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John Cabot was likely born in Italy around 1450 and became a citizen of Venice. In the 1490s, he moved to England to escape debt. In 1497, Cabot sailed from Bristol and landed in eastern Canada, becoming the first European to explore the North American mainland since the Vikings. He claimed the land for England but thought he had found Asia. Cabot quickly returned to England and was welcomed as a hero, though his second voyage in 1498 went too far north along Greenland and had to turn back without discoveri

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