biography
| name: |
Cabot, John
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Ital Giovanni Caboto
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pronunciation:
[kabot]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1425–c.1500)
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| biography:
| Navigator, born possibly in Genoa, NW Italy, who discovered the mainland of North America. Little is known about his life. About 1490 he settled in Bristol, and set sail in 1497 with two ships, accompanied by his three sons, sighting Cape Breton I and Nova Scotia on 24 June. He set out on another voyage in 1498, and died at sea. |
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