John+Cabot

John Cabot

 * Purpose: **

We will be using our research skills to information about our assigned explorers. Together, we #|will create a virtual social network]] that these brave p findeople in history can be part of. This is our very own historical social network called Historybook. Your history page will contain biographical information and images about your explorer. Also, you will be able to use special tools and resources if you would like to make your page even more exciting.


 * Date of explorer’s birth and death (if known). **

John Cabot was born in 1450 and died in 1499

 * What country was the explorer born in? **

John Cabot was born in Italy

 * What country did the explorer sail on for (on behalf of)? **


 * When did they sail? Pick the 1 or 2 most significant dates. **

He sailed in 1484

 * What was the reason for their voyage? **

The reason for John Cabot's voyage was that he wanted to get spices and gold
**Where did they actually land?**

#|John cabot actually landed in newfoundland.

 * Did you find a map of their voyage or voyages? **

[[image:http://people.bu.edu/wwildman/ben/mass/images/cabot_map.gif width="110"]]This is a map of John Cabot's voyage.

 * Any other information that you want to add? Add it here. **

Cabot was the second European to find North America (after Christopher Columbus)

 * Paste any #|URL information for any images that you would like to use. Save them to the "T:/Dugger/1213/historybook/yourexplorername" folder.**

http://people.bu.edu/wwildman/ben/mass/images/cabot.jpg
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 * What will your status be? Make sure it is something related to your explorer and what he did, lived through, or remembered for.**


 * List 3-4 things that you can put in the "About" section. This would be information like when and where they were born, their "likes".**

He liked to play with his kids.
|| ** 1461 ** || John Cabot moved to Venice with his family. John Cabot helped with the family spice trading business [|Education] : John Cabot was taught cartography, navigation, astronomy, mathematics and seamanship
 * Remember you must also fill in 1-3 years on the timeline to the right of the cover image. What years have you chosen and why?**
 * || ** 1450 ** || John Cabot was born as Giovanni Caboto in the Italian port of Genoa ||

|| || ** 1474 ** || John Cabot married a girl called Mattea. John and Mattea Cabot had three sons called Ludovico, Sebastiano, and Sancto || || ** 1476 ** || :Obtained Venetian citizenship and was naturalized on 28 March, 1476 || || ** 1490's ** || Moved to the sea port of Bristol in England || || ** 1496 ** || March 5: The English King Henry VII granted John Cabot the right to 'seek islands and countries of the heathen towards the west, east, and north' sailing under the English flag || || ** 1497 ** || May 2: John Cabot boards his ship, the Matthew, to explore the lands across the Atlantic, hoping to find a north west passage to the Indies and China. June 9: John Cabot reaches the New World - at either Cape Breton Island or Labrador

26 June: Begins his return voyage August 6: John Cabot and his crew of the Matthew land in Bristol and achieved great fame and glory. He was given [|a gift] of £10 for having "found the new isle" and King Henry VII also granted him a pension of £20 a year

|| || ** 1498 ** || February 3: John Cabot granted another patent to undertake a second expedition - to "take at his pleasure VI englisshe shippes and theym convey and lede to the londe and iles of late founde by the seid John." John Cabot assembles a small fleet of 5 ships and 300 men

July 25: The fleet headed north then sailed along the east coast of America past Newfoundland. One of the ships had to go to an Irish port because of damage. The remaining four ships of the John Cabot fleet [|continue] their journey across the Atlantic

Cabot reaches the east coast of Greenland which he named Labrador's Land

June 11: The journey was made difficult by icebergs and the cold. The crews mutinied and refused to proceed farther North so John Cabot had no alternative but to turn South along the coast of Greenland. He crossed the Davis Strait on to Baffin Land on to Newfoundland and followed the coast Nova Scotia and New England

At this point the John Cabot ships sailed for England || || ** 1499 ** || The death of John Cabot

There is no accurate record of the date or reason for the death of John Cabot but his pension continued to be paid unti1 1499. It seems reasonable to assume that John Cabot reached England with his returning fleet || 