Timelines tagged “maritime-history”
2 timelines
- Containerization
Containerized freight, from canal and railway cargo boxes of the 18th and 19th centuries through Malcom McLean's Ideal X voyage of 1956 and ISO container standards to 24,000-TEU ships, the Ever Given grounding of 2021 and the Red Sea diversions of 2023–2024.
- Polynesian Navigation
Austronesian and Polynesian voyaging and wayfinding, from the Lapita seafarers of about 1500 BCE through the settlement of Hawaii, Rapa Nui and New Zealand by about 1300 to the revival led by Hōkūleʻa from 1976 and its Pacific voyage begun in 2023.