Captain Cook's first Pacific voyage
1768–1771 · Event
Charts New Zealand and the east coast of Australia, observes the transit of Venus.
On these timelines: Australia & the Pacific, Age of Exploration, Master, United Kingdom (combined), England
More from Australia & the Pacific
- Settlement of Australia (65000 BCE)
- First British settlement in Australia (1788)
- Maori arrive in New Zealand (1280)
- Federation of Australia (1901)
- Gallipoli campaign (1915)
- Treaty of Waitangi signed (1840)
- New Zealand grants women the vote (1893)
- Austronesian expansion begins (3000 BCE)
Around 1768
- Haitian Revolution (1791)
- Seven Years' War (1756)
- Latin American wars of independence (1808)
- Presidency of George Washington (1789)
- Industrial Revolution (1760)
- American Declaration of Independence (1776)
- American Revolution (1775)
- French Revolution (1789)
- Jacobite rising of 1745 (1745)
- Industrial Revolution begins (1760)