Cabot set a more northerly route then Columbus, settling into higher Atlantic currents. Four and a half weeks later he sighted land. On St. John's Day -- June 24, 1497 Cabot set into a bay and ...

In 1497 Italian explorer John Cabot was one of the first modern Europeans to discover North America. While voyaging in search of Asia he instead found a new land and called it... Newfoundland ...

John Cabot left Bristol in 1497 and landed 3,000 miles later in what is now North America Volunteers on the ship The Matthew of Bristol have been honoured with the Queen's Award for Voluntary Service.