Discoveries of Places

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1799 · Discoveries of Places Discovery of the Rosetta Stone Explore →
1000 · Discoveries of Places Vikings establish settlement at L'Anse aux Meadows Explore →
1100 · Discoveries of Places Founding of Timbuktu Explore →
1325 · Discoveries of Places Founding of Tenochtitlán Explore →
1911 · Discoveries of Places Discovery of Machu Picchu Explore →
814 BC · Discoveries of Places Founding of Carthage Explore →
1498 · Discoveries of Places Columbus Discovered Trinidad Explore →
1583 · Discoveries of Places First English Colony in North America Explore →
1994 · Discoveries of Places Chauvet Cave Discovered Explore →
1960 · Discoveries of Places Jacques Piccard and Don Walsh reach the bottom of Challenger Deep Explore →
1953 · Discoveries of Places Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay Conquer Everest Explore →
982 · Discoveries of Places Erik the Red Discovers Greenland Explore →
1778 · Discoveries of Places James Cook arrives in Hawaii Explore →
2600 BC · Discoveries of Places Avebury Circle Constructed Explore →
1922 · Discoveries of Places Discovery of Tutankhamun's Tomb Explore →
1000 · Discoveries of Places Leif Eriksson Arrives in America (Vinland) Explore →
1497 · Discoveries of Places John Cabot Reaches North America Explore →
1492 · Discoveries of Places Columbus lands on San Salvador Explore →
1703 · Discoveries of Places Founding of Saint Petersburg Explore →
1913 · Discoveries of Places Founding of Canberra Explore →
2550 BC · Discoveries of Places Construction of the Great Sphinx of Giza Explore →
447 BC · Discoveries of Places Start of the Parthenon Construction Explore →
80 · Discoveries of Places Completion of the Roman Colosseum Explore →
537 · Discoveries of Places Completion of Hagia Sophia Explore →
1163 · Discoveries of Places Commencement of Notre-Dame Construction Explore →
1793 · Discoveries of Places Louvre Opens as a Public Museum Explore →
43 · Discoveries of Places Romans first see Stonehenge during the campaign in Britain Explore →
630 · Discoveries of Places Chinese Pilgrim Xuanzang Arrives in Nalanda Explore →
1606 · Discoveries of Places Willem Janszoon Reaches Australian Mainland Explore →
1642 · Discoveries of Places Abel Tasman discovers Tasmania for Europeans Explore →
1540 · Discoveries of Places First Europeans see the Grand Canyon Explore →
1722 · Discoveries of Places Jacob Roggeveen arrives at Easter Island Explore →
1769 · Discoveries of Places James Cook first arrives in New Zealand Explore →
1770 · Discoveries of Places James Cook arrives at the east coast of Australia Explore →
1812 · Discoveries of Places Burckhardt Reintroduces Petra to the Western World Explore →
1845 · Discoveries of Places Austen Henry Layard begins excavation of Nimrud Explore →
1851 · Discoveries of Places Mariposa Battalion enters Yosemite Valley Explore →
1871 · Discoveries of Places Schliemann Begins Excavations of Troy Explore →
1888 · Discoveries of Places Discovery of Cliff Palace in Mesa Verde Explore →
1642 · Discoveries of Places First Encounter of Europeans with the Maori Explore →
1977 · Discoveries of Places Launch of Voyager 1 Explore →
1912 · Discoveries of Places First Voyage of the Titanic Explore →
1940 · Discoveries of Places Discovery of Prehistoric Paintings in Lascaux Cave Explore →
1893 · Discoveries of Places Cherokee Strip Land Run Explore →
1852 · Discoveries of Places Henri Giffard makes the first flight of a powered airship with a passenger Explore →