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Saint Helena

island in the South Atlantic Ocean

8 dated entries naming Saint Helena, drawn from 7 separate years between 1502 CE and 1840 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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16th century

  • 1502May 3 – Portuguese navigator João da Nova discovers the uninhabited island of Saint Helena.source
  • 1503July 30 – Saint Helena is first definitively sighted, by ships of Portuguese navigator Estêvão da Gama returning from the East.source
  • 1516Portuguese soldier Fernão Lopes becomes the first known permanent inhabitant of Saint Helena.source
  • 1588June 18 – Sailing across the South Atlantic Ocean towards England, near the end of their voyage around the world, Thomas Cavendish and his East India Company fleet stumble across the Portuguese-controlled island of Saint Helena. While Saint Helena has been under the control of Portugal for 80 years, England had been unaware of its existence.source

19th century

  • 1815August 7 – Napoleonic Wars: Napoleon is transferred to HMS Northumberland, to begin his forced and final second exile, on the remote island of Saint Helena in the South Atlantic Ocean. Andrew Roberts, Napoleon and Wellington: The Battle of Waterloo- and the Great Commanders who Fought it (Simon and Schuster, 2001) p199source
  • 1815October 15 – Napoleonic Wars: Napoleon begins his exile on Saint Helena in the Atlantic Ocean.source
  • 1821May 5 – Emperor Napoleon dies in exile on Saint Helena of stomach cancer.source
  • 1840September 30 – The French frigate Belle Poule arrives in Cherbourg, bringing back the remains of Napoleon from Saint Helena to France.source

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