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Discovery of the Americas

European knowledge of Central Asia and China

First circumnavigation of the Earth

First man on the Moon

Discovery of Canada

First European to reach India by sea

Conquest of the Aztec Empire

Second circumnavigation of the Earth

Exploration of the American West

Demonstration that Brazil and the West Indies did not represent Asia's eastern outskirts

First contact with Eastern Australia and the Hawaiian Islands, and the first circumnavigation of New Zealand

Exploration of Africa

First to reach the South Pole

First confirmed ascent of Mount Everest

Discovery of the Mississippi River

Discovery of parts of North America under the commission of Henry VII of England

First European expedition to Florida

European discovery of Tasmania, New Zealand and Fiji

Arctic exploration and discovery of the Svalbard archipelago

Discovery of the Hudson River and Hudson Bay

First human to journey into outer space

First and youngest woman to have flown in space with a solo mission

Founder of the Roanoke Colony in present-day North Carolina, often referred to as the 'Lost Colony'

Antarctic expeditions and reaching the South Pole