This is a selection of interactive timelines relating to events that took place on this day in history. Histropedia is free to use, and that includes embedding timelines on your blog or site. You can find thousands of timelines by searching on histropedia.com/timeline or by browsing the rest of our blog. Click here to learn more about embedding timelines. If you have any questions or queries please get in touch or leave a comment below.

This is a selection of interactive timelines relating to events that took place on this day in history. Histropedia is free to use, and that includes embedding timelines on your blog or site. You can find thousands of timelines by searching on histropedia.com/timeline or by browsing the rest of our blog. Click here to learn more about embedding timelines. If you have any questions or queries please get in touch or leave a comment below.

This is a selection of interactive timelines relating to events that took place on this day in history. Histropedia is free to use, and that includes embedding timelines on your blog or site. You can find thousands of timelines by searching on histropedia.com/timeline or by browsing the rest of our blog. Click here to learn more about embedding timelines. If you have any questions or queries please get in touch or leave a comment below.

This is a selection of interactive timelines relating to events that took place on this day in history. Histropedia is free to use, and that includes embedding timelines on your blog or site. You can find thousands of timelines by searching on histropedia.com/timeline or by browsing the rest of our blog. Click here to learn more about embedding timelines. If you have any questions or queries please get in touch or leave a comment below.

This is a selection of interactive timelines relating to events that took place on this day in history. Histropedia is free to use, and that includes embedding timelines on your blog or site. You can find thousands of timelines by searching on histropedia.com/timeline or by browsing the rest of our blog. Click here to learn more about embedding timelines. If you have any questions or queries please get in touch or leave a comment below.

This is a selection of interactive timelines relating to events that took place on this day in history. Histropedia is free to use, and that includes embedding timelines on your blog or site. You can find thousands of timelines by searching on histropedia.com/timeline or by browsing the rest of our blog. Click here to learn more about embedding timelines. If you have any questions or queries please get in touch or leave a comment below.

This is a selection of interactive timelines relating to events that took place on this day in history. Histropedia is free to use, and that includes embedding timelines on your blog or site. You can find thousands of timelines by searching on histropedia.com/timeline or by browsing the rest of our blog. Click here to learn more about embedding timelines. If you have any questions or queries please get in touch or leave a comment below.

This is a selection of interactive timelines relating to events that took place on this day in history. Histropedia is free to use, and that includes embedding timelines on your blog or site. You can find thousands of timelines by searching on histropedia.com/timeline or by browsing the rest of our blog. Click here to learn more about embedding timelines. If you have any questions or queries please get in touch or leave a comment below.

Continuing our current theme of the history of exploration today’s timeline looks at some of the most important explorers from the Age of Discovery. On a mobile device? Unfortunately Histropedia isn't yet optimised for mobiles or tablets. For the best experience you’ll want to bookmark this and check it out on the Desktop. "The Age of Discovery is a historical period of European global exploration that started in the early 15th century with the first Portuguese discoveries in the Atlantic Archipelagos and Africa, as well as the discovery of America by Spain in 1492, and the discovery of the ocean route to the East in 1498, and by a series of European naval expeditions across the Atlantic and later the Pacific, which continued until the 18th century"

The Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration Started in the late 19th century and continued till the end of the first quarter of the 20th century. The major objective of many of the expeditions was to be the first party to reach the Geographic South Pole. A feat accomplished by Roald Amundsen during his 1910 – 1912 expedition. Amundsen arrived just 5 weeks ahead of Robert Falcon Scott’s party of the Terra Nova expedition.