John Cabot

-1450- 1500
-After 50 days of his first voyage(1496), he reached the east coast of North America.
-When he sailed back to England, King Henry VII rewarded him with 20 Euros.
-During his first trip, he was forced to go back to England because of the shortage
of food and the weather.
-Discovered the mainland of North America
"Sayled in this tracte so farre towarde the weste, that the Ilande of Cuba bee on my lefte hande, in manere
in the same degree of longitude."