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1986 Will Stegers expedition reaches North Pole
1985 U.S. - French expedition locates wreckage of Titanic off Newfoundland 1971 Apollo 14, 3rd U.S. manned Moon expedition, lands near Fra Mauro Alan Shepard and Edward Mitchell (Apollo 14) walk on Moon for 4 hours 1970 British expedition climbs south face of Annapurna I 1969 Britain's Trans-Arctic expedition makes 1st crossing of Arctic Sea ice 1958 Douglas Mawson, Antarctic explorer, geologist, member, Ernest Shackleton's Nimrod expedition, among first to reach South Magnetic Pole, dies of a cerebral hemorrhage, in Brighton, South Australia, at age 76 1950 French expedition reaches top of Himalayan peak of Annapurna in Nepal 1930 Remains of Solomon Andrees' balloon expedition to North Pole in 1897, found at Kvit oya Spitsbergen 1915 British expedition Army in Belgium captures Neuve Chapelle 1914 3rd pole expedition Ernest Shackleton "Endurance" 1912 English explorer Robert F Scott and his expedition reach South Pole, only to discover that Roald Amundsen had gotten there before 1912 Robert Scott expedition arrives at South Pole, 1 month after Amundsen 1911 Robert Scott's expedition leaves Cape Evans for South Pole 1908 Robert Peary's expedition sails from New York City for north pole 1898 Jean-Baptiste Marchands expedition reaches Fashoda at White Hippo 1897 Solomon Andrees baloon/polar expedition reaches White Island 1897 Marquis C de Bonchamps' expedition reaches Gore Ethiopia 1894 Frederick Lugards expedition reaches Nikki 1894 Frederick Lugards expedition to Niger 1890 Lugards expedition to Mengo/Kampala, Uganda 1889 Stanley's expedition reaches Bagamoyo in Indian Ocean 1888 Stanley's expedition reaches Fort Bodo, East-Africa 1887 Stanley's expedition reaches plateau at Lake Albert Congo 1887 Stanley's expedition reaches Yambuya waterfalls Congo 1882 Toba-indians killed 20 members of French expedition 1882 Douglas Mawson, born in Yorkshire, England, Antarctic explorer, geologist, member, Ernest Shackleton's Nimrod expedition, among first to reach South Magnetic Pole 1876 Skirmish between HM Stanley's expedition and natives 1876 Henry Morton Stanley's expedition leaves Nyangwe 1876 Henry Morton Stanley's expedition leaves Rwanda 1871 Journalist Henry M. Stanley begins his famous expedition to Africa 1870 Patrick Gass, Sergeant of Lewis and Clark Expedition, dies at 98 1868 Robert Falcon Scott, British leader of ill-fated south pole expedition 1864 Battle of Smith's Expedition, Mississippi (Tupelo, Harrisburg) 1864 Battle of Marks' Mill, Arkansas (Camden Expedition) 1864 Battle of Cane River, Louisiana (Red River Expedition, Monett's Ferry) 1864 Battle of Poison Springs, AR (Camden Expedition) 1863 Federal naval expedition arrives off Sabine Pass 1862 Naval Engagement at Pascagoula River MS: USS Potomac Expedition 1853 Elisha Kane's Arctic expedition leaves New York aboard Advance 1840 Antarctica discovered, Charles Wilkes expedition (U.S. claim) 1839 Nathaniel Pryor, Sergeant of Lewis and Clark Expedition, dies 1838 William Clark, 2nd lt of Lewis and Clark Expedition, dies at 68 1838 1st U.S. marine expedition 1838 Wilkes' expedition to South Pole sails 1834 Charles Darwin's expedition returns to the Beagle 1834 Charles Darwin's expedition begins at Rio Santa Cruz 1834 Charles Darwin's expedition reaches 200 km from Atlantic Ocean 1834 Charles Darwin's expedition sees top of Andes from Patagonia 1809 Meriwether Lewis, (Lewis and Clark Expedition), commits suicide at 35 1804 Charles Floyd, only fatality of the Lewis and Clark Expedition 1804 Lewis and Clark Expedition begins 1786 Harvard University organizes 1st astronomical expedition in U.S. 1781 British naval expedition led by Benedict Arnold burns Richmond, Va 1774 Meriwether Lewis, Charlottsville, Virginia, captain, Lewis and Clark Expedition 1771 Patrick Gass, Falling Springs, Pennsylvania, Sergeant of Lewis and Clark Expedition 1770 William Clark, born in Charlottsville, Virginia, 2nd lt of Lewis and Clark Expedition 1665 French expedition against Barbarians in Tunis/Algiers 1625 Portuguese and Spanish expedition recaptures Salvador (Bahia) 1524 Pizarro's begins 1st great expedition, near Colombia 1522 Spanish navigator Juan de Elcano returns to Spain, completes 1st circumnavigation of globe, expedition begins under Ferdinand Magellan 1493 Columbus' 2nd expedition to New World |
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