| Name | Date |
|---|
| Faxian born |
337 | Edit |
| Faxian died |
442 | Edit |
| Xuanzang born |
602 | Edit |
| Xuanzang died |
664 | Edit |
| Marco Polo born |
1254-09-15 | Edit |
| Muhammad Ibn Battuta born |
1304-02-25 | Edit |
| Marco Polo died |
1324-01-09 | Edit |
| Muhammad Ibn Battuta died |
1369 | Edit |
| Zheng He born |
1371 | Edit |
| Hong Bao born |
1412 | Edit |
| Hong Bao died |
1433 | Edit |
| Zheng He died |
1435 | Edit |
| Francisco de Almeida born |
1450 | Edit |
| Christopher Columbus born |
1451-10-31 | Edit |
| Afonso de Albuquerque born |
1453 | Edit |
| Amerigo Vespucci born |
1454-03-09 | Edit |
| Vasco da Gama born |
1460 | Edit |
| Diogo Lopes de Sequeira born |
1465 | Edit |
| Ludovico di Varthema born |
1470 | Edit |
| Francisco Pizarro born |
1474 | Edit |
| Ferdinand Magellan born |
1480 | Edit |
| Hernán Cortés born |
1485 | Edit |
| Christopher Columbus died |
1506-05-20 | Edit |
| Diogo Lopes de Sequeira arrives in Malacca |
1509-09-11 | Edit |
| Tun Mutahir died |
1510 | Edit |
| Francisco de Almeida died |
1510-03-01 | Edit |
| Capture of Malacca |
1511-08-15 | Edit |
| Amerigo Vespucci died |
1512-02-22 | Edit |
| Afonso de Albuquerque died |
1515-12-16 | Edit |
| Ludovico di Varthema died |
1517 | Edit |
| Francisco Serrão died |
1521 | Edit |
| Ferdinand Magellan died |
1521-04-27 | Edit |
| Vasco da Gama died |
1524-12-24 | Edit |
| Luis de Almeida born |
1525 | Edit |
| Mahmud Shah died |
1528 | Edit |
| Diogo Lopes de Sequeira died |
1530 | Edit |
| Sir Francis Drake born |
1540 | Edit |
| Francisco Pizarro died |
1541-06-26 | Edit |
| Hernán Cortés died |
1547-12-02 | Edit |
| Henry Hudson born |
1565 | Edit |
| Golden Hind launched |
1577 | Edit |
| Francis Drake's expedition sets out |
1577-11-15 | Edit |
| John Smith born |
1580-01-06 | Edit |
| Golden Hind sails into Plymouth |
1580-09-26 | Edit |
| Luis de Almeida died |
1583 | Edit |
| Sir Francis Drake died |
1596-01-28 | Edit |
| Hopewell Launched |
1604 | Edit |
| Henry Hudson's 1607 Expedition Sets Sail |
1607-05-01 | Edit |
| Henry Hudson's 1607 Expedition Returns |
1607-09-15 | Edit |
| Halve Maen Launched |
1608 | Edit |
| Henry Hudson's 1608 Expedition Sets Out |
1608-04-22 | Edit |
| Henry Hudson's 1608 Expedition Returns |
1608-08-26 | Edit |
| Henry Hudson's 1609 Expedition Sets Out from Amsterdam |
1609-04-04 | Edit |
| Henry Hudson's 1609 Expedition Arrested in England |
1609-11-07 | Edit |
| Henry Hudson's 1610 expedition sets sail |
1610-04-17 | Edit |
| Henry Hudson disappears |
1611 | Edit |
| Discovery returns to London |
1611-10-20 | Edit |
| Halve Maen Destroyed |
1618 | Edit |
| John Smith died |
1631-06-21 | Edit |
| Golden Hind broken up |
1650 | Edit |
| Founding of the Royal Society |
1660-11-28 | Edit |
| Royal Society gains King's support |
1662-07-15 | Edit |
| Captain James Cook born |
1728-11-07 | Edit |
| Charles Willson Peale born |
1741-04-15 | Edit |
| Sir Alexander Mackenzie born |
1764 | Edit |
| William Clark born |
1770-08-01 | Edit |
| Meriwether Lewis born |
1774-08-18 | Edit |
| John Leyden born |
1775-09-08 | Edit |
| Lady Hester Stanhope born |
1776-03-12 | Edit |
| Captain James Cook died |
1779-02-14 | Edit |
| Roderick Murchison born |
1792-02-22 | Edit |
| Lewis and Clark Expedition begins |
1804-05-14 | Edit |
| Lewis and Clark reach Pacific Ocean |
1805-11-20 | Edit |
| Lewis and Clark Expedition ends |
1806-09-23 | Edit |
| Charles Darwin born |
1809-02-12 | Edit |
| Meriwether Lewis died |
1809-10-11 | Edit |
| John Leyden died |
1811-08-28 | Edit |
| David Livingstone born |
1813-03-19 | Edit |
| Sir Alexander Mackenzie died |
1820-03-12 | Edit |
| Richard Francis Burton born |
1821-03-19 | Edit |
| Robert O'Hara Burke born |
1821-05-06 | Edit |
| Samuel Baker born |
1821-06-08 | Edit |
| Founding of the Société de géographie |
1821-12-15 | Edit |
| Charles Willson Peale died |
1827-02-22 | Edit |
| James Augustus Grant born |
1827-04-11 | Edit |
| John Hanning Speke born |
1827-05-04 | Edit |
| Colin Archer born |
1832-07-22 | Edit |
| William John Wills born |
1834-01-05 | Edit |
| William Clark died |
1838-09-01 | Edit |
| Lady Hester Stanhope died |
1839-06-23 | Edit |
| Henry Morton Stanley born |
1841-01-28 | Edit |
| Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza born |
1852-01-26 | Edit |
| Speke reaches Lake Victoria |
1858-07-30 | Edit |
| Burke and Wills depart from Melbourne |
1860-08-20 | Edit |
| Robert O'Hara Burke died |
1861-06-28 | Edit |
| William John Wills died |
1861-06-28 | Edit |
| Wills' notebooks recovered |
1861-09-28 | Edit |
| Fridtjof Nansen born |
1861-10-10 | Edit |
| John Hanning Speke died |
1864-09-15 | Edit |
| Baron Adrien de Gerlache born |
1866-08-02 | Edit |
| Nimrod Completed |
1867-01 | Edit |
| Gertrude Bell born |
1868-07-14 | Edit |
| Roderick Murchison died |
1871-10-22 | Edit |
| Gjøa constructed |
1872 | Edit |
| Roald Amundsen born |
1872-07-16 | Edit |
| David Livingstone died |
1873-05-01 | Edit |
| Sir Ernest Shackleton born |
1874-02-15 | Edit |
| Harriet Chalmers Adams born |
1875-10-22 | Edit |
| Charles Darwin died |
1882-04-19 | Edit |
| Patria constructed |
1884 | Edit |
| Umberto Nobile born |
1885-01-21 | Edit |
| T. E. Lawrence born |
1888-10-16 | Edit |
| Richard Francis Burton died |
1890-10-20 | Edit |
| Contract signed to built the Fram |
1891-06-09 | Edit |
| James Augustus Grant died |
1892-02-11 | Edit |
| Launching of the Fram |
1892-10-06 | Edit |
| Dame Freya Stark born |
1893-01-31 | Edit |
| Nansen's Fram Expedition sets out |
1893-06-24 | Edit |
| Samuel Baker died |
1893-12-30 | Edit |
| Nansen reaches northernmost point of expedition |
1895-04-07 | Edit |
| Adrien de Gerlache purchases Patria |
1896 | Edit |
| Patria renamed Belgica |
1896-07-04 | Edit |
| Fram returns from Nansen's expedition |
1896-09-09 | Edit |
| Belgian Antarctic Expedition sets out |
1897-08-16 | Edit |
| Belgian Antarctic Expedition crosses Antarctic Circle |
1898-02-15 | Edit |
| Belgian Antarctic Expedition returns |
1899-11-05 | Edit |
| Amundsen purchases Gjøa |
1901-03-28 | Edit |
| Charles Lindbergh born |
1902-02-04 | Edit |
| Gjøa leaves the Oslofjord |
1903-06-16 | Edit |
| Evelyn Waugh born |
1903-10-28 | Edit |
| Henry Morton Stanley died |
1904-05-10 | Edit |
| Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza died |
1905-09-14 | Edit |
| Gjøa reaches San Francisco, California |
1906-10-19 | Edit |
| Nimrod sets sail |
1907-08-11 | Edit |
| Shackleton and crew reach southernmost point of Nimrod expedition |
1909-01-09 | Edit |
| Shackleton lands in New Zealand |
1909-03-23 | Edit |
| Fram sets sail for Funchal |
1910-08-09 | Edit |
| First expedition reaches South Pole |
1911-12-14 | Edit |
| Fram reaches Hobart |
1912-03-07 | Edit |
| Nimrod Destroyed |
1919-01-31 | Edit |
| Colin Archer died |
1921-02-08 | Edit |
| Sir Ernest Shackleton died |
1922-01-05 | Edit |
| Gertrude Bell died |
1926-07-12 | Edit |
| The Airship Italia sets off for the Arctic |
1928-04-15 | Edit |
| Crash of Airship Italia |
1928-05-25 | Edit |
| Latham 47.02 tasked to help with search |
1928-06-06 | Edit |
| Latham 47.02 sets out |
1928-06-18 | Edit |
| Roald Amundsen disappears |
1928-06-18 | Edit |
| Port float of Latham 47.02 found |
1928-08-31 | Edit |
| Gasoline tank of Latham 47.02 found |
1928-10 | Edit |
| Fridtjof Nansen died |
1930-05-13 | Edit |
| Neil Armstrong born |
1930-08-05 | Edit |
| Baron Adrien de Gerlache died |
1934-12-04 | Edit |
| T. E. Lawrence died |
1935-05-19 | Edit |
| Harriet Chalmers Adams died |
1937-07-17 | Edit |
| Evelyn Waugh died |
1966-04-10 | Edit |
| First human walks on the moon |
1969-07-21 | Edit |
| Charles Lindbergh died |
1974-08-26 | Edit |
| Umberto Nobile died |
1978-07-30 | Edit |
| Dame Freya Stark died |
1993-05-09 | Edit |
| Neil Armstrong died |
2012-08-25 | Edit |