Balboa’s journey involved battling with native tribes and forging a way through thick jungle, before reaching the mountain range along the Chucunaque River from where he first saw the Pacific Ocean on the morning of 25 September.
Jenner scientifically tested, and proved, that infection with the mild disease of cowpox gave immunity to the more dangerous smallpox disease.
Although Tutankhamun was one of the minor Pharaohs, the discovery of his tomb is significant for it being the most complete example of a royal tomb ever uncovered.
On the 12th August 1865 Joseph Lister carried out the world’s first antiseptic surgery using the chemical phenol, otherwise known as carbolic acid.
They quickly began to construct a triangular fort containing a number of houses alongside a storehouse and a church, which they named James Fort after King James I.
The Terracotta Army was discovered in Shaanxi province, China.
The Lewis and Clark Expedition began its journey home, having crossed the western United States.
On the 6th March 1869, Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev presented his periodic table to the Russian Chemical Society.
On the 16th February 1923, Howard Carter unsealed the burial chamber of the Pharaoh Tutankhamun.
On the 10th December 1901, the first Nobel Prizes were awarded in Chemistry, Literature, Peace, Physics, and Physiology or Medicine.
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