Niagara Falls

three waterfalls that straddle the international border between Canada and the United States

7 dated entries naming Niagara Falls, drawn from 6 separate years between 1677 CE and 1901 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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17th century

1677December 7 – Father Louis Hennepin of Belgium, exploring North America, becomes the earliest known European person to discover Niagara Falls, and the first to report its existence. In his book A New Discovery of a Vast Country in America, published in 1698, Hennepin writes "Betwixt the lakes Ontario and Eire there is a vast prodigious Cadence of water which falls down after a surprising and astonishing manner, inasmuch that the Universe does not afford its parallel."source
1679December 3 – French explorers René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle (commonly called "La Salle") and Henri de Tonti set off from their fort near Niagara Falls in North America on the first European expedition to explore the upper Mississippi River.source

19th century

1840The first known photograph of Niagara Falls, a daguerreotype, is taken by English chemist Hugh Lee Pattinson.source
1859June 30 – Charles Blondin crosses Niagara Falls on a tightrope for the first time.source
1885April 30 – A bill is signed in the New York State legislature, forming the Niagara Falls State Park.source
1885July 15 – The Reservation at Niagara Falls opens, enabling access to all for free. Thomas V. Welch is the first Superintendent of the Park.source

20th century

1901October 24 – Michigan schoolteacher Annie Edson Taylor goes over Niagara Falls in a barrel and survives.source

Named in the same entries

Mississippi River (1)
René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle (1)
Michigan (1)