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JOHN CABOT

John Cabot was an Italian navigator. He was born in 1450 at Genoa and died in 1498. He settled in Venice as a merchant and mariner, and moved to England in about 1490, settling at Bristol. In May 1497 he sailed from Bristol on a voyage of discovery under the authority of letters from the king, Henry VII. He discovered a region which he supposed to be the coast of China, returned to England with the news and received from the king the sum of ten pounds in reward. The next year he sailed again and explored the coast of North America, discovering Newfoundland and Nova Scotia before disappearing from history.
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