Captain Cook: To the Ends of the Earth (TRIH ep 381, part 2)
1768 · Resource
This episode of The Rest Is History continues the hosts' narrative of Captain James Cook's first voyage. After observing the 1769 transit of Venus at Tahiti, Cook follows sealed Admiralty orders to search for Terra Australis, encountering complex interactions with Tahitians—trade, sexual economies, tattooing (tatau → "tattoo"), and the recruitment of the Tahitian Tupia as interpreter.
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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)