After John Cabot's 1497 voyage to North America ... This official voyage may not have been Cartier's first excursion across the Atlantic -- it's possible that he had gone to Newfoundland as ...

In 1497 Italian explorer John Cabot was one of the first modern Europeans to discover North America. While voyaging in search of Asia he instead found a new land and called it... Newfoundland ...

The 15th-century explorer John Cabot was born in Italy but sailed under the flag of England, commanding what were thought to be the first European voyages to North America since the Vikings.