| The oldest known Ships | 6000-5000 (B.C.) |
| Expedition to Punt | 1600 |
| Phoenician Expeditions | 700 |
| Neco's Fleet built | 613 |
| Anaximander, the Greek, invents Maps | 580 |
| Hecatceus writes the First Geography | 500 |
| Herodotus describes Egypt | 446 |
| Hanno sails down West Coast of Africa | 450 |
| Xenophon crosses Asia Minor | 401 |
| Alexander the Great finds India | 327 |
| Nearchus navigates the Indian Ocean | 326 |
| The Geography of Eratosthenes | 240-196 |
| Pytheas discovers the British Isles and Thule | 333 |
| Julius Cesar explores France, Britain, Germany | 60-54 |
| Strabo's Geography | 18 (A.D.) |
| Agricola discovers the Highlands | 83 |
| Pliny's Geography | 170 |
| Ptolemny's Geography and Maps | 159 |
| The First Guide for Travellers | Fourth century |
| St. Patrick explores Ireland | 432-493 |
| St. Columba reaches the Orkney Isles | 563 |
| St. Brandon crosses the Atlantic | Sixth Century |
| Willibald travels from Britain to Jerusalem | 721 |
| The Christian Topography of Cosmas | Sixth Century |
| Naddod the Viking discovers Iceland | 861 |
| Erik the Red discovers Greenland | 985 |
| Lief discovers Newfoundland and N. America | 1000 |
| Othere navigates the Baltic Sea | 890 |
| Mohammedan Travellers to China | 831 |
| Edrisi's Geography | 1154 |
| Benjamin of Tudela visits India and China | 1160 |
| Carpini visits the Great Khan | 1246 |
| William de Rubruquis also visits the Great Khan | 1255 |
| Maflio and Niccolo Polo reach China | 1260-1271 |
| Marco Polo's Travels | 1271—1295 |
| Ibn Batuta's Travels through Asia | 1324-1348 |
| Sir John Mandeville's Travels published | 1372 |
| Hereford Mappa Mundi appeared | 1280 |
| Anglo-Saxon Map of the World | 990 |
| Prince Henry of Portugal encourages Exploration | 1418 |
| Zarco and Vaz reach Porto Santo | 1419 |
| Zarco discovers Madeira | 1420 |
| Nuno Tristam discovers Cape Blanco | 1441 |
| Gonsalves discovers Cape Verde Islands | 1442 |
| Cadamosto reaches the Senegal River and Cape Verde | 1455 |
| Diego Gomez reaches the Gambia River | 1458 |
| Death of Prince Henry | 1460 |
| Fra Mauro's Map | 1457 |
| Diego Cam discovers the Congo | 1484 |
| Bartholomew Diaz rounds the Cape of Good Hope | 1486 |
| Martin Behaim makes his Globe | 1492 |
| Christopher Columbus discovers West Indies | 1492 |
| Columbus finds Jamaica and other Islands | 1493 |
| Columbus finds Trinidad | 1498 |
| Death of Columbus | 1504 |
| Amerigo Vespucci finds Trinidad and Venezuela | 1499 |
| First Map of the New World by Juan de la Cosa | 1500 |
| Vasco da Gama reaches India by the Cape | 1497 |
| Pedro Cabral discovers Brazil | 1500 |
| Francisco Serrano reaches the Spice Islands | 1511 |
| Balboa sees the Pacific Ocean | 1513 |
| The First Circumnavigation of the World | 1519-1522 |
| Cordova discovers Yucatan | 1517 |
| Juan Grijalva discovers Mexico | 1518 |
| Cortes conquers Mexico | 1519 |
| Pizarro conquers Peru | 1531 |
| Orcllana discovers the Amazon | 1541 |
| Cabot sails to Newfoundland | 1497 |
| Jacques Cartier discovers the Gulf of St. Lawrence | 1534 |
| Sir Hugh Willoughby finds Nova Zembla | 1553 |
| Richard Chancellor reaches Moscow via Archangel | 1554 |
| Anthony Jenkinson crosses Russia to Bukhara | 1558 |
| Pinto claims the discovery of Japan | 1542 |
| Martin Frobisher discovers his Bay | 1576 |
| Drake sails round the World | 1577-80 |
| Davis finds his Strait | 1586 |
| Barents discovers Spitzbergen | 1596 |
| Hudson sails into his Bay | 1610 |
| Baffin discovers his Bay | 1616 |
| Sir Walter Raleigh explores Guiana | 1595 |
| Champlain discovers Lake Ontario | 1615 |
| Torres sails through his Strait | 1605 |
| Le Maire rounds Cape horn | 1617 |
| Tasman finds Tasmania | 1642 |
| Dampier discovers his Strait | 1698 |
| Behring finds his Strait | 1741 |
| Cook discovers New Zealand | 1769 |
| Cook anchors in Botany Bay, Australia | 1770 |
| Cook discovers the Sandwich Islands | 1777 |
| La Perouse makes discoveries in China | 1785-88 |
| Bruce discovers the source of the Blue Nile | 1770 |
| Mungo Park reaches the Niger | 1796 |
| Vancouver explores his Island | 1792 |
| Mackenzie discovers his River and British Columbia | 1789-93 |
| Ross discovers Melville Bay | 1818 |
| Parry discovers Lancaster Sound | 1819 |
| Franklin reaches the Polar Sea by Land | 1819-22 |
| Parry's discoveries on North American Coast | 1822 |
| Franklin navies the Mackenzie River | 1825 |
| Beechey doubles Icy Cape | 1826 |
| Parry attempts the North Pole by Spitzbergen | 1827 |
| Denham and Clapperton discover Lake Tchad | 822 |
| Clapperton reaches the Niger | 1826 |
| Rene Caille enters Timbuktu | 1829 |
| Richard and John Lander find the Mouth of the Niger | 1830 |
| Ross discovers Boothia Felix | 1829 |
| James Ross finds the North Magnetic Pole | 1830 |
| Bass discovers his Strait | 1797 |
| Flinders and Bass sail round Tasmania | 1798 |
| Flinders surveys South Coast of Australia | 1801-04 |
| Sturt traces the Darling and Murray Rivers | 1828-31 |
| Burke and Wills cross Australia | 1861 |
| Ross discovers Victoria Land in the Antarctic | 1840 |
| Franklin discovers the North-West Passage | 1847 |
| Livingstone crosses Africa from West to East | 1849–56 |
| Burton and Speke discovered Lake Tanganyika | 1857 |
| Speke sees Victoria Nyanza | 1858 |
| Livingstone finds Lakes Shirwa and Nyassa | 1858-64 |
| Speke and Grant enter Uganda | 1861 |
| Baker meets Speke and Grant at Gondokoro | 1861 |
| Baker discovers Albert Nyanza | 1864 |
| Livingstone finds Lakes Meoro and Bangweolo | 1868 |
| Stanley finds Livingstone | 1871 |
| Livingstone dies at Ilala | 1873 |
| Stanley finds the Mouth of the Congo | 1877 |
| Nordenskiold solves the North-East Passage | 1879 |
| Younghusband enters Lhasa | 1904 |
| Nansen reaches Farthest North | 1895 |
| Peary reaches the North Pole | 1909 |
| Amundsen reaches the South Pole | 1911 |