Categories - Discovery, Exploration
- Hernán Cortés
- Hernando de Soto
- Hillary and Tenzing Are First to Reach Top of Mount Everest
- Hudson Explores Hudson Bay
- Humans Enter the South American Continent
- Indian-white relations: Dutch colonial
- Indian-white relations: Norse
- Indian-white relations: Spanish colonial
- Indian-white relations: Swedish colonial
- Irateba
- Jacques Cartier
- Jacques Cartier Claims St. Lawrence River Valley for France
- Jacques Cousteau
- James Bruce
- James Edward Oglethorpe
- Jedediah Smith
- John C. Frémont
- John Cabot
- John Davis
- John Hanning Speke
- John Muir
- John Smith
- John Wesley Powell
- Josiah Francis
- Juan Ponce de León
- Kit Carson
- Knud Johan Victor Rasmussen
- Lapita Culture Colonizes the South Pacific
- Leif Eriksson
- Lewis and Clark expedition
- Lord Lugard
- Lost Colony of Roanoke
- Louis Jolliet
- Louis-Antoine de Bougainville
- Mackenzie Reaches the Arctic Ocean
- Magellan Expedition Circumnavigates the Globe
- Marco Polo
- Matteo Ricci Travels to Peking as Jesuit Missionary
- Meriwether Lewis and William Clark
- Miles Standish
- Mungo Park
- Narváez’s and Cabeza de Vaca’s Expeditions
- Norse Expeditions
- Oregon Settlement
- Pacific Railroad Surveys
- Peary and Henson Reach the North Pole
- Pedro de Alvarado
- Pedro Menéndez de Avilés
- Pěro da Covilhã
- Piccard Invents Bathyscaphe
