Voyages of James Cook (In Our Time)
1768 · Resource
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the scientific advances made in the three voyages of Captain James Cook, from 1768 to 1779. Cook's voyages astonished Europeans, bringing back detailed knowledge of the Pacific and its people, from the Antarctic to the Bering Straits.
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Around 1768
- Latin American wars of independence (1808)
- French Revolution (1789)
- Jacobite rising of 1745 (1745)
- Haitian Revolution (1791)
- Seven Years' War (1756)
- Presidency of George Washington (1789)
- American Declaration of Independence (1776)
- American Revolution (1765)
- Industrial Revolution (1760)
- Industrial Revolution begins (1760)