* 1786 – John Franklin, English navy officer and explorer ( d. 1847 )

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

When English explorer John Davis, commander of the Desire, one of the ships belonging to Thomas Cavendish's second expedition to the New World, separated from Cavendish off the coast of what is now southern Argentina, he decided to make for the Strait of Magellan in order to find Cavendish.

The Great Rift Valley is a name given in the late 19th century by British explorer John Walter Gregory to the continuous geographic trench, approximately in length, that runs from northern Syria in Southwest Asia to central Mozambique in South East Africa.

* 1777 – John Ross, English naval officer and explorer ( d. 1856 )

* 1866 – John McDouall Stuart, Australian explorer ( b. 1815 )

From 1795 Canadians from Brandon House were trading with the Mandans and in 1796 John Evans ( explorer ) reached the Mandans from the Mississippi.

Other expeditions by Spanish and English ships followed, with the islands ' current name stemming from British explorer John Marshall.

* 1834 – John Wesley Powell, American explorer and environmentalist ( d. 1902 )

* 1818 – John Ainsworth Horrocks, English explorer of South Australia ( d. 1846 )

One of their first visits was in 1598 when an expedition of two vessels piloted by John Davis ( English explorer ) attacked a large Spanish Caravel, only to be beaten off and forced to retreat to Ascension Island for repairs.

* 1846 – John Ainsworth Horrocks, English explorer ( b. 1818 )

* 1813 – John Rae, Scottish physician and explorer ( d. 1893 )

* 1815 – John McDouall Stuart, Australian explorer ( d. 1866 )

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

* March 22 – John Ainsworth Horrocks, English-born explorer of South Australia ( d. 1846 )

* November 30 – Edward John Eyre, English explorer ( born 1815 )

* August 5 – Edward John Eyre, explorer ( d. 1901 )

* January 21 – John C. Frémont, American soldier and explorer ( d. 1890 )

* June 22 – The English explorer and sea captain Henry Hudson, his teenage son John, and six crewmen are set adrift in or near Hudson Bay after a mutiny on his ship Discovery.

* September 23 – John Ainsworth Horrocks, English-born explorer of South Australia ( b. 1818 )

* December 29 – John Davis, English explorer ( b. 1550 )

* March 24 – John Wesley Powell, American explorer ( d. 1902 )

* August 9 – English explorer John Davis, commander of the Desire, probably discovers the Falkland Islands.

Prudhoe Bay was named in 1826 by British explorer Sir John Franklin after his classmate Captain Algernon Percy, Baron Prudhoe.

Mount Erebus was discovered on January 27, 1841 ( and observed to be in eruption ) by polar explorer Sir James Clark Ross who named it Mount Erebus after his ships, Erebus and Terror ( which were also used by Sir John Franklin on his disastrous Arctic expedition ).

* Sir John Franklin ( 1786-1847 ) – British explorer, surveyed the coast of the Polar Sea between 1819 and 1824 ; died on his final Arctic expedition in 1845.

The island was visited in 1867 and 1868 by the American explorer Charles Francis Hall in his search for survivors of the lost Franklin Expedition.

For eight years, Beaufort directed the Arctic Council during its search for the explorer, Sir John Franklin, lost in his last polar voyage to search for the legendary Northwest Passage.

Her mother Sarah, who died aged 28 when Emily was three, was a member of the Franklin family, sister of Sir John Franklin, an explorer, and Sir Willingham Franklin.

These expeditions were a response partly due to the popular search for the missing British explorer John Franklin, and partly to search for the elusive Northwest Passage and / or reach the North Pole.

* Sir John Franklin FRGS, ( 15 April 1786 – 11 June 1847 ), English sea captain and Arctic explorer was also educated at King Edward VI Grammar School.

The bird was named after the Arctic explorer Sir John Franklin.

* January 25, 1890-William Kennedy an explorer involved in the search for Sir John Franklin

Franklin township named for Arctic explorer Admiral Sir John Franklin.

Franklin's ground squirrel was first described by Joseph Sabine in 1822, who named it in honor of the British Arctic explorer Sir John Franklin.

* June 11-John Franklin, naval officer, Arctic explorer, and author ( born 1786 )

* April 16-John Franklin, naval officer, Arctic explorer, and author ( d. 1847 )

* 1840: Sir John Franklin establishes Ross Bank meteorological observatory site, named after explorer, near present Government House site

The first European to sight the island was explorer Sir John Franklin, who named it on 15 July 1826.

Northumberland was a good friend of Arctic explorer Sir John Franklin, and Prudhoe Bay, on the north coast of Alaska, was named after him.

It is said that Lady Jane Franklin, the wife of the Arctic explorer Sir John Franklin landed on the Out Stack, after Dr John Rae's reports of the fate of the Franklin expedition had reached Stromness, Orkney, in 1853 / 54 where she lived in those days.