When was Britain's first contact with North America?

Question

FIRST CONTACT. Can you name any explorers?

Spain has christopher columbus, so what are some names of british explorers that came into contact

Answer 1

Around the year 3.

Answer 2

John Cabot, in 1497. He explored what is now Newfoundland.

Sir Humphrey Gilbert, Sir Walter Raleigh, somewhere around 1584, if I remember right.

These were the first Englishmen on the North American continent.

Answer 3

Henry Hudson sometime around 1600.  Frobisher maybe a little earlier...1580's or so.

The Italians and the French were also poking around about that time.