Amerigo Vespucci
9 March 1454 – 22 February 1512
Florentine explorer and navigator who argued that the newly found lands across the Atlantic were a separate continent, later named America after him.
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Born in Florence
9 March 1454
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Sailed on a Spanish expedition to the northern coast of South America
1499 – 1500
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Explored the Brazilian coast on a Portuguese voyage and concluded it was a new continent
1501 – 1502
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Waldseemüller's world map labeled the new continent America in his honor
1507
The 1507 map applied a Latinized form of his first name to the lands he had described.
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Appointed pilot major of Spain
1508
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Died in Seville, Spain
22 February 1512
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