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| 1325 |
| | Ibn Batutah leaves his home in Morocco to go on pilgrimage to Mecca, and continues travelling for 24 years | |
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| 1391 |
| | Construction begins on a canal from Lübeck south to the Elbe, linking the Baltic and the North Sea | |
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| c. 1450 |
| | The caravel, a sailing ship developed in the Mediterranean and used down the west coast of Africa, is adapted by the Portuguese for Atlantic use | |
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| c. 1500 |
| | The Inca empire has about 25,000 miles of well-serviced roads, designed for caravans of llamas | |
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| c. 1660 |
| | The berlin, developed in Berlin, becomes the most successful carriage of the seventeenth century | |
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| c. 1700 |
| | Holland and England are now producing the magnificent ocean-going merchant vessels known as East Indiamen | |
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| c. 1720 |
| | The postchaise, introduced in France, provides the first chance of reasonably comfortable travel by land | |
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| c. 1720 |
| | Young noblemen, particularly from Britain, visit Italy on the Grand Tour | |
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| 1755 |
| | The first Conestoga wagons are acquired by George Washington for an expedition through the Alleghenies | |
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| 1784 |
| | The first mail coach leaves Bristol for London, introducing a new era of faster transport | |
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