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Christopher Columbus arriving in the New World carrying a banner with the initials of Ferdinand II and Isabella I.

The following timeline covers European exploration from 1418 to 1854.

The fifteenth century witnessed the rounding of the feared Cape Bojador and Portuguese exploration of the west coast of Africa, while in the last decade of the century the Spanish sent expeditions to the New World, focusing on exploring the Caribbean Sea. In the sixteenth century various countries sent exploring parties into the interior of the Americas, as well as to their respective west and east coasts north to California and Labrador and south to Chile and Tierra del Fuego. In the seventeenth century the Russians explored and conquered Siberia, while the Dutch roughly charted the emerging continent of Australia. The eighteenth century saw the first extensive exploration of the South Pacific and the discovery of Alaska, while the nineteenth was dominated by exploration of the polar regions (not to mention excursions into the heart of Africa). By the twentieth century the poles themselves had been reached.

Fifteenth century

Columbus before the Queen, imagined by Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze, 1843
Cabral's ship in the manuscript Memória das Armadas que de Portugal passaram à Índia

Sixteenth century

A painting depicting the deck of a wooden sailing ship on which stands a group of men pointing toward the horizon and with the sails of several other ships visible in the background
Cabral (center-left, pointing) sights the Brazilian mainland for the first time on 22 April 1500.
Balboa claiming possession of the Mar del Sur ("South Sea").
Discovery of the Mississippi by William H. Powell (1823–1879) is a Romantic depiction of de Soto seeing the Mississippi River for the first time. It hangs in the United States Capitol rotunda.
Coronado Sets Out to the North, by Frederic Remington, 1861-1909
The Cabrillo National Monument in San Diego, California
Crew of Willem Barentsz fighting a polar bear, 1596

Seventeenth century

John Collier's painting of Henry Hudson cast adrift.
A seventeenth century koch in a museum in Krasnoyarsk. Kochi were used to explore the Siberian watershed and coasts by men such as Kurochkin, Perfilyev and Dezhnev.
"Murderers' Bay", on the South Island of New Zealand, where several of Tasman's men were killed by Maori in December 1642.
File:Expedition of Semyon Dezhnyov by Klavdy Lebedev.jpg
The expedition of Semyon Dezhnyov by Klavdy Lebedev
Cook's map of New Zealand

Eighteenth century

Colour drawing of Simon Fraser's 1808 descent of the Fraser River.
"The Crews of H.M.S. Hecla & Griper Cutting Into Winter Harbour, Sept. 26th, 1819". An engraving from the journal published in 1821.

Nineteenth century

John Franklin's party encamped at Point Turnagain, the furthest point he reached.
Dumont d'Urville's L'Astrolabe making water on a floe on 6 February 1838.
HMS Investigator, on the northwestern coast of Banks Island, 20 August 1851.
Map drawn by Robert McClure detailing the Northwest Passage, including the 1851 route of the Investigator.

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