• John Cabot, also known as Giovanni Caboto, was an Italian explorer who made significant contributions to the Age of Exploration during the late 15th century.
  • Cabot is known today as Giovanni Caboto in Italian, Zuan Caboto in Venetian, Jean Cabot in French, and John Cabot in English.
  • John Cabot University combines the best qualities of an American liberal arts college with the history and cultural heritage of Rome, Italy.
  • John Cabot, navigator and explorer who by his voyages in 1497 and 1498 helped lay the groundwork for the later British claim to Canada.
  • John Cabot (1450-1498) was an Italian explorer who was the first European person to discover accidentally when he was an attempt to find a direct route to Asia.
  • John Cabot was an Italian explorer who became famous for his expeditions to North America in the latter half of the 15th century.
  • As a result, they set their eyes on a westward passage to the Orient. John Cabot used maps that the Venetian looted from Constantinople in 1202.
  • On second voyage in 1498, lost at sea. Henry VII not interested in follow up under son Sebastian Cabot. Sources. Robert A. McCaughey. Images. John Cabot.
  • John Cabot sailed from Bristol, England, he crossed the North Atlantic and reached the coast of America north of Nova Scotia.
  • John Cabot Facts: Early Life. He may have been born slightly earlier than 1450, which is the approximate date most commonly given for his birth.