Giovanni Caboto ( John Cabot ) reportedly visited the island in 1497 to become the first Renaissance European explorer to visit present-day Canada.

File: Cabotslanding. jpg | Cabot's Landing, Victoria County, commemorating the " first land seen " by explorer John Cabot in 1497

Both Giovanni Caboto ( John Cabot ) and Giovanni da Verrazzano are reported to have sailed in or near Maritime waters during their voyages of discovery for England and France respectively.

* The American Impressionists, including Mary Cassatt, William Merritt Chase, Frederick Carl Frieseke, Childe Hassam, Willard Metcalf, Lilla Cabot Perry, Theodore Robinson, Edmund Charles Tarbell, John Henry Twachtman, and J. Alden Weir.

* 1497 – John Cabot lands in North America at Newfoundland leading the first European exploration of the region since the Vikings.

John Stevens Cabot Abbott ( September 19, 1805 – June 17, 1877 ), an American historian, pastor, and pedagogical writer, was born in Brunswick, Maine to Jacob and Betsey Abbott.

John Stevens Cabot Abbott died at Fair Haven, Connecticut.

* Works by John Stevens Cabot Abbott at Internet Archive

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Abbott soon abandoned the legal profession, however, and after studying theology with his uncle, John Stevens Cabot Abbott, was ordained a minister of the Congregational Church in 1860.

Examples of such colleges are Bishop's University in Canada, St. Thomas University in Fredericton, Canada, John Cabot University in Rome, Italy, European College of Liberal Arts in Germany, University College Utrecht in the Netherlands, Foundation for Liberal and Management Education in Pune, India, Campion College in Sydney, Australia and Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane, Morocco.

* 1497 – John Cabot sets sail from Bristol, England, on his ship looking for a route to the west ( other documents give a May 2 date ).

* Matthew ( ship ), the ship sailed by John Cabot in 1497 from Bristol to North America

In 1903, Amundsen led the first expedition to successfully traverse Canada's Northwest Passage between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans ( something explorers had been attempting since the days of Christopher Columbus, John Cabot, Jacques Cartier, and Henry Hudson ), with six others in a 45-ton fishing vessel, Gjøa.

Reed was a member of the social circle that included intellectuals and politicians Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge, Theodore Roosevelt, Henry Adams, John Hay and Mark Twain.

* John Cabot ( – 1499 ) – Italian explorer for England.

** Richard Amerike, English merchant and patron of John Cabot ( b. 1445 )

** John Cabot leaves Bristol on an expedition, never to be seen again.

** John Cabot, Italian explorer ( b. c. 1450 )

* May 20 – John Cabot sets sail from Bristol on his ship the Matthew, looking for a route to the west ( some sources give a May 2 date ).

* June 24 – John Cabot lands in North America ( near present day Bonavista, Newfoundland ).

* 1878 – John Corry Wilson Daly, Canadian politician ( b. 1796 )

* 1996 – John McSherry, American baseball umpire ( b. 1944 )

* 2010 – John Forsythe, American actor ( b. 1918 )

After 1890 came philosopher Josiah Royce ( 1855 – 1916 ), botanist Liberty Hyde Bailey ( 1858 – 1954 ), the Southern Agrarians of the 1920s and 1930s, novelist John Steinbeck ( 1902 – 1968 ), historian A. Whitney Griswold ( 1906 – 1963 ), environmentalist Aldo Leopold ( 1887 – 1948 ), Ralph Borsodi ( 1886 – 1977 ), and present-day authors Wendell Berry ( b. 1934 ), Gene Logsdon ( b. 1932 ), Paul Thompson, and Allan C. Carlson ( b. 1949 ).

* 2007 – John Gardner, English author ( b. 1926 )

* 2012 – John Berry, English motorcycle racing promoter and manager ( b. 1944 )

* 1925 – John Singer Sargent, American artist ( b. 1856 )

* 1831 – John Abernethy, English surgeon ( b. 1764 )

* 1839 – Sir John St Aubyn, 5th Baronet, English politician ( b. 1758 )

* 1694 – John George IV, Elector of Saxony ( b. 1668 )

* 1695 – John Trenchard, English statesman ( b. 1640 )

* 1915 – John Labatt, Canadian businessman and brewer ( b. 1838 )

* 1998 – John Bassett, Canadian publisher ( b. 1915 )

* 2006 – Julia Thorne, American writer, ex-wife of John Kerry ( b. 1944 )

* 1946 – John Maynard Keynes, English economist ( b. 1883 )

* 2009 – John Michell, English writer ( b. 1933 )

* 1871 – Prince Alexander John of Wales ( b. 1871 )

* 1949 – John Gourlay, Canadian football player ( b. 1872 )

* 2002 – John Agar, American actor ( b. 1921 )

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* Alastair John Lyndhurst Bruce, 5th Baron Aberdare ( b. 1947 )

The marriage produced eight children: Geraldine Leigh ( b. 1944 ), Michael John ( b. 1946 ), Josephine Hannah ( b. 1949 ), Victoria ( b. 1951 ), Eugene Anthony ( b. 1953 ), Jane Cecil ( b. 1957 ), Annette Emily ( b. 1959 ), and Christopher James ( b. 1962 ).