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Revision as of 00:35, 4 June 2013
This is a timeline of events in maritime history.
Events before Christ
- About 45,000 BCE: First humans arrive in Australia, presumably by boat
- About 6,000 BCE: Earliest evidence of dugout canoes[1]
- 5th millennium BCE: Earliest known depiction of a sailing boat[2]
- About 2,000 BCE:
- Hannu travels to the Land of Punt
- Austronesian people migrate from Taiwan to Indonesia, preceding the colonization of Polynesia.[3][4][5]
- about 1175 BCE: Battle of the Delta, one of the first recorded naval battles
- 1194-1174 BCE: Supposed timespan for the events of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey
- Around 600 BCE: According to Herodotus, Necho II sends Phoenician expedition to circumnavigate Africa
- 542 BCE: First written record of a trireme
- 5th century BCE: Hanno the Navigator explores the coast of West Africa
- 480 BCE: Battle of Salamis, arguably the largest naval battle in ancient times
- 247 BCE: Lighthouse of Alexandria completed
- 214 BCE: Lingqu Canal built
- 31 BCE: Battle of Actium decides the Final War of the Roman Republic
Events after Christ
- About 200: Junks are developed in China
- 793: The raid of Lindisfarne, first recorded Viking raid
- 984: Pound locks used in China; See [[Technology of the Song Dynasty]
- About 1000: Leif Ericson reaches North America, first recorded crossing of the Atlantic Ocean
- 1088: Dream Pool Essays by Shen Kuo, first description of a magnetic compass
- 1159: Lübeck is rebuilt, and the Hanseatic League is founded
- About 1190: Alexander Neckam writes the first European description of a magnetic compass
- 13th century: Portolan charts are introduced in the Mediterranean
- About 1280: Polynesian settlers arrive at New Zealand, the last major landmass to be populated
- 1274: First Mongol invasion of Japan
- 1421: Zheng He's expeditions
- 1488: Bartolomeu Dias reaches the Cape of Good Hope
- 1492: Christopher Columbus' first voyage, first recorded non-Arctic crossing of the Atlantic
- 1497: John Cabot reaches North American mainland, as first European since the Vikings
- 1498
- Vasco da Gama completes the first voyage from Europe to India
- Columbus reaches continental South America
- 1513: Jorge Álvares completes the first voyage from Europe to China
- 1522: Ferdinand Magellan's last ship arrives in Europe, first recorded circumnavigation, and crossing of the Pacific Ocean
- 1571: Battle of Lepanto, last major naval battle between galleys
- 1588: The Spanish Armada is destroyed, shifting naval superiority to England
- 1602: Dutch East India Company is founded
- 1606: Willem Janszoon is the first European to reach Australia
- 1620: Cornelis Drebbel constructs first submarine
- 1628: The Vasa sinks in Stockholm harbour on its maiden voyage
- 1736: John Harrison tests the first successful marine chronometer
- 1757: First sextant constructed
- 1771: James Cook completes first circumnavigation without casualties to scurvy
Rise of steam ships
- 1783: Claude de Jouffroy constructs the first recorded steamboat
- 1807: North River Steamboat, the first commercially successful steamboat, is launched
- 1820: Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen discovers mainland Antarctica
- 1845: SS Great Britain becomes first iron steamer to cross the Atlantic
- 1853: American commodore Matthew C. Perry arrives in Tokyo Bay, enforcing the Convention of Kanagawa in 1854.
- 1859: The first ironclad warship, the Gloire, is launched
- 1862: The Battle of Hampton Roads, the first battle between ironclads
- 1864: Ictineo II, the first submarine powered by an internal-combustion engine
- 1869: The Suez Canal opens
- 1871: Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld braves the Northeast Passage on the Vega
- 1894: The Turbinia, the world's first turbine-powered ship, is launched
- 1895: The Kiel Canal opens
- 1906
- Roald Amundsen conquers the Northwest Passage on the Gjøa
- HMS Dreadnought launched, starting the era of battleships
- 1912: The Titanic sinks in the North Atlantic
- 1914: The Panama Canal opens
- 1916: Battle of Jutland, claimed to be the largest naval battle in history, counting tonnage of engaged ships.
- 1918: HMS Furious (47) becomes the first aircraft carrier used in warfare
- 1937: USS Leary (DD-158) becomes first American vessel to be equipped with radar
- 1941: The attack on Pearl Harbor starts the Pacific War
- 1942: The battle of Midway marks the demise of battleships and the domination of aircraft carriers
- 1944: Normandy landings, the largest amphibious invasion in history
- 1951: The first purpose-built container ships enter operation
- 1955: USS Nautilus (SSN-571), the world's first nuclear-powered vessel, is launched
- 1959
- The USS Skate (SSN-578) surfaces at the North Pole
- The SR.N1, the first practical hovercraft, is launched
- 1960: The Trieste descends to the Challenger Deep
- 1962: The Cuban Missile Crisis; a major naval confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union
- 1982: Falklands War, one of the largest naval campaigns since World War II
- 1985: The Sea Shadow (IX-529), an early stealth ship, is launched
- 1987: The MV Doña Paz is lost, claiming 4,375 lives, the worst peacetime maritime disaster in history
- 1994: The Global Positioning System becomes operational
- 2005: Piracy in Somalia becomes an international concern
- 2007: Arktika 2007 becomes the first manned expedition to the North Pole seabed
See also
- Age of Discovery
- History of navigation
- List of circumnavigations
- List of explorers
- List of naval battles
- Timeline of transportation technology
- Timeline for aircraft carrier service
- Timeline of European exploration
References
- ^ 1000 Inventions and Discoveries, by Roger Bridgman
- ^ Carter, Robert "Boat remains and maritime trade in the Persian Gulf during the sixth and fifth millennia BC"Antiquity Volume 80 No.307 March 2006 [1]
- ^ Hage, P.; Marck, J. (2003). "Matrilineality and Melanesian Origin of Polynesian Y Chromosomes". Current Anthropology. 44 (S5).
- ^ Kayser, M.; Brauer, S.; Cordaux, R.; Casto, A.; Lao, O.; Zhivotovsky, L. A.; Moyse-Faurie, C.; Rutledge, R. B.; Schiefenhoevel, W. (2006). "Melanesian and Asian origins of Polynesians: mtDNA and Y chromosome gradients across the Pacific". Molecular Biology and Evolution. 23 (11): 2234–2244. doi:10.1093/molbev/msl093. PMID 16923821.
- ^ Su, B.; Underhill, P.; Martinson, J.; Saha, N.; McGarvey, S. T.; Shriver, M. D.; Chu, J.; Oefner, P.; Chakraborty, R. (2000). "Polynesian origins: Insights from the Y chromosome". PNAS. 97 (15): 8225–8228. doi:10.1073/pnas.97.15.8225.
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