Portal:Geography/Selected anniversaries

1 January 2006 – University of Oklahoma College of Atmospheric and Geographic Sciences started, when it and the College of Earth and Energy were spun off of the old College of Geosciences
12 January 2001 – National Geographic Channel launched in the United States
25 January 1983 – Creation of the Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía (pictured) in Mexico
27 January 1888 – Formation of the National Geographic Society

4 February 1966 – Death of Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor, first full-time editor of National Geographic Magazine and president of the National Geographic Society
4 February 1976 – 1976 Guatemala earthquake struck, centered in the Motagua Fault (pictured), about 160 km northeast of Guatemala City, Guatemala
7 February 1928 – Creation of the Pan American Institute of Geography and History during conference in Havana, Cuba
17 February 2008 – 2008 Kosovo declaration of independence adopted by Assembly of Kosovo

1 March 1910 – Saltspring Island re-titled to its current name according to records of Geographic Board of Canada
1 March 2007 – February–March 2007 tornado outbreak (pictured) hit Americus, Georgia, United States
9 March 1969 – Death of Walter Christaller, German geographer whose principal contribution to the discipline is Central Place Theory
25 March 1979 – Minor district in Bueng Sam Phan District, Thailand upgraded to full district

7 April 1985 – Premiere of National Geographic Explorer on Nickelodeon
10 April 1982 – Arrival of Ranulph Fiennes and Charles R. Burton at North Pole
13 April 2005 – Launch of Genographic Project by National Geographic Society and IBM
27 April 1521 – Death of Ferdinand Magellan (pictured), Portuguese explorer who led part of the first expedition around the world

1 May 1960 – American pilot Gary Powers was shot down over Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia
30 May 1951 – Foundation of Canadian Association of Geographers in Montreal, Canada
3 May 1906 – Birth of Milton Santos, Brazilian geographer who had a degree in law
20 May 1506 – Death of Christopher Columbus (pictured), explorer, navigator, and colonizer, born in the Republic of Genoa, in what is today northwestern Italy

1 June 2007 – Formation of Cyclone Gonu in the Arabian Sea
6 June 1953 – Death of geographer Fred K. Schaefer, considered one of the pioneers of quantitative revolution
19 June 1965 – Province of Eastern Samar (pictured) created from Samar by virtue of Republic Act No. 4221
30 June 2008 – Decision reached by United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit in case Greenberg v. National Geographic

1 July 1952 – Vineland borough and Landis Township were merged to form city of Vineland, New Jersey
1 July 2009 – Beginning of broadcasting of National Geographic Abu Dhabi
21 July 1983 – Lowest recorded temperature on Earth at South Pole, Vostok Station
30 July 2000 – Hottest temperature recorded in Sochi (pictured), Krasnodar Krai, Russia

3 August 1958 – First naval vessel to reach the North Pole, the USS Nautilus
13 August 1935 – Formation of the Geographic Institute Agustín Codazzi
13 August 1894 – Incorporation of Morrison, Oklahoma
30 August 1844 – Birth of Friedrich Ratzel (pictured), German geographer and ethnographer

24 September 1994 – Death of Barry Chapman Bishop, an American mountaineer, scientist, photographer and scholar
27 September 1858 – Incorporation as a municipality of Jarabacoa (pictured), La Vega Province, Dominican Republic
29 September 2011 – Original broadcast of "Geography of Global Conflict", second episode of third season of the American television series Community
29 September 2012 – Death of Neil R. Smith, a Scottish geographer and academic

9 October 1851 – Work began on the constitution of the American Geographical Society, at a meeting held in the Geographical and Statistical Library in New York City
15 October 2011 – Beginning of broadcasting of National Geographic Farsi
31 October 1693 – Formation of township which later became city of Perth Amboy, New Jersey
31 October 1935 – Birth of geography and anthropology professor David Harvey (pictured), in Gillingham, Kent, South East England

November 1999 – First annual GIS Day
8 November 1957 – Renaming of the organization Geographic Institute Agustín Codazzi
11 November 1889 – Pierre, South Dakota became capital when South Dakota gained statehood in United States
15 November 2007 – Cyclone Sidr struck the southwestern coast of Bangladesh (pictured)