This timeline is an incomplete list of significant events of human migration and exploration by sea. This timeline does not include migration and exploration over land, including migration across land that has subsequently submerged beneath the sea, such as the initial settlement of Great Britain and Ireland.
Maritime migration and exploration
See also
- Age of Discovery
- Ancient maritime history
- Chinese exploration
- Chronology of European exploration of Asia
- Colonization
- Columbian exchange
- Early human migrations
- European exploration of Africa
- History of navigation
- History of slavery
- Human migration
- Indian maritime history
- Major explorations after the Age of Discovery
- Maritime history
- Maritime history of Europe
- Maritime Silk Road
- Maritime timeline
- Ming treasure voyages
- Naval history of China
- Polynesian navigation
- Portuguese maritime exploration
- Spanish colonization of the Americas
- Timeline of European exploration
- Timeline of prehistory
- Timeline of the Ming treasure voyages
- Treaty of Tordesillas
- Voyages of Christopher Columbus
References
References are included in the linked articles.
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