671-95.—I-tsing (Chinese) visits Java, Sumatra and India.
861.—Norsemen discover the Faroe Islands. North Cape of Europe rounded.
865.—Naddod (Norse) discovers Iceland. Visited by Irish monks about 795.
876.—Gunnbjörn (Norse) reaches Greenland coast. Rediscovered by Erik the Red (983).
985.—Erik the Red (Norse) colonizes Greenland.
1000(?).—Lief Erikson (son of Erik the Red) discovers Newfoundland (Helluland), Nova Scotia (Markland), and coast of New England (Vinland)[?].
1154.—Edrisi (Sicily), geographer to King of Sicily, produces his geography.
1200 (about)—Arabian trading merchants discover Siberia.
1253.—Ruysbroek reaches Karakorum, the ancient seat of the Mongol Empire.
1271-95.—Marco Polo (Venet.) travels in central Asia, China, India, Persia.