Articles about places & monuments across every continent and era, oldest first.
He came aboard Endeavour on July 13, 1769, at Banks's request, spoke to Māori for Cook in New Zealand, drew a chart of islands and died at Batavia in 1770.
· 1769Cook's journal records a musket fired between two Gweagal men at Botany Bay; Banks put the number of spears taken afterward at forty or fifty.
· 1770Jefferson's orders of June 20, 1803, and the journals' dated lines from Camp Dubois, May 14, 1804, to Ordway's "finis" at St. Louis, September 23, 1806.
· 1804Andrew Waugh's 1856 letter to the Royal Geographical Society named Peak XV "Mont Everest" at 29,002 feet and thanked one assistant, J. Hennessey.
· 1856William Brahe left the Cooper Creek depot nine hours before Burke, Wills and King returned on April 21, 1861; a royal commission later divided the blame.
· 1861Ármin Vámbéry left Tehran in March 1863 as the dervish Reshid Efendi, saw the khan of Khiva and the emir at Samarkand, and was back on January 20, 1864.
· 1863Stanley's book gives November 10, 1871, for the Ujiji meeting; his own dispatch said November 3, and Livingstone's diary points to late October.
· 1871Calvert began digging Hisarlık in 1863; its nine layers span 3,000 years. Hittite texts name Wilusa, and in 2001 Korfmann and Kolb fought over its size.
· 1871The General Act signed in Berlin on February 26, 1885, drew no borders. It set trade and river rules; the partition came by treaty and war in the years to 1914.
· 1885Mount Tarawera erupted for about five hours on June 10, 1886 and buried Te Wairoa. A lake survey and a land survey disagree on where the terraces lie.
· 1886Ordek forgot a spade at a Lop Nor ruin in March 1900. Going back for it, he found a second site that 1901's documents named Loulan, a Han-era kingdom.
· 1900Mount Pelée destroyed Saint-Pierre, Martinique, on May 8, 1902, three days before an election. Two people in the city are known to have survived.
· 1902William Knox D'Arcy signed a 60-year Persian oil concession on May 28, 1901. Seven years later, a well at Masjed Soleyman struck oil on May 26, 1908.
· 1908A French munitions ship and a Norwegian steamer collided in Halifax's Narrows on December 6, 1917; the official register closed with 1,631 dead.
· 1917Moscow cut Turkestan, Bukhara and Khorezm into republics named for nationalities in 1924-25, on Stalin's definition of a nation, and revised them to 1936.
· 1924Britain set June 1948 as the deadline on February 20, 1947; the June 3 plan cut it to August 15; commissions formed June 30 signed the line on August 12.
· 1947Frank Kingdon-Ward was camped at Rima in Tibet when the August 15, 1950 earthquake struck. Catalogues give 8.6 to 8.8; no single death toll exists.
· 1950A coded cable told The Times of the first Everest ascent, and the paper printed it on the coronation morning, June 2, 1953.
· 1953The surge of January 31–February 1, 1953 was later rated a 300-year level. The Delta Committee set a 10,000-year standard; Britain capped defenses at 1953.
· 1953The world's fourth largest lake lost its rivers to Soviet cotton after 1960. NASA recorded the eastern basin gone in 2014; a 13 km dike saved the north.
· 1960A shallow shock under central Tashkent on April 26, 1966 left over 300,000 of 1.5 million people homeless. Official deaths were counted as eight or 10.
· 1966From 1966 to 1973 David Whitehouse dug Siraf, a Persian Gulf port, and found Chinese stoneware in a mosque platform of about 800. Its end is still argued.
· 1966José Garanger dug 118 square meters at Mangaasi on Efate in 1966–67 and named a pottery style. Re-excavation from 1996 put Erueti ware before it.
· 1967On March 8, 1960, UNESCO's director-general launched an appeal to save Nubia's monuments from the Aswan High Dam. Abu Simbel's temples rose 65 meters by 1968.
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