English ships and seamen 1490-1600
John Cabot's voyages 1497-1798
Voyages to the Labrador and Newfoundland 1500-1536
The French maritime background 1453-1590
The voyages of Verrazzano 1524-1528
Cartier's first voyage 1534
Cartier's second voyage 1535-1536
The search for Saguenay 1538-1543
Queen Elizabeth and her master mariners
Frobisher's second and third voyages 1577-1578
The northern voyages of John Davis 1585-1587
His "enterprise of the Indies"
Columbus's first voyage of discovery, August-October 1492
The greater Antilles, 12 October 1492-15 March 1493
Triumph and tragedy, March 1493-April 1494
Jamaica, Cuba, and rebellion, 1494-1496
Third voyage, mainland discovered, 1498-1500
Columbus's fourth voyage, 1502-1504
Armada de Molucca, 1517-1519
Magellan's voyage to the strait, 1519-1520
"The strait that shall forever bear his name," October-November 1520
Philippines and Spice Islands
Drake's voyage of circumnavigation, 1577-1579
Drake in California, 1579.