Show americas discovery america in all probability was discovered a great many times before european history made any definite record of the fact A norse sea captain one was blown out of his course while taking a load of colonists to greenland in A D and sighted the coasts of newfoundland and labrador he did not land but his story moved leif erickson to investigate and leif in 1001 A D visited nova scotia ney new england and probably lands farther south but none of the discoveries really took until that of columbus october 12 1492 |