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GBScMd1762Dec21James Cook marries Elizabeth Batts
NAMvEx1768Aug25Captain James Cook departs from Plymouth with Endeavour to Pacific Ocean
AUMvEx1770Apr19Captain James Cook first sees Australia
AUMvEx  20Captain James Cook arrives in New South Wales
AUMvEx  29Captain James Cook in the Endeavor lands at Botany Bay, Australia
AUMvEx Jun11Captain James Cook runs aground on the Great Barrier Reef off Australia
GBMvEx1771Jul12James Cook sails Endeavour back to Downs, England
GBMvEx1772Jul13Captain James Cook begins second trip with Resolution to South Seas
AFMvEx Oct30Captain James Cook arrives with ship Resolution in Capetown
ANMvEx1773Jan17Captain James Cook becomes first to cross Antarctic Circle (66 degrees 33’ S)
ANMvEx1774Jan30Captain James Cook reaches 71 degrees 10’ S, 1820 km from South pole (record)
PAMvEx Jul17Captain James Cook arrives at New Hebrides (Vanuata)
GBMvEx1775Jul30Captain James Cook with Resolution returns to England after second voyage
GBMvEx1776Jul12Captain James Cook departs with Resolution for third trip to Pacific Ocean
??MvEx Nov30Captain James Cook begins third and last trip to Pacific (South Sea)
PAMvEx1777Dec08Captain James Cook leaves Society Islands
PAMvEx1778Jan18Captain James Cook makes landfall in Waimea Bay on Kaua’i, becoming the first European to set foot in the Sandwich (Hawaiian) Islands
NAMvEx Mar07Captain James Cook first sights Oregon coast, at Yaquina Bay
NAMvEx  15Captain James Cook reaches the west coast of Vancouver Island on the way to search for a North West Passage
NAMvEx  22Captain James Cook sights Cape Flattery, in Washington state
NAMvEx  29Nootka Sound, Vancouver, is discovered by Captain James Cook
NAMvEx Aug09Captain James Cook reaches Cape Prince of Wales, Bering straits
NAMvEx Oct03Captain James Cook anchors at Alaska
PAMvEx Nov26Captain James Cook discovers Maui in the Sandwich Islands, now Hawaii
??MvEx1779Jan17Captain James Cook’s last notation in Discovery’s log [apparently wrong date...s/b jun? -ed]
PAScBd Feb14Captain James Cook is is murdered by natives in Hawaii
GBMvEx1780Aug22Resolution, without Captain James Cook, returns to England



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