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Mauritius was later rediscovered and visited by the Portuguese between 1507 and 1513. Mauritius and surrounding islands were known as the Mascarene Islands (Ilhas Mascarenhas) after Pedro Mascarenhas. Portuguese discoveries 1415–1543 in the Reign of D. João III (verde) An official world map by Diogo Ribeiro described "from west to east, the ...
420 years in prison (overturned) On November 29, 2009, four police officers of Lakewood, Washington were fatally shot at the Forza (now Blue Steele [1]) coffee shop, located at 11401 Steele Street #108 South in the Parkland unincorporated area of Pierce County, Washington, near Tacoma. A gunman, later identified as Maurice Clemmons, entered the ...
Late Devonian: 375 million years ago, 75% of species lost, including most trilobites. End Permian, The Great Dying: 251 million years ago, 96% of species lost, including tabulate corals, and most trees and synapsids. End Triassic: 200 million years ago, 80% of species lost, including all conodonts. End Cretaceous: 66 million years ago, 76% of ...
Extinctions in northern Eurasia were staggered over tens of thousands of years between 50,000 and 10,000 years ago, [2] while extinctions in the Americas were virtually simultaneous, spanning only 3000 years at most. [4][8] Overall, during the Late Pleistocene about 65% of all megafaunal species worldwide became extinct, [9] rising to 72% in ...
Lucy Catalog no. AL 288-1 Common name Lucy Species Australopithecus afarensis Age 3.2 million years Place discovered Afar Depression, Ethiopia Date discovered November 24, 1974 ; 49 years ago (1974-11-24) Discovered by Donald Johanson Maurice Taieb Yves Coppens Tom Gray AL 288-1, commonly known as Lucy or Dinkʼinesh, is a collection of several hundred pieces of fossilized bone comprising 40 ...
Louis Léger. Abolished. 3 December 1810; 213 years ago (1810-12-03) Succession. Governor of British Mauritius. The Governor of Isle de France was an official who ruled Isle de France (now Republic of Mauritius) during the French colonial period between 1721 and 1810. After the Dutch abandoned Mauritius, the island became a French colony in ...
The timeline of human evolution outlines the major events in the evolutionary lineage of the modern human species, Homo sapiens, throughout the history of life, beginning some 4 billion years ago down to recent evolution within H. sapiens during and since the Last Glacial Period. It includes brief explanations of the various taxonomic ranks in ...
The Pleistocene (/ ˈplaɪstəˌsiːn, - stoʊ -/ PLY-stə-seen, -stoh-; [ 5 ][ 6 ] often referred to colloquially as the Ice Age) is the geological epoch that lasted from c.2.58 million to 11,700 years ago, spanning the Earth's most recent period of repeated glaciations. Before a change was finally confirmed in 2009 by the International ...