1524 - Beginning of Giovanni da Verrazzano's voyage to find a passage to China.
1601 – Capital of Spain moved from Madrid to Valladolid.
1773 - British Captain James Cook and his crew become the first Europeans to sail below the Antarctic Circle.
1912 – Captain Robert Scot's expedition reach the South Pole, one month after Norwegian expedition of Roald Amundsen.
1995 - A catastrophic earthquake shakes the city of Kobe, Japan, causing huge material damage and killing 6433 people.
