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Dutch Brazil (New Holland) and the Pernambuco Sugar Colony (1624–1654)

1621 - 1661

Dutch Arctic Commercial Enterprises: Whaling and Northern Trade (1594–1650)

1594 - 1642

Dutch and English East India Company charting programs (1600–1700)

1600 - 1698

DSV Alvin deep-sea science missions (1964–2015)

1964 - 2015

Donner Party and Overland Emigrant Disasters (1846–1847)

1846 - 1847

Disease Control and Public Health Campaigns during Canal Construction (1881–1914)

1881 - 1914

Discovery Expedition (Robert F. Scott, 1901–1904)

1901 - 1904

Discovery and settlement of the Azores (1427–1450)

1413 - 1453

Discovery and settlement of Madeira (1419–1425)

1415 - 1450

Diogo Cão's explorations of the Congo and Gulf of Guinea (1482–1486)

1482 - 2019

Dieppe school charts and Franco-English coastal mapping of the New World (1540–1620)

1524 - 1635

Development of undersea repeaters and erbium-doped fiber amplifiers (1975–1995)

1976 - 1995

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