Historical place archive

Timbuktu in History

Browse historical events and people recorded at Timbuktu in Great Britain. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.

1 records1 event labels1 people1825–1825

Historical events in Timbuktu

1825

1825
Discovery of Timbuktu
Alexander Gordon Lang · Exploration and Discovery

Becomes the 1st European to visit Timbuktu

Provenance

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