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John Cabot
Italian navigator and explorer (c. – c. )
This article is about the 15th century explorer.
John cabot discoveries
For other uses, see John Cabot (disambiguation).
John Cabot (Italian: Giovanni Caboto[dʒoˈvannikaˈbɔːto]; c. – c. )[2] was an Italian[2][3]navigator and explorer.
His voyage to the coast of North America under the commission of Henry VII, King of England is the earliest known European exploration of coastal North America since the Norse visits to Vinland in the eleventh century.
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To mark the celebration of the th anniversary of Cabot's expedition, both the Canadian and British governments declared Cape Bonavista, Newfoundland as representing Cabot's first landing site. However, alternative locations have also been proposed.
Name and origins
Cabot is known today as Giovanni Caboto in Italian, Zuan Caboto in Venetian, Jean Cabot in French, and John Cabot in English. This resulted from a once-ubiquitous European tradition of nativizi