On the second voyage, he had turned back at the frozen island of Novaya Zemlya and meekly given the crew a certificate stating that he did so of his own free will -- which was obviously not the case.

On the third voyage, a near-mutiny rising from a quarrel between Dutch and English crew members on the Half Moon had almost forced him to head the ship back to Amsterdam in Mid-Atlantic.

The ship on which Charles Darwin made the voyage which provided much of the inspiration for On the Origin of Species was named HMS Beagle after the breed, and, in turn, lent its name to the ill-fated British Martian lander Beagle 2.

" On the return voyage he discovered and explored uninhabited Malden Island in the central Pacific on 30 July 1825.

On Columbus second voyage in 1493 the colony of " La Española " was founded and administered from the new settlement of La Isabela which was established on the north coast.

On April 30, 1494, Christopher Columbus, on his second voyage, arrived and spent the night.

On a second voyage, he probably proceeded past the present site of Yuma, Arizona.

On the second voyage, in 1456, Cadamosto became the first European to reach the Cape Verde Islands.

On the insistence of senior officers, led by Rear Admiral Alan Gardner, in 1794 lemon juice was issued on board the Suffolk on a twenty-three week, non-stop voyage to India.

On the return voyage, the Ripley made a stop at St. George's, Newfoundland, and Audubon and his assistants documented 36 species of birds.

On their voyage around the Papatuanuku, the Earth Mother, their canoe became stranded on a reef and tilted.

On his voyage to the underworld, Odysseus follows instructions given to him by Circe, a goddess who is the daughter of the sun-god Helios.

On the home voyage, after Solís ' death, one of the vessels was wrecked off Santa Catarina Island near the Brazilian coast.

* On 27 December 1831, set off from anchorage in the Barn Pool, under Mount Edgecumbe on the west side of Plymouth Sound, on her second survey voyage, captained by Robert FitzRoy with Charles Darwin on board.

On the sea voyage home in 1832, Morse encountered Charles Thomas Jackson of Boston, a man who was well schooled in electromagnetism.

* 303 – On a voyage preaching the gospel, Saint Fermin of Pamplona is beheaded in Amiens, France.

On 22 August 1770, James Cook discovered the eastern coast of Australia while on a scientific voyage to the South Pacific.

On his return, he meets and marries Gudrid, one of the survivors from a ship which has made land at Herjolfsnes after a difficult voyage from Iceland.

* July 31 – On his third voyage to the Western Hemisphere, Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to discover the island of Trinidad.

On the voyage to Africa, they became acquainted with an English woman named Ruth Bailey, who joined their safari a few weeks later.

On this second voyage Cook crossed three times into the Antarctic Circle to determine whether the fabled great southern continent existed.

* September 25 – On a voyage preaching the gospel, Saint Fermin of Pamplona is beheaded in Amiens, France.

On 28 July he escaped from the island in a fishing-boat, and after an adventurous voyage he reached

On his second voyage, Vasco da Gama inflicted acts of cruelty upon competing traders and local inhabitants, which sealed his notoriety in India.

On this voyage, Bylot proved that Hudson Strait was not a shipping route to Asia.

On the columns around the immense dome are round plaques with Arabic writing.

On the right is the Brumidi Liberty group, as it looked after cleaning operations, which had not yet come around to the other end ; ;

On flowing out of the lake it passes through Thun, and then flows through the city of Bern, passing beneath eighteen bridges and around the steeply-flanked peninsula on which the Old City is located.

On his way home Agesilaus died in Cyrenaica, around the age of 84, after a reign of some 41 years.

On the death of Alexander, around 242 BC, Olympias assumed the regency on behalf of her sons, and married Phthia to Demetrius.

On January 27, 1945, Auschwitz was liberated by Soviet troops, a day commemorated around the world as International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

On 17 July 2010, the band performed their first UK gig in almost four years to a crowd of around 30, 000 at Latitude Festival in Henham Park, Southwold.

* On 29 May 2010 Chief Secretary to the Treasury David Laws resigned from the Cabinet and was referred to the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards after the Daily Telegraph newspaper published details of Laws claiming around £ 40, 000 in expenses on a second home owned by a secret gay partner between 2004 and 2009 whilst House of Commons rules have prevented MPs from claiming second home expenses on properties owned by a partner since 2006.

On launch the rocket engine's first chamber developing thrust would power the missile along a predetermined course to the target at around Mach 1. 5.

On 25 July 1197, Constantinople was struck by a severe fire which burned the Latin Quarter and the area around the Gate of the Droungarios ( Turkish: Odun Kapısı ) on the Golden Horn.

On August 12, 1833, the Town of Chicago was organized with a population of around 200 at that time.

On 17 March 2007 the band played a live show at their rehearsal studio in front of around fifty fans, friends and family.

On the last night of the celebrations leading up to the holidays, the tree was taken to the Town Hall Square where the members of the brotherhood danced around it.

On modern band and orchestral drums, the drumhead is placed over the opening of the drum, which in turn is held onto the shell by a " counterhoop " ( or " rim "), which is then held by means of a number of tuning screws called " tension rods " which screw into lugs placed evenly around the circumference.

On the other hand, the Democratic Republic of Congo has thousands of kilometres of navigable waterways, and traditionally water transport has been the dominant means of moving around approximately two-thirds of the country.

On the other hand, the DRC has thousands of kilometres of navigable waterways, and traditionally water transport has been the dominant means of moving around approximately two-thirds of the country.

On 10 October 2000 around lunchtime, Dewar sustained a fall.

* Phaenomena, a treatise on spherical astronomy, survives in Greek ; it is quite similar to On the Moving Sphere by Autolycus of Pitane, who flourished around 310 BC.

On the other hand, microlensing surveys indicate that long-period Neptune-mass planets are found around 1 in 3 M dwarfs.

On December 15 ( L. L. Zamenhof's birthday ), Esperanto speakers around the world celebrate Zamenhof Day, sometimes relabelled Esperanto Book Day.

On February 5, 1894, his 40th birthday, he presented his " Marvellous Cinematograph " to a group of around twenty show business men in New York City.

On the lecture circuit, he spoke at many colleges around the country during the Reconstruction era, including Bates College in Lewiston, Maine in 1873.

On 24 October 1922, the Fascist party held its annual congress in Naples, where Mussolini ordered Blackshirts to take control of public buildings and trains and to converge on three points around Rome.

On 12 December 1992, an earthquake measuring 7. 8 on the Richter scale occurred, killing 2, 500 people in and around Maumere, including islands off the North coast.

On 10 October 2010 geocachers around the world held events and went caching to commemorate 10 years of geocaching.