exploration period of john cabot
John Cabot (Italian: Giovanni Caboto, Venetian: Zuan Chabotto; c. 1450 â c. 1500) was a Venetian navigator and explorer whose 1497 discovery of the coast of North America under the commission of Henry VII of England is commonly held to have been the first European exploration of the mainland of North America since the Norse visits to Vinland in the ...