Chronology of Voyages
                               of
                     Exploration, 1486-1522
                              from
        Frederick J. Pohl, "Amerigo Vespucci, Pilot Major
                           "pp.201-02
 
"Bartolomeu Dias" sailed in 1486; discovered the Cape of Good Hope in
	1487; returned to Lisbon in 1488.
"Christopher Columbus" (first voyage) sailed August 3, 1492; sighted
	land October 12, 1492; discovered islands in the West Indies,
	Cuba, Haiti; arrived in Lisbon March 4, 1493.
"Christopher Columbus" (second voyage) sailed September 25, 1493;
	discovered additional islands, including Jamaica; sent various
	reports home; returned June 11, 1496.
"John Cabot" sailed early May, 1497; reached land (Cape Breton
	Island?) June 24, 1497; returned to England about July 30, 1497.
"Christopher Columbus" (third voyage) sailed May 30, 1498; sighted
	Trinidad July 31; touched coast of South America August 2, 1498;
	report sent home autumn 1498.  Columbus was brought home in irons
	November, 1500.
"John and Sebastian Cabot "sailed early May, 1498; explored coast of
	North America, Labrador to Maryland ("latitude of Gibraltar")
	from end of July to autumn, 1498; returned to England late
	autumn, 1498.
"Vasco da Gama" sailed from Lisbon July 8, 1497; reached India; news
	brought to Lisbon July 10, 1499; Da Gama returned August 29,
	1499,
"Amerigo Vespucci" (Spanish voyage) sailed at same time as Hojeda from
	Cadiz May 18, 1499; landfall late in June, 1499, on coast of
	Brazil at about four degrees N.; explored three thousand miles of
	northeastern and northern coast of continent; returned to Cadiz
	in middle of June, 1500'  Hojeda who followed the coastline for
	about one-fourth of the distance Vespucci explored, returned in
	April, 1500.
"Peralonso Nino and Cristobal Guerra" sailed June, 1499; accomplished
	very little more than the third voyage of Columbus; returned
	April, 1500.
"Vicente Yanez Pinzon" sailed November 18, 1499; landfall at ten
	degrees S. on coast of Brazil January 20, 1500, and sailed
	northward to Brazilian elbow; returned July, 1500.
"Diego de Lepe" sailed December 18, 1499; landfall at four degrees S.
	on coast of Brazil February 14, 1500, and sailed northward;
	returned June, 1500.
"Rodrigo de Bastidas" explored the Gulf of Darien in 1500.
"Pedro Alvares Cabral" sailed from Lisbon March 9, 1500; landfall
	April 24, 1500, on coast of Brazil at eighteen degrees S. and
	sailed northward to 16x 17'S.  News reached Lisbon end of May,
	1500; Spain was informed by royal letter of July 29, 1501.
	Cabral returned in summer of 1501.
"Amerigo Vespucci" (Portuguese voyage) sailed from Lisbon May 13,
	1501; sighted coast of Brazil on or before August 15 at about
	five degrees S. and explored coast to fifty degrees S.; returned
	to Lisbon in June, 1502.
"Juan de la Cosa", in 1501, to Darien and Uraba; made other voyages in
	1505, 1507, and 1509, as much for commercial purposes as for
	exploration.
"Vicente Yanez Pinzon and Juan Diaz de Solis" sailed July 29, 1508;
	explored Honduras, Yucatan; returned November 14, 1509.
"Sebastian de Ocampo" circumnavigated Cuba, 1508.
"Juan Diaz de Solis" sailed in 1515; explored River Plata and was
	killed there.  News reached Spain in 1516.
"Ferdinand Magellan" sailed in 1519; discovered Strait of Megellan in
	October, 1520.  Remnant of his expedition after his death com-
	pleted circumnavigation of globe September 6, 1522.