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David Livingstone

Scottish missionary and explorer (1813-1873)

9 dated entries naming David Livingstone, drawn from 9 separate years between 1813 CE and 1873 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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19th century

  • 1813March 19 – David Livingstone, Scottish missionary explorer (d. 1873)source
  • 1840December 7 – David Livingstone leaves Britain for Africa.source
  • 1841July 31 – Scottish missionary David Livingstone arrives at Kuruman in the Northern Cape, his first posting in Africa.source
  • 1855November 17 – Scottish missionary explorer David Livingstone becomes the first European to see Victoria Falls, in modern-day Zambia–Zimbabwe.source
  • 1856May 20 – David Livingstone arrives at Quelimane on the Indian Ocean, having completed a 2-year transcontinental journey across Africa from Luanda.source
  • 1858May 14 – David Livingstone's 6-year Second Zambesi expedition arrives at the African coast.source
  • 1869James Gordon Bennett Jr. of the New York Herald asks Henry Morton Stanley to find Dr. David Livingstone.source
  • 1871November 10 – Henry Morton Stanley, Welsh-born correspondent for the New York Herald, locates missing Scottish explorer and missionary Dr. David Livingstone in Ujiji, near Lake Tanganyika, and greets him by saying, "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?" (according to his later account).source
  • 1873May 1 – David Livingstone, Scottish explorer of Africa (b. 1813)source

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