* October – John Hanning Speke and James Augustus Grant leave Zanzibar to search for the source of the Nile River.

* February 13 – Richard Francis Burton and John Hanning Speke become the first Europeans to discover Lake Tanganyika.

* August 3 – John Hanning Speke discovers Lake Victoria, source of the River Nile.

The British explorer John Hanning Speke recorded one such account in his book Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile:

The lake was named after Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom, by John Hanning Speke, the first European to discover this lake.

The lake was first sighted by a European in 1858 when the British explorer John Hanning Speke reached its southern shore while on his journey with Richard Francis Burton to explore central Africa and locate the Great Lakes.

John Hanning Speke ( 4 May 1827 – 15 September 1864 ) was an officer in the British Indian Army who made three exploratory expeditions to Africa and who is most associated with the search for the source of the Nile.

( Study of 18th Century Natural History — Includes Charles Waterton, John Hanning Speke, Henry Seebohm and Mary Kingsley ) Contains colour and black and white reproductions.

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* John Hanning Distillery Company, founded 1869

* A debate at the Royal Geographical Society between Richard Francis Burton and John Hanning Speke fails to take place, owing to Speke's suicide ( or accidental shooting ).

Gondokoro was the scene for the arrival of John Hanning Speke and James Augustus Grant after their two years and five months long journey through Central Africa from Zanzibar.

The explorer John Hanning Speke passed through Buganda in 1862 and claimed he had discovered the source of the Nile.

( Study of 18th Century Natural History-Includes Charles Waterton, John Hanning Speke, Henry Seebohm, and Mary Kingsley.

Some of these were Richard Francis Burton, John Hanning Speke, Henry Morton Stanley and James Augustus Grant.

* John Hanning Speke

Speke's gazelle is named after John Hanning Speke, an English explorer of Central Africa.

* Speke, John Hanning.

On 28 July 1862, John Hanning Speke, an explorer for the Royal Geographical Society, arrived at Ripon Falls, near the site of the modern town of Jinja, where the Victoria Nile spills out of Lake Victoria and begins its descent to Egypt.

The map details the mythical Mountains of the Moon ( Africa ) | Mountains of the Moon, which were first postulated by Ptolemy to be the source of the Nile and remained on maps until the mid 19th century explorations of Richard Francis Burton | Burton, John Hanning Speke | Speke, and David Livingstone | Livingstone.

* John Hanning Speke ( 1827 – 1864 ) ( discovered the source of the Nile )

The Manor was the home of the family of John Hanning Speke who took part in 3 expeditions to Central Africa from 1854-1862, the last two in search of the source of the Nile.

* John Hanning Speke, explorer

British explorers Richard Burton and John Speke crossed the interior to Lake Tanganyika in June 1857.

Mount Speke in the Ruwenzori Range, Uganda was named in honour of John Speke, as an early European explorer of this region.

Formerly known as Speke Airport, RAF Speke, and Liverpool Airport the airport is located within the City of Liverpool adjacent to the estuary of the River Mersey some southeast of the centre of Liverpool, the airport is named after Liverpudlian musician John Lennon, lead singer / songwriter of The Beatles.

The first known Westerners to find the lake were the Great British explorers Richard Burton and John Speke, in 1858.

The nearest airport is Liverpool John Lennon Airport ( formerly known as Speke Airport ) located about 8 miles ( 13 km ) from Birkenhead.

Ujiji is the place where Richard Burton and John Speke first reached the shore of Lake Tanganyika in 1858.

It is also notable as the location of Liverpool John Lennon Airport, known until 2001 as Liverpool Speke Airport.

Regular buses run along Speke Road, Hillfoot Avenue and Mackets Lane connecting with most of Liverpool, including routes into the city centre, Liverpool John Lennon Airport, Speke, and also round the ring road to East and North Liverpool.

In 1997, a team of researchers led by John Gustafson from Ames Laboratory ( located on the Iowa State campus ) finished building a working replica of the Atanasoff – Berry Computer at a cost of $ 350, 000.

* The full text of a lecture by John Melville-Jones on the life of this emperor is located at:.

Emily Smith first met John Armstrong in the North Presbyterian Church, which was located at 31st Street and Ninth Avenue.

Moses Carver hired John Bentley to find them, but he located only the infant George.

This stone in Queens, New York, located across from the John Bowne House commemorates the place where George Fox preached a sermon on 7 June 1672.

* Simcoe Street and John Street in downtown Toronto, along with Simcoe Place ( office tower ) in downtown Toronto, are all located near the fort where Simcoe lived during his early years in York.

* John James Audubon State Park and the Audubon Museum ( located within the park ) in Henderson, Kentucky.

* John Brown University, a private Christian college located in Siloam Springs, Arkansas

The Judson Dance Theater, located at the Judson Memorial Church, New York ; and the Judson dancers, notably Yvonne Rainer, Trisha Brown, Elaine Summers, Sally Gross, Simonne Forti, Deborah Hay, Lucinda Childs, Steve Paxton and others ; collaborated with artists Robert Morris, Robert Whitman, John Cage, Robert Rauschenberg, and engineers like Billy Klüver.

The constellation is located close to those forming the old constellation of Argo Navis ( the ship Argo ), and in the 19th century astronomer John Herschel suggested renaming Pyxis to ' Malus, the mast ', but the suggestion was not followed.

St. John Fisher College is a private liberal arts college located in Pittsford, New York, United States, an eastern suburb of Rochester.

Also located at the SFU Library is the Electronic Document Centre, which provides internet access to digitized documents from a number of archival collections, such as Harrison Brown's Xi ' an Incident collection, and the history of British Columbia and Western Canada in general, including documents from the Doukhobor migration from the Russian Empire to Saskatchewan and then to British Columbia assembled for donation to the university by John Keenlyside

Being located at the beginning of the navigable part of the St. John River, Indiantown also became a major terminal for vessels departing to ply their trade upriver.

Its history goes back to the Roman harbour ( named " Portus Luguidonis "-presumably located in the little bay in front of the ancient church of St. John ), from where the Romans entered inner Sardinia.

John Maher now owns and runs John Maher Racing, a vintage Volkswagen performance tuning workshop located on the Isle of Harris, Scotland.

UNB Fredericton is located on the banks of the St. John River.

The UNB Saint John campus ( UNBSJ ) is located in Tucker Park in the Millidgeville neighbourhood, several kilometres north of the city's central business district, and offers spectacular views of the Kennebecasis River and Grand Bay.

New Brunswick's largest health care facility, Saint John Regional Hospital, is located adjacent to the UNBSJ campus.

The first mention of any location more exact than the New Forest comes from John Leland writing in 1530 who stated that the king died at Thorougham a placename which has since fallen into disuse but was probably located at what is now Park Farm on the Beaulieu estates.

John John Sutter | Sutter plaque at Sutter's FortSutter's Fort is located on level ground at an elevation of approximately above mean sea datum.

The company was founded in 1899 by Isaac Rice as the Electric Boat Company to build John Philip Holland's submersible designs, which were developed at Lewis Nixon's Crescent Shipyard, located in Elizabeth, New Jersey.

The John Dalton Building, located on Chester Street is the home of the Faculty of Science and Engineering.