Leif Erikson
970–1020* · Person
Icelandic explorer; first European known to have landed in continental North America (Vinland, c. 1000), 500 years before Columbus.
On these timelines: Age of Exploration, People, Master, Scandinavia, the Nordic World & the Viking Age, Canada
More from Age of Exploration
- Vasco da Gama reaches India (1498)
- Columbian Exchange begins (1492)
- Age of Exploration (1418)
- Zheng He (1371)
- Marco Polo's journey to China (1271)
- Columbian Exchange ends (1700)
- Christopher Columbus (1451)
- Diaz rounds the Cape of Good Hope (1488)
Around 970
- Reign of Alfred the Great (871)
- Norman Conquest of England (1066)
- Holy Roman Empire (962)
- Song dynasty (960)
- East–West Schism (1054)
- Holy Roman Empire founded (962)
- Christianisation of Kievan Rus' (988)
- Founding of the Capetian dynasty (987)
- Reign of William the Conqueror (1066)
- Battle of Hastings (1066)