DATES OF CHIEF EVENTS
| PAGE | DATE | |
| [4] | The oldest known Ships | B.C. 6000-5000 |
| [7] | Expedition to Punt | B.C. 1600 |
| [11] | Phoenician Expeditions | B.C. 700 |
| [19] | Neco's Fleet built | B.C. 613 |
| [23] | Anaximander, the Greek, invents Maps | B.C. 580 |
| [25] | Hecatæus writes the First Geography | B.C. 500 |
| [27] | Herodotus describes Egypt | B.C. 446 |
| [30] | Hanno sails down West Coast of Africa | B.C. 450 |
| [32] | Xenophon crosses Asia Minor | B.C. 401 |
| [38] | Alexander the Great finds India | B.C. 327 |
| [41] | Nearchus navigates the Indian Ocean | B.C. 326 |
| [45] | The Geography of Eratosthenes | B.C. 240-196 |
| [48] | Pytheas discovers the British Isles and Thule | B.C. 333 |
| [55] | Julius Cæsar explores France, Britain, Germany | B.C. 60-54 |
| [61] | Strabo's Geography | A.D. 18 |
| [68] | Agricola discovers the Highlands | A.D. 83 |
| [71] | Pliny's Geography | A.D. 170 |
| [74] | Ptolemy's Geography and Maps | A.D. 159 |
| [78] | The First Guide for Travellers | Fourth century |
| [83] | St. Patrick explores Ireland | 432-93 |
| [85] | St. Columba reaches the Orkney Isles | 563 |
| [85] | St. Brandon crosses the Atlantic | Sixth century |
| [90] | Willibald travels from Britain to Jerusalem | 721 |
| [92] | The Christian Topography of Cosmas | Sixth century |
| [94] | Naddod the Viking discovers Iceland | 861 |
| [95] | Erik the Red discovers Greenland | 985 |
| [95] | Lief discovers Newfoundland and North American Coast | 1000 |
| [97] | Othere navigates the Baltic Sea | 890 |
| [99] | Mohammedan Travellers to China | 831 |
| [103] | Edrisi's Geography | 1154 |
| [108] | Benjamin of Tudela visits India and China | 1160 |
| [110] | Carpini visits the Great Khan | 1246 |
| [112] | William de Rubruquis also visits the Great Khan | 1255 |
| [115] | Maffio and Niccolo Polo reach China | 1260-71 |
| [117] | Marco Polo's Travels | 1271-95 |
| [126] | Ibn Batuta's Travels through Asia | 1324-48 |
| [126] | Sir John Mandeville's Travels published | 1372 |
| [134] | Hereford Mappa Mundi appeared | 1280 |
| [137] | Anglo-Saxon Map of the World | 990 |
| [138] | Prince Henry of Portugal encourages Exploration | 1418 |
| [140] | Zarco and Vaz reach Porto Santo | 1419 |
| [140] | Zarco discovers Madeira | 1420 |
| [142] | Nuno Tristam discovers Cape Blanco | 1441 |
| [143] | Gonsalves discovers Cape Verde Islands | 1442 |
| [144] | Cadamosto reaches the Senegal River and Cape Verde | 1455 |
| [145] | Diego Gomez reaches the Gambia River | 1458 |
| [148] | Death of Prince Henry | 1460 |
| [149] | Fra Mauro's Map | 1457 |
| [150] | Diego Cam discovers the Congo | 1484 |
| [152] | Bartholomew Diaz rounds the Cape of Good Hope | 1486 |
| [153] | Martin Behaim makes his Globe | 1492 |
| [160] | Christopher Columbus discovers West Indies | 1492 |
| [166] | Columbus finds Jamaica and other Islands | 1493 |
| [167] | Columbus finds Trinidad | 1498 |
| [169] | Death of Columbus | 1504 |
| [170] | Amerigo Vespucci finds Trinidad and Venezuela | 1499 |
| [175] | First Map of the New World by Juan de la Cosa | 1500 |
| [177] | Vasco da Gama reaches India by the Cape | 1497 |
| [181] | Pedro Cabral discovers Brazil | 1500 |
| [188] | Francisco Serrano reaches the Spice Islands | 1511 |
| [192] | Balboa sees the Pacific Ocean | 1513 |
| [203] | The First Circumnavigation of the World | 1519-22 |
| [206] | Cordova discovers Yucatan | 1517 |
| [206] | Juan Grijalva discovers Mexico | 1518 |
| [209] | Cortes conquers Mexico | 1519 |
| [217] | Pizarro conquers Peru | 1531 |
| [221] | Orellana discovers the Amazon | 1541 |
| [225] | Cabot sails to Newfoundland | 1497 |
| [228] | Jacques Cartier discovers the Gulf of St. Lawrence | 1534 |
| [236] | Sir Hugh Willoughby finds Nova Zembla | 1553 |
| [238] | Richard Chancellor reaches Moscow via Archangel | 1554 |
| [240] | Anthony Jenkinson crosses Russia to Bokhara | 1558 |
| [244] | Pinto claims the discovery of Japan | 1542 |
| [245] | Martin Frobisher discovers his Bay | 1576 |
| [249] | Drake sails round the World | 1577-80 |
| [260] | Davis finds his Strait | 1586 |
| [269] | Barents discovers Spitzbergen | 1596 |
| [275] | Hudson sails into his Bay | 1610 |
| [281] | Baffin discovers his Bay | 1616 |
| [285] | Sir Walter Raleigh explores Guiana | 1595 |
| [290] | Champlain discovers Lake Ontario | 1615 |
| [298] | Torres sails through his Strait | 1605 |
| [299] | Le Maire rounds Cape Horn | 1617 |
| [302] | Tasman finds Tasmania | 1642 |
| [306] | Dampier discovers his Strait | 1698 |
| [312] | Behring finds his Strait | 1741 |
| [322] | Cook discovers New Zealand | 1769 |
| [326] | Cook anchors in Botany Bay, Australia | 1770 |
| [333] | Cook discovers the Sandwich Islands | 1777 |
| [338] | La Perouse makes discoveries in China Seas | 1785-8 |
| [347] | Bruce discovers the source of the Blue Nile | 1770 |
| [353] | Mungo Park reaches the Niger | 1796 |
| [359] | Vancouver explores his Island | 1792 |
| [362] | Mackenzie discovers his River and British Columbia | 1789-93 |
| [366] | Ross discovers Melville Bay | 1818 |
| [368] | Parry discovers Lancaster Sound | 1819 |
| [372] | Franklin reaches the Polar Sea by Land | 1819-22 |
| [378] | Parry's discoveries on North American Coast | 1822 |
| [382] | Franklin names the Mackenzie River | 1825 |
| [386] | Beechey doubles Icy Cape | 1826 |
| [388] | Parry attempts the North Pole by Spitzbergen | 1827 |
| [392] | Denham and Clapperton discover Lake Tchad | 1822 |
| [396] | Clapperton reaches the Niger | 1826 |
| [397] | Réné Caillé enters Timbuktu | 1829 |
| [402] | Richard and John Lander find the Mouth of the Niger | 1830 |
| [404] | Ross discovers Boothia Felix | 1829 |
| [405] | James Ross finds the North Magnetic Pole | 1830 |
| [411] | Bass discovers his Strait | 1797 |
| [413] | Flinders and Bass sail round Tasmania | 1798 |
| [416] | Flinders surveys South Coast of Australia | 1801-4 |
| [421] | Sturt traces the Darling and Murray Rivers | 1828-31 |
| [424] | Burke and Wills cross Australia | 1861 |
| [429] | Ross discovers Victoria Land in the Antarctic | 1840 |
| [432] | Franklin discovers the North-West Passage | 1847 |
| [440] | Livingstone crosses Africa from West to East | 1849-56 |
| [452] | Burton and Speke discover Lake Tanganyika | 1857 |
| [454] | Speke sees Victoria Nyanza | 1858 |
| [457] | Livingstone finds Lakes Shirwa and Nyassa | 1858-64 |
| [461] | Speke and Grant enter Uganda | 1861 |
| [468] | Baker meets Speke and Grant at Gondokoro | 1861 |
| [470] | Baker discovers Albert Nyanza | 1864 |
| [477] | Livingstone finds Lakes Meoro and Bangweolo | 1868 |
| [482] | Stanley finds Livingstone | 1871 |
| [484] | Livingstone dies at Ilala | 1873 |
| [499] | Stanley finds the Mouth of the Congo | 1877 |
| [509] | Nordenskiöld solves the North-East Passage | 1879 |
| [519] | Younghusband enters Lhasa | 1904 |
| [524] | Nansen reaches Farthest North | 1895 |
| [534] | Peary reaches the North Pole | 1909 |
| [544] | Amundsen reaches the South Pole | 1911 |
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