| PAGE | | DATE |
| 4 | The oldest known Ships | B.C. 6000-5000 |
| 7 | Expedition to Punt | B.C. 1600 |
| 11 | Phoenician Expeditions | B.C. 700 |
| 19 | Neco’s Fleet built | B.C. 613 |
| 23 | Anaximander, the Greek, invents Maps | B.C. 580 |
| 25 | Hecatæus writes the First Geography | B.C. 500 |
| 27 | Herodotus describes Egypt | B.C. 446 |
| 30 | Hanno sails down West Coast of Africa | B.C. 450 |
| 32 | Xenophon crosses Asia Minor | B.C. 401 |
| 38 | Alexander the Great finds India | B.C. 327 |
| 41 | Nearchus navigates the Indian Ocean | B.C. 326 |
| 45 | The Geography of Eratosthenes | B.C. 240-196 |
| 48 | Pytheas discovers the British Isles and Thule | B.C. 333 |
| 55 | Julius Cæsar explores France, Britain, Germany | B.C. 60-54 |
| 61 | Strabo’s Geography | A.D. 18 |
| 68 | Agricola discovers the Highlands | A.D. 83 |
| 71 | Pliny’s Geography | A.D. 170 |
| 74 | Ptolemy’s Geography and Maps | A.D. 159 |
| 78 | The First Guide for Travellers | Fourth century |
| 83 | St. Patrick explores Ireland | 432-93 |
| 85 | St. Columba reaches the Orkney Isles | 563 |
| 85 | St. Brandon crosses the Atlantic | Sixth century |
| 90 | Willibald travels from Britain to Jerusalem | 721 |
| 92 | The Christian Topography of Cosmas | Sixth century |
| 94 | Naddod the Viking discovers Iceland | 861 |
| 95 | Erik the Red discovers Greenland | 985 |
| 95 | Lief discovers Newfoundland and North American Coast | 1000 |
| 97 | Othere navigates the Baltic Sea | 890 |
| 99 | Mohammedan Travellers to China | 831 |
| 103 | Edrisi’s Geography | 1154 |
| 108 | Benjamin of Tudela visits India and China | 1160 |
| 110 | Carpini visits the Great Khan | 1246 |
| 112 | William de Rubruquis also visits the Great Khan | 1255 |
| 115 | Maffio and Niccolo Polo reach China | 1260-71 |
| 117 | Marco Polo’s Travels | 1271-95 |
| 126 | Ibn Batuta’s Travels through Asia | 1324-48 |
| 126 | Sir John Mandeville’s Travels published | 1372 |
| 134 | Hereford Mappa Mundi appeared | 1280 |
| 137 | Anglo-Saxon Map of the World | 990 |
| 138 | Prince Henry of Portugal encourages Exploration | 1418 |
| 140 | Zarco and Vaz reach Porto Santo | 1419 |
| 140 | Zarco discovers Madeira | 1420 |
| 142 | Nuno Tristam discovers Cape Blanco | 1441 |
| 143 | Gonsalves discovers Cape Verde Islands | 1442 |
| 144 | Cadamosto reaches the Senegal River and Cape Verde | 1455 |
| 145 | Diego Gomez reaches the Gambia River | 1458 |
| 148 | Death of Prince Henry | 1460 |
| 149 | Fra Mauro’s Map | 1457 |
| 150 | Diego Cam discovers the Congo | 1484 |
| 152 | Bartholomew Diaz rounds the Cape of Good Hope | 1486 |
| 153 | Martin Behaim makes his Globe | 1492 |
| 160 | Christopher Columbus discovers West Indies | 1492 |
| 166 | Columbus finds Jamaica and other Islands | 1493 |
| 167 | Columbus finds Trinidad | 1498 |
| 169 | Death of Columbus | 1504 |
| 170 | Amerigo Vespucci finds Trinidad and Venezuela | 1499 |
| 175 | First Map of the New World by Juan de la Cosa | 1500 |
| 177 | Vasco da Gama reaches India by the Cape | 1497 |
| 181 | Pedro Cabral discovers Brazil | 1500 |
| 188 | Francisco Serrano reaches the Spice Islands | 1511 |
| 192 | Balboa sees the Pacific Ocean | 1513 |
| 203 | The First Circumnavigation of the World | 1519-22 |
| 206 | Cordova discovers Yucatan | 1517 |
| 206 | Juan Grijalva discovers Mexico | 1518 |
| 209 | Cortes conquers Mexico | 1519 |
| 217 | Pizarro conquers Peru | 1531 |
| 221 | Orellana discovers the Amazon | 1541 |
| 225 | Cabot sails to Newfoundland | 1497 |
| 228 | Jacques Cartier discovers the Gulf of St. Lawrence | 1534 |
| 236 | Sir Hugh Willoughby finds Nova Zembla | 1553 |
| 238 | Richard Chancellor reaches Moscow via Archangel | 1554 |
| 240 | Anthony Jenkinson crosses Russia to Bokhara | 1558 |
| 244 | Pinto claims the discovery of Japan | 1542 |
| 245 | Martin Frobisher discovers his Bay | 1576 |
| 249 | Drake sails round the World | 1577-80 |
| 260 | Davis finds his Strait | 1586 |
| 269 | Barents discovers Spitzbergen | 1596 |
| 275 | Hudson sails into his Bay | 1610 |
| 281 | Baffin discovers his Bay | 1616 |
| 285 | Sir Walter Raleigh explores Guiana | 1595 |
| 290 | Champlain discovers Lake Ontario | 1615 |
| 298 | Torres sails through his Strait | 1605 |
| 299 | Le Maire rounds Cape Horn | 1617 |
| 302 | Tasman finds Tasmania | 1642 |
| 306 | Dampier discovers his Strait | 1698 |
| 312 | Behring finds his Strait | 1741 |
| 322 | Cook discovers New Zealand | 1769 |
| 326 | Cook anchors in Botany Bay, Australia | 1770 |
| 333 | Cook discovers the Sandwich Islands | 1777 |
| 338 | La Perouse makes discoveries in China Seas | 1785-8 |
| 347 | Bruce discovers the source of the Blue Nile | 1770 |
| 353 | Mungo Park reaches the Niger | 1796 |
| 359 | Vancouver explores his Island | 1792 |
| 362 | Mackenzie discovers his River and British Columbia | 1789-93 |
| 366 | Ross discovers Melville Bay | 1818 |
| 368 | Parry discovers Lancaster Sound | 1819 |
| 372 | Franklin reaches the Polar Sea by Land | 1819-22 |
| 378 | Parry’s discoveries on North American Coast | 1822 |
| 382 | Franklin names the Mackenzie River | 1825 |
| 386 | Beechey doubles Icy Cape | 1826 |
| 388 | Parry attempts the North Pole by Spitzbergen | 1827 |
| 392 | Denham and Clapperton discover Lake Tchad | 1822 |
| 396 | Clapperton reaches the Niger | 1826 |
| 397 | Réné Caillé enters Timbuktu | 1829 |
| 402 | Richard and John Lander find the Mouth of the Niger | 1830 |
| 404 | Ross discovers Boothia Felix | 1829 |
| 405 | James Ross finds the North Magnetic Pole | 1830 |
| 411 | Bass discovers his Strait | 1797 |
| 413 | Flinders and Bass sail round Tasmania | 1798 |
| 416 | Flinders surveys South Coast of Australia | 1801-4 |
| 421 | Sturt traces the Darling and Murray Rivers | 1828-31 |
| 424 | Burke and Wills cross Australia | 1861 |
| 429 | Ross discovers Victoria Land in the Antarctic | 1840 |
| 432 | Franklin discovers the North-West Passage | 1847 |
| 440 | Livingstone crosses Africa from West to East | 1849-56 |
| 452 | Burton and Speke discover Lake Tanganyika | 1857 |
| 454 | Speke sees Victoria Nyanza | 1858 |
| 457 | Livingstone finds Lakes Shirwa and Nyassa | 1858-64 |
| 461 | Speke and Grant enter Uganda | 1861 |
| 468 | Baker meets Speke and Grant at Gondokoro | 1861 |
| 470 | Baker discovers Albert Nyanza | 1864 |
| 477 | Livingstone finds Lakes Meoro and Bangweolo | 1868 |
| 482 | Stanley finds Livingstone | 1871 |
| 484 | Livingstone dies at Ilala | 1873 |
| 499 | Stanley finds the Mouth of the Congo | 1877 |
| 509 | Nordenskiöld solves the North-East Passage | 1879 |
| 519 | Younghusband enters Lhasa | 1904 |
| 524 | Nansen reaches Farthest North | 1895 |
| 534 | Peary reaches the North Pole | 1909 |
| 544 | Amundsen reaches the South Pole | 1911 |