John Cabot (active 1471-1498), born Giovanni Caboto, was an Italian explorer in English service. He was once thought to have been the first to bear the English flag across the Atlantic, but recent evidence shows that another voyage preceded his. John...

John Cabot Born c. 1450, Genoa, ltaly Died c. 1499, Possibly in Newfoundland Giovanni Caboto (John Cabot) was born in the Italian port city of Genoa. In 1476 he was granted citizenship in Venice, which at the time was the major trading center for all...

c. 1450-c. 1500 Italian navigator, also known as Giovanni Caboto, who was the first European to discover the North American mainland. In 1497 he set out with his three sons on a voyage for Henry VII of England to seek a western route to Asia. On June...

In 1497 John Cabot (1450?-1499?), an Italian explorer sailing for England, reached land somewhere in the northern part of North America. Although unsuccessful in his attempt to reach Asia, his landfall gave England a territorial claim in the New World...

John Cabot (Giovanni Caboto; fl. 1450–1498) was a Venetian navigator and explorer commonly credited as one of the first early modern Europeans to land on the North American mainland, aboard the Matthew in 1497. Giovanni Caboto left his birthplace...

Government attorneys have asked a top court to throw out indictments against 26 Americans _ all but one of them believed to be CIA agents _ accused of kidnapping an Egyptian terrorist suspect in a case that has strained Italian-U.S. relations.The state's lawyers argue that...