Kon-Tiki expedition
1947 · Event
Thor Heyerdahl sails a balsa raft from Peru to Polynesia to argue ancient peoples could have crossed the Pacific.
On these timelines: Master, Australia & the Pacific, Scandinavia, the Nordic World & the Viking Age
Around 1947
- Cuban Revolutionary War (1953)
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- US Civil Rights Movement (1954)
- Korean War (1950)
- Battle of Stalingrad (1942)
- Battle of Britain (1940)
- Suez Crisis (1956)
- Apartheid (1948)
- Chinese Civil War (resumed) (1945)
- Manhattan Project (1942)