Monday
- 1535 - Jacques Cartier travels up the St. Lawrence River to Quebec and Montreal.
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- 1539 - Fray Marcos de Niza searches for the Seven Cities of Gold and wanders over New Mexico.
Wednesday
1539-41 - Hernando de Soto explores Florida, Georgia, and Alabama, and becomes the first European to cross the Mississippi River.
1540-42 - Francisco Vásquez de Coronado explores the Gila River,
the Rio Grande, and the Colorado River. He reaches as far north as
Kansas before returning to Mexico City. He too searches for the
legendary Seven Cities of Gold.
Friday
1542 - Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo sails up the California Coast and claims it for Spain.
1543 - Followers of Hernando De Soto sail from the Mississippi River to Mexico.
Bartolome Ferrelo continues sailing north up California and reaches what is probably present day Oregon.
Bartolome Ferrelo continues sailing north up California and reaches what is probably present day Oregon.
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