Abel Tasman became the first European to discover Tasmania and named it Van Diemen’s Land.
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From this day until February 10, 1435, London's Thames river completely froze.
Astronomers Jeremiah Horrocks and William Crabtree recorded the first known observation of a transit of Venus across the sun.
A party boat on Lake Victoria in Uganda capsized and killed 29 people.
A catastrophic landslide on Mont Granier destroyed five villages.
Charles Darwin published his revolutionary work, On the Origin of Species.
