2013 Event The Soyuz capsule safely lands in Kazakhstan, carrying Expedition 35 astronauts Thomas Marshburn of the U.S., Chris Hadfield of Canada and Roman Romanenko of Russia back from the International Space Station 2012 Event Russian spacecraft, Soyuz TMA-07M, is launched in Kazakhstan, with cosmonauts Roman Romanenko, Chris Hadfield and Thomas Marshburn for the ISS Expedition 34 and 35 crews 2012 Event Expedition 33 ends and Expedition 34 begins as astronauts Yuri Malenchenko, Sunita Williams, and Akihiko Hoshide return to Earth with spacecraft Soyuz TMA-05M 2010 Event A new, though threatened, language known as Koro, is discovered by a team of linguists on an expedition to Arunachal Pradesh, in northeastern India 1986 Event Will Stegers expedition reaches North Pole 1985 Event U.S. - French expedition locates wreckage of Titanic off Newfoundland 1971 Event 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 Event British expedition climbs south face of Annapurna I 1969 Event Britain's Trans-Arctic expedition makes 1st crossing of Arctic Sea ice 1958 Death 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 Event French expedition reaches top of Himalayan peak of Annapurna in Nepal 1930 Event Remains of Solomon Andrees' balloon expedition to North Pole in 1897, found at Kvit oya Spitsbergen 1915 Event British expedition Army in Belgium captures Neuve Chapelle 1914 Event 3rd pole expedition Ernest Shackleton "Endurance" 1912 Event English explorer Robert F Scott and his expedition reach South Pole, only to discover that Roald Amundsen had gotten there before 1912 Event Robert Scott expedition arrives at South Pole, 1 month after Amundsen 1911 Event Robert Scott's expedition leaves Cape Evans for South Pole 1908 Event Robert Peary's expedition sails from New York City for north pole 1898 Event Jean-Baptiste Marchands expedition reaches Fashoda at White Hippo 1897 Event Solomon Andrees baloon/polar expedition reaches White Island 1897 Event Marquis C de Bonchamps' expedition reaches Gore Ethiopia 1894 Event Frederick Lugards expedition reaches Nikki 1894 Event Frederick Lugards expedition to Niger 1890 Event Lugards expedition to Mengo/Kampala, Uganda 1889 Event Stanley's expedition reaches Bagamoyo in Indian Ocean 1888 Event Stanley's expedition reaches Fort Bodo, East-Africa 1887 Event Stanley's expedition reaches plateau at Lake Albert Congo 1887 Event Stanley's expedition reaches Yambuya waterfalls Congo 1882 Event Toba-indians killed 20 members of French expedition 1882 Birthday Douglas Mawson, born in Yorkshire, England, Antarctic explorer, geologist, member, Ernest Shackleton's Nimrod expedition, among first to reach South Magnetic Pole 1876 Event Skirmish between HM Stanley's expedition and natives 1876 Event Henry Morton Stanley's expedition leaves Nyangwe 1876 Event Henry Morton Stanley's expedition leaves Rwanda 1871 Event Journalist Henry M. Stanley begins his famous expedition to Africa 1870 Death Patrick Gass, Sergeant of Lewis and Clark Expedition, dies at 98 1868 Birthday Robert Falcon Scott, British leader of ill-fated south pole expedition 1864 Event Battle of Smith's Expedition, Mississippi (Tupelo, Harrisburg) 1864 Event Battle of Marks' Mill, Arkansas (Camden Expedition) 1864 Event Battle of Cane River, Louisiana (Red River Expedition, Monett's Ferry) 1864 Event Battle of Poison Springs, AR (Camden Expedition) 1863 Event Federal naval expedition arrives off Sabine Pass 1862 Event Naval Engagement at Pascagoula River MS: USS Potomac Expedition 1853 Event Elisha Kane's Arctic expedition leaves New York aboard Advance 1840 Event Antarctica discovered, Charles Wilkes expedition (U.S. claim) 1839 Death Nathaniel Pryor, Sergeant of Lewis and Clark Expedition, dies 1838 Death William Clark, 2nd lt of Lewis and Clark Expedition, dies at 68 1838 Event 1st U.S. marine expedition 1838 Event Wilkes' expedition to South Pole sails 1834 Event Charles Darwin's expedition returns to the Beagle 1834 Event Charles Darwin's expedition begins at Rio Santa Cruz 1834 Event Charles Darwin's expedition reaches 200 km from Atlantic Ocean 1834 Event Charles Darwin's expedition sees top of Andes from Patagonia 1809 Death Meriwether Lewis, (Lewis and Clark Expedition), commits suicide at 35 1804 Death Charles Floyd, only fatality of the Lewis and Clark Expedition 1804 Event Lewis and Clark Expedition begins 1786 Event Harvard University organizes 1st astronomical expedition in U.S. 1781 Event British naval expedition led by Benedict Arnold burns Richmond, Va 1774 Birthday Meriwether Lewis, Charlottsville, Virginia, captain, Lewis and Clark Expedition 1771 Birthday Patrick Gass, Falling Springs, Pennsylvania, Sergeant of Lewis and Clark Expedition 1770 Birthday William Clark, born in Charlottsville, Virginia, 2nd lt of Lewis and Clark Expedition 1665 Event French expedition against Barbarians in Tunis/Algiers 1625 Event Portuguese and Spanish expedition recaptures Salvador (Bahia) 1524 Event Pizarro's begins 1st great expedition, near Colombia 1522 Event Spanish navigator Juan de Elcano returns to Spain, completes 1st circumnavigation of globe, expedition begins under Ferdinand Magellan 1493 Event Columbus' 2nd expedition to New World
