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David Livingstone

David Livingstone was a Scottish Congregationalist pioneer medical missionary with the London Missionary Society and an explorer in Africa. His meeting with H. M. Stanley gave rise to the popular quotation, "Dr...

Timeline of Events

1855

11.17.1855

David Livingstone becomes the first European to see the Victoria Falls in what is now present-day Zambia-Zimbabwe.

1867

7.9.1867

An unsuccessful expedition led by E.D. Young sets out to search for Dr David Livingstone (Scottish missionary and explorer).

1871

3.21.1871

Journalist Henry Morton Stanley begins his trek to find the missionary and explorer David Livingstone.

11.10.1871

Henry Morton Stanley locates missing explorer and missionary, Dr. David Livingstone in Ujiji, near Lake Tanganyika, allegedly greeting him with the words, "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?".