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Italian navigator and explorer (c. 1450 – c. 1500)

This article is about the 15th century explorer. For other uses, see John Cabot (disambiguation).

John Cabot (Italian: Giovanni Caboto[dʒoˈvannikaˈbɔːto]; c.

1450 – c.

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1499)^[2] was an Italian^[2][3]navigator and explorer. His 1497 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.

To mark the celebration of the 500th 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 Euro