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John Cabot (c.1450–c.1500) was an Italian navigator who was the first European that sailed along to North American coast in 1497 since the Norse 500 years prior. Vasco da Gama (c.1460–1524). Famous Portuguese explorer who sailed to India in 1497–98. He accomplished finding a sea route to Asia which Europeans had been attempting to do for ...
- Estevanico
Estevanico (c. 1500 –1539), also known as Esteban de...
- History of South Africa
Prehistory. Scientists researching the periods before...
- Estevanico
1003. Edward the Confessor, the future king of England (r. 1042-1066), is born to parents Æthelred the Unready and Emma of Normandy. 1016. Harold Harefoot, the future king of England (r.1037-1040), is born to parents Cnut the Great and Ælfgifu of Northhampton. 1016.
- Middle Stone Age
- Late Stone Age
- Bantu Expansion and Aftermath
The Middle Stone Age covers the period from 300,000 to 50,000 years ago. The hunter-gatherers of Southern Africa, named San by their pastoral neighbours, the Khoikhoi, and Bushmen by Europeans, are in all likelihood direct descendants of the first anatomically modern humans to migrate to Southern Africa more than 130,000 years ago. The term Khoisan...
The Late Stone Age in South Africa corresponds to the later phase of the Sangoan, beginning about 50,000 years ago, followed by Lupemban culture, from about 30,000 to 12,000 years ago (also known as "Second Intermediate", between Middle and Late Stone Age.The term Late Stone Age was introduced for South Africa in 1929 by John Hilary Goodwin and C. ...
It was long believed at around the middle of the 1st millennium, the Bantu expansion reached Southern Africa from the Niger River Delta, reaching present-day KwaZulu-Natal Province, but recent archaeological work places the presence of Bantu-speakers in the region as early as the 3rd century CE. The Bantu-speakers not only had domestic animals, but...
AD or Anno Domini is the period after Christ was born. BCE and CE stand for ' Before Common Era ' and ' Common Era ' and are alternatives to BC and AD respectively. Timeline showing AD and BC. Historical Origin.
1900-1909 - The World Begins to Fly. 1910-1919 - World War I. 1920-1929 - Prosperity and Its Demise. 1930-1939 - The Great Depression. 1940-1949 - World War II. 1950-1959 - Two Cars in Every Garage. 1960-1969 - Civil Rights and Turmoil. 1970-1979 - The Nation in Flux. 1980-1989 - The Reagan Revolution.
History of Google. Google was officially launched in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin to market Google Search, which has become the most used web-based search engine. Larry Page and Sergey Brin, students at Stanford University in California, developed a search algorithm first (1996) known as "BackRub", with the help of Scott Hassan and Alan ...
