Year: | 1497, June 24 | ||
Short description: | Cabot claims Newfoundland as British territory | ||
Medium description: | John Cabot (Giovanni Caboto) makes landfall at what is assumed to be Newfoundland. [Allen makes no reference to claiming of a British territory but does say that Cabot was granted "letters of patent granted by King Henry VII." June 24 given as date of landfall (p. 507) in letter by John Day ("apparently an alias for Hugh Say")] | ||
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