<Li> c. 1450: Norse colony in Greenland dies out . </Li> <Li> 1473: João Vaz Corte - Real perhaps reaches Newfoundland; writes about the "Land of Cod fish" in his journal . </Li> <Ul> <Li> 1492: Columbus reaches The Bahamas, Cuba and Hispaniola . </Li> <Li> 1492: the colony of La Isabela is established on the island of Hispaniola . </Li> <Li> 1496: Santo Domingo, the first European permanent settlement is built . </Li> <Li> 1497: John Cabot reached Newfoundland . </Li> <Li> 1498: in his third voyage, Columbus reaches what is now Venezuela and Trinidad and Tobago </Li> <Li> 1498: La Isabela is abandoned by the Spanish . </Li> <Li> 1499: João Fernandes Lavrador maps Labrador and Newfoundland </Li> </Ul> <Li> 1492: Columbus reaches The Bahamas, Cuba and Hispaniola . </Li>

First permanent european settlement in the new world