples or Castiglione Chiavarese, Republic of Genoa (disputed)
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1498 (aged 47)
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