Newfoundland (island)

island portion of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada

16 dated entries naming Newfoundland (island), drawn from 16 separate years between 1021 CE and 1982 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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11th century

1021Vikings known to be residing L'Anse aux Meadows on Newfoundland (island).source

15th century

1473Possible discovery of the island of "Bacalao" (possibly Newfoundland off North America) by Didrik Pining and João Vaz Corte-Real.source

16th century

1511Juan de Agramonte, a sailor from Spain, is thought possibly to have travelled to Newfoundland.source
1520October 21 (Feast of St. Ursula) – The islands of Saint Pierre and Miquelon are discovered by Portuguese explorer João Álvares Fagundes, off Newfoundland. He names them Islands of the 11,000 Virgins, in honour of Saint Ursula.source
1534May 10 – Jacques Cartier explores Newfoundland, while searching for the Northwest Passage.source
1578July 31 – According to some accounts, Englishman Martin Frobisher holds the first Thanksgiving celebration by Europeans in Canada, on Newfoundland, after he and his fleet encounter two ships that they feared had been lost. However, the celebration involves no feast and is limited to a sermon by the expedition's minister and Frobisher's men giving praise.source
1579June 17 – Francis Drake, during his circumnavigation of the world, lands in modern-day California, which he claims for Queen Elizabeth I. With an English claim here and in Newfoundland, it becomes the basis for English colonial charters which will claim all land from the Atlantic to the Pacific, from "sea to sea." Drake's claim is called Nova Albion (New England), and subsequent maps will show all lands north of New Spain and New Mexico under this name.source
1583August 5 – Sir Humphrey Gilbert, on the site of the modern-day city of St. John's, claims the island of Newfoundland on behalf of England, marking the beginning of the British Empire.source

17th century

1610July 5 – John Guy sets sail from Bristol, with 39 other colonists, for Newfoundland.source
1613March 27 – The first English child is born in what will become Canada at Cuper's Cove, Newfoundland to Nicholas Guy.source

19th century

1805October 23 – British troopship Aeneas is wrecked off Newfoundland with the loss of 340 lives.source
1816November 10 – The British troop transport Harpooner, returning from Quebec to Britain, is wrecked at Cape Pine on Newfoundland (island) with the loss of 208 of the 385 people on board.source

20th century

1919May 8–27 – United States Navy Curtiss flying boat NC-4, commanded by Albert Cushing Read, makes the first transatlantic flight, from Naval Air Station Rockaway to Lisbon via Trepassey, Newfoundland (departs May 16) and the Azores (arrives May 17). (On May 30–31 it flies on to Plymouth in England.)source
1928June 17 – 18 – Aviator Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to make a successful transatlantic flight, as a passenger in a Fokker F.VIIb/3m piloted by Wilmer Stultz, from Newfoundland to Wales.source
1959February 13 – TAT-2, AT&T's second transatlantic telephone cable goes into operation between Newfoundland and France.source
1982February 15 – The oil platform Ocean Ranger sinks during a storm off the coast of Newfoundland, killing all 84 rig workers aboard.source