Captain Cook: History’s Greatest Explorer (TRIH eps 380-381)
1759–1768 · Resource
A two-part series on Captain James Cook's first Pacific voyage: his Yorkshire origins and rise in the Royal Navy, then the transit of Venus at Tahiti in 1769 and the search for Terra Australis.
On these timelines: The Rest Is History (podcast), Resources: Combined
Around 1759
- Seven Years' War (1756)
- Presidency of George Washington (1789)
- Industrial Revolution (1760)
- American Declaration of Independence (1776)
- American Revolution (1765)
- Haitian Revolution (1791)
- Jacobite rising of 1745 (1745)
- French Revolution (1789)
- Latin American wars of independence (1808)
- Industrial Revolution begins (1760)