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In 1492, Christopher Columbus,landed on an island in the Bahamas, which he named San Salvador.
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In the year 1497, North America was discovered by John Cabot, an Italian explorer.
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The first accurate clock was discovered in 1656, by a Dutch scientist, Christian Huygens.
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In 1722, Easter Island was discovered by Jacob Roggeveen.
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On April 15th 1755, Samuel Johnson publishes the first English language dictionary.
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The first geologist to discover limestone was Belsazar Hacquet in 1778.
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1858: The Lake Victoria was discovered by John Speke (1828-1864), a British Explorer.
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On July 20th 1969, Neil Armstrong was the first man to walk on the moon.
