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: Australia & the Pacific, Master
More from Australia & the Pacific
- Gallipoli campaign (1915)
- First Fleet lands at Botany Bay (1788)
- Maori arrive in New Zealand (1280)
- Sydney Opera House (1973)
- The Lord of the Rings film trilogy (2001)
- Austronesian expansion begins (3000 BCE)
- Moai erected on Easter Island (1100)
- New Zealand grants women the vote (1893)
Around 1947
- World War II (1939)
- The Holocaust (1941)
- Fall of France (1940)
- Battle of Britain (1940)
- Death of Hitler / Fall of Berlin (1945)
- Sputnik launch (1957)
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- NHS founded (1948)
- Founding of the State of Israel (1948)
- Atomic bombing of Hiroshima (1945)