Encyclopedia of Exploration: Geo-chronological Index

The index arranged chronologically within specific regions of the world. Lettering in bold indicates how the name is placed alphabetically in the Encyclopedia. Articles of a general nature, giving an historical overview of exploration in specific regions, are indicated by an asterisk (*). These articles frequently include many lesser expeditions, or travellers for whom there is limited biographical information.

Volume 1: From the earliest times to the year 1800

Early travellers and expeditions in Egypt, Sudan and the Middle East, 2900-500 BCE

BCE c2900   Djer   Egypt
BCE c2530   Sneferu   Middle East, Egypt
BCE c2455   Sahura   Egypt, Somalia
BCE c2360   Baurtet   Sudan, Egypt
BCE c2300   Weni   Palestine, Egypt
BCE c2250   Herkhuf   Sudan, Egypt
BCE c2200   Mekhu   Egypt, Sudan
BCE c2200   Hekayib   Egypt
BCE c1950   Hennu   Somalia, Egypt
BCE c1940–1480   Thuthmosis I, II & III   Middle East, Egypt
BCE c1910   Sinuhe   Egypt, Syria
BCE c1800   Abraham   Middle East, Iraq, Palestine
BCE c1760   Zimri-Lim   Middle East, Iraq, Syria
BCE c1700   Jacob   Middle East, Egypt, Syria
BCE c1492   Queen Hatshepsut   Somalia, Egypt
BCE c1200   Jason   Middle East, Black Sea, Georgia
BCE c1095   Wen-Amon   Egypt, Lebanon
BCE c969–936   Solomon   Middle East, Palestine, South Arabia
BCE c607   Necho II   Africa, Egypt, South Africa
BCE c600   Necho II   Egypt
BCE 525–522   Cambyses II   Sudan, Egypt

Voyages, expeditions and travellers during the classical Greek period, 650-100 BCE

BCE c650   Colaeus

of Samos   Mediterranean, North Africa, Spain
BCE c550   Euthymenes of Massilia   Northwest Africa, Senegal
BCE c550   Midacritus of Phocaea   Mediterranean, Atlantic, Greece
BCE c515   Scylax of Caryanda   Indian Ocean, Arabia, India
BCE 490   Himilco   Atlantic, Spain, France
BCE 470   Hanno   Northwest Africa, Mediterranean
BCE 470   Sataspes   North Africa, Mediterranean
BCE 464–447   Herodotus   Middle East,
BCE c440   *Phoenicians in the Canary Islands   Madeira, Canary Is.
BCE 401–400   Xenophon   Middle East, Turkey, Iraq
BCE c340   Pytheas of Massilia   Europe W., France, Britain
BCE 334–323   Alexander the Great   Middle East, Asia
BCE 330   Craterus   Central Asia, India, Afghanistan
BCE 325   Androsthenes of Thasos   Middle East, Persian Gulf
BCE 325   Onesicritus of Astypaleia   Asia S., Sri Lanka
BCE 325   Nearchus   Indian Ocean, India, Iran
BCE 325   Hiero of Soli   Indian Ocean, Persian Gulf, Arabian Sea
BCE 325   Archias of Pella   Middle East, Persian Gulf
BCE 302–291   Megasthenes   India
BCE 300   Euhemerus   Indian Ocean
BCE 285   Patrocles   Asia W., Caspian Sea, Russia
BCE 218–203   Hannibal   Europe S.W., Spain, Italy
BCE 208   Hasdrubal Barca   Europe S.W., Spain, France
BCE c200   *Carthaginians in the Azores   North Atlantic, Azores
BCE 181–146   Polybius   North Africa, Mediterranean, Senegal
BCE c140   Eudoxus of Cyzicus   Arabian Sea, India
BCE c130   Agatharchides of Cnidus   Persian Gulf, Red Sea
BCE c115   Eudoxus of Cyzicus   Northwest Africa, Morocco
BCE c100   Poseidonios   Mediterranean, North Africa, Greece

Expeditions at the time of the Roman Empire, 81 BCE-218 CE

BCE 81–45   Gaius Julius Caesar   Europe, France, Mediterranean
BCE 44–21   Strabo   Mediterranean, Turkey, Egypt
BCE 29–24   Juba II   North Africa, Morocco, Canary Is.
BCE 26–30   *Roman Voyages to Ceylon   Asia S., India, Sri Lanka
BCE 25–24   Aelius Gallus   Middle East, Egypt, South Arabia
BCE 25–22   C. Petronius   Nile, Sudan
BCE c20   Demetrius of Tarsus   Europe, Britain
BCE 19   Lucius Cornelius Balbus   North Africa, Sahara, Tunisia
BCE 15–10   Claudius Nero Tiberius   Northern Europe, Denmark, Germany
BCE 12–9   Nero Claudius Drusus   Germany
BCE c10   Julius Maternus   North Africa, Sahara, Algeria
BCE c5   Septimus Flaccus   North Africa, Sahara, Algeria
11–19   Germanicus Caesar   Germany
c20   Hippalus   Indian Ocean, Arabian Sea, India
42   Suetonius Paulinus   North Africa, Morocco
46–79   Pliny (the Elder)   Mediterranean, Italy
c50   Diogenes   East Africa, Ethiopia, Tanzania
c50   Bion of Soli   Egypt, Ethiopia
c60   Claudius Caesar Nero   Egypt, Sudan
79–84   Gnaeus Julius Agricola   Europe, Britain
110   Maes Titanius   Central Asia, China
120   Marinus of Tyre   Asia S., Africa, Asia
150   Euphemus   North Atlantic, Canary Is.
218   Gauis Julius Solinus   Europe, Britain

Other travellers in the Middle East, the Mediterranean and North Africa, 316-1177

316–357   Frumentius   Red Sea, Ethiopia
320   Meropius of Tyre   Red Sea, Ethiopia
345   Thomas of Kana   India,
416   Rutilius   Mediterranean, Italy, France
530–550   Cosmas of Alexandria   Middle East, India, Red Sea
568–569   Zemarchus   Central Asia, Turkey
570   Antoninus of Placentia   Middle East, Egypt, Palestine
635   Alopen   Central Asia, China
722–732   Saint Willibald   Middle East, Palestine, Turkey
850   Eldad the Danite   Middle East, Egypt, North Africa
1159–1177   Benjamin of Tudela   Asia W., Iran, Middle East

Chinese and Japanese travellers, 219 BCE-1431 CE

BCE 219   Hsu Fu   China, Japan, Northwest Pacific
BCE 138–116   Chang Ch’ien   Central Asia, China
97–98   Kan Ying   Central Asia, China
250   Kang Tai   China, Vietnam, Cambodia
399–414   Fa-Hien   Central Asia, China, India
485   Hui Shen   China, Mexico, Pacific N.
518–521   Sung Yun   Central Asia, China, Pakistan
629–645   Hsuan Tsang   China, Central Asia, India
633–680   Hiuen-Chiu   Central Asia, China, India
643–664   Wang-Hiuen-Tse   India, Tibet
671–695   I-Tsing   China, India, Indonesia
838–847   Ennin   China, Japan
850   Duan Chengshi   China
1405–1433   Zheng He   China, Africa, Asia
1405–1433   Ma Huan   China, Asia S., India
1425–1433   Fei Hsin   China, Africa, Asia

Vikings, Norsemen and monks in the North Atlantic, Greenland and Russia, 563-1398

563  Saint Columba   North Atlantic, Faeroe Is., Scotland
565   Saint Brendan   North Atlantic, Scotland, Ireland
795–825   *Iceland: early voyages   North Atlantic, Iceland
820–950   *Swedish Vikings in Russia   Sweden, Russia
840   Rurik   Sweden, Russia
844–862   *Norsemen in the Mediterranean   Mediterranean, Spain, France
859–860   Askold   Sweden, Russia
860–861   Gardar Svarsson   North Atlantic, Iceland
890   Wulfstan   Baltic Sea, Norway
890–900   Othere   Arctic Ocean, Norway
900   Gunnbjorn Ulfsson   North Atlantic, Iceland, Greenland
913–944   Igor   Russia
978–979   Snaebjorn Galti   North Atlantic, Greenland
980–986   Eirik Raudi   North Atlantic, Iceland, Greenland
982   Ari Marsson   North America, Newfoundland, Canada
986   Bjarni Herjolfsson   North America, Iceland, Canada
1000–1001   Leif Eiriksson   North America, Greenland, Canada
1001   Thorvald Eiriksson   North America, Grenland, Canada
1003–1006   Thorfinn Karlsefni   North Atlantic, Labrador, Canada
1029   Gudleif Gudlaugson   North America, Newfoundland, Canada
1032   Uleb   Arctic Ocean, Russia
1120–1340   *Greenland: the Norse colony 1120-1360
1170   Madoc   North Atlantic, North America
1194   *Spitsbergen: early voyages
1347–1720   *Greenland: the Norse colony 1367-1720
1360   Nicholas of Lynne   North Atlantic, Scotland, Iceland
1380   Antonio & Nicolò Zeno   North Atlantic, Faeroe Is.
1398   Henry Sinclair   North Atlantic, North America

Arab and Persian travellers and geographers, 850-1500

700–1800   *Islamic Geographers, Arabic and Persian   Middle East, Asia, Africa
851   Sulaiman el Tagir   Asia S., Ceylon, China
873–891   Ahmad ibn abi Yaqub   Middle East, Africa, India
882–912   Ishaq bin Yahuda   Asia S., India, China
910–946   Abu ‘l Hassan al-Masudi   Middle East, Asia, Africa
921–922   Ahmad ibn Fadhlan   Asia W., Caspian Sea, Russia
943   Abul Kasem Mohammed ibn Hauqal   North Africa, Mali
950   Buzurg ibn Shahriyar   Indian Ocean, India, East Africa
950–980   Ali ibn Sultan al-Hasan   East Africa, Somalia, Tanzania
1015–1048   Abu ar-Rayhan Muhammad al-Biruni   Asia S., India, Afghanistan
1046–1052   Nasir-i Khusraw   Iran, Egypt, Saudi Arabia
1095–1099   Abu Hamid al-Ghazzali   Iran, Iraq, Middle East
1110–1154   Abu Abdallah Mohammad ibn Idrisi   North Africa, Turkey, Mediterranean
1150   Ibn Fatima   Northwest Africa, Morocco
1183–1185   Abu Husain Mohammad ibn Jubair   North Africa, Middle East
1194–1223   Muhyi ad-Din Muhammad al-Arabi   Middle East, Turkey, Saudi Arabia
1200–1229   Yaqut   Middle East, Egypt, Iran
1219–1222   Kiu Ch’ang Chun   China, Mongolia, Central Asia
1226–1256   Muslih-Uddin Sa’di   Middle East, India, Iran
1324   Kankan Musa   Mali, Saudi Arabia
1325–1354   Abu Abdullah Mohammed ibn Batuta   North Africa, Africa, Asia
1348–1389   Saad al-Din Masud al-Taftazani   Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Iran
1349–1406   Abu Zaid ibn Khaldun   North Africa, Algeria, Morocco
1365–1405   Ali ibn Muhammad al-Jurjani   Iran, Uzbekistan, Middle East
1480–1484   Felix Fabri   Middle East, Egypt, Palestine
1498–1500   Ahmad ibn Majid   Indian Ocean, India, East Africa

European missions, merchants and travellers to China and Central Asia, 1237-1295

1237–1238   Julian of Hungary   Eastern Europe, Russia
1242–1254   Guillaume Boucher   Asia, Mongolia
1245–1247   Giovanni del Pian de Carpini   Central Asia, Mongolia
1247–1248   Friar Ascelin   Asia W., Turkey, Armenia
1249–1252   Andrew of Longjumeau   Central Asia, Mongolia
1251–1252   Philip de Toucy   Middle East, Turkey, Russia
1252–1255   William of Rubruck   Central Asia, Russia, Mongolia
1260–1270   Nicolò Polo   Central Asia, Russia, China
1270–1273   Jacob d’Ancona   Middle East, India, China
1271–1295   Marco Polo   Asia, China
1275–1280   Marco Polo (travels in China)   Asia, China

European missionaries and other wanderers to the East, 1102-1515

1102–1103   Sæwulf   Mediterranean, Greece, Palestine
1106–1107   Abbot Daniel   Middle East, Russia, Palestine
1144   Hugh of Jabala   Middle East, Palestine
1253–1256   Nicholas Hayton   Central Asia, Mongolia
1275–1332   Giovanni da Montecorvino   Asia, India, China
1278–1289   Rabban Bar Sauma   Central Asia, China, Middle East
1288–1302   Ricoldo da Monte di Croce   Middle East, Palestine, Iraq
1289–1291   Pietro di Lucolongo   Middle East, Persia, India
1302–1330   Father Jordanus   India, Iran
1308–1326   Andrew of Perugia   Asia, India, China
1310–1340   Francesco Balducci Pegolotti   Europe, China, Middle East
1316–1330   Odoric of Pordenone   Central Asia, India, China
1322–1356   John Mandeville   Middle East, (China, Asia)
1335–1338   Andrew the Frank   Central Asia, Russia, Mongolia
1338–1353   Giovanni dei Marignolli   Central Asia, India, China
1342   Domenico de Vilioni   Asia, Iran, China
1396–1427   Johann Schiltberger   Asia W., Turkey, Russia
1403–1406   Ruy Gonzalez de Clavijo   Central Asia, Iran, Uzbekistan
1419–1444   Niccolò di Conti   Asia S., East Indies, India
1432   Bertrandon de La Brocquiere   Middle East, Palestine, Turkey
1442   Abd-ar-Razzak Samarqandi   Asia S., Arabia, India
1466–1472   Afanasii Nikitich Nikitin   Asia, Iran, India
1473–1477   Ambrogio Contarini   Middle East, Armenia, Iran
1494–1499   Girolamo di Santo Stefano   Sumatra, Myanmar
1496–1499   Arnold von Harff   Middle East, Egypt, Saudi Arabia
1500   Caterino Zeno   Middle East, Iran
1500   Martin Baumgarten   Middle East, Egypt, Syria
1502–1508   Lodovico di Varthema   Asia S., East Africa, Indonesia
1515   Johan van Schoorl   Mediterranean, Palestine, Palestine

The coastal exploration of West Africa and adjacent islands, 1291-1478

1291   Ugolino Vivaldi   Northwest Africa,
1300   *Genoese voyages to the Azores
1312   Lanzaroto Malocello   Canary Is.
1341   Angiolino di Taggia   Canary Is.
1344   Luis de La Cerda   Canary Is.
1346   Jayme Ferrer   Northwest Africa, North Atlantic E.
1370   Robert Machin   Madeira
1394–1460   *Henry the Navigator   West Africa, Portugal
1395   *Castile Company voyages to the Canary Islands
1401–1413     Anselme d’Ysalguier  West Africa, Mali
1402–1403   Gadifer de La Salle   Canary Is.
1402–1405   Jean de Bethencourt   Canary Is.
1415   João de Trasto   Northwest Africa, Canary Is.
1418–1420   João Goncalves   Northwest Africa, Madeira
1427   Diogo de Silves   Azores
1432   Joshua van der Berg   Azores
1433–1434   Gil Eannes   Northwest Africa, Western Sahara
1435   Gil Eannes   Northwest Africa, Western Sahara
1436   Afonso Goncalves Baldaya   Northwest Africa, Mauritania, Western Sahara
1440   Gonçalo Velho   Azores
1441–1443   Antão Goncalves   Northwest Africa, Western Sahara
1441–1443   Nuño Tristao   Northwest Africa, Western Sahara, Mauritania
1445   Lançarote Pessanha   Northwest Africa, Western Sahara, Mauritania
1445   Gonçalo da Sintra   Northwest Africa, Western Sahara, Mauritania
1445   Dinis Dias   West Africa, Mauritania, Senegal
1445–1446   Alvaro Fernandes   West Africa, Gambia
1445–1447   Antão Goncalves   Northwest Africa, Mauritania
1445–1447   João Fernandes   West Africa, Sahara, Mauritania
1446   Nuño Tristao   West Africa, Mauritania, Senegal
1446–1450   Antonio Malfante   North Africa, Algeria, Mali
1448   Vallarte   West Africa, Gambia, Senegal
1455   Alvise da Cadamosto   West Africa, Senegal, Gambia
1455   Antonio da Noli   Atlantic E., Cape Verde Is.
1456   Alvise da Cadamosto   West Africa, Gambia, Cape Verde Is.
1458   Diogo Gomes   West Africa, Cape Verde Is., Gambia
1461–1462   Diogo Afonso   West Africa, Mauritania, Cape Verde Is.
1462   Pero da Sintra   West Africa, Liberia, Sierra Leone
1466   Estevão Afonso   West Africa, Senegal, Gambia
1466–1470   Jobst van Heurter   Azores
1469   Benedetto Dei   Middle East, Mali
1469–1474   Fernão Gomes   West Africa, Ghana, Nigeria
1478   Juan Rejon   Canary Is.

Portuguese voyages around the African coast and into the Indian Ocean, 1470-1525

1470–1471   João de Santarem   West Africa, Principe & São Tomé, Nigeria
1472   Fernão do Poo   West Africa, Cameroun, Fernando Po
1474   Lopo Goncalves   West Africa, Guinea, Gabon
1479–1481   Eustache de La Fosse   West Africa, Sierra Leone, Ghana
1480–1554   Muhiddin Piri Reis   Atlantic, Mediterranean
1481   Diogo de Azambuja   West Africa, Ghana
1481–1483   Pedro de Evora   East Africa, Guinea, Mali
1482–1484   Diogo Cão   Central Africa, Congo, Angola
1485–1486   Diogo Cão   West Africa, Congo, Namibia
1486   João Afonso de Aveiro   East Africa, Benin, Nigeria
1487–1488   Bartolomeu Dias   West Africa, South Africa
1487–1520   Pêro da Covilhão   East Africa, India, Ethiopia
1490   Pêro Vaz da Cunha   West Africa, Senegal, Brazil
1490–1491   Gonçalo de Sousa   Central Africa, Congo, Angola
1491–1492   Father Antonio   Central Africa, Congo, Angola
1497–1499   Vasco da Gama   South Africa, Africa, India
1498–1505   Duarte Pacheco Pereira   South Africa, Brazil, East Africa
1500   Diogo Dias   South America E., Somalia, Malagasy
1500   André Goncalves   South America E., Brazil
1500–1501   João da Nova   East Africa, Ascension I., St. Helena
1500–1501   Sancho de Toar   South America E., Brazil, Mozambique
1500–1501   Pedro Alvares Cabral   East Africa, India, Brazil
1501–1502   Priest Joseph   India
1501–1544   Lourenço Marques   East Africa, Malagasy, Mozambique
1502–1503   Vasco da Gama   East Africa, Mozambique, India
1505   Fernão Soares   East Africa, Madagascar, Malagasy
1505–1508   Lourenço de Almeida   India, Maldives, Sri Lanka
1505–1510   Francisco de Almeida   South Africa, East Africa, India
1506–1507   João Gomes   Ethiopia
1520–1526   Rui de Lima   Ethiopia
1524–1525   Vasco da Gama   East Africa, India

The Portuguese in India and the Red Sea, and early voyages to the East Indies, 1462-1596

1462–1514   Francesco Suriano   Middle East, Egypt, Palestine
1501–1516   Duarte Barbosa   East Africa, India
1502–1574   Damião de Goes   India
1503–1504   Afonso de Albuquerque   East Africa, India
1504   Lopo Soares de Meneses   India
1506–1507   Tristão da Cunha   Indian Ocean, India, Tristan da Cunha I.
1506–1510   Afonso de Albuquerque   East Africa, Iran, India
1507   Diogo Fernandes Pereira   Indian Ocean, Mauritius
1508–1509   Diogo Lopes de Sequeira   East Africa, India, Malaysia
1510   Jorge de Aguiar   Red Sea, India
1511–1512   Afonso de Albuquerque   East Indies, India, Malaysia
1513   Fernão Dias   Middle East, Red Sea
1513–1515   Afonso de Albuquerque   Middle East, Iran, India
1513–1517   Pêro de Mascarenhas   Indian Ocean, Chagos Arch., Réunion
1515–1517   Lopo Soares de Albergaria   Sudan, Red Sea
1515–1546   Fernão Lopes   South Atlantic, St. Helena
1516–1517   João de Coelho   India, Bengal
1517–1518   João de Silveira   India, Bengal, Maldives
1519–1529   Pedro Nunes   India
1520   Domingos Paes   India
1523–1528   Antonio Tenreiro   Middle East, Syria, Iraq
1528–1538   Fernão Lopes de Castanheda   Asia S., East Indies, India
1529–   Tavares de Sousa   Middle East, Persian Gulf, Iraq
1534–1568   Garcia da Orta   India,
1536–1540   António Galvao   East Indies, Moluccas, Indonesia
1540–1541   João de Castro   Sudan, Red Sea
1550–1557   Giovanni Battista Ramusio   Italy
1550–1572   Cristobal Acosta   India
1553–1570   Luís Vaz de Camoes   Cambodia, East Indies
1570–1590   Jorge de Lemos   India, Sumatra, Malaysia
1590–1596   Pedro Paez   Middle East, India, Yemen

Early voyages in the East Indies, to China and South-East Asia, 1503-1548

1503–1517   Giovanni di Empoli   East Indies, India, China
1505–1512   Francisco Serrao   East Indies, Moluccas, Indonesia
1509–1527   Duarte Coelho   South-East Asia, China, Thailand
1511   Antonio de Miranda de Azevedo   East Indies, Thailand
1511   Duarte Fernandes   East Indies, Thailand
1511   Ruy Nuñes da Cunha   East Indies, Myanmar
1511–1514   Francisco Rodrigues   East Indies, Indonesia
1511–1514   Antonio de Abreu   East Indies, Indonesia
1511–1540   Tomé Pires   East Indies, Java, China
1513–1547   Jorge Alvares   China, Japan
1515   Rafaello Perestrello   East Indies, China
1515–1517   Andrea Corsali   India, Red Sea
1516–1518   Fernão Peres de Andrade   East Indies, Malaysia, China
1548   Galeote Pereira   Thailand, China

The East Indies, South-East Asia and Japan, 1526-1613

1526–1527   Jorge de Meneses   East Indies, Borneo, New Guinea
1527   Estevão Dias   South Africa, India
1528   Jean and Raoul Parmentier   Indian Ocean, Sumatra, Indonesia
1537–1558   Fernão Mendes Pinto   East Indies, China, Japan
1540   António de Faria   East Indies, China, Vietnam
1542   Diogo (or Francisco) Zeimoto   East Indies, China, Japan
1544   Pero Diez   East Indies, China, Japan
1545   Ynigo Ortiz de Retes   New Guinea
1551   Diogo Soares de Mello   Myanmar
1551–1555   Duarte da Gama   China, Japan
1555–1557   Pierre Bonifer   Myanmar
1563–1581   Cesare di Federici   East Indies, Myanmar
1570   Juan de Salcedo   East Indies, Philippines
1571   Tristão Vaz de Veiga   Malaysia, Japan
1575–1580   Francisco de Sande   East Indies, Philippines
1579–1588   Gasparo Balbi   India, Bangla Desh
1580–1583   Gonzalo Ronquillo de Penalosa   East Indies, Borneo, Philippines
1581   Gabriel de Rivera   East Indies, Brunei, Borneo
1582–1599   Diogo Veloso   South-East Asia, Laos, Cambodia
1582–1600   *Taiwan: early encounters
1583–1588   Filippo Sassetti   India
1585   George La Mothe   South-East Asia, Vietnam
1592–1598   Christoval de Jacque   East Indies, Cambodia, Vietnam
1594–1603   Gabriel Quiroga de San Antonio   Sri Lanka, Cambodia
1600–1613   Filipe de Brito e Nicote   Myanmar

European missionaries in India, the East Indies and Japan, 1535-1693

1535–1547   Jordão de Freytas   East Indies, Moluccas
1541–1546   Francisco Xavier   India, East Indies
1542–1570   Cosme de Torres   East Indies, Japan
1547–1552   Francisco Xavier   China, Japan
1548–1569   Gaspar da Cruz   China, Myanmar, Cambodia
1548–1597   Luis Frois   India, Japan
1549–1567   Juan Fernandez   Japan
1552–1562   Balthasar Gago   Japan
1552–1643   Francisco Xavier   Japan
1554–1556   Melchior Nunes Barreto   India, Japan, China
1555–1569   Melchior Carneiro   India, China
1562–1585   Juan González de Mendoza   Central America, Philippines, China
1563–1565   Francisco Peres   South-East Asia, Macao, China
1567–1570   Juan Bautista Ribera   South-East Asia, India, China
1570–1582   Francisco Cabral   India, Japan
1574–1606   Alessandro Valignano   India, China, Japan
1577–1610   João Rodrigues   Japan
1578   Domingos Monteiro   Japan, Korea
1579–1583   Rudolfo Aquaviva   India
1579–1596   Antonio de Monserrate   India, Afghanistan, Yemen
1579–1619   Thomas Stephens   India
1582–1586   Nuño Rodrigues   Europe, Japan
1590–1597   Pedro Ordonez y Cevallos   Japan, Vietnam
1593   Gregorio de Cespedes   Japan, Korea
1593–1597   Pedro Bautista   Philippines, Japan
1595–1636   Diego Francisco Aduarte   South-East Asia, Philippines
1596–1597   Matias de Landecho   East Indies, Northwest Pacific, Japan
1598–1601   Francisco Fernandes   India, Myanmar, Bangla Desh
1602–1623   Girolamo degli Angeli   Hokkaido, Japan
1604–1656   Roberto de Nobili   India
1614–1633   Miguel Rangel   East Indies, Sunda Islands, Indonesia
1619–1638   Diego Collado   Philippines, Japan
1625–1634   Giordano Ansaloni   Philippines, Japan
1630–1634   Gonçalo da Silveira   Japan
1633–1637   Marcello Francesco Mastrilli   Philippines, Japan
1636–1651   Ephrem de Nevers   India
1640–1649   Juan de Palafox y Mendoza   Central America, Philippines, Mexico
1644–1647   Gonçalo de Siqueira de Sousa   Japan
1656–1665   Giuseppe di Santa Maria Sebastiani   India,
1671–1680   Pedro Cubero y Sebastian   India, East Indies
1673–1693   João de Britto   India

1542–1600   *Jesuit Missionaries in India 1542-1605
1546–1578  *Jesuit Missionaries in the Moluccas, 1546-1578  
1498–1558   *Franciscans & Dominicans in India, 1498-1558
1525–1548  *Franciscan Missionaries in Sulawesi, 1525-1548  
1567   *Dominican Missionaries in Thailand from 1567
1579–1703  *Franciscan Missionaries in China, 1579-1703  
1572–1632   *Augustinian Missionaries in India and Bengal  
1614–1700   *Anglican Missionaries in India  
1639–1692   *Theatine Missionaries in India and Borneo  

English trading voyages to Russia. The Muscovy Company, 1553-1591

1496   Grigiriy Istoma   Arctic Ocean, Russia
1553–1554   Richard Chancellor   Arctic Ocean, Russia
1553–1554   Hugh Willoughby   Arctic Ocean, Russia
1555–1556   Richard Chancellor   Arctic Ocean, Russia
1555–1556   George Killingworth   Russia
1556–1557   Stephen Burrough   Northern Europe, Arctic Ocean
1557–1560   Anthony Jenkinson   Central Asia, Russia, Uzbekistan
1561–1572   Anthony Jenkinson   Middle East, Iran
1563–1581   *The Muscovy Company   Russia, Iran
1568–1569   Thomas Randolfe   Russia
1573–1591   Jerome Horsey   Russia
1574–1575   William Burrough   Russia
1580   Arthur Pet   Arctic Ocean
1580–1581   Charles Jackman   Arctic Ocean

English trading voyages to the Mediterranean and the Middle East, 1506-1613

1506   Richard Guylforde   Middle East, Jordan, Palestine
1546–1555   Anthony Jenkinson   Europe, Middle East, Mediterranean
1551   Roger Bodenham   Mediterranean, Spain, Turkey
1580   William Harbourne   Middle East, Syria, Turkey
1581–1582   John Newberry   Middle East, Turkey, Iran
1581–1587   Laurence Aldersey   Middle East, Greece, Palestine
1583–1584   Thomas Sanders   Mediterranean, North Africa, Greece
1584–1602   John Sanderson   Middle East, Egypt, Turkey
1591–1601   Fynes Moryson   Middle East, Turkey, Syria
1593   George Goodley   Northwest Africa, Morocco
1598–1601   Anthony Sherley   Middle East, Russia, Iran
1598–1607   Thomas Sherley   Mediterranean, Turkey
1599–1600   Thomas Dallam   Mediterranean, Turkey
1599–1613   Robert Sherley   Middle East, Iran
Supplementary articles

1552–1616   Richard Hakluyt
1553–1576   Richard Eden
1577–1626   Samuel Purchas
1587–1598   Theodor de Bry
 

Other selected travellers in Russia, the Middle East and North Africa, 1483-1640

1483–1484   Bernhard von Breydenbach   Middle East, Egypt, Palestine
1494   Pietro Casola   Palestine, Palestine
1516–1526   Sigismund von Herberstein   Northern Europe, Arctic Ocean, Russia
1553–1556   Ali ibn Husain Sidi Ali Ra’is   Central Asia, India, Uzbekistan
1560–1567   Leonhard Thurneysser Zum Thurn   North Africa, Egypt, Middle East
1590–1591   Judar   West Africa, Morocco, Mali
1599–1600   Don Juan of Persia   Middle East, Iran, Russia
1600   Jeffry Kirby   Middle East, Syria, Palestine
1600   John Cartwright   Middle East, Syria, Iran
1601   Henry Timberlake   Middle East, Egypt, Palestine
1601–1609   Isaac Massa   Northern Europe, Arctic, Russia
1609–1629   William Lithgow   Europe, North Africa, Middle East
1627–1629   Thomas Herbert   Middle East, Iran
1629–1640   Edward Pocock   Middle East, Turkey, Syria
1637–1640   John Greaves   Egypt

English voyages to Guinea, the Atlantic, the Americas & Pacific, 1528-1621

1528–1532   William Hawkins   West Africa, Liberia, Brazil
1551–1552   Thomas Wyndham   West Africa, Morocco
1553   Thomas Wyndham   West Africa, Liberia, Nigeria
1554–1555   John Lok   West Africa, Liberia, Ghana
1555–1558   William Towerson   West Africa, Liberia, São Thomé
1556   Jérôme Baudet   West Africa, Guinea, Gabon
1569   George Pine   Indian Ocean, Antarctic
1577   Edmund Hogan   Northwest Africa, Morocco
1577–1586   Peter Corder   Argentina, Brazil
1580–1590   Alonso de Espinosa   Atlantic, Guatemala, Canary Is.
1580–1593   Abraham Cocke   South Atlantic, Brazil
1582   Francisco de Andrade   West Africa, Sierra Leone, Cape Verde Islands
1589–1590   John Chidley   Atlantic, West Africa, South America
1591   Richard Rainolds   West Africa, Senegal, Gambia
1591   Abraham Kendall   South Atlantic, St. Helena
1591   George Raymond   Atlantic, South Africa
1591–1593   John Davis   South America S., Falkland Is.
1591–1593   John Segar   South Atlantic, St. Helena
1591–1594   James Lancaster   South Africa, Indian Ocean, Malaysia
1591–1598   Anthony Knivet   Brazil, Angola
1592–1597   Benjamin Wood   East Indies, Mauritius, Venezuela
1594–1595   James Lancaster   Brazil
1618–1620   George Thompson   West Africa, Gambia
1620–1621   Richard Jobson   West Africa, Gambia

The English East India Company. English traders and travellers in Asia, 1583-1752

1583–1591   Ralph Fitch   Malaysia, India
1584–1585   John Newberry   Middle East, Iran, India
1586–1603   John Middleton   West Indies, Indonesia, Cuba
1598–1600   John (I) Davis   East Indies, Sumatra, Indonesia
1599–1614   John Mildenhall   Middle East, Iran, India
1600–1858   *English East India Company   East Indies, India
1601–1603   James Lancaster   South Africa, Sumatra, Indonesia
1601–1605   Edmund Scott   East Indies, Java, Indonesia
1601–1622   Gabriel Towerson   East Indies, Java, Indonesia
1604–1606   Henry Middleton   East Indies, Java, Indonesia
1604–1606   Edward Michelbourne   East Indies
1604–1606   Christopher Colthurst   East Indies, Banda Is.
1605–1612   Jean Mocquet   South America N.E., India, Middle East
1607–1608   David Middleton   East Indies, Java, Indonesia
1607–1611   Robert Covert   Middle East, Iran, India
1607–1611   William Finch   Asia S., Persia, India
1607–1612   William Hawkins   India
1607–1613   John Jourdain   Indian Ocean, Yemen, Indonesia
1607–1616   William Keeling   East Africa, India, Indonesia
1608–1667   Peter Mundy   South Africa, India, China
1609–1611   David Middleton   East Indies, Java, Indonesia
1610–1612   Henry Middleton   Indian Ocean, Indonesia, Yemen
1611   Nicholas Ufflet   India
1611   Thomas Aldworth   India, South Africa
1611–1612   Anthony Hippon   India, Indonesia
1611–1614   John Saris   Asia, South Arabia, Japan
1611–1614   Richard Steele   India
1611–1623   Richard Cocks   Asia, Vietnam, Japan
1612–1614   Thomas Best   India, Sumatra
1612–1616   Nicholas Withington   India
1613–1615   Thomas Samuel   Myanmar, Thailand
1613–1617   Thomas Coryate   Middle East, Iran, India
1614–1615   Nicholas Downton   East Indies, India, Indonesia
1615–1619   Thomas Roe   India,
1616–1618   Edward Connock   Middle East, Iran
1616–1620   Nathaniel Courthope   East Indies, Banda Is., Indonesia
1616–1637   Francisco Quaresmi   Middle East, Syria, Palestine
1616–1639   William Methwold   India
1617–1622   John (II) Davis   East Indies, Indian Ocean
1620   Henry Lord   India
1620–1638   Jean-Baptiste Tavernier   Europe, Turkey, Iran
1621–1626   John Weddell   Middle East, India, Iran
1636–1638   John Weddell   East Indies, Sumatra, China
1638–1668   Jean-Baptiste Tavernier   Middle East, Iran, India
1639   Francis Day   India, Madras
1640–1650   Richard Flecknoe   Europe, Turkey, Brazil
1647–1661   Robert Bargrave   Mediterranean, Turkey
1657–1680   Robert Knox (junior)   India, Sri Lanka
1668–1672   John Marshall   India, Bengal
1669–1688   Thomas Bowrey   East Indies, Bengal, India
1670–1679   John Covel   Middle East, Aegean, Turkey
1672   William Gifford   South-East Asia, Vietnam
1672–1682   John Fryer   Middle East, India
1678–1695   Joseph Pitts   Middle East, Algeria, Saudi Arabia
1682–1687   William Hedges   India, Bengal
1689–1692   John Ovington   India
1699–1701   Robert Douglas   China
1700–1701   William Daniel   Middle East, Egypt, Saudi Arabia
1702–1703   Allen Catchpole   East Indies, Indonesia, China
1714–1717   John Surman   India
1716–1718   Mary Wortley Montagu   Middle East, Europe, Turkey
1731–1734   Thomas Shaw   North Africa, Egypt, Middle East
1743–1745   Jonas Hanway   Middle East, Caspian Sea, Iran
1745   William Beawes   Middle East, India
1750   Bartholomew Plaisted   Middle East, India
1750–1752   Robert Wood   Middle East, Turkey, Syria
1751   John Carmichael   Middle East, India
  *British Travellers of the 18th century   Middle East, Africa, Asia

Travellers, merchants and voyagers, mainly in Asia, 1568-1700

1568–1632   Vincent Le Blanc   Africa, North America, Middle East
1580–1584   Prospero Alpini   North Africa, Egypt
1586–1601   Duarte Gomez Solis   India
1586–1605   Pedro Teixeira   India, Asia, Mexico
1601–1603   François Martin de Vitré   East Indies, Sumatra, Indonesia
1601–1611   François Pyrard de Laval   Indian Ocean, Maldives, Indonesia
1606–1607   Gaspar de Sao Bernardino   East Africa, Iraq, Middle East
1614–1624   Garcia da Silva y Figueroa   Persia, Iran
1614–1626   Pietro Della Valle   Middle East, Egypt, India
1616–1729   *Danish East India Company   India, Sri Lanka
1617   Hernando de Moraga   Middle East, Iran, Iraq
1620–1625   Heinrich von Poser   India, Iran
1622–1625   Jon Olafsson   South Africa, Indian Ocean, India
1629–1643   Sebastião Manrique   Myanmar, China
1632–1670   Evliya Çelebý   Middle East, Russia, Europe
1635–1639   Johann Albrecht von Mandelslo   Middle East, India, Sri Lanka
1647–1660   François de La Boullaye-Le-Gouz   Middle East, India, Iran
1647–1672   Jans Janszoon Struys   Asia S., Russia, Japan
1654–1670   François Bernier   India, Kashmir
1661–1685   Paul Rycaut   Middle East, Turkey
1663   Manoel Godinho   Syria, Iraq
1664–1761   Compagnie des Indes   India, Sri Lanka
1664–1667   Jean Thevenot   India, Middle East, Iran
1664–1679   Ange de Saint Joseph   Middle East, Turkey, Iran
1665–1670   Jean Chardin   Middle East, Iran
1668–1677   Gabriel Dellon   India
1669–1680   François Petis de La Croix   Middle East, Syria, Iran
1670–1676   Johann Michael Wansleben   Middle East, Turkey, Egypt
1670–1679   Antoine Galland   Middle East, Palestine, Turkey
1672–1674   Barthélemy Carré   India, Middle East
1674   Cornelis de Bruyn   Middle East, East Indies, Asia
1674–1706   François Martin   India
1675–1676   Jacob Spon   Mediterranean, Greece, Turkey
1675–1680   Jean Foy Vaillant   North Africa, Egypt, Middle East
1676–1682   Christoph Schweitzer   East Indies, Sri Lanka
1683–1693   Engelbert Kaempfer   East Indies, Japan
1684–1689   Jean-Baptiste Tavernier   Europe, India, Russia
1685–1690   Philippe Avril   Asia, Armenia, China
1686–1711   José Vaz   India, Sri Lanka
1698–1707   James Cunningham   China, Borneo, Vietnam

Travellers, merchants and voyagers, mainly in Asia, 1700-1800

1700   George Psalmanazar   Taiwan
1700–1702   Joseph Pitton de Tournefort   Middle East, Georgia, Armenia
1700–1730   António de Albuquerque Coelho   East Africa, China, East Indies
1705–1719   Bartholomew Ziegenbalg   India
1706–1740   Christoph Theodosius Walther   India
1715–1754   Joseph François Dupleix   India,
1720–1750   José Torrubia   South-East Asia, China, Philippines
1740   John Dean   Indian Ocean, Mozambique, Malagasy
1743   Father Galizia   Myanmar
1750–1798   Christian Friedrich Schwarz   India
1761–1767   Carsten Niebuhr   Middle East, India, Yemen
1765   Jemima Kindersley   South Africa, South Africa, India
1765–1783   James Forbes   India, Gujarat
1771–1779   William Marsden   East Indies, Sumatra
1774–1776   Thomas Forrest   East Indies, Borneo, New Guinea
1774–1790   Johann Philip Werdin   India
1783   Henry Wilson   East Indies, Palau Is.
1783–1797   Hsieh Ch’ing Kao   Europe, China
1784   Thomas Daniell   India
1790–1791   John Blankett   East Indies, Philippines, China
1790–1795   John Mcclure   East Indies, Palau Is, New Guinea
1792–1794   George Macartney   China
1793–1795   David Woodard   East Indies, Sulawesi
1793–1798   Guillaume Antoine Olivier   Middle East, Egypt, Iran
1794–1795   Isaak Titsing   China
1797–1803   John Barrow   South Africa, China, South Africa
1722–1744   *Ostend, or Austrian East India Company   India, Bengal
1731–1813   *Swedish East India Company   Asia, East Indies, China
1751–1756   *Prussian Asiatic Company   China

Dutch Voyages to the East and in the Pacific, 1566-1757

1566–1600   Dirck Gerritszoon Pomp   Asia E., South Shetland Is., Japan
1583–1592   Jan Huyghen van Linschoten   India,
1595–1597   Cornelis Houtman   East Indies, Java
1598–1599   Jacob Corneliszoon van Neck   East Indies, Java
1598–1600   Jacob van Heemskerk   East Indies, Banda Is.
1598–1600   Sebald de Weert   Atlantic, South America, Falkland Is.
1598–1600   Jacques Mahu   South America S., Japan, Pacific
1598–1600   Cornelis Houtman   Indian Ocean, Brazil, East Indies
1598–1600   Wybrand van Warwijck   Indian Ocean, Mauritius, East Indies
1598–1601   Olivier van Noort   Circumnavigation, Pacific, South America
1598–1620   William Adams   South America S., Pacific, Japan
1599–1610   Paulus van Caerden   East Indies, Sumatra
1600–1603   Jacob Corneliszoon van Neck   East Indies, China
1601–1604   Joris van Spilbergen   Indian Ocean, Sumatra, Sri Lanka
1601–1606   Steven van der Hagen   India, East Indies
1602   Wybrand van Warwijck   East Indies
1602   Sebald de Weert   Sri Lanka
1602–1798   *Dutch East India Company  
1602–1795   *Sri Lanka: the Dutch in Ceylon
1605–1608  Cornelis Matelief   East Indies, China
1607–1609   Pieter Willemszoon Verhoeff   East Indies, Japan
1607–1611   Johann Verken   East Indies
1607–1629   Jan Pieterszoon Coen   East Indies, Java
1607–1630   Pieter van den Broecke   India, Angola
1609–1611   Nicholas Puyck   Asia E., East Indies, Japan
1611–1615   Peter Floris   East Indies, Thailand
1611–1615   Lucas Antheuniss   Indian Ocean, Bengal, Thailand
1612–1633   *Dutch Missionaries in the East Indies   East Indies, Moluccas
1614–1617   Joris van Spilbergen   Circumnavigation, Argentina
1615–1617   Willem Cornelis Schouten   Circumnavigation, Pacific, New Guinea
1615–1617   Jacob Le Maire   Circumnavigation, Pacific, Argentina
1618–1625   Willem Ysbrantszoon Bontekoe   East Indies, China
1618–1644   David Pieterszoon de Vries   East Indies, America
1619–1673   François Caron   Taiwan, Japan
1621–1654   Dutch West India Company   West Indies, Brazil
1622–1628   Christoph Carl Fernberger   Circumnavigation, East Indies
1622–1662   *Taiwan: the Dutch in Formosa
1623–1625   Geen Huyghen Schapenham   Peru, Pacific
1623–1626   Jacques Le Hermite   Tierra del Fuego, Argentina
1623–1629   Piet Heyn   West Indies, Brazil
1625–1629   Jacob Gohl   Middle East, Syria, Iraq
1625–1659   Johann Jacob Saar   East Indies, India, Sri Lanka
1626–1641   Cornelis Corneliszoon Jol   Atlantic, West Indies, Angola
1626–1649   Jaques Joosten   South America E., Turkey, Brazil
1627–1631   Jacob de Bondt   East Indies, Java
1628–1637   Joost Schouten   East Indies, Thailand
1628–1682   Rijcklof Volckertszoon van Goens   East Indies, Java
1630–1641   Johan van Twist   India, Malaysia
1631–1647   Abraham Roger   India, Java
1632–1646   Johann Sigismund Wurffbain   East Indies, India
1634–1637   Hendrick Hagenaer   Asia S., Cambodia, Japan
1634–1642   Abel Janszoon Tasman   East Indies, Japan, Northwest Pacific
1636–1645   Anthony van Diemen   East Indies, India, Indonesia
1639   Matthijs Hendrickszoon Quast   Northwest Pacific, Philippines, Japan
1639–1687   Nikolaas de Graaf   Asia, America, Indonesia
1640–1672   Johann Nieuhof   East Indies, Brazil, India
1641–1650   Johann von der Behr   East Indies, Java, Sri Lanka
1642–1652   Caspar Schmalkalden   East Indies, Taiwan, Japan
1643   Maarten Gerritszoon Vries   Northwest Pacific, Japan, Kuril Is.
1643–1655   Caspar Schamberger   East Indies, Japan
1644–1650   Jürgen Andersen   East Indies, India
1644–1653   Johann Jacob Merklein   East Indies, Java
1652   Paul Alofszoon Rotman   China
1653–1669   Hendrick Hamel   East Indies, Korea
1655–1656   Pieter de Goyer   China, East Indies
1655–1663   Volquard Iversen   East Indies, Ceram
1656–1665   Philippus Baldaeus   India, Sri Lanka
1658–1665   Wouter Schouten   East Indies, Sri Lanka
1659–1668   Albrecht Herport   East Indies, Sri Lanka, Taiwan
1661   Schelling (shipwreck)   East Indies, Bengal, Bangla Desh
1667–1669   J. Corneliszoon Speelman   East Indies, Celebes, Sulawesi
1667–1682   David Tappen   East Indies, India, China
1669–1673   Frederick Bolling   East Indies, China
1669–1677   Johann Schreyer   South Africa, South Africa
1671   Hendrik Adriaan van Rheede Tot Drakestein   India
1672–1677   Paul Hermann   Sri Lanka
1677–1686   Daniel Parthey   Sri Lanka
1677–1689   Georg Meister   East Indies, Java, Japan
1680–1683   Elias Hesse   East Indies, Sumatra
1680–1685   Christoph Frick   South-East Asia, East Indies
1691–1698   Jacob Janssen de Roy   East Indies, Borneo
1752–1757   Johan Gideon Loten   East Indies, Sulawesi, Sri Lanka


The discovery of America. The voyages of Columbus and exploration of the Caribbean, 1470-1525

1470–1484   Christopher Columbus   North Atlantic, Mediterranean, Ghana
1492–1493   Christopher Columbus   West Indies, Cuba, Haiti
1492–1510   Juan de La Cosa   Central America, Colombia
1493–1494   Mosen Pedro de Margarit   West Indies, Dominican Republic
1493–1494   Bernardo Buil   West Indies, Dominican Republic
1493–1496   Christopher Columbus   West Indies, Puerto Rico, Jamaica
1493–1502   Antonio de Torres   West Indies, Dominican Republic
1494–1500   Bartolomeo Columbus   West Indies, Haiti, Dominican Republic
1495–1496   Juan de Aguado   West Indies, Dominican Republic
1496–1500   Francisco Roldan   West Indies, Dominican Republic, Haiti
1498   Alonso Sánchez de Carvajal   West Indies, Dominican Republic, Haiti
1498–1500   Christopher Columbus   West Indies, Trinidad, South America N.
1499–1500   Pero Alonso Nino   Cubagua, Venezuela
1499–1500   Alonzo de Hojeda   Haiti, Venezuela
1499–1501   Cristobal Guerra   Venezuela
1500   Francisco de Bobadilla   West Indies, Haiti, Dominican Republic
1500–1502   Rodrigo de Bastidas   Panama, Colombia
1502–1504   Diego Mendez   Central America, Jamaica, Dominican Republic
1502–1504   Christopher Columbus   Central America, Honduras, Panama
1502–1509   Nicolas de Ovando   West Indies, Haiti, Dominican Republic
1509–1526   Diego Columbus   West Indies, Dominican Republic
1514   Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdes   Central America, Dominican Republic West Indies
1525   Rodrigo de Bastidas   Colombia

Supplementary articles

1825   Martin Fernández Navarrete  
1511–1530   Peter Martyr  

Early voyages to Brazil, 1489-1514

1489   Jean Cousin   Guinea, Brazil
1492–1493   Martin Alonso Pinzón   Atlantic, Brazil, West Indies
1497–1498   Amerigo Vespucci   Brazil
1499–1500   Vicente Yánez Pinzón   Amazon, Brazil
1499–1501   Diego de Lepe   Brazil
1499–1505   Amerigo Vespucci   Venezuela, Brazil
1500–1501   Alonzo Velez de Mendoza   Brazil
1501–1502   Gonçalo Coelho   Brazil
1503–1505   Paulmier de Gonneville   Brazil
1503–1506   Gonçalo Coelho   Brazil
1503–1511   Fernão de Noronha   Brazil, Fernando Noronha I.
1514   Cristóbal de Haro   Brazil, Argentina

Early voyages to North America, 1337-1543

1337–1440   *Iceland: English voyages   North Atlantic, Greenland, Iceland
1452   Diogo de Teive   North Atlantic, Newfoundland, Azores
1472   João Vaz Corte-Real   North Atlantic, Canada
1472   Didrik Pining   North Atlantic, Greenland, Iceland
1480   John Lloyd   North Atlantic
1492–1501   João (II) Fernandes   North Atlantic, Iceland, Greenland
1494–1505   Hugh Eliot   North Atlantic, Canada
1494–1505   Robert Thorne   North Atlantic, Canada
1497   John Cabot   North America, Newfoundland, Canada
1498   John Cabot   North Atlantic
1500–1501   Gaspar Corte-Real   North Atlantic, Greenland, Canada
1502   Miguel Corte-Real   North Atlantic, Newfoundland, Canada
1505   Juan Bermudez   North Atlantic, Bermuda
1508–1509   Sebastian Cabot   North America, Canada, U.S.A.
1517   John Rastell   North Atlantic
1520–1521   João Alvares Fagundes   Nova Scotia, Canada
1524   Giovanni da Verrazzano   Canada, U.S.A.
1524–1525   Estevão Gomes   Maine, Canada
1527–1528   John Rut   West Indies, Canada
1534   Jacques Cartier   Canada
1535–1536   Jacques Cartier   Canada
1536   Richard Hore   Newfoundland
1541–1543   Jacques Cartier   Canada
1541–1544   Jean Fonteneau   Guinea, Canada
1542–1543   Jean-François de La Rocque de Roberval   Canada

The Spanish colonisation of Panama, Cuba, Jamaica and Puerto Rico, 1501-1570

1501–1502   Alonzo de Hojeda   Venezuela, Colombia
1502   Diego de Alvarado   West Indies, Dominican Republic
1502–1547   Bartolomé de Las Casas   Central America, Venezuela, Guatemala
1506–1511   Hernán Cortes   West Indies, Dominican Republic, Cuba
1508   Juan Ponce De Leon   West Indies, Puerto Rico
1508–1509   Sebastián de Ocampo   West Indies, Cuba
1509   Juan de Esquivel   West Indies, Jamaica
1509–1510   Alonzo de Hojeda   Central America, Colombia
1509–1511   Diego de Nicuesa   Central America, Colombia, Panama
1510   Martin Fernandez de Encisco   Central America, Colombia
1510–1514   Vasco Núñez de Balboa   Central America, Colombia, Panama
1510–1525   Pedro de Cordoba   West Indies, Dominican Republic
1511   Diego Velazquez de Cuellar   West Indies, Cuba
1514   Juan de Ayora   Central America, Colombia, Panama
1514–1517   Francisco de Becerra   Panama, Colombia
1514–1518   Juan de Quevedo   Central America, Colombia, Panama
1514–1526   Pedro Arias de Avila   Central America, Colombia, Panama
1514–1549   Domingo de Betanzos   West Indies, Guatemala, Mexico
1515   Andrés Garavito   Central America, Colombia, Panama
1516–1519   Gaspar de Espinoza   Central America, Panama
1524–1561   Pedro Angulo   Central America, Dominican Republic, Guatemala
1550–1570   Pedro de Betanzos   Central America, Nicaragua, Guatemala

Spanish coastal exploration in the Caribbean: Honduras to Carolina, 1508-1526

1508–1509   Vicente Yánez Pinzón   Central America, Belize, Honduras
1509–1523   Francisco de Garay   West Indies, Jamaica, Mexico
1512–1519   Jerónimo de Aguilar   Central America, Colombia, Mexico
1513   Juan Ponce de Leon   Florida, U.S.A.
1516   Diego Miruelo   Florida, U.S.A.
1517   Francisco Hernández de Cordoba   Central America, Florida, Mexico
1518   Juan de Grijalva   Central America, Mexico
1519   Alonso Álvarez Pineda   North America S., Texas, U.S.A.
1521   Juan Ponce de Leon   North America S.E., Florida, U.S.A.
1521   Francisco Gordillo   North America S.E., Carolina, U.S.A.
1521–1526   Pedro de Quexos   North America S.E., Carolina, U.S.A.
1521–1526   Lucas Vazquez de Ayllon   North America S.E., Carolina, U.S.A.
1526   Antonio de Montesinos   North America S.E., Georgia, U.S.A.

Voyages to Brazil and the Rio de la Plata, 1506-1529

1506–1516   Juan Díaz de Solis   Brazil, Uruguay
1508   Thomas Aubert   Brazil
1516–1525   Alejo Garcia   Brazil, Bolivia
1526   Diego Garcia   Argentina, Paraguay
1526–1529   Sebastian Cabot   Argentina, Paraguay
1527–1528   Giovanni da Verrazzano   Brazil
1528–1529   Francisco Cesar   Peru, Argentina

The first circumnavigations, 1519-1593

1519–1521   Ferdinand Magellan   Circumnavigation, Pacific, East Indies
1519–1524   Juan Sebastián del Cano   Circumnavigation, Indian Ocean, East Indies
1577–1580   Francis Drake   Circumnavigation, East Indies, South America
1586–1588   Thomas Cavendish   Circumnavigation, East Indies, South America
1591–1593   Thomas Cavendish   Atlantic, Ascension I., South America

English voyages in search of the North-West Passage to Asia, 1576-1587

1576   Martin Frobisher   Baffin I., Arctic Canada
1577   Martin Frobisher   Baffin I., Arctic Canada
1578–   Martin Frobisher   Baffin I., Arctic Canada
1578–1579   Humphrey Gilbert   North Atlantic
1583   Humphrey Gilbert   Newfoundland, Canada
1585   John Davis   Baffin I., Arctic Canada
1586   John Davis   Baffin I., Arctic Canada
1587   John Davis   Baffin I., Arctic Canada

Early colonies on the Atlantic coast of North America, 1545-1593

1545–1549   Luis Cancer de Barbastro   Central America, Florida, U.S.A.
1562   Jean Ribault   Florida, U.S.A.
1562–1563   Albert de La Pierria   Carolina, U.S.A.
1564–1565   René Goulaine de Laudonniere   Florida, U.S.A.
1565   Jean Ribault   Carolina, U.S.A.
1565–1574   Pedro Menendez de Aviles   Florida, U.S.A.
1567–1568   Dominique de Gourgues   Florida, U.S.A.
1574–1587   Simão Fernandes   North America N.E., Atlantic, U.S.A.
1584   Arthur Barlow   Carolina, U.S.A.
1584   Philip Amadas   Carolina, U.S.A.
1585   Richard Grenville   Carolina, U.S.A.
1585–1586   Ralph Lane   Carolina, U.S.A.
1585–1586   Thomas Hariot   Virginia, U.S.A.
1587   John White   Carolina, U.S.A.
1587–1684   *Franciscans And Jesuits in Georgia, 1570-1684
1588–1590  John White   Carolina, U.S.A.
1593   Francisco Pareja   Florida, U.S.A.

Spanish expeditions to Mexico and Central America, 1514-1573

1514–1522   Bernal Díaz del Castillo   Mexico
1514–1548   Francisco de Montejo (senior)   Yucatán, Mexico
1518–1519   Pedro de Alvarado   Mexico
1518–1522   Hernán Cortes   Mexico
1522–1523   Gil Gonzalez Avila   Panama, Nicaragua
1522–1525   Cristóbal de Olid   Mexico, Honduras
1523–1526   Pedro de Alvarado   Mexico, Guatemala
1524   Francisco Hernández de Cordoba   Panama, Nicaragua
1524–1526   Hernán Cortes   Guatemala, Honduras
1524–1568   Toribio de Benavente   Guatemala, Mexico
1528–1536   Nuño Beltrán de Guzman   Mexico
1528–1548   Juan de Zumarraga   Mexico
1529–1590   Bernardino de Sahagun   Mexico
1530–1565   Vasco de Quiroga   Mexico
1531–1532   Alonso López de Avila   Yucatán, Mexico
1532   Diego Hurtado de Mendoza   Mexico
1532–1546   Francisco de Montejo (junior)   Yucatán, Mexico
1533–1534   Diego Becerra   Mexico
1535   Jacobo de Testera   Yucatán, Mexico
1535–1536   Hernán Cortes   Baja California, Mexico
1535–1551   Antonio de Mendoza   Peru, Mexico
1539–1540   Francisco de Ulloa   Baja California, Mexico
1541–1556   Girolamo Benzoni   South America W., Nicaragua, Central America
1549–1579   Diego de Landa   Yucatán, Mexico
1552   Francisco López de Gomara   Spain
1554–1594   Juan de La Anunciacion   Mexico
1560   Francisco Cepeda   Guatemala, Mexico
1560–1573   Juan Vásquez de Coronado   Costa Rica
1611–1622   Agostin de Quiros   Yucatán, Mexico
1688   Diego López de Cogolludo   Mexico
Spanish and French expeditions into the interior of North America, 1527-1567

1527–1528   Pánfilo de Narvaez   Florida, U.S.A.
1527–1536   Estebanico   North America S., Mexico, U.S.A.
1527–1537   Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca   North America S., Texas, U.S.A.
1538–1542   Hernando de Soto   North America S., U.S.A.
1538–1542   Pedro de Calderon   North America S., U.S.A.
1539   Marcos de Niza   North America S.W., Arizona, U.S.A.
1539–1543   Diego Maldonado   Florida, U.S.A.
1545–1591   Juan de Ecija   North America S., Florida, Mexico
1559–1561   Tristan de Luna y Arellano   Alabama, U.S.A.
1564–1565   Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues   Georgia, U.S.A.
1564–1565   La Roche Ferriere   Florida, U.S.A.
1566–1567   Juan Pardo   Tennessee, U.S.A.
Spanish expeditions into the southwest of North America, 1539-1550

1539–1540  Melchor Diaz   North America S.W., Arizona, U.S.A.
1540   Hernando de Alarcon   North America S.W., Arizona, Mexico
1540   Hernando de Alvarado   North America S.W., New Mexico, U.S.A.
1540   Pedro de Tovar   North America S.W., Arizona, U.S.A.
1540   Garcia López de Cardenas   North America S.W., Arizona, U.S.A.
1540–1541   Tristan de Luna y Arellano   North America S.W., New Mexico, U.S.A.
1540–1542   Juan de Padilla   North America S.W., Kansas, U.S.A.
1540–1542   Luis de Escalona   North America S.W., New Mexico, U.S.A.
1540–1542   Francisco Vásquez de Coronado   North America S.W., Kansas, U.S.A.
1540–1550   Brother Sebastian   North America S.W., Kansas, U.S.A.
1540–1550   Brother Lucas   North America S.W., Kansas, U.S.A.
1540–1550   Andrés da Campo   North America S.W., Kansas, U.S.A.
1542–1543   Bartolomé Ferrelo   North America S.W., California, U.S.A.
1542–1543   Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo   North America S.W., California, U.S.A.

Spanish expeditions into New Mexico and along the Pacific Coast of North America, 1567-1640

1567–1590   Luis de Carvajal   North America S.W., Texas, Mexico
1581   Francisco Sanchez Chamuscado   North America S.W., New Mexico, U.S.A.
1582–1583   Antonio de Espejo   North America S.W., New Mexico, U.S.A.
1582–1584   Francisco Gali   Pacific, California, U.S.A.
1587   Pedro de Unamuno   North Pacific
1588   Lorenzo Ferrer Maldonado   North America N.W., Canada
1590   João da Gama   Asia E., Kuril Is., North Pacific
1590   Gaspar Castaño de Sosa   North America S.W., New Mexico, U.S.A.
1592   Juan de Fuca   North America W., Canada
1594–1599   Francisco Leyva de Bonilla   North America C., Kansas, U.S.A.
1595–1596   Sebastián Rodríguez Cermeno   North America W., California, U.S.A.
1597–1601   Juan de Onate   North America S.W., New Mexico, U.S.A.
1598   Juan de Zaldivar   North America S.W., New Mexico, U.S.A.
1602–1603   Martin de Aguilar   North America S.W., California, U.S.A.
1602–1603   Sebastián Vizcaino   North America W., California, U.S.A.
1604–1608   Juan de Onate   North America S.W., Arizona, U.S.A.
1608   Pedro de Peralta   North America S.W., New Mexico, U.S.A.
1611–1613   Sebastián Vizcaino   North Pacific, Mexico, Japan
1640   Bartolomé de Fonte   North America N.W., Canada

The Plymouth voyages: Guinea, the Caribbean and North America, 1540-1596

1540   John Phillips   West Indies, Brazil
1562–1563   John Hawkins   West Africa, West Indies
1564–1565   John Hawkins   West Africa, West Indies, Colombia
1566–1567   John Lovell   West Africa, Colombia
1566–1570   Francis Drake   West Africa, Colombia, Mexico
1567–1569   John Hawkins   West Africa, Colombia, Mexico
1567–1570   Jean Bontemps   West Indies, Colombia, Venezuela
1567–1582   Miles Philips   Central America, Honduras, Mexico
1568–1571   Paul (Robert) Blondel   West Africa, West Indies, Mexico
1568–1585   John Chilton   Central America, West Indies, Mexico
1571–1590   Job Hortop   Central America, Spain, Mexico
1577–1583   William (III) Hawkins   South America E.
1582   John Drake   South America, Argentina, Peru
1582–1583   Edward Fenton   South America E., Brazil
1582–1583   William (II) Hawkins   North Atlantic, Cape Verde Is., West Indies
1585–1586   Francis Drake   North Atlantic, North America E., West Indies
1593–1602   Richard Hawkins   South America S., Falkland Is.
1595–1596   Thomas Baskerville   West Indies, Colombia, Panama
1595–1596   Francis Drake   West Indies, Colombia, Panama

Adventurers, pirates and other travellers in the Caribbean, 1530-1800

1530–1573   Guillaume Le Testu   South America N.E., Brazil, Panama
1564–1590   Thomas Fenner   West Africa, West Indies, Atlantic
1572–1573   Francis Drake   Central America, Colombia, Panama
1572–1580   John Oxenham   Central America, Panama
1574   John Noble   Central America, Panama
1574–1575   Gilbert Horseley   Central America, Panama, Nicaragua
1576–1577   Andrew Barker   Central America, Panama, Honduras
1590–1591   Edward Glenham   North Atlantic, Northwest Africa, Azores
1590–1603   William Parker   Central America, Mexico, Panama
1591–1594   Henry May   West Indies, Bermuda
1622–1649   Thomas Warner   West Indies, Lesser Antilles, St. Kitts
1625–1626   Boudewijn Hendrikszoon   West Indies, Cuba, Puerto Rico
1625–1629   Henry Powell   Barbados
1625–1656   Thomas Gage   Central America, West Indies, Mexico
1630–1663   Abraham Blauvelt   West Indies, Honduras, Nicaragua
1631   William Rudyard   West Indies, Providence I., Colombia
1631–1632   Henry Colt   West Indies, St. Kitts, Trinidad
1638–1644   William Jackson   Central America, Providence I., West Indies
1642–1653   Jean Le Vasseur   West Indies, Tortuga, Haiti
1647   William Sayle   North Atlantic, Bermuda, Bahamas
1652–1679   Captain Pierre   Central America, Panama, Costa Rica
1654–1655   William (I) Penn   West Indies, Jamaica, Cayman Is
1656–1663   Christopher Myngs   Colombia, Jamaica
1663–1671   Henry Morgan   Central America, Jamaica, Panama
1666–1672   Alexander Olivier Esquemelin   West Indies, Panama, Haiti
1668   Jean-David (François) Nau   West Indies, Mexico, Nicaragua
1668–1675   George Cusack   North America E., Barbados, West Indies
1670   Lawrence Prince   West Indies, Colombia, Jamaica
1673–1677   Jacob Binckes   West Indies, Curaçao, Tobago
1684–1689   Raveneau de Lussan   Central America, West Indies, Pacific
1687–1689   Hans Sloane   West Indies, Madeira, Jamaica
1689–1695   Charles Plumier   East Indies, Central America
1689–1701   William Kidd   North America, Madagascar, West Indies
1693–1705   Jean-Baptiste Labat   West Indies, Guadeloupe, Martinique
1697–1741   Thomas Chalkley   North America, Barbados, West Indies
1698–1700   William (I) Paterson   Central America, Panama
1710–1720   Anne Bonny   West Indies, Jamaica, Bahamas
1716–1718   Edward Teach   West Indies
1719   Nathaniel Uring   West Indies, Jamaica, Belize
1719–1722   Bartholomew Roberts   West Indies, North America E., West Africa
1722–1723   George Lowther   West Indies, Cayman Is.
1731   John Cockburn   Central America, Honduras
1759–1795   Bryan Edwards   West Indies, Haiti, Jamaica
1634–1804   *Haiti: the French in Saint-Domingue  

The colonization of Brazil, 1509-1590

1512–1570   João Ramalho   Brazil
1516–1528   Cristovão de Jacques   Brazil
1530–1532   Pero Lopes de Sousa   Brazil
1531   Pêro Lobo   Brazil
1531–1533   Martim Afonso de Sousa   Brazil
1535–1547   Francisco Pereira Coutinho   Brazil
1537–1550   Duarte Coelho   Brazil
1539   João de Barros   Brazil
1549–1554   Tomé de Sousa   Brazil
1551–1556   André Thevet   Mediterranean, Brazil
1554–1555   Francisco de Espinoza   Brazil
1555–1567   Nicolas Durand de Villegagnon   Brazil
1557–1572   Mem de Sa   Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
1590   Gabriel Soares de Sousa   Brazil
Early expeditions into the interior of South America, 1513-1592

1513  Francisco de Cordoba   Venezuela
1522   Pascual de Andagoya   Central America, Panama
1524–1525   Francisco Pizarro   Panama, Colombia
1524–1528   Diego de Almagro   Colombia, Peru
1526–1528   Bartolomé Ruiz de Andrade   Panama, Colombia
1526–1528   Francisco Pizarro   Ecuador, Peru
1527–1528   Juan de Ampues   Venezuela
1528–1530   Ambrose Ehinger   Venezuela
1529–1541   Vincent de Valverde   Peru
1530   Nuño de Guzman   Peru
1530–1531   Nikolaus Federmann   Venezuela
1530–1533   Francisco Pizarro   Ecuador, Peru
1530–1533   Hernando Pizarro   Peru
1531   Diego de Ordaz   Orinoco, Venezuela
1531–1533   Ambrose Ehinger   Venezuela, Colombia
1532   Hernando de Soto   Ecuador, Peru
1532–1534   Pedro de Heredia   Colombia
1538   Alonso de Mercadillo   Peru
1569–1592   Juan Martin   Orinoco, Venezuela

Expeditions in South America: Venezuela, Colombia, Peru, Guiana and Amazonia, 1534-1647

1524   Juan Ruiz de Arce   Nicaragua, Peru
1524–1563   Diego García de Paredes   Peru, Venezuela
1526–1538   Pedro de Candia   Ecuador, Peru
1527–1534   Sebastián Moyano de Benalcazar   Peru, Ecuador
1529   Pedro Pizarro   Peru
1533–1559   Sebastian Garcilaso de La Vega   Ecuador, Peru
1534   Francisco Pizarro   Peru
1534–1535   Pedro de Alvarado   Peru, Ecuador
1534–1540   Gerónimo Dortal   Orinoco, Venezuela
1535   Juan Porcel   Peru
1535   Diego de Tapia   Ecuador, Colombia
1535   Diego de Sandoval   Ecuador, Colombia
1535   Alonso de Herrera   Orinoco, Venezuela
1535   Alonso de Alvarado   Amazon, Peru
1535–1536   Pedro Fernández de Lugo   Colombia
1535–1538   Georg Hohermuth   Venezuela, Colombia
1535–1550   Pedro de Cieza de Leon   Peru
1536   Juan Fernández de Alderete   Chile, Venezuela
1536   Aires da Cunha   Amazon, Brazil
1536–1538   Juan de Vadillo   Colombia
1536–1538   Sebastián Moyano de Benalcazar   Ecuador, Colombia
1536–1539   Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada   Colombia
1537–1539   Nikolaus Federmann   Venezuela, Colombia
1538–1545   Hernán Pérez de Quesada   Colombia
1539–1542   Gonzalo Pizarro   Peru, Ecuador
1540–1606   Juan de Pineda   Chile, Peru
1541–1542   Gaspar de Carvajal   Amazon, Brazil
1541–1542   Francisco de Orellana   Amazon, Brazil
1541–1546   Philip von Hutten   Venezuela, Colombia
1542–1551   Juan de Betanzos   Peru
1545   Diego Fernandez   Peru
1545–1546   Francisco de Orellana   Amazon, Brazil
1545–1559   Pedro de Ursua   Peru, Colombia
1546   Juan Pérez de Tolosa   Venezuela
1557–1559   Francisco Fajardo   Venezuela
1560   Fernando de Guzman   Amazon, Peru
1560   Pedro de Ursua   Amazon, Peru
1560–1561   Lope de Aguirre   Amazon, Brazil
1566   Martin de Poveda   Peru, Colombia
1566–1569   Pedro Malaver de Silva   Colombia, Venezuela
1567   Diego de Losada   Venezuela
1569–1572   Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada   Orinoco, Colombia
1570   Diego Fernandez de Serpa   Orinoco, Venezuela
1571   Alonso Pacheco   Venezuela
1571–1585   José de Acosta   Central America, Mexico, Peru
1572–1591   Domingos Fernandes Nobre   Brazil
1578   Antonio de Sepulveda   Lake Guatavita, Colombia
1581–1588   Antonio de Berrio   Colombia, Venezuela
1583–1589   Fernão Cardim   Brazil
1590–1598   Antonio de Berrio   Venezuela
1590–1622   Fernando de Berrio   Orinoco, Venezuela
1593   Domingo de Vera y Barguen   Orinoco, Venezuela
1593   John Burgh   Guyana, Venezuela
1593–1595   Jacob Whiddon   Trinidad, Venezuela
1594   Jacques Riffault   Brazil
1595   Amyas Preston   North Atlantic, Venezuela
1595   Robert Dudley   Orinoco, Venezuela
1595   Francis Sparrey   Orinoco, Venezuela
1595   Nicolas de Mastrillo   Peru
1595   Walter Ralegh   Orinoco, Venezuela
1595–1617   Hugh Goodwin   Orinoco, Venezuela
1595–1618   Lawrence Keymis   Guiana, Venezuela
1596–1597   Leonard Berry   Guiana, Venezuela
1597–1602   John Ley   Brazil, Guiana
1600–1616   Garcilaso de La Vega   Peru
1602–1614   Daniel de La Touche   French Guiana, Brazil
1603–1606   Pero Coelho de Sousa   Brazil
1604–1606   Charles Leigh   Guiana, Brazil
1604–1606   John Legat   Amazon, Brazil
1608–1609   Robert Thornton   Amazon, Brazil
1608–1609   William Davies   Amazon, Brazil
1609–1610   Robert Harcourt   Guiana, Brazil
1609–1616   Martim Soares Moreno   Brazil
1610–1611   Thomas Roe   Amazon, Brazil
1610–1614   Matthew Morton   Amazon, Brazil
1612   Thomas King   Amazon, Brazil
1614–1615   Pieter Lodewycx   Amazon, Brazil
1615–1616   Francisco Caldeira de Castello Branco   Amazon, Brazil
1615–1623   António Vicente Cochado   Amazon, Brazil
1616–1623   Pieter Adriaenszoon Ita   Amazon, Brazil
1617–1618   Walter Ralegh   Orinoco, Venezuela
1618–1639   Manuel Baptista Peres   Peru
1620–1621   Roger North   Amazon, Brazil
1620–1631   James Purcell   Amazon, Brazil
1620–1634   Bernard O’Brien   Amazon, Brazil
1623   Luís Aranha de Vasconselhos   Amazon, Brazil
1625–1626   Pedro de (II) Teixeira   Amazon, Brazil
1628   Robert Harcourt   Guiana, Surinam
1630–1662   João Fernandes Vieira   Brazil, Angola
1636–1647   Miguel de Ochogavia   Venezuela
1637–1644   Willem Piso   Brazil
1638–1639   Pedro de (II) Teixeira   Amazon, Brazil

Expeditions in South America: Chile, Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay and Argentina, 1534-1621

1471   Tupac Yupanqui   Peru, Bolivia
1534–1535   Simon de Alcazaba   Patagonia, Argentina
1535–1536   Cristóbal de Molina   Peru, Chile
1535–1537   Pedro de Mendoza   Paraguay, Argentina
1535–1537   Diego de Almagro   Bolivia, Chile
1535–1553   Ulrich Schmidel   Argentina, Paraguay
1536–1537   Juan de Salazar   Asunción, Paraguay
1536–1537   Gonzalo de Mendoza   Paraguay
1536–1537   Juan de Saavedra   Valparaíso, Chile
1536–1537   Juan de Ayolas   Paraguay, Bolivia
1536–1545   Domingo Martínez de Irala   Paraguay
1537–1538   Leon Pancaldo   Argentina
1539   Pedro Anzures   Peru, Bolivia
1539–1540   Alonso (Francisco) de Camargo   Tierra del Fuego, Argentina
1540–1544   Pedro de Valdivia   Chile
1540–1548   Diego Centeno   Peru, Bolivia
1540–1557   Francisco de Villagra   Chile
1540–1563   Pedro de Villagra   Chile
1541–1544   Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca   Bolivia, Paraguay
1542   Juan Pérez de Guevara   Peru, Bolivia
1543–1544   Diego de Rojas   Bolivia, Argentina
1543–1544   Francisco de Mendoza   Bolivia, Argentina
1544   Giovanni Battista Pastene   Chile
1545–1550   Nuflo de Chavez   Paraguay, Bolivia
1547–1555   Hans Staden   Brazil
1547–1557   Domingo Martínez de Irala   Paraguay, Bolivia
1548   Alonzo de Mendoza   La Paz, Bolivia
1548–1551   Francisco de Aguirre   Chile, Argentina
1549–1553   Pedro de Valdivia   Chile
1549–1576   Alonso de Gongora Marmolejo   Chile
1550   Juan de Villagra   Chile, Argentina
1553–1557   Francisco de (II) Ulloa   Chile
1553–1566   Francisco de Aguirre   Chile, Argentina
1555–1562   Alonso de Ercilla y Zuniga   Chile
1556   Andrés Manso   Paraguay, Bolivia
1556–1560   Garcia Hurtado de Mendoza   Chile
1557–1558   Juan Fernandez Ladrillero   Tierra del Fuego, Chile
1558–1561   Nuflo de Chavez   Paraguay, Bolivia
1559   Pedro del Castillo   Chile, Argentina
1564   Diego Aleman   Bolivia
1567–1570   Juan Álvarez Maldonado   Peru, Bolivia
1568–1583   Juan de Garay   Bolivia, Argentina
1574   Juan Fernandez   Juan Fernandez Is., Chile
1574   Francisco de Toledo   Peru, Bolivia
1574–1583   Antonio de Quadramito   Argentina, Chile
1575–1593   Luis de Bolanos   Brazil, Paraguay
1577–1610   Thomas Fields   Brazil, Paraguay
1579–1580   Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa   Chile
1581–1586   Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa   Argentina, Chile
1581–1591   Alonso de Sotomayor   Chile
1582   Hernando de Lerma   Argentina
1582   Francisco de Hinojosa   Peru, Bolivia
1589–1618   Hernando Arias de Saavedra   Paraguay, Argentina
1593–1619   Luis de Valdivia   Chile
1595   Juan de Torres Palomino   Bolivia
1602   Juan Mendoza Mate de Luna   Bolivia
1618–1619   Bartolomé García de Nodal   Tierra del Fuego, Argentina
1620–1621   Jerónimo Luis de Cabrera   Argentina
1621   Diego Flores de Leon   Argentina, Chile

South America: explorers and travellers, 1553-1700

1553–1555   Juan de Azpilcueta   Brazil
1553–1596   José de Anchieta   Brazil
1554   Pedro Correia   Brazil
1554–1567   Manoel da Nobrega   Brazil
1568–1596   Blas Valera   Peru
1577–1605   Pedro de Anazco   Peru, Paraguay
1581   Juan de Atienza   Paraguay, Peru
1585–1621   Pablo José Arriaga   Peru
1587–1610   Manoel de Ortega   Brazil, Paraguay
1588–1653   John Almeida   Brazil
1589–1610   Francisco Solano   Argentina, Paraguay
1590–1630   Juan Romero   Argentina, Chile
1592   Sebastião Marinho   Goiás, Brazil
1596–1657   Bernabé Cobo   Peru, Bolivia
1598   Afonso Sardinha   Minas Gerais, Brazil
1600–1632   António de Araujo   Brazil
1602–1611   Rafael Ferrer   Peru, Ecuador
1607–1637   Antonio Ruíz de Montoya   Paraguay
1609–1610   Marciel de Lorenzana   Paraguay
1609–1610   Simon Maceta   Paraguay, Brazil
1609–1613   Vicente Griffi   Paraguay, Argentina
1609–1628   Roque González de Santa Cruz   Paraguay, Brazil
1612–1670   Ignacio de Arbieto   Peru
1613–1614   Pero Domingues   Goiás, Brazil
1618–1651   Alonso de Ovalle   Chile
1620   Luís Francisco Rodrigues   Central America, Peru, Colombia
1623   Martin Sanchez de Arzamendia   Paraguay
1623   Bento Maciel Parente   Amazon, Brazil
1628   Father Daddei   Colombia
1628–1636   António Rapôso Tavares   South America, Brazil
1628–1642   Fernando de Montesinos   Bolivia, Peru
1631   Jacobo Ransonnier   Paraguay, Brazil
1631–1632   Roger Fry   Amazon, Brazil
1632   Juan de Casarrubios   Colombia
1634–1635   Pedro de Pecador   Colombia, Ecuador
1635   Ignacio Martinez   Bolivia
1635–1637   Domingo de Brieva   Amazon, Brazil
1637   Lucas de La Cueva   Peru
1638–1639   Gaspar Osorio   Argentina
1639   Christoval de Acuna   Amazon, Brazil
1641   Juan Pastor   Argentina
1641–1643   Pedro de La Cruz   Peru
1642   Antonio Montezinos   Ecuador, Colombia
1643   Gaspar de Vera   Amazon, Peru
1644   Ignacio de Irarraga   Peru
1646   Father Santisteban   Patagonia, Argentina
1648–1650   Matias Abad   Colombia
1648–1652   António Rapôso Tavares   Amazon, Brazil
1650–1653   Diego de Rosales   Patagonia, Chile
1650–1661   Antonio Vieira   Amazon, Brazil
1658–1687   Manuel de Biedma   Peru
1659   Bartolomé Perez   Colombia
1663   Antonio de Monteverde   Venezuela, Colombia
1669–1671   John Narborough   Tierra del Fuego, Argentina
1670–1673   Nicolò Mascardi   Patagonia, Argentina
1674   Jean Grillet   Guiana, French Guiana
1674–1681   Fernão Dias Paes   Brazil
1675–1702   Cypriano Baraza   Bolivia
1676–1699   Edmond Halley   South Atlantic, St. Helena
1679–1682   Ignacio Fiol   Colombia, Venezuela
1682   Bartolomeu Bueno da Silva (the elder)   Goiás, Brazil
1682   Brás Mendes Pais   Mato Grosso, Brazil
1684–1723   Samuel Fritz   Amazon, Brazil
1685   Francisco de Figueroa   Peru
1687   Acarete du Biscay   Bolivia, Argentina
1690   António Ruiz de Arzao   Brazil
1691–1692   José de Arce   Bolivia
1693–1695   Agustin Zapata   Bolivia
1694–1695   José Cabarte   Venezuela
1695–1697   Jean-Baptiste de Gennes   Brazil, Argentina
1696–1722   Francisco Hervas   Paraguay, Bolivia
1697–1721   Felipe Suarez   Paraguay, Bolivia
1699–1700   Edmond Halley   Atlantic, Trinidade I.
1699–1701   Maria Sibylla Merian   Guiana, Surinam

South America: explorers and travellers, 1700-1750

1700   João Gois de Araujo   Brazil
1705–1750   José Gumilla   Orinoco, Venezuela
1706–1731   Guillaume Detré   Amazon, Brazil
1707–1711   Louis Feuillet   Peru, Chile
1711–1714   Amédée François Frezier   Tierra del Fuego, Argentina
1714   Bartólomeu Rodrigues   Amazon, Brazil
1715   José de Arce   Paraguay, Bolivia
1716–1751   António Pires de Campos   Goiás, Brazil
1717–1725   Domenico Zipoli   Paraguay, Argentina
1718–1720   António Antunes Maciel   Mato Grosso, Brazil
1719   Pascoal Moreira Cabral   Brazil
1721   Gabriel Patino   Paraguay, Bolivia
1721–1724   Pierre Barrere   Guiana
1721–1753   Gabriel Malagrida   Brazil
1722   Francisco de Melo Palheta   Madeira R., Brazil
1722–1725   Bartolomeu Bueno da Silva (the younger)   Goiás, Brazil
1723–1730   Bruno Mauricio de Zabala   Montevideo, Uruguay
1726   Rodrigo César de Meneses   Mato Grosso, Brazil
1728–1729   João da Maia da Gama   India, Brazil
1728–1765   Martin Schmid   Bolivia
1729–1745   Ignacio Chome   Bolivia, Paraguay
1731–1767   Thomas Falkner   Argentina
1734   Artur & Fernão Pais de Barros   Brazil
1735–1739   Jorge Juan y Santacilla   Colombia, Ecuador
1735–1739   Antonio de Ulloa   Colombia, Ecuador
1735–1743   Charles-Marie de La Condamine   Ecuador
1735–1750   Louis Godin   Ecuador
1735–1771   Joseph Jussieu   Bolivia, Ecuador
1735–1773   Jean Godin des Odonais   Amazon, Ecuador
1736   Manuel Dias da Silva   Mato Grosso, Brazil
1736–1737   Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis   Northern Europe, Lapland, Finland
1736–1744   Pierre Bouguer   Colombia, Ecuador
1736–1745   Pedro Vincente Maldonado   Amazon, Ecuador
1740   Laurence Belfort   Venezuela, Brazil
1740–1753   Matias Strobel   Argentina
1741   Jaçinto São Paio Soares   Brazil
1742   Manoel Féliz de Lima   Amazon, Brazil
1742   Leonardo de Oliveira   Amazon, Brazil
1743–1745   Charles-Marie de La Condamine   Amazon, Brazil
1744   Francisco Xavier de Moraes   Orinoco, Venezuela
1745–1748   José Cardiel   Patagonia, Argentina
1745–1749   René Courte de La Blanchardiere   Tierra del Fuego, Argentina
1746–1767   Bernhardt Havestadt   Chile, Argentina
1748–1767   Martin Dobrizhoffer   Paraguay
1749   João de Sousa de Azevedo   Amazon, Brazil
1749–1750   José Gonçalves da Fonseca   Mato Grosso, Brazil


South America: explorers and travellers, 1750-1800

1751–1753   José Barnes   Patagonia, Argentina
1752   Agostinho Lourenco   Brazil
1754–1756   Pehr Lofling   Venezuela
1754–1758   Francisco Xavier de Mendonca Furtado   Amazon, Brazil
1756–1760   José de Iturriaga   Brazil, Venezuela
1760–1763   Antonio Guaspe   Bolivia
1760–1767   José Sanchez Labrador   Paraguay, Bolivia
1760–1808   José Celestino Bruno Mutis   Colombia
1761–1763   João de São Jose Queiroz   Amazon, Brazil
1763–1766   Louis-Antoine de Bougainville   South Atlantic, Falkland Is.
1765–1767   John Mcbride   South Atlantic, Falkland Is.
1767–1770   Luís António de Sousa   Brazil
1768–1769   Francisco Machado   Chile
1769–1773   Isabela Godin Des Odonais   Amazon, Ecuador
1770   Pedro Mancilla   Chile
1771   Captain Stott   South Atlantic, Falkland Is.
1772–1777   John Gabriel Stedman   Guiana, Surinam
1772–1780   Charles Nicolas Sigisbert Sonnini de Manoncourt   Middle East, French Guiana
1774   António Luíz Tavares Lisboa   Brazil
1774–1775   Francisco Xavier Ribeiro de Sampaio   Amazon, Brazil
1775–1776   João de Godois Pinto da Silveira   Goiás, Brazil
1779   Norberto Fernandez   Patagonia, Chile
1779–1783   Basilio Villarino   Patagonia, Argentina
1780–1781   Ricardo Franco de Almeida Serra   Guiana, Brazil
1780–1785   Joseph Dombey   Chile, Peru
1780–1788   Hipólito Ruiz Lopez   Peru
1781   Francisco Antonio Rebelo   Minas Gerais, Brazil
1781–1809   Ricardo Franco de Almeida Serra   Brazil
1782   Antonio de Viedma   Patagonia, Argentina
1783–1791   Francisco Menendez   Patagonia, Argentina
1783–1793   Alexandre Rodrigues Ferreira   Amazon, Brazil
1784–1801   Manuel Féliz de Azara   Argentina, Paraguay
1785   Francisco José Maria de Lacerda e Almeida   Colombia Brazil
1786–1790   Francisco Hurtado   Chile
1786–1794   Lazaro de Ribera y Espinosa   Chile, Bolivia
1786–1800   Ambrose Maria François Palisot de Beauvois   West Africa, Haiti, Nigeria
1787   Manoel da Gama Lobo d’Almada   Guiana, Brazil
1793–1800   Thaddeus Peregrinus Haenke   Peru, Bolivia
1798   Francisco Gonzalez   Patagonia, Argentina
1799–1800   Friedrich Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt   Orinoco, Venezuela
1799–1804   Aimé Jacques Alexandre Bonpland   Venezuela, Argentina
1800–1804   Friedrich Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt   Mexico, Colombia

The colonisation of Siberia: the Cossack expeditions and later travellers, 1558-1766

1566–1568   Jakov Stroganov   Siberia, Russia
1558   *Stroganov family   Siberia, Russia
1585–1660   *Cossack expansion into Siberia  
1640   *Cossacks on the Taymyr Peninsula
1579–1584  Yermak   Siberia, Russia
1610   Kondratiy Kurochkin   Siberia, Arctic Ocean, Russia
1618   Ivan Petlin   Central Asia, Siberia, China
1623   Penda   Siberia, Russia
1628–1655   Vasily Yermolayev Bugor   Siberia, Russia
1632–1653   Petr Beketov   Siberia, Russia
1633–1642   Ivan Rebrov   Siberia, Arctic Ocean, Russia
1637–1642   Yelisey Buza   Siberia, Russia
1639   Ivan Moskvitin   Siberia, Russia
1640   Dmitry Zyrian   Siberia, Russia
1641–1659   Mikhail Vasil’yev Stadukhin   Siberia, Russia
1643   Kurbat Ivanov   Siberia, Lake Baikal, Russia
1643–1646   Vasily Danilovich Poyarkov   Siberia, Russia
1647–1648   Fedot Alexeyev   Siberia, Kamchatka, Russia
1647–1649   Semen Ivanov Dezhnev   Siberia, Bering Strait, Russia
1647–1652   Timofey Buldakov   Siberia, Russia
1648–1653   Yerofey Pavlovich Khabarov   Siberia, Russia
1652–1653   Onufrey Stepanov   Siberia, Russia
1654–1656   Fyodor Isakovich Baykov   Central Asia, Siberia, China
1655   Yuri Vyitka   Siberia, Medvezh’i Islands, Russia
1675–1676   Nikolai Gavrilovich Milescu-Spafary   Asia, Russia, China
1692–1695   Evert Ysbrandszoon Ides   Asia, Siberia, China
1696–1707   Vladimir Atlasov   Siberia, Kamchatka, Russia
1714–1716   Kuzma Sokolov   Siberia, Kamchatka, Russia
1743   Ivan Khimkov   Arctic Ocean, Spitsbergen
1765–1766   Vasiliy Yakovlevich Chichagov   Arctic Ocean, Spitsbergen

The exploration of Siberia, 1700-1793

1600–1800   *Russian Travellers in Central Asia   Caspian Sea, Uzbekistan
1709–1730   *Swedish Travellers in Russia and Siberia
1700–1713  Ivan Kozyrevsky   Asia N.E., Kuril Is., Russia
1709–1734   Johan Gustav Renat   Central Asia, Kirghizstan, China
1712–1713   Merkuriy Vaghin   Siberia, New Siberian Is., Russia
1715–1738   John Bell   Asia, Iran, China
1719–1722   Fyodor Luzhin   Siberia, Kuril Is., Russia
1719–1727   Daniel Gottlieb Messerschmidt   Siberia, Russia
1719–1728   Filip Johan Tabbert von Strahlenberg   Siberia, Russia
1725–1730   Vitus Jonassen Bering   Siberia, Kamchatka, Russia
1732   Mikhail Spiridonovich Gvozdev   Siberia, Bering Strait, Russia
1733–1741   Sven Larsson Waxell   Siberia, Kamchatka, Russia
1733–1741   Vitus Jonassen Bering   Siberia, Kamchatka, Russia
1733–1742   Georg Wilhelm Steller   Siberia, Kamchatka, Russia
1733–1743   Gerhard Friedrich Muller   Siberia, Russia
1733–1743   Johann Georg Gmelin   Siberia, Russia
1734–1735   Stepan Voynovich Muraviev   Siberia, Russia
1734–1737   Dmitry L. Ovtsvyn   Siberia, Ob R., Russia
1735   Petr Lassenius   Siberia, Bering Strait, Russia
1735–1736   Vasily Pronchishchev   Siberia, Taymyr, Russia
1735–1742   Semen I. Chelyuskin   Siberia, Taymyr, Russia
1736–1737   Stepan Malygin   Siberia, Kara Sea, Russia
1736–1741   Dmitry Ya. Laptev   Siberia, Arctic Ocean, Russia
1736–1741   Stepan Petrovich Krasheninnikov   Siberia, Kamchatka, Russia
1738–1739   Martin Spanberg   Asia N.E., Kuril Is., Russia
1738–1740   Dmitriy Sterlegov   Siberia, Taymyr, Russia
1738–1742   Fedor Minin   Siberia, Taymyr, Russia
1739–1742   Nikifor Chekin   Siberia, Taymyr, Russia
1739–1742   Khariton Prokop’yevich Laptev   Siberia, Taymyr, Russia
1740–1741   Aleksei Ilich Chirikov   Siberia, Kamchatka, Alaska
1741   Vitus Jonassen Bering   North Pacific, Russia, Alaska
1760–1762   Savva Loshkin   Arctic Ocean, Novaya Zemlya, Russia
1761   Jean Chappé D’Auteroche   Siberia, California, Russia
1762–1764   Nikita Shalaurov   Siberia, Arctic Ocean, Russia
1768–1769   Fedor Rozmyslov   Arctic Ocean, Novaya Zemlya, Russia
1768–1774   Peter Simon Pallas   Siberia, Russia
1770–1773   Ivan Lyakhov   Siberia, New Siberian Is., Russia
1773–1773   Johann Gottlieb Georgi   Siberia, Russia
1785–1793   Joseph Billings   Siberia, Russia
1787–1788   John Ledyard   Siberia, Russia
1787–1790   Gavriil Andreyevich Sarychev   Siberia, Russia

Early missions across the Himalayas and into Tibet, 1595-1632

1595–1617   Jerónimo Xavier   India, Kashmir
1600–1651   Paulo da Trindade   China, India
1602–1607   Isaac   Central Asia, Pakistan, China
1602–1607   Bento de Goes   India, Afghanistan, China
1624–1630   António de Andrade   India, Tibet
1626–1630   Estevão Cacella   India, Tibet
1626–1631   João Cabral   Bengal, Tibet
1631–1632   Francisco de Azevado   Tibet, India

Missions and missionaries in China and Tibet, 1564-1800

1564–1578  Martin de Rada   South-East Asia, Philippines, China
1578–1583   Michele de Ruggiero   Malaysia, China
1578–1610   Matteo Ricci   China, Malaysia
1596–1618   Diego de Pantoja   China
1606–1607   João (III) Fernandes   China
1609–1628   Nicolas Trigault   China
1613–1637   Alvarez de Semedo   China
1616–1673   Domingo Fernández Navarrete   China
1618–1630   Johann Terrenz Schreck   China
1619–1666   Johann Adam Schall Von Bell   China
1633–1664   Juan Bautista Morales   China
1634–1677   Gabriel de Magalhaes   China
1637–1665   Francesco Brancati   China
1639–1668   Heinrich Roth   India
1640–1661   Martino Martini   China, India
1646–1662   Michal Piotr Boym   China
1648–1682   Luigi Buglio   China
1656–1682   Philippe Couplet   China
1657–1670   Adrien Greslon   China
1661–1664   Johann Grueber   China, India, Tibet
1666–1688   Ferdinand Verbiest   China
1666–1712   Francisco de Sousa   India
1677–1685   Antoine Thomas   China, Thailand
1680–1736   José Suarez   China
1685–1707   Jean-François Gerbillion   China
1685–1732   Joachim Bouvet   China
1687–1709   Claude de Visdelou   China, India
1696–1709   Caspar Kastner   China
1698–1736   Joseph Henri Marie de Premare   China
1698–1738   Jean-Baptiste Regis   China
1701–1748   Joseph Anne Marie Moyria de Mailla   China
1703–1710   Charles-Thomas Maillard de Tournon   China
1705–1743   Xavier Ehrenbert Friedel   China
1707–1745   *Capuchin Missionaries in Tibet, 1707-1745
1710–1723  Matteo Ripa   China
1712–1745   Francisco Orazio Olivieri della Penna   Central Asia, India, Tibet
1713–1728   Ippolito Desideri   Central Asia, Kashmir, Tibet
1714–1717   Emmanuel Freyre   Central Asia, Kashmir, Tibet
1715–1746   Ignaz Kogler   China
1717–1745   Samuel van der Putte   China, Tibet
1722–1759   Antoine de Gaubil   China
1750–1793   Jean Joseph Marie Amiot   China
1758–1780   Pierre-Martial Cibot   China

British and French expeditions to Tibet, Kashmir and the Hindu Kush, 1688-1792

1688–1723   Alexander Hamilton   India, East Indies
1767   Captain Kinloch   India, Nepal
1773   Claude Martin   India, Bhutan
1774–1775   George Bogle   Bhutan, Tibet
1775–1790   James Rennell   India, Bangla Desh
1782–1784   George Forster   Afghanistan, India
1783–1784   Samuel Turner   Bhutan, Tibet
1792   William Kirkpatrick   India, Nepal

The exploration of South-East Asia, 1615-1800

1615   Father Carvalho   China, Vietnam
1616–1622   Cristoforo Borri   China, Vietnam
1619–1640   Alexandre de Rhodes   China, Vietnam
1640–1653   Alexandre de Rhodes   Iran, Vietnam
1640–1689   Constantine Phaulkon   Thailand
1641–1642   Gerrit van Wuysthof   Vietnam, Laos
1642–1647   Giovanni Maria Leria   Vietnam, Laos
1658–1684   François Pallu   Thailand
1661–1693   François Deydier   Thailand, Vietnam
1662–1665   Louis Chevreuil   Cambodia, Vietnam
1681–1685   Nicolas Gervaise   East Indies, Thailand, Sulawesi
1685–1686   François Timoléon de Choisy   Thailand
1685–1694   Guy Tachard   India, Thailand
1686–1692   Marcel Le Blanc   China, Thailand
1687   Alexandre de Chaumont   Thailand
1695–1696   Edward Fleetwood   India, Myanmar
1695–1705   Juan Antonio Arnedo   China, Vietnam
1755   George Baker   India, Myanmar
1757   Thomas Lester   India, Myanmar
1765–1799   Pierre-Joseph-George Pigneau de Behaine   Thailand, Vietnam
1778   Charles Chapman   Vietnam
1788   Archibald Blair   India, Indian Ocean, Andaman & Nicobar Is
1792–1793   William Hunter   India, Myanmar
1795   Michael Symes   India, Myanmar
1795   Francis Hamilton Buchanan   India, Bengal, Myanmar
1796–1798   Hiram Cox   Myanmar

West Africa: European forts and trading posts, 1592-1753

1592   Bernard Ericks   Guinea, Ghana
1598   François Le Fort   Principe, Guinea
1618   Paul Imbert   Mali
1637–1638   Thomas Lambert   Senegal
1649–1660   Henrick Carloff   Guinea, Ghana
1651   James Courland   Gambia
1661–1662   John Vermuyden   Gambia
1661–1664   Robert Holmes   North America, Gambia
1678–1682   Jean Barbot   Guinea
1681–1689   Cornelius Hodges   Gambia
1687–1700   André Brue   Senegal
1698   Robert Ford   Sierra Leone
1721–1723   John Atkins   Guinea, Gabon
1723–1724   Bartholomew Stibbs   Gambia
1730–1743   Francis Moore   Gambia, U.S.A.
1750–1753   Michel Adanson   Gambia, Senegal

French discovery and settlement in the Indian and Southern Oceans, 1619-1800

1619–1622   Augustin de Beaulieu   East Indies, Sumatra, Malagasy
1636–1650   Robert Hunt   Indian Ocean, Providence I., Malagasy
1640–1647   Walter Hamond   Indian Ocean, Malagasy
1643–1644   Jacques Prony   Indian Ocean, Reunion
1689–1698   François Leguat   Indian Ocean, Réunion, Rodriguez I.
1690   François Maximilien Misson   Indian Ocean, Malagasy
1690–1696   Henry Avery   Indian Ocean, Réunion, Red Sea
1692–1696   Thomas Tew   Indian Ocean, Madagascar, Malagasy
1692–1709   Nathaniel North   Indian Ocean, Malagasy
1694–1699   Dirk Chivers   Indian Ocean
1701–1716   Robert Drury   Indian Ocean, Malagasy
1708–1713   Jean de La Roque   Red Sea, Yemen
1715   Guillaume Dufresne   Indian Ocean, Mauritius
1731   Charles Gough   South Atlantic, Gough I.
1735–1748   Bertrand François de La Bourdonnais   Indian Ocean, Mauritius, Réunion
1738–1739   Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier   South Atlantic, Bouvet I.
1741–1744   Lazare Picault   Indian Ocean, Seychelles
1750   Jean-Baptiste d’Apres de Mannevillette   East Indies, Africa
1760–1769   Alexandre Guillaume Pingré   Indian Ocean, Haiti, Rodriguez I.
1767–1777   Pierre Marie François de Pages   Circumnavigation, Asia S., North America S.
1769–1770   Jean-François-Marie de Surville   Pacific, New Zealand, Solomon Is.
1771–1772   Yves-Joseph Trémairec de Kerguelen   Southern Ocean, Indian Ocean, Kerguelen I.
1771–1773   Julien-Marie Crozet   Indian Ocean, Southern Ocean, Crozet Is.
1771–1773   Marc-Joseph Marion-Dufresne   Indian Ocean, Tasmania, New Zealand
1771–1776   Jean-Charles de Borda   North Atlantic, Canary Is., Azores
1772   Louis François Alléno de Saint-Allouarn   Western Australia, Kerguelen I.
1773–1774   Yves-Joseph Trémairec de Kerguelen   Southern Ocean, Indian Ocean, Kerguelen
1773–1786   Mauritius Augustus de Byenowski   Indian Ocean, Siberia, Malagasy
1779–1781   Francisco Antonio Mourelle   North America N.W., Pacific, Tuvalu
1790–1802   Louis-Marie-Aubert du Petit Thouars   Indian Ocean, Madagascar, Mauritius
1792   Pierre François Peron   Indian Ocean, Amsterdam I.

Voyages in the Pacific, 1525-1732

1525–1527   García Jofre de Loaisa   Pacific, South America, East Indies
1527–1529   Álvaro de Saavedra Ceron   Pacific, Philippines, East Indies
1530–1594   Domingo de Salazar   Central America, Florida, Philippines
1535   Tomás de Berlanga   Pacific E., Ecuador, Galapagos Is.
1537–1540   Hernando de Grijalva   Pacific, New Guinea
1542–1546   Ruy López de Villalobos   Pacific, Mexico, Philippines
1542–1555   Juan Gaetano   Pacific, Philippines, Hawaii
1543   Bernardo de La Torre   Pacific, Philippines
1564–1571   Miguel López de Legazpi   East Indies, North Pacific, Philippines
1565   Alonso de Arellano   Pacific, Mexico
1565   Andrés de Urdaneta   Pacific, Philippines
1567–1569   Álvaro de Mendana de Neira   Pacific, Solomon Is.
1567–1569   Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa   Pacific, Solomon Is.
1567–1569   Hernando Gallego   Pacific, Solomon Is.
1579–1587   Alonzo Sanchez   Central America, Philippines, China
1581–1609   Pierre Olivier Malherbe de Vitré   Circumnavigation, India, China
1588–1621   Hernando de Los Rios Coronel   South-East Asia, Cambodia, Philippines
1594–1602   Francesco Carletti   Circumnavigation, Japan, America
1594–1603   Antonio de Morga   East Indies, Ecuador, Philippines
1595   Álvaro de Mendana de Neira   Pacific, Marquesas Is., Santa Cruz Is.
1595–1596   Pedro Fernández de Quiros   Pacific, Philippines, Marquesas Is.
1605–1606   Pedro Fernández de Quiros   Pacific, Vanuatu, Tuamotu Is.
1606–1607   Luis Váez de Torres   Pacific W., Philippines, New Guinea
1632–1642   Franchoys Jacobszoon Visscher   East Indies, Pacific W., Japan
1642–1643   Hendrik Brouwer   Pacific, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina
1662–1672   Diego Luis de Sanvitores   Pacific, Guam, Mariana Is.
1668–1678   William Dampier   Central America, Mexico, Jamaica
1670   Edward Melton   West Indies, Middle East, East Indies
1670–1708   Charles Le Gobien   China, Mariana Is., Philippines
1675   Antoine de La Roché   South Atlantic, South Georgia
1679–1682   Bartholomew Sharp   Pacific, Central America, South America W.
1679–1682   William Dampier   Central America, South America W.
1680–1687   Lionel Wafer   Central America, Antarctic, Pacific
1680–1703   John Bowen   Indian Ocean, East Africa, Madagascar
1683–1686   William Ambrose Cowley   Pacific, Galapagos Is., Falkland Is.
1683–1686   Charles Swan   Pacific, Mexico, Philippines
1683–1698   Giovanni Francesco Gemelli Careri   Circumnavigation, India, China
1685–1687   Edward Davis   Pacific, San Felix I., San Ambrosio I.
1686–1688   John Read   Pacific, East Indies, Madagascar
1689–1690   John Strong   South America, Juan Fernandez Is., Falkland Is.
1698–1701   Gouin de Beauchesne   South America S.W., Pacific E.
1699–1701   William Dampier   Australia N.W., New Guinea, Australia
1703–1711   Alexander Selkirk   Circumnavigation, Juan Fernandez Is., Pacific
1703–1711   William Dampier   Circumnavigation, Juan Fernandez Is., Pacific
1708–1711   Woodes Rogers   Circumnavigation, Pacific
1718–1732   Woodes Rogers   West Indies, Bahamas

Pacific voyages and circumnavigations, 1707-1800

1707–1711   Nicolas de Frondat   Circumnavigation, Pacific N.
1711   Martin de Chassiron   Pacific, Clipperton Island
1719–1722   George Shelvocke   Circumnavigation, Pacific
1721–1724   Jacob Roggeveen   Circumnavigation, Easter I., Pacific
1731–1732   Juan Antonio Cantova   Pacific, Caroline Is.
1740–1743   John Bulkeley   Chile, Patagonia
1740–1743   John Byron   Chile
1740–1744   George Anson   Circumnavigation, South America S., Pacific
1740–1746   Alexander Campbell   South America S., Argentina, Chile
1752–1765   Alexander Dalrymple   East Indies, India, Pacific W.
1757–1767   James Cook   North America N.E., Newfoundland, Canada
1763–1771   Charles Green   Circumnavigation, Barbados
1764–1766   John Byron   Circumnavigation, Falkland Is., Pacific
1764–1780   John Gore   Pacific, Tahiti, Circumnavigation
1765–1787   Anders Sparrman   China, Senegal, South Africa
1766–1768   Samuel Wallis   Circumnavigation, Tahiti, Pacific
1766–1769   Louis-Antoine de Bougainville   Circumnavigation, Pacific
1766–1769   Philip Carteret   Circumnavigation, Pitcairn I., Pacific
1766–1772   Joseph Banks   Circumnavigation, Iceland, Pacific
1768–1771   James Cook   Circumnavigation, Australia E., Pacific
1768–1775   James Magra   Pacific, Northwest Africa, Circumnavigation
1768–1775   William Wales   Circumnavigation, Canada, Pacific
1770–1771   Felipe Gonzalez y Haedo   Pacific S., Chile, Easter I.
1772   Dionisio de Boenechea   Pacific, Easter I., Tahiti
1772–1774   Tobias Furneaux   Circumnavigation, Tasmania, Pacific
1772–1775   James Cook   Circumnavigation, Pacific, Southern Ocean
1772–1775   Johann Georg Adam Reinhold Forster   Circumnavigation, Pacific
1772–1790   William Hodges   Pacific, India, Circumnavigation
1776–1779   James Cook   North America N.W., Hawaii, Pacific
1776–1779   Charles Clerke   Pacific, North America NW, Arctic Ocean
1776–1804   William Roxburgh   India
1782–1789   Patrick Russell   India, Syria
1785–1786   Antonio de Cordoba   South America S., Chile, Argentina
1785–1788   Jean-François de Galaup de La Perouse   North America N.W., Sakhalin I., Pacific
1787–1788   Jean-Baptiste Barthélémy de Lesseps   Siberia, Kamchatka, Russia
1787–1788   Carl Bernhard Wadstrom   West Africa, Senegal, Sierra Leone
1787–1790   Fletcher Christian   Pacific S., Tahiti, Pitcairn I.
1787–1790   William Bligh   Pacific
1788–1789   John Henry Cox   North America N.W., Tahiti, Pacific
1788–1789   John Hunter   Circumnavigation, Australia
1788–1800   Ciriaco Cevallos   South America, Pacific, Gulf of Mexico
1789   Edward Riou   South Africa, Antarctic, Indian Ocean
1789–1792   Dionisio Alcalà Galiano   North America N.W., British Columbia, Canada
1789–1794   José de Bustamente   Pacific, North America, South America
1789–1794   Alessandro Malaspina   South America, Pacific, North America N.W.
1789–1794   José de Espinosa   Pacific, North America
1789–1794   Antonio de Tova   Pacific, North America, South America
1789–1815   Fabio Ala Ponzone   Pacific, Gulf of Mexico
1790–1792   Jacinto Caamano   North America N.W., Alaska, Canada
1790–1792   Etienne Marchand   Circumnavigation, Marquesas Is., Pacific
1790–1792   Edward Edwards   Pacific S., Ducie I., Tahiti
1791   Richard Hergest   Pacific, Marquesas Is., Hawaii
1791   William Bryant   New South Wales, Australia
1791–1792   Matthew Weatherhead   Pacific, Tasmania, Tahiti
1791–1793   Joseph-Antoine Bruni d’Entrecasteaux   Pacific W., New Caledonia
1791–1793   William Bligh   Pacific S., West Indies, Tahiti
1791–1795   George Vancouver   North America N.W., Australia S.W., Canada
1792   Cayetano Valdes   North America N.W., Alaska, Canada
1792   Adam Laxman   Asia E., Japan
1792–1793   James Hanson   Pacific, Tahiti, New Zealand
1794–1798   Thomas Muir   Circumnavigation, Australia, North America N.W.
1795–1798   William Robert Broughton   North America N.W., Pacific, Korea
1796–1798   James Wilson   Pacific, Tahiti, Tonga
1807–1808   Mayhew Folger   Pacific S., Antarctic, Pitcairn I.
1826–1828   Peter Dillon   Pacific W., Santa Cruz Is., Vanikoro I.

Expeditions of the disciples of Linnaeus, 1746-1792

  Carl Linnaeus   Northern Europe, Lapland, Sweden
1746   Christopher Tarnstrom   Vietnam
1747–1751   Pehr Kalm   North America E., Canada, U.S.A.
1749–1752   Fredrik Hasselquist   Palestine, Turkey
1750   João de Loureiro   Vietnam
1750–1752   Pehr Osbeck   China
1752–1761   Carl Fredrik Adler   East Indies, Java
1760   David Pontin   China, India
1761–1763   Peter Forsskal   Egypt, Yemen
1768–1771   Daniel Carl Solander   Circumnavigation, Iceland, Australia
1768–1773   Johan Peter Falck   Siberia, Russia
1770–1779   Carl Peter Thunberg   South-East Asia, South Africa, Japan
1771–1786   Henry Smeathman   Sierra Leone
1772–1795   Francis Masson   South Africa
1773   Andreas Henricsson Berlin   Sierra Leone
1773–1776   Goran Rothman   Libya
1773–1785   Johann Gerhard Konig   India, Thailand
1783–1788   Olof Swartz   West Indies, Jamaica
1792   Adam Afzelius   Sierra Leone

Voyages to Spitsbergen, the North Atlantic and Greenland, 1562-1800

1562–1565   Philips Winterkoning   Arctic Ocean, Norway, Russia
1563–1583   Olivier Brunel   Arctic Ocean, Novaya Zemlya, Russia
1584–1585   Olivier Brunel   Arctic Ocean, Barents Sea, Russia
1588–1595   François de La Dale   Arctic Ocean, Russia
1594–1594   Willem Barents   Arctic Ocean, Novaya Zemlya, Russia
1594–1595   Jan Huyghen van Linschoten   Arctic Ocean, Russia
1594–1595   Cornelis Nay   Arctic Ocean, Russia
1595   Willem Barents   Arctic Ocean, Russia
1596–1597   Willem Barents   Arctic Ocean, Spitsbergen, Novaya Zemlya
1596–1597   Jan Corneliszoon Rijp   Arctic Ocean, Spitsbergen
1596–1597   Jacob van Heemskerk   Arctic Ocean, Spitsbergen, Novaya Zemlya
1598   Olof Andersson Myanmarn   Northern Europe, Sweden
1603–1605   Stephen Bennett   Arctic Ocean, Lapland, Bear I.
1605–1608   Thomas Welden   Arctic Ocean, Lapland, Bear I.
1607   Henry Hudson   Arctic Ocean, Spitsbergen, Greenland
1608   Henry Hudson   Arctic Ocean, Novaya Zemlya, Russia
1609   Thomas Marmaduke   Arctic Ocean, Spitsbergen
1609   Melchior van den Kerckoven   Arctic Ocean, Novaya Zemlya, Russia
1609   Henry Hudson   Arctic Ocean, North America E., U.S.A.
1610–1612   Jonas Poole   Arctic Ocean, Greenland, Spitsbergen
1613   Benjamin Joseph   Arctic Ocean, Spitsbergen
1614   Robert Fotherby   Arctic Ocean, Spitsbergen
1614   Joris Carolus   Arctic Ocean, Jan Mayen I., Spitsbergen
1676   John Wood   Arctic Ocean, Novaya Zemlya, Russia
1721–1740   Hans & Poul Hansen Egede   North Atlantic, Greenland
1723   Greenland trading companies   North Atlantic, Greenland
1773   Constantine John Phipps   Arctic Ocean, Spitsbergen
1777   Walter Young   North Atlantic, Greenland
1779–1823   William Scoresby (the elder)   Arctic Ocean, Greenland
1786–1787   Poul Lowenorn   North Atlantic, Arctic Ocean, Greenland

Voyages to Arctic Canada and the search for the North-West Passage, 1579-1656

1579–1618   Richard Whitbourne   Newfoundland, Canada
1602   George Waymouth   Labrador, Canada
1605–1606   Godske Lindenau   North Atlantic, Greenland
1606   John Knight   Labrador, Canada
1607   Karsten Richardisen   North Atlantic, Greenland
1608–1612   John Guy   Newfoundland, Canada
1609–1620   Jens Munk   Hudson Bay, Canada
1610–1611   Henry Hudson   Hudson Bay, Canada
1612   James Hall   North Atlantic, Greenland
1612–1613   Thomas Button   Hudson Bay, Canada
1612–1615   William Baffin   Arctic Ocean, Spitsbergen
1614   William Gibbons   Labrador, Canada
1615   Joris Carolus   Greenland, Canada
1615   Robert Bylot   Canada
1615–1623   William Baffin   Greenland, Middle East
1616   Robert Bylot   Greenland, Canada
1616–1619   William Vaughan   Newfoundland, Canada
1616–1629   John Mason   Newfoundland, Canada
1619   William Hawkridge   Hudson Bay, Canada
1621–1625   Edward Winne   Newfoundland, Canada
1631   Luke Foxe   Hudson Bay, Canada
1631–1632   Thomas James   Hudson Bay, Canada
1652–1653   David Urbanus Danell   North Atlantic, Greenland
1656   Nicholas Tunes   North Atlantic, Greenland

English and French voyages to North America, 1580-1694

1580   John Walker   Maine, U.S.A.
1583   Etienne Bellenger   Maine, U.S.A.
1598   Troïlus de Mesgouez de La Roche   Sable Island, Canada
1600   Pierre de Chauvin de Tonnetuit   Canada
1602   Bartholomew Gosnold   Massachusetts, U.S.A.
1603   Martin Pring   Massachusetts, U.S.A.
1603   Samuel de Champlain   Canada
1603–1620   François Pontgravé   Canada
1604–   Jean de Biencourt   Nova Scotia, Canada
1604–1605   Pierre de Guast   Nova Scotia, Canada
1604–1605   Samuel de Champlain   Nova Scotia, Canada
1604–1606   Marc Lescarbot   Nova Scotia, Canada
1605   George Waymouth   Maine, U.S.A.
1606   Thomas Hanham   Maine, U.S.A.
1606–1607   Henry Challons   West Indies
1606–1627   Louis He   Quebec, Canada
1607   George Popham   Maine, U.S.A.
1608–1609   Samuel de Champlain   Quebec, Canada
1608–1633   Etienne Brulé   Great Lakes, Canada
1609   Charles de Saint-Etienne de La Tour   Nova Scotia, Canada
1610–1613   Samuel de Champlain   Quebec, Canada
1611   Edward Harlow   New England, U.S.A.
1611–1613   Pierre Biard   Maine, U.S.A.
1611–1632   Ennemond Massé   Maine, Canada
1614–1617   John Smith   Maine, U.S.A.
1615–1616   Samuel de Champlain   Ontario, Canada
1615–1620   Jean Dolbeau   Quebec, Canada
1615–1621   Denis Jamay   Quebec, Canada
1615–1629   Joseph Le Caron   Ontario, Canada
1620   Pilgrim Fathers   Massachusetts, U.S.A.
1631–1636   Roger Williams   Rhode Island, U.S.A.
1631–1650   Charles de Menou d’Aulnay   Nova Scotia, Canada
1632   Nicholas Denys   Canada
1632–1635   Isaac de Razilly   Nova Scotia, Canada
1635–1690   François-Joseph Le Mercier   West Indies, Canada
1641–1673   Jeanne Mance   Quebec, Canada
1667–1677   Jean Pierron   Canada
1668–1669   Sieur de Groseilliers   Quebec, Canada
1671–1672   Charles Albanel   North America, Quebec, Canada
1671–1697   François Crepieul   Quebec, Canada
1672–1698   Louis de Frontenac   North America, Canada
1679   Louis Jolliet   Quebec, Canada
1685–1689   Marquis de Denonville   Canada
1686   Pierre de Troyes   Hudson Bay, Canada
1694   Louis Jolliet   Labrador, Canada

The European colonization of North America, 1590-1646

1590–1608   Christopher Newport   Virginia, U.S.A.
1602   Samuel Mace   North Carolina, U.S.A.
1603   Bartholomew Gilbert   Virginia, U.S.A.
1606–1609   John Smith   Virginia, U.S.A.
1609–1610   George Somers   Virginia, Bermuda
1609–1623   Henry Spelman   Virginia, U.S.A.
1613–1614   Adriaen Block   New York, U.S.A.
1615–1616   Cornelis Hendricksen   Delaware, U.S.A.
1621   Daniel Gookin   Virginia, U.S.A.
1624   Cornelis Jacobson Mey   New York, U.S.A.
1633–1643   Andrew White   Maryland, U.S.A.
1633–1646   Leonard Calvert   Maryland, U.S.A.

Colonial expansion in North America, 1620-1700

1620–1631   Edward Winslow   Connecticut, U.S.A.
1623–1625   Nicholas Viel   Ontario, Canada
1623–1629   Gabriel Sagard   Ontario, Canada
1625–1629   Joseph de La Roche Daillon   Canada
1625–1649   Jean de Brebeuf   Ontario, Canada
1626–1638   Charles Lalemant   North America N., Canada
1630   Walter Neale   Maine, U.S.A.
1630–1650   William Pynchon   Connecticut, U.S.A.
1632–1634   Paul Le Jeune   Quebec, Canada
1632–1646   Johann Friedrich Spassvogel   Georgia, U.S.A.
1633   John Oldham   Massachusetts, U.S.A.
1633–1642   Jean Nicolet   Wisconsin, U.S.A.
1635   Simon Willard   Massachusetts, U.S.A.
1636–1648   Charles Huault de Montmagny   Canada
1636–1662   Paul Ragueneau   Ontario, Canada
1637–1643   Charles Raymbault   Ontario, Canada
1637–1646   Isaac Jogues   Ontario, Canada
1638–1665   Jérôme Lalemant   Canada
1639   Madeleine de La Pettrie   Quebec, Canada
1639–1672   Marie Guyard   Canada
1640–1667   Pierre Boucher   Quebec, Canada
1642   Arendt van Curler   New York, U.S.A.
1642   Paul de Chomedey de Maisonneuve   Montreal, Canada
1642   Darby Field   Maine, U.S.A.
1646–1649   Gabriel Lalemant   Canada
1647   Jean de Quen   Quebec, Canada
1650   Edward Bland   Virginia, U.S.A.
1650–1673   Abraham Wood   Virginia, U.S.A.
1652   Jonathan Ince   New Hampshire, U.S.A.
1652–1654   Pierre Esprit Radisson   New York, U.S.A.
1654   Simon Le Moyne   New York, U.S.A.
1659–1660   (Sieur de) Groseilliers   Great Lakes, Canada
1659–1661   René Menard   Wisconsin, U.S.A.
1661   Luis de Rojas   Georgia, U.S.A.
1662–1663   William Hilton   North Carolina, U.S.A.
1668–1694   Pierre Millet   New York, U.S.A.
1669–1709   Jacques & Jean de Lamberville   Canada, U.S.A.
1670   John Lederer   Virginia, U.S.A.
1670–1685   Henry Woodward   South Carolina, U.S.A.
1671   Thomas Batts   West Virginia, U.S.A.
1673   James Needham   North Carolina, U.S.A.
1673–1674   Gabriel Arthur   Georgia, U.S.A.
1678   John Banister   Virginia, U.S.A.
1682   Cadwallader Jones   Virginia, U.S.A.

The Great Lakes and the Discovery of the Mississippi, 1634-1700

1634–1652   Jacques Buteux   Canada
1636–1649   Charles Garnier   Canada
1639–1657   Joseph Anthony de La Riviere Poncet   Martinique, Canada
1639–1693   Pierre-Joseph Chaumonot   U.S.A., Canada
1640–1650   Francesco Giuseppe Bressani   U.S.A., Canada
1643–1649   Noël Chabanel   Canada
1647–1692   Pierre Bailloquet   Canada
1655–1670   Claude Dablon   Ontario, Canada
1662–1728   Julien Garnier   New York, Canada
1663–1680   Pierre Raffeix   Quebec, Canada
1665–1689   Claude Jean Allouez   Wisconsin, U.S.A.
1666–1712   Jacques Bruyas   U.S.A., Canada
1668–1671   Jean Pere   Great Lakes, Canada
1668–1675   Jacques Marquette   Michigan, U.S.A.
1668–1698   Nicolas Perrot   Wisconsin, U.S.A.
1669   René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle   Ontario, Canada
1669–1670   Francois Dollier de Casson   Great Lakes, Canada
1670–1715   François Vaillant de Gueslis   U.S.A., Canada
1671   Simon-François Daumont de Saint-Lusson   Ontario, Canada
1672–1674   Louis Jolliet   Mississippi, U.S.A.
1674–1723   Pierre Cholonec   Canada
1676–   Mary Rowlandson   New Hampshire, U.S.A.
1678–1680   Louis Hennepin   Mississippi, U.S.A.
1678–1683   René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle   Mississippi, U.S.A.
1678–1700   Henri de Tonty   Mississippi, U.S.A.
1679–1680   Michel Accault   Minnesota, U.S.A.
1679–1689   Daniel Greysolon Dulhut   Minnesota, U.S.A.
1683   James Graham   Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
1684–1714   François Dauphin de La Forest   Great Lakes, Canada
1688–1689   Jacques de Noyon   Minnesota, U.S.A.
1734–1780   François Picquet   U.S.A., Canada

Exploration of North America to the east of the Rocky Mountains, 1641-1700

1641–1670   Charles Le Moyne (the elder)   Quebec, Canada
1680–1740   Charles, Antoine & Joseph Le Moyne   Louisiana, Canada
1681   Mathieu Sagean   Nebraska, U.S.A.
1681–1701   William (II) Penn   Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
1683–1692   Louis-Armand de Lom D’Arce de Lahontan   Great Lakes Canada
1683–1702   Pierre-Charles Le Sueur   Minnesota, U.S.A.
1684–1687   René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle   Texas, U.S.A.
1684–1687   Henri Joutel   Texas, U.S.A.
1684–1720   Jean L’Archeveque   Texas, U.S.A.
1685–1687   Joannes Roseboom   Great Lakes, U.S.A.
1686–1691   Juan Enriquez Barroto   Texas, U.S.A.
1690   Maurice Mathews   South Carolina, U.S.A.
1690–1700   Jean Couture   Tennessee, U.S.A.
1690–1707   Jean-François Buisson de Saint-Cosme   Mississippi, U.S.A.
1692   Arnout Cornelissen Viele   Ohio, U.S.A.
1694–1736   Pierre Lagrené   Canada
1694–1755   Joseph Aubery   Canada
1695   Laureano de Torres y Ayala   Florida, U.S.A.
1696–1697   Jonathan Dickinson   Florida, U.S.A.
1697–1700   Samuel York   New York, U.S.A.
1698   Thomas Welch   Mississippi, U.S.A.
1698–1699   Pierre Le Moyne d’Iberville   Louisiana, U.S.A.
1699   Captain Bond   Louisiana, U.S.A.
1699–1728   Jean-Baptiste Chardon   U.S.A., Canada
1700   Wolfgang William Romer   New York, U.S.A.
1700   Jacques Gravier   Mississippi, U.S.A.
1700–1701   John Lawson   Carolina, U.S.A.
1700–1702   Pierre Le Moyne d’Iberville   Louisiana, U.S.A.

Exploration of North America to the east of the Rocky Mountains, 1701-1750

1656–1705   John Taylor   West Indies, U.S.A.
1697–1743   Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville   Louisiana, U.S.A.
1700–1728   Pierre Sidrac Dugue de Boisbriant   Louisiana, U.S.A.
1701   Antoine Laumet de la Mothe Cadillac   Michigan, U.S.A.
1702   Thomas Nairne   Florida, U.S.A.
1708   *German Settlers in North America   New York, U.S.A.
1708–1776   Cadwallader Colden   New York, U.S.A.
1710–1716   Alexander Spotswood   Virginia, U.S.A.
1711   John Lawson   Virginia, U.S.A.
1711–1717   Joseph-François Lafitau   Canada
1712–1726   Mark Catesby   Carolina, U.S.A.
1712–1758   Johann Conrad Weiser   Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
1713–1715   Pryce Hughes   Mississippi, U.S.A.
1713–1736   Jean Pierre Purry   Western Australia, Java, South Carolina
1716–1741   Pierre de Lauzon   Canada
1725   Tobias Fitch   Carolina, U.S.A.
1725–1726   George Chicken   Carolina, U.S.A.
1727   James Le Tort   New York, U.S.A.
1728   William Byrd   Virginia, U.S.A.
1728–1751   Armand de La Richardie   Michigan, U.S.A.
1729   Gaspard-Joseph Chaussegros de Lery   U.S.A.
1729–1730   Alexander Cuming   Carolina, U.S.A.
1732   Francois-Marie Bissot de Vincennes   Illinois, U.S.A.
1732–1738   James Edward Oglethorpe   Georgia, U.S.A.
1732–1742   John Peter Salling   U.S.A.
1735   *Moravian Church in North America   North Carolina, U.S.A.
1735–1762   Antoine-Simon Maillard   Nova Scotia, Canada
1735–1775   James Adair   U.S.A.
1736–1743   Christian Gottlieb Priber   Tennessee, U.S.A.
1736–1808   David Zeisberger   Ohio, U.S.A.
1740   William Johnson   New York, U.S.A.
1741–1742   Antoine Bonnefoy   Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
1741–1751   George Croghan   U.S.A.
1742–1744   John Howard   Virginia, U.S.A.
1742–1767   Christian Frederick Post   Ohio, U.S.A.
1743   John Bartram   New York, U.S.A.
1744   Robert Lade   Africa, Asia, U.S.A.
1748–1749   Thomas Walker   Tennessee, U.S.A.
1748–1771   John Findley   Kentucky, U.S.A.
1749   Pierre-Joseph Celoron de Blainville   Ohio, U.S.A.
1750   Louis-Joseph Le Loutre   Nova Scotia, Canada
1750–1753   Christopher Gist   Pennsylvania, U.S.A.

Exploration of North America to the east of the Rocky Mountains, 1751 – 1800

1751–1772   Jean Bernard Bossu   Louisiana, U.S.A.
1752   Johann Christian Erhardt   Labrador, Canada
1754   James McBride   Ohio, U.S.A.
1754–1813   Johann Gottlieb Ernestus Heckewelder   Ohio, U.S.A.
1755   Mary Ingles   Kentucky, U.S.A.
1755–1758   Luigi Castiglioni   U.S.A.
1757–1759   William Bonar   Alabama, U.S.A.
1757–1773   William de Brahm   North America S.E., Georgia, U.S.A.
1760–1763   Thomas Hutchins   Ohio, U.S.A.
1760–1766   Robert Rogers   Great Lakes, Canada
1760–1771   John Stuart   Kentucky, U.S.A.
1760–1826   Timothée Demonbruen   Tennessee, U.S.A.
1761–1762   Henry Timberlake   U.S.A.
1763   Joseph-Louis Ainse   Great Lakes, Canada
1763–1764   Henry Bouquet   Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
1764–1766   Philip Pittman   Mississippi, U.S.A.
1764–1771   Jens Haven   Labrador, Canada
1765   George Croghan   Ohio, U.S.A.
1765   Henry Scraggins   Tennessee, U.S.A.
1765–1766   John Bartram   Georgia, U.S.A.
1766   Harry Gordon   Ohio, U.S.A.
1766   James Smith   Tennessee, U.S.A.
1766–1767   Jonathan Carver   Wisconsin, U.S.A.
1766–1768   Antonio de Ulloa   Louisiana, U.S.A.
1767–1768   Benjamin Cutbird   U.S.A.
1768–1791   Pierre Gibault   Indiana, U.S.A.
1769–1773   Daniel Boone   Kentucky, U.S.A.
1769–1775   Kasper Mansker   Tennessee, U.S.A.
1770–1786   George Cartwright   Labrador, Canada
1771–1776   Bernard Romans   Florida, U.S.A.
1773–1777   William Bartram   Southeastern U.S.A.
1775–1780   Richard Henderson   Kentucky, U.S.A.
1778–1779   George Rogers Clark   Ohio, U.S.A.
1779   James Robertson   Tennessee, U.S.A.
1779–1800   Jean Baptiste Pointe du Sable   Illinois, U.S.A.
1783–1819   James Aird   Mississippi, U.S.A.
1783–1821   Jean Baptiste Perrault   Wisconsin, U.S.A.
1785–1797   André Michaux   Iran, U.S.A.
1790   Samuel Maclay   Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
1795–1796   Georges Henri Victor Collot   U.S.A.

Exploration of North America to the west of the Mississippi, 1572-1700

1572–1618   Pedro Diaz   Central America, Mexico
1578–1604   Agustin Davila Padilla   Central America, Dominican Republic, Mexico
1604–1620   Andrés Pérez de Ribas   Mexico
1610–1666   Horacio Carochi   Central America, Mexico
1615   Juan de Iturbe   Mexico
1625   Alonso de Benavides   New Mexico, U.S.A.
1625–1632   Juan de Salas   Texas, U.S.A.
1629–1664   Juan Ramirez   New Mexico, U.S.A.
1650   Hernán Martin   Texas, U.S.A.
1654   Diego de Guadalajara   Texas, U.S.A.
1662   Garcia de San Francisco   Texas, U.S.A.
1662   Diego Dionisio de Penalosa   Nebraska, U.S.A.
1664–1680   Lucas Maldonado   New Mexico, U.S.A.
1665   Fernando de Azcué   Texas, U.S.A.
1670–1680   Francisco de Ayeta   New Mexico, U.S.A.
1675   Fernando del Bosque   Texas, U.S.A.
1684   Juan Domínguez de Mendoza   Texas, U.S.A.
1685   Alonzo de Leon   Texas, U.S.A.
1686–1689   Andrés de Pez y Malzarraga   Texas, U.S.A.
1687–1702   Eusebio Francisco Kino   Arizona, U.S.A.
1688–1716   Agostin Quintana   Central America, Mexico
1689   Alonzo de Leon   Texas, U.S.A.
1689–1691   Damian Massanet   Texas, U.S.A.
1691   Domingo Teran de Los Rios   North America S., Texas, U.S.A.
1692–1696   Diego de Vargas   New Mexico, U.S.A.
1697–1717   Juan Maria Salvatierra   Mexico

Exploration west of the Mississippi, in Mexico and Central America, 1700-1800

1688–1715   Diego Ramon   Texas, U.S.A.
1706   Francisco Cuervo y Valdes   New Mexico, U.S.A.
1706   Juan de Uribarri   Colorado, U.S.A.
1706–1724   Etienne Veniard de Bourgmont   Missouri, U.S.A.
1709   Pedro de Aguirre   Texas, U.S.A.
1714   Louis Juchereau de St Denis   Texas, U.S.A.
1716–1719   Louis Juchereau de St Denis   Texas, U.S.A.
1716–1722   Antonio Margil   Texas, U.S.A.
1718–1719   Martin de Alarcon   Texas, U.S.A.
1718–1723   Jean-Baptiste Bénard de La Harpe   Oklahoma, U.S.A.
1718–1727   Antoine-Simon Le Page du Pratz   Mississippi, U.S.A.
1719   Claude Charles du Tisné   Arkansas, U.S.A.
1720   Spanish Caravan to Nebraska   Nebraska, U.S.A.
1720   Pedro de Villasur   Nebraska, U.S.A.
1720–1722   Marques de Aguayo   Texas, U.S.A.
1720–1723   Pierre François Xavier de Charlevoix   Mississippi, U.S.A.
1723   Philippe Renault   Missouri, U.S.A.
1724–1729   Pedro de Rivera y Villalon   New Mexico, Mexico
1727   Marie-Madelaine Hachard   Louisiana, U.S.A.
1731–1767   Francesco Saverio Clavigero   Central America, Mexico
1732–1758   Fernando Consag   Mexico
1735–1779   Athanase de Mezieres   Texas, U.S.A.
1737   José Arlegui   Central America, Mexico
1739   Paul & Pierre Antoine Mallet   Nebraska, U.S.A.
1747–1750   José de Escandon   Texas, Mexico
1749–1768   Johann Jacob Baegert   Mexico
1757–1759   Diego Ortiz Parilla   Texas, U.S.A.
1763   René Auguste Chouteau   Missouri, U.S.A.
1763–1764   Pierre Laclede   Missouri, U.S.A.
1765   Juan Maria de Rivera   Colorado, U.S.A.
1766–1768   Nicolas de Lafora   Mexico, U.S.A.
1766–1768   Marqués de Rubi   Mexico, U.S.A.
1768–1769   George Taylor   Canada, U.S.A.
1769–1770   Gaspar de Portola   California, U.S.A.
1769–1784   Junipero Serra   California, U.S.A.
1770   Gaspar de Portola   California, U.S.A.
1770–1806   Francisco Dumetz   California, U.S.A.
1771–1776   Francisco Tomas Garces   Arizona, U.S.A.
1773–1774   John Rowzée Peyton   New Mexico, U.S.A.
1773–1785   Francisco Palou   California, U.S.A.
1774–1776   Juan Bautista de Anza   California, U.S.A.
1775   Juan Manuel de Ayala   California, U.S.A.
1776   Silvestre de Velez de Escalante   North America W., Utah, U.S.A.
1777   George Gauld   Texas, U.S.A.
1778–1779   Juan Bautista de Anza   New Mexico, U.S.A.
1781   José Vicente Feliz   California, U.S.A.
1784–1789   Sigismond Mathias Quasdanovich   West Indies, Cuba, Guiana
1786–1793   Pierre Vial   New Mexico, U.S.A.
1787–1788   José Mares   Texas, U.S.A.
1787–1823   José Francisco de Paula Senan   California, U.S.A.
1788–1792   Martín de Sesse y Lacasta   Central America, Mexico
1790–1804   José Mariano Mocino   Central America, Canada N.W., Mexico
1790–1812   Esteban Tapis   California, U.S.A.
1791–1801   Philip Nolan   Texas, U.S.A.
1792–1797   John Evans   North Dakota, U.S.A.
1794–1796   Jean Baptiste Trudeau   South Dakota, U.S.A.
1796   Ebenezer Dorr   California, U.S.A.
1796–1823   Mariano Payeras   California, U.S.A.
1796–1833   José Viader   California, U.S.A.

The exploration of Canada, 1690-1800

1690–1692   Henry Kelsey   Saskatchewan, Canada
1694–1714   Nicholas Jeremie   Hudson Bay, Canada
1715–1716   William Stuart   Mackenzie, Canada
1719–1720   James Knight   Hudson Bay, Canada
1722   John Scroggs   Hudson Bay, Canada
1724–1738   Emmanuel Crespel   Anticosti I., Canada
1726–1737   Pierre Gaultier de Varenne de La Verendrye   Manitoba, Canada
1727–1751   William Coats   Hudson Bay, Canada
1729–1730   Claude Le Beau   Canada
1734–1755   Jacques Legardeur de St Pierre   Manitoba, Canada
1737   James Napper   Hudson Bay, Canada
1738–1744   Pierre Gaultier de Varennes de La Verendrye   South Dakota, U.S.A.
1740–1765   Claude-Godefroi Coquart   Canada
1741–1742   Christopher Middleton   Hudson Bay, Canada
1742   Joseph La France   Manitoba, Canada
1746–1747   Francis Smith   Hudson Bay, Canada
1746–1747   William Moor   Hudson Bay, Canada
1750–1751   Joseph Bernard Chabert   Newfoundland, Canada
1751–1771   Joseph-Claude Boucher de Niverville   Alberta, Canada
1753–1754   Charles Swaine   Canada
1754–1755   Anthony Henday   Alberta, Canada
1761–1776   Alexander Henry   Saskatchewan, Canada
1762   William Christopher   Hudson Bay, Canada
1766–1769   William Tomison   Manitoba, Canada
1766–1783   James Finlay   Saskatchewan, Canada
1767   William Pink   Alberta, Canada
1767–1790   Peter Pangman   Saskatchewan, Canada
1768–1788   John Long   Canada
1769–1770   Samuel Hearne   Manitoba, Canada
1769–1776   Joseph Frobisher   Alberta, Canada
1770–1772   Samuel Hearne   Mackenzie, Canada
1770–1788   Charles Patterson   Minnesota, U.S.A.
1772–1773   Matthew Cocking   Saskatchewan, Canada
1774   Samuel Hearne   Saskatchewan, Canada
1776   Richard Pickersgill   North Atlantic, Greenland
1778–1787   Peter Pond   Alberta, Canada
1778–1791   Philip Turnor   Saskatchewan, Canada
1780–1810   Pierre Dorion   Illinois, U.S.A.
1785–1789   Laurent Leroux   Mackenzie, Canada
1789   Alexander Mackenzie   Mackenzie, Canada
1790–1791   Charles Duncan   Hudson Bay, Canada
1791–1804   Charles Chaboillier   North Dakota, U.S.A.
1792–1793   Alexander Mackenzie   British Columbia, Canada
1797–1826   David Thompson   British Columbia, Canada

Voyages to Alaska and the North Pacific coast of America, 1743-1800

1743–1779   *Aleutian Islands: early Russian voyages   North Pacific, Alaska
1763–1768   Ivan Sind   Siberia, Kamchatka, Russia
1768   William Peters   Siberia, Kamchatka, Russia
1769   Petr Kuz’mich Krenitsyn   North Pacific, Aleutian Is., Alaska
1774   Juan Perez   North America N.W., Queen Charlotte Is., Canada
1775   Juan Fancisco de la Bodega y Quadra   North America N.W., Alaska
1775   Bruno de Hezeta   North America N.W., Columbia R., U.S.A.
1779   Ignacio de Arteaga   North America N.W., Canada, Alaska
1783   Potap K. Zaikov   North America N.W., Alaska, Alaska
1783–1795   Grigorii Ivanovich Shelikhov   Siberia, Alaska
1785–1786   James Hanna   North America N.W., Vancouver I., Canada
1785–1787   James Charles Stuart Strange   North America N.W., India, Canada
1785–1788   Nathaniel Portlock   North America N.W., Canada, Alaska
1785–1788   George Dixon   North America N.W., Canada, Alaska
1786–1789   John Meares   North America N.W., Alaska, Canada
1786–1795   Archibald Menzies   Circumnavigation, North America N.W., Canada
1787–1792   Charles William Barkley   North America N.W., Vancouver I., Canada
1787–1794   John Kendrick   North America N.W., China, Canada
1788–1789   Esteban José Martinez   North America N.W., Canada, Alaska
1788–1793   Robert Gray   North America N.W., Columbia R., Canada
1789–1790   Simon Metcalfe   North Pacific, Hawaii
1789–1797   James Colnett   North America N.W., Vancouver I., Canada
1789–1835   John Young   North Pacific, Hawaii
1790–1795   Alexandr Andreivich Baranov   North Pacific, Aleutian Is., Alaska
1792   Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra   North America N.W., Vancouver I. Canada
1792–1794   James Baker   North America N.W., Columbia R., U.S.A.
1792–1837   Francisco de Paula Marin   Pacific, Hawaii
1794–1799   Archimandrake Ivassov   Siberia, Alaska
1799–1804   Alexandr Andreivich Baranov   North America N.W., Hawaii, Alaska

Ethiopia: traders, Portuguese embassies and Jesuit missionaries, 1300-1702

1300   William Adam   Indian Ocean, Socotra, Ethiopia
1407–1447   Pietro Rombulo   Ethiopia
1470–1790   *Franciscan Missionaries in Ethiopia, 1470-1790   Ethiopia
1482   Gregorio Bicini   Ethiopia
1507–1520   Matthew the Armenian   Portugal, Ethiopia
1520–1527   Francisco Alvares   Ethiopia
1520–1535   João Bermudes   Ethiopia
1528–1543   Mohammed Ahmad Gran   Ethiopia
1540–1542   Estevão da Gama   Red Sea, Ethiopia
1541–1542   Cristóvão da Gama   Ethiopia
1557–1577   Andre de Oviedo   Ethiopia
1603–1622   Pedro Paez   Blue Nile, Ethiopia
1604–1628   Francesco degli Angeli   Ethiopia
1605–1634   Luis de Azevedo   Ethiopia
1613–1614   Antonio (II) Fernandes   Blue Nile, Ethiopia
1621–1624   Jerónimo Lobo   East Africa, India, Somalia
1625–1633   Manoel de Almeida   Ethiopia
1625–1634   Afonso Mendes   Ethiopia
1625–1636   Jerónimo Lobo   South Africa, Ethiopia
1698–1701   Charles Jacques Poncet   Egypt, Ethiopia
1701–1702   Theodor Krump   Egypt, Sudan

The exploration of the African interior south of Equator, 1501-1600

1501–1520   Antonio (I) Fernandes   Zimbabwe, Mozambique
1503–1511   Antonio de Saldanha   Zanzibar, Mozambique
1505   Pedro de Anaya   Mozambique
1505   Martin Fernández de Figueroa   Mozambique
1510–1526   Manuel Pacheco   Congo, Angola
1510–1526   Balthazar de Castro   Congo, Angola
1520   Gregorio de Quadra   Congo
1542–1616   Diogo do Couto   India
1552   São Joao (shipwreck)   South Africa
1554–1575   Manoel de Mesquito Perestrelo   South Africa
1559–1560   Paulo Dias   Angola
1560–1561   Gonçalo da Silveira   Zimbabwe, Mozambique
1569–1573   Francisco Barreto   Mozambique
1573–1577   Vasco Fernandes Homem   Zimbabwe, Mozambique
1574–1589   Paulo Dias   Angola
1574–1612   Balthasar Barreira   Angola
1575–1580   Diogo de Sousa de Meneses   Mozambique
1578–1589   Duarte Lopez   Congo, Angola
1585   Santiago (shipwreck)   South Africa
1586–1597   João dos Santos   India, Mozambique
1589   São Thome (shipwreck)   South Africa, Mozambique
1589–1610   Andrew Battell   Brazil, Angola
1591–1606   Aleixo de Abreu   Brazil, Angola
1593   Nuno Velho Pereira   South Africa
1600   Pieter Brandt   Congo, Angola

The exploration of the African interior south of Equator, 1600 – 1700

1607   Balthasar Rebello de Aragao   Angola
1611–1613   Samuel Braun   Congo
1613   Witte Leeuw (shipwreck)   South Atlantic, St. Helena
1614–1663   Salvador Correia de Sa e Benevides   Angola, Brazil
1616   Gaspar Bocarro   Malawi, Mozambique
1616   Diogo Simoes Madeira   Malawi, Mozambique
1617   Manuel Cerveira Pereira   Angola
1622   São João Batista (shipwreck)   South Africa, Mozambique
1627   Luís Mariano   Malawi, Mozambique
1641   Cornelis Corneliszoon Jol   Angola
1647   Atalaia (shipwreck)   Mozambique, South Africa
1649   Father Bonaventura   Congo
1650   Jan van Herder   Angola, Congo
1650–1658   Bartolomeu de Vasconcellos   Angola
1652–1662   Jan Anthoniszoon van Riebeeck   South Africa
1655   Jan Wintervogel   South Africa
1655   Willem Muller   South Africa
1657   Girolamo de Montesarchio   Congo
1657   Abraham Gabbema   South Africa
1658   Jan van Harwarden   South Africa
1659   Christiaen Janssen   South Africa
1660   Giovanni Antonio Cavazzi da Montecuccolo   Angola
1660–1661   Jan Danckaert   South Africa
1661   Pieter van Meerhoff   South Africa
1661–1662   Pieter Everaert   South Africa
1661–1663   Pieter van Cruijthoff   South Africa
1666–1672   Dionigi da Palacenza Carli   Angola, Congo
1668–1669   Jeronimus Croese   South Africa
1670   Gerrit Gerrits(zoon) Ridder Muys   Namibia, South Africa
1670   Francisco de Murca   Angola
1677   Willem van Dieden   Namibia, South Africa
1685   Simon van der Stel   South Africa
1685–1690   Stavenisse & Noord (shipwrecks)   Mozambique, South Africa
1688–1705   António Coelho Guerreiro   East Indies, Timor
1689   Isaq Schrijver   South Africa
1693   Daniel Stillman   South Africa W.

The exploration of northern Africa, 1507-1800

1507–1520   Leo Africanus   North Africa, Sahara, Morocco
1631–1638   Francis Knight   Algeria
1737–1738   Frederik Ludvig Norden   Egypt
1737–1743   Richard Pococke   Nile, Egypt
1752–1753   Václav Prutky   Middle East, Ethiopia
1755–1789   Olaudah Equiano   North Atlantic, West Africa, West Indies
1764–1766   Yonannes Tovmacean   Ethiopia
1768–1774   James Bruce   Nile, Ethiopia
1776–1781   Nicolas Savary   Egypt
1783–1785   Constantin-François Chasseboeuf, de Volney   Middle East, Egypt, Palestine
1788   John Ledyard   Egypt
1788–1789   Simon Lucas   Morocco, Libya
1790–1791   Daniel Houghton   Gambia, Mali
1792–1813   William George Browne   Iran, Sudan
1795–1797   Mungo Park   Mali
1797–1799   Joseph Frendenburgh   North Africa, Middle East, Libya
1797–1800   Friedrich Konrad Hornemann   North Africa, Libya, Niger
1798–1800   Dominique Vivant Denon   Egypt

The exploration of southern Africa, 1701-1800

1701–1702   Meresteyn (shipwreck)   South Africa
1704–1713   Peter Kolb   South Africa
1705   Johannes Starrenburg   South Africa
1713   Bennebroeck (shipwreck)   South Africa
1724   Johannes Rhenius   South Africa
1730   Pieter de Bruyn   Namibia
1736   Hermanus Hubner   South Africa
1738   Willem van Wyk   Namibia
1751–1754   Nicholas Louis de La Caille   Indian Ocean, South Africa
1752   August Beutler   South Africa
1753   Bredenhof (shipwreck)   South Africa
1755–1756   Doddington (shipwreck)   South Africa
1760   Jacobus Coetsee   Namibia, South Africa
1761–1762   Hendrik Hop   Namibia
1777–1779   William (II) Paterson   South Africa
1777–1779   Robert Jacob Gordon   South Africa
1778   Joachim van Plattenberg   South Africa
1778–1779   Hendrik Jacob Wikar   South Africa
1778–1791   Jacob van Reenen   South Africa
1780–1785   François Le Vaillant   South Africa W., Namibia
1782–1783   Grosvenor (shipwreck)   South Africa
1785–1793   Guilliam Visagie   South AfricaW., Namibia
1786   Thomas Boldwen Thompson   South Africa W., Namibia
1791–1792   Willem van Reenen   South Africa W., Namibia
1792   Winterton (shipwreck)   Indian Ocean, Malagasy
1795–1796   T. Alexander   South AfricaW., Namibia
1798–1811   Johannes Theodorus van Kemp   South Africa

Exploration in Central Africa, 1769-1800

1769–1776   Jean-Vincent Morice   Tanzania
1783–1793   Manuel Galvão da Silva   Zimbabwe, Mozambique
1783–1808   Joaquim José da Silva   Angola
1790   Pedro da Trinidade   Mozambique
1793   François Duminy   Namibia
1796–1798   Gonçalo Caetano Pereira   Mozambique, Zambia
1798   Francisco José Maria de Lacerda e Almeida   Mozambique, Zambia

Early voyages to Australia, 1605-1700

1500–1600   *Australia: early speculative voyages
1605–1606  Willem Jansz   Queensland
1605–1606   Jan Lodewycx   East Indies, New Guinea, Australia
1611   Hendrik Brouwer   Indian Ocean, Western Australia
1616   Dirck Hartog   Western Australia
1618   Lenaert Jacobszoon   Western Australia
1618   Haevick Claeszoon   Western Australia
1619   Frederick Houtman   Western Australia
1619   Jacob Dedel   Western Australia
1621   John Brooke   Western Australia
1622   Leeuwin (ship)   Western Australia
1623   Jan Cartensz   Queensland
1623   Willem Joosten van Coolsteerdt   Australia N., Queensland
1626–1629   Pieter A. Nuyts   Taiwan, Australia
1628   Gerrit Frederikszoon de Witt   Western Australia
1628–1629   François Pelsaert   Western Australia
1636   Pieter Pieterszoon   Australia N.
1636   Gerrit Thomasz Pool   East Indies, New Guinea

Voyages in Australasia and the discovery of New Zealand, 1642-1756

1642–1643   Abel Janszoon Tasman   Australia S.E., Tasmania, New Zealand
1644   Abel Janszoon Tasman   Australia N.E., Northern Territory
1648   Leeuwerik (ship)   Western Australia
1655–1658   Vergulde Draeck (shipwreck)   Western Australia
1658   Jacob Pieterszoon Pereboom   Western Australia
1678   Jan van der Wall   Western Australia
1683–1691   William Dampier   Circumnavigation, Australia N.W., Pacific
1696–1697   Willem Hesselszoon de Vlamingh   Western Australia
1705   Maarten van Delft   Australia N.
1712   Zuytdorp (shipwreck)   Western Australia
1727   Zeewijk (shipwreck)   Western Australia
1756   Jean Etienne Gonzal   Australia N.E., Queensland

British settlement and inland exploration in Australia, 1786-1800

1786–1794   John White   New South Wales
1787–1788   Arthur Phillip   New South Wales
1788   Philip Gidley King   Norfolk I.
1789–1791   William Dawes   New South Wales
1789–1791   Watkin Tench   New South Wales
1794   Henry Hacking   New South Wales
1794–1801   William Paterson   New South Wales
1795   Matthew Everingham   New South Wales
1795–1796   George Bass   New South Wales
1797   Guy Hamilton   Australia S.E., Victoria
1797–1798   George Bass   Australia S.E., Victoria
1798   John Wilson   New South Wales
1798–1799   Matthew Flinders   Australia S.E., Tasmania
1799   Matthew Flinders   New South Wales
1799   William Reed   Australia S.E., Tasmania


Supplementary article

  Fictitious Voyages: fabulous travel literature to 1800

Volume 2: 1800-1850


The interior and coastal exploration of Australia, 1800-1830

1791–1806  Eber Bunker   Tasmania
1800   George Suttor   New South Wales
1800–1801   James Grant   Victoria
1800–1801   Jean Baptiste Bory de St Vincent   Indian Ocean
1800–1803   François Auguste Peron   Australia
1800–1803   Nicolas Thomas Baudin   Australia
1800–1803   Henri-Louis de Saulses de Freycinet   Australia, West Indies, Indian Ocean
1800–1803   Jacques-Félix-Emmanuel Hamelin   Australia,
1800–1804   Pierre-Bernard Milius   Australia, Indian Ocean, French Guiana
1800–1813   John William Lewin   New South Wales
1800–1817   Francis Luis Barrallier   New South Wales, West Indies
1800–1822   William Lawson   New South Wales
1800–1838   Charles Baudin   Australia, Mexico
1801   Samuel Ward Flinders   Australia
1801–1802   John Murray   Victoria, Melbourne
1801–1803   Matthew Flinders   Australia,
1801–1803   Robert Merrick Fowler   Australia
1801–1804   George Caley   New South Wales, West Indies
1801–1805   Robert Brown   Australia
1801–1805   Ferdinand Lucas Bauer   Australia
1801–1808   William Westall   Australia, China, India
1802–1822   George William Evans   Tasmania, New South Wales
1803   John Bowen   Tasmania,
1803–1805   James Hingston Tuckey   Victoria
1803–1835   William Buckley   Victoria, Tasmania
1804–1821   Charles Throsby   New South Wales
1807   Thomas Laycock   Tasmania,
1807–1822   Alexander Berry   New South Wales
1809–1822   Lachlan Macquarie   New South Wales, Tasmania
1811–1813   Gregory Blaxland   New South Wales
1813   William Charles Wentworth   New South Wales
1814–1822   Joseph Lycett   New South Wales, Tasmania
1814–1825   Hamilton Hume   New South Wales, Victoria
1814–1830   Allan Cunningham   New South Wales, Brazil
1816–1828   Charles Fraser   New South Wales, Western Australia
1817–1818   John Joseph William Molesworth Oxley   New South Wales
1817–1822   Phillip Parker King   Australia
1820–1823   Joseph Wild   Canberra, New South Wales
1823   John Joseph William Molesworth Oxley   Queensland
1823–1824   William Hilton Hovell   New South Wales, Victoria
1824–1835   John Helder Wedge   Tasmania, Victoria
1825–1827   Edmund Lockyer   Queensland, Western Australia
1826–1827   Jörgen Jorgensen   Tasmania, Iceland, Australia
1826–1830   Patrick Logan   Brisbane, Queensland
1827–1831   Henry Hellyer   Tasmania,
1827–1837   James Stirling   Western Australia, Perth
1828–1829   Charles Sturt   Darling River, New South Wales
1828–1836   George Bennett   Pacific, New South Wales
1829–1830   Charles Sturt   Murray River, New South Wales, South Australia
1829–1839   George Augustus Robinson   Tasmania
1829–1849   John Septimus Roe   Indian Ocean, Western Australia