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 ).

At age 23, Drake made his first voyage to the New World, sailing with his second cousin, Sir John Hawkins, on one of a fleet of ships owned by his relatives, the Hawkins family of Plymouth.

* The English poet John Milton popularizes the Chinese sailing carriage in a famous poem ; this peculiar Chinese invention was first written of in the West by Abraham Ortelius in his atlas of 1584.

John II set a new objective for his captains: to find a sea route to Asia by sailing around the African continent.

* Weapons of Choice by John Birmingham ( 2004 ): On January 15, UNPROFLEET, the fleet sailing under the command of Admiral Phillip Kolhammer off the coast of East Timor, disappears, sent back in time to June 2, 1942.

In 1497, sailing from the north on behalf of England, John Cabot landed on the North American coast, and a year later, Columbus's third voyage reached the South American coast.

In 1485, Christopher Columbus unsuccessfully tried to persuade King John II of Portugal ( João II ) to sponsor an expedition to Asia, meant to be reached by sailing westwards, across the Atlantic Ocean.

In 1661 John Evelyn recorded a competition between Katherine and Anne, two large royal sailing vessels both of English design, "… the wager 100-1 ; the race from Greenwich to Gravesend and back .” One of the vessels was owned, and sometimes steered, by Charles II, the King of England.

Following Hayley's rise to fame in Pollyanna ( 1960 ) and the 1961 family comedy The Parent Trap, John and Hayley again starred together, in the 1965 teen sailing adventure The Truth About Spring, the 1964 drama The Chalk Garden ( with Deborah Kerr in the lead role ), and the 1966 comedy-drama The Family Way, in which John plays an insecure, overbearing father and Hayley plays his son's newlywed wife.

Hosted by John Stephenson and narrated by ship's navigator Paul Chow, the program highlighted the adventures and challenges of the junk's sailing across the Pacific, as well as some humorous moments aboard ship .< ref >

Beginning in 1497, with the arrival of the Italian John Cabot, sailing under the auspices of the English crown, waves of European explorers and settlers had more contacts.

John Fryer, Captain Bligh's sailing master on HMS Bounty was born at Wells, and is buried in the churchyard.

The John Lewis Partnership has a very extensive programme of social activities for its partners, including two large country estates with parklands, playing fields and tennis courts ; a golf club ; a sailing club with five cruising yachts and two country hotels offering holiday accommodation for the partners.

The 45 remaining colonists also left, sailing home in the Mary and John and Virginia.

* After landing at Nootka Sound in August, former British naval captain John Meares arrives from Macao ( sailing under the Portuguese flag ) with 70 Chinese carpenters.

The Winthrop Fleet was a group of eleven sailing ships under the leadership of John Winthrop that carried approximately 700 Puritans plus livestock and provisions from England to New England over the summer of 1630.

The first European to explore the Swansea area was Captain John Henry Cox sailing from England to Sydney.

There is no regular access to the island, however, the Pentland Ferries sailing from Gills Bay, near John o ' Groats, to St Margaret's Hope usually passes close to the island, dependent on the tidal direction at the time.

Permanent settlement on Lord Howe was established in June 1834 when the British whaling barque Caroline, sailing from New Zealand and commanded by Captain John Blinkenthorpe, landed at what is now known as Blinky Beach.

Captain John Black was sailing in the brig Harbinger, after which the dangerous Harbinger Rocks off the island's north-west coast are named.

Among the dead are John Dieckman, an international champion flyfisher and caster ; retired Admiral Richard Lansing Conolly, USN, the president of Long Island University and a two-time Deputy Chief of Naval Operations ; W. Alton Jones, a multi-millionaire former president and chairman of Cities Service Company and close personal friend of former General of the Army and President of the United States Dwight D. Eisenhower ; Arnold Kirkeby, a millionaire realtor and former head of the Kirkeby chain of luxury hotels ; Louise Lindner Eastman, whose daughter Linda Eastman would later marry Paul McCartney of The Beatles ; Irving Rubine, producer of the film The Guns of Navarone ; Emelyn Whiton, a 1952 Olympic sailing gold medalist ; and the Broadway stage manager Bob Paschall.

John enjoys mountaineering, flying, sailing, bicycling, and music.

Edithvale beach is also famous as the home of John Bertrand, skipper of the Americas Cup winning Yacht Australia II, he learnt his seamanship skills at Chelsea Yacht Club sailing on the unpredictable Port Phillip Bay.

Cartoonist John T. McCutcheon joined the expedition while they were sailing from Naples to Africa.