Who were the first european to reach the americas and when did they arrive?
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Who were the first Europeans to reach the Americas?
Norsemen
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When did the first Europeans arrive in the Americas?
986
Timeline of the European colonization of North America
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline%20of%20the%20European%20colonization%20of%20North%20America
986: Norsemen settle Greenland and Bjarni Herjólfsson sights coast of North America, but doesn't land (see also Norse colonization of the Americas).
c. 1000: Norse settle briefly in L'Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland
Timeline of the European colonization of North America
L'Anse aux Meadows (/ˈlænsi ˈmɛdoʊz/) is an archaeological site of a Norse settlement dating to c. 1000 on the northernmost tip of the island of Newfoundland in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador.
L'Anse aux Meadows
Norsemen were the first Europeans to reach the Americas, sighting the coast in 986. By 1000 A.D. there was a short lived Norse settlement on the northernmost tip of the island of Newfoundland in present day Canada.