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Events on Wednesday 20 July 1796 1
1796Mungo Park reaches the Niger RiverScottish explorer confirms the river's eastward courseScottish explorer Mungo Park, traveling for the African Association, reached the Niger River at Segou and confirmed that it flowed eastward. His account of the journey, published in 1799, became a major source of European knowledge of West Africa.