Exploration & Expansion
5,148 sourced entries filed under exploration & expansion, split by century. Each century below opens the full list for that stretch of time.
By century
- Exploration & Expansion in the 16th century BC — 8 entries
- Exploration & Expansion in the 13th century BC — 8 entries
- Exploration & Expansion in the 8th century BC — 12 entries
- Exploration & Expansion in the 7th century BC — 17 entries
- Exploration & Expansion in the 6th century BC — 16 entries
- Exploration & Expansion in the 5th century BC — 44 entries
- Exploration & Expansion in the 4th century BC — 48 entries
- Exploration & Expansion in the 3rd century BC — 31 entries
- Exploration & Expansion in the 2nd century BC — 22 entries
- Exploration & Expansion in the 1st century BC — 53 entries
- Exploration & Expansion in the 1st century — 42 entries
- Exploration & Expansion in the 2nd century — 46 entries
- Exploration & Expansion in the 3rd century — 26 entries
- Exploration & Expansion in the 4th century — 29 entries
- Exploration & Expansion in the 5th century — 31 entries
- Exploration & Expansion in the 6th century — 43 entries
- Exploration & Expansion in the 7th century — 46 entries
- Exploration & Expansion in the 8th century — 51 entries
- Exploration & Expansion in the 9th century — 52 entries
- Exploration & Expansion in the 10th century — 42 entries
- Exploration & Expansion in the 11th century — 59 entries
- Exploration & Expansion in the 12th century — 99 entries
- Exploration & Expansion in the 13th century — 71 entries
- Exploration & Expansion in the 14th century — 63 entries
- Exploration & Expansion in the 15th century — 168 entries
- Exploration & Expansion in the 16th century — 389 entries
- Exploration & Expansion in the 17th century — 477 entries
- Exploration & Expansion in the 18th century — 651 entries
- Exploration & Expansion in the 19th century — 1,110 entries
- Exploration & Expansion in the 20th century — 1,141 entries
- Exploration & Expansion in the 21st century — 253 entries
A line from each of the last few centuries
- 1540July 7 – Spanish conquistador Francisco Vázquez de Coronado captures Hawikuh in modern-day New Mexico, at this time known as part of Cíbola, but fails to find the legendary gold.source
- 1639Having set sail on May 4 from Dieppe, establishment of the Ursulines of Quebec and the École des Ursulines, Quebec in New France is begun by the French Ursuline nun Marie of the Incarnation and laywoman Marie-Madeleine de Chauvigny de la Peltrie.Francesource
- 1766Orupgaard is sold to Christian Hincheldey.Denmarksource
- 1850June 1 – The transportation of British convicts to Western Australia begins, as the transportation of British convicts to other parts of Australia is phased out, when the ship Scindian arrives in Fremantle, with 75 male prisoners.source
- 1948Arthur Vincent Aston (until unknown date)Malayasource
- 2013November 21 – Moldovan-flagged cargo ship MV Rhosus makes port in Beirut, Lebanon, carrying 2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate. After inspection by port state control, the Rhosus is deemed unseaworthy, and is forbidden to set sail. By order of an Urgent Matters judge in Beirut, the cargo is brought ashore in 2014 and placed in Warehouse 12 at the port, where it will remain for six years. The ammonium nitrate will erupt in a massive explosion on August 4, 2020.source