Events in Maritime History

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SECTION 5 -- EVENTS IN MARITIME HISTORY

-- WARS --
American Revolution 8:6,19-20; 9:5; 12:25-26
Argentinian War for Independence 20:37
Civil War (Spain), 1936-39 7:20-21; 11:9-10
Civil War (U.S.) 6:11-12
Crimean War 8:11
Indo-Pakistan War 20:5
Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905 10:11-12; 11:2; 17:25-28; 18:16
Spanish-American War, 1898 7:19-20
War of the Pacific, 1879-83 11:20-22; 18:24
World War I 4:19-20; 5:25-26; 14:43-45; 17:4-5; 20:45
World War II 5:1-2,9,25-26; 6:7-8,27-28; 8:36; 9:15; 10:11-12,15-16,19,26,31; 12:29-30; 14:22,24; 19:35

see also specific battles by name

-- BATTLES --
Aden, Capture of, 1839 13:19-21
Bay of Pigs, Cuba, 1961 20:52
Cape Matapan, 1717 15:36
Coral Sea, 1942 14:19
Curacao, Capture by Dutch, 1634 11:13-14
Dardenelles 20:45
Downs, 1639 12:35-36
Dynekilen, 1716 16:28
El Callao 11:9
Falkland Islands, 1915 11:31-33
Femern, 1644 14:39
Iles des Saintes, 1782 17:8,48; 18:33
Java Sea, 1942 4:23; 6:31
Jutland, 1916 5:25-26; 11:31-33; 14:43-45
Kijkduin, 1573 20:9-10
Manila Bay, 1898 10:6
Navarino, 1827 2:8; 16:44
Operation Torch, 1942 10:15-16
Pearl Harbor, 1941 3:10; 8:18; 10:5
River Plate, 1939 2:4
Salamis, 400BC 16:42
San Nicholas, 1811 14:3-4
Santa Cruz, 1942 4:13
Savo Island, 1942 6:21-22
Sinope, 1853 15:47; 16:39
Trafalgar, 1805 11:8; 12:8-9,36; 19:21
Tsushima, 1905 10:11-12; 17:25-28

-- VOYAGES OF DISCOVERY AND EXPLORATION --

Alaska, Discovery and Exploration

Bering 12:12
U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey 10:25

Americas, Discovery and Exploration

Columbus 1492 9:36; 10:32
Amundsen, Roald, Antarctic Exped., 1910 5:18
Amundsen, Roald, Arctic Exped. 1918-22 20:43-44
Antarctica, Discovery and Exploration 19:9-10
Amundsen, 1910 5:8
Belgian Ant. Exp. 13:24
Bellingshausen, 1819 8:35
Charcot 10:37
Cook 11:24
D'Urville, 1837-38 7:36
Filchner 11:19-20
Gerlach 3:24; 10:2-3
Japanese IGY, 1956 15:16
Kerguelen 10:5
Rymill 10:26
Shackleton, 1914-16 5:6

Arctic, Discovery and Exploration

Amundsen 20:43-44
Nansen, 1893-96 5:17
Nordenskiold 20:33-34
Vilkitski 15:40

Belgian Antarctic Expedition, 1964-66 13:24
Bering, Vitus, Voyage to Northern Pacific, 1740 12:12
British Grahamland Expedition, 1934-37 10:26
Canada, Discovery and Exploration

Cartier, 1536 7:30
Cartier, 1541-42 7:36
Frobisher 10:17

Cartier, Jacques, Exploration of St. Lawrence River

1536 7:30
1541-42 7:36

Charcot, J.B., Antarctic Exped., 2nd, 1908-10 10:37
Columbus, Christopher

Discovery of America, 1492 7:36; 10:32
Voyage to West Indies, 1492 17:7,48

Cook, James

Circumnavigation of Pacific, 1768-70 5:6
Voyage to Antarctica, 1772 11:24
Voyage to Pacific, 1776-79 11:24

Darwin, Charles, Voyage Around World, 1831-36 3:23
Delaware, Settlement, 1637 5:12; 7:6
Drake, Francis, Sir, Voyages to West Indies, 1485-95 17:7
East Indies, Discovery and Exploration Tasman 18:5
Entrecastreaux, d', Survey of New Caledonia, 1791 11:23
Fernandez de Quiras, Pedro, Discovery of New Hebrides, 1606 12:24
Filchner, Wilhelm, Deutsche Antarktische Exped., 1911-13 11:19-20
Franklin, John, Northwest Passage, 1745-48 5:11
Franz Josef Land, Discovery and Exploration

Austria-Hungary 20:27-28
Frobisher, Martin, Search for Northwest Passage, 1576-77 10:17

Gama, Vasco da, Voyage to India, 1497-99 12:36
Gerlach, Adrien de

Antarctic Exped., 1888-89 10:23
Antarctic Exped., 1897-99 3:24

Gilbert, Humphrey, Sir, Voyage to Newfoundland, 1583 15:23
Kerguelen, ?, Antarctic Exped., 1774 10:5
La Perouse, Voyage to South Pacific, 1785-88 3:29; 18:5
Litke, Fyedor Petrovich, Exploration of Pacific Ocean, 1826-29; 14:7-8
Magellan, Ferdinand, Voyage Around the World, 1518-22 18:24
Malespino, Alejandro, Voyage to South Atlantic and Pacific, 1789-93 11:8-9
Mendana, ?, Discovery of Solomon Is., 1568 12:18
Nansen, Fridtjof, Arctic Exploration, 1893-96 5:18
New Caledonia, Discovery and Exploration - Entrecastreaux 11:23
New Hebrides, Discovery and Exploration - Fernandez de Quiras 12:24

Newfoundland, Discovery and Exploration

Cabot, 1496-97 8:18
Gilbert 15:23
Newfoundland, Settlement, 1583 5:30

Nordenskiold, A.E., Exploration of Northeast Passage, 1878-80 20:33-34
Northwest Passage, Discovery and Explor. - Franklin, 1845-48 5:11
Pacific Ocean, Discovery and Exploration 5:6

Bering 12:12
Cook 11:24

La Perouse 18:5
Litke 14:7-8
Malespino 11:8-9
Perry, Mathew C., Voyage to Japan, 1853-54 13:5
Peru, Discovery and Exploration
Pizzaro 12:18
Pizzaro, Francisco, Conquest of Peru, 1527-34 12:18
Ross, James Clark, Voyage to Antarctica, 1839-44 5:11
Ross Sea Expedition, 1956 3:8
Samoa - Apia Hurricane of 1889 17:9-10
Shackleton, Ernest, Sir, Antarctic Exped., 1914-16 5:6
Solomon Islands, Discovery and Exploration - Mendana 12:18
South Africa, Colonization, 1651 5:30
Space, Discovery and Exploration - U.S. Navy 10:13-14
Swedish Antarctic Expedition, 1902-3 3:4
Tasman, Abel, Voyage to East Indies, 1642-43 6:12; 18:5
United States, Discovery and Exploration

Swedish Colonization of Delaware River, 1637-38 9:1-2
Virginia, Colonization, 1607 5:30

Warner, Thomas, Sir, Voyage to West Indies, 1623-32 17:48