John Cabot Project

Who Was John Cabot?

John Cabot was an Italian explorer who sailed for the British. He discovered Canada while trying to find a shorter route to Asia.

Early Life

1450-1495

• 1450 - Cabot was born in Genoa, Italy
• 1461 - Cabot and his family moved to Venice, where he soon learned how to sail from local seamen and merchants
• 1474 - Cabot got married
• 1476 - Cabot became a Venetian citizen
• 1476 - Cabot was believed to be a merchant in the spice trade
• 1495 - Cabot moved to Bristol where he started convincing the king to let him explore with his motivation from other explorers like Christopher Columbus

Family

• John Cabot's wife was named Mattea.
• They had 3 sons - Ludovico, Sancto, and Sebastiano
• Sebastiano later took after his father and became an explorer

Cabot's First Voyage

• Late 1495 - Cabot started convincing the British Crowd to investigate and claim land in the New World and that there was an easier route to Asia
• 1496 - Cabot was authorized by King Henry VII, to then go out on a voyage and in return bring back goods for sale for the british market
• 1497 - Cabot went off on a small ship called Matthew
• June 24, 1497 - Cabot arrived on the coast of North America
• 1497 - Cabot discovered Cape Discovery, Island of St. John, St. George's Cape, Trinity Islands and England's Cape
• 1497 - Cabot claimed the land for King Henry, but he placed both English and Venetian flags.
• 1497 - Cabot sailed back to Bristol, with good reports and happy folks

Cabot's Second Voyage

• Late 1497 - Cabot proposed the thought of a second expedition across the north Atlantic
• February 1498 - King Henry Vll sent letters that patened Cabot's second voyage
• May 1498 - Cabot sent off to Bristol with 200 men and 5 ships
• July 1498 - One ship was damaged and sent to Ireland
• By 1499 - Cabot claimed more land in Canada (East Coast) and found a shorter route to the northern Atlantic Ocean, which helped to establish the British Colonies
• 1499 - Cabot and his crew were lost at sea

Cabot's Death

• Cabot's was mostly controversial. The exact details are unknown.
• Historians believed that John died in 1499 or 1500
• His fate is a mystery as there were no remains found
• The last known time the British saw him was went he was set off on their voyage to North America in 1498
• Cabot and everyone on his two ships were never found
• They were believed to be lost at sea

Fun Facts

• Cabot was the second European after Columbus to find North America while searching for another route to Asia
• John Cabot was born with the name "Giovanni Caboto"
• Caboto means "coastal trader"
• John Cabot's son, Sebastiano Cabot was famous for searching for the Northwest passage across North America

How Did Cabot Affect the World?

Cabot had discovered various places on the northeast coast of North America, like Canada. He also discovered a faster way to the northeast coast of what is now the United States, which will come in handy colonizing the british colonies. However at the time they thought they made it to India.

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