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The first apparent recorded evidence of dugout canoes being a thing that existed.
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Well, Christopher Columbus planned to sail across the world to India, but he hit North America instead, and this landing was one of the first documented landfalls in North America, although Eric the Red was technically the first ever to discover the continent.
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The first European to make it to the North American mainland since the Vikings.
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Cornelis Drebbel developed the first recorded submarine, a vehicle which is used to travel around underwater.
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A Sextant is a tool used to measure distance out at sea.
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James Cook sails around the world, without any deaths due tothe disease, scurvy.
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Invited by Claude de Jouffroy, the steamboat was revolutionary at the time, being much easier to use.
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The North River Steamboat launches, being the first official public steamboat launch.
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First submarine to be powered by an internal-combustion engine.
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Turbinia, the first turbine powered ship, was launched.
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Vandal, the first diesel-electric ship, was launched.
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The HMS Dreadnought was launched, commencing an area of battleships.
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The HMS Titanic, said to be unsinkable, is set out, filled to the brim with passengers. Unfortunately, it collided with an iceberg, resulting in the Titanic starting to sink underwater, as so many people had been on board, they did not have enough lifeboats to hold everyone, and the lower class people on board got trapped on the lower decks, resulting in one of the most well-known tragedies in the history of the world.
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The Panama Canal, a waterway connecting the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, is opened for ships to cross through.
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The HMS Furious (47), was launched as the first ever aircraft carrier.
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The Japanese bombed a Hawaiian Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, this is now remembered as one of the most shocking attacks on the US, unfortunately, the September 11th attacks overshadowed this.
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The USS Nautilus (SSN-571) was the first nuclear-powered submarine.
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The MV Doña Paz sank, being regarded as the deadliest peacetime disaster in maritime history.
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The Global Positioning System (GPS) became a thing, now commonly used today with phones and such.
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Pirates became a very large concern off the coast of Somalia, sparked in 2000 by the Somali Civil War
