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1728, Nov 71755-17791779, Feb 14
a British explorer, navigator, cartographer, and captain in the Royal Navy. Cook made detailed maps of Newfoundland prior to making three voyages to the Pacific Ocean, during which he achieved the first recorded European contact with the eastern coastline of Australia and the Hawaiian Islands, and the first recorded circumnavigation of New Zealand. Explored Australasia and Oceania.
 Timeline (27)
12/21/1762-James Cook marries Elizabeth Batts
08/25/1768-Captain James Cook departs from Plymouth with Endeavour to Pacific Ocean 
04/19/1770-Captain James Cook first sees Australia
04/20/1770-Captain James Cook arrives in New South Wales
04/29/1770-Captain James Cook in the Endeavor lands at Botany Bay, Australia
06/11/1770-Captain James Cook runs aground on the Great Barrier Reef off Australia
07/12/1771-James Cook sails Endeavour back to Downs, England 
07/13/1772-Captain James Cook begins second trip with Resolution to South Seas
10/30/1772-Captain James Cook arrives with ship Resolution in Capetown 
01/17/1773-Captain James Cook becomes first to cross Antarctic Circle (66 degrees 33' S) 
01/30/1774-Captain James Cook reaches 71 degrees 10' S, 1820 km from South pole (record) 
07/17/1774-Captain James Cook arrives at New Hebrides (Vanuata) 
07/30/1775-Captain James Cook with Resolution returns to England after second voyage
07/12/1776-Captain James Cook departs with Resolution for third trip to Pacific Ocean 
11/30/1776-Captain James Cook begins third and last trip to Pacific (South Sea) 
12/08/1777-Captain James Cook leaves Society Islands 
01/18/1778-Captain James Cook makes landfall in Waimea Bay on Kaua'i, becoming the first European to set foot in the Sandwich (Hawaiian) Islands
03/07/1778-Captain James Cook first sights Oregon coast, at Yaquina Bay 
03/15/1778-Captain James Cook reaches the west coast of Vancouver Island on the way to search for a North West Passage
03/22/1778-Captain James Cook sights Cape Flattery, in Washington state
03/29/1778-Nootka Sound, Vancouver, is discovered by Captain James Cook
08/09/1778-Captain James Cook reaches Cape Prince of Wales, Bering straits 
10/03/1778-Captain James Cook anchors at Alaska 
11/26/1778-Captain James Cook discovers Maui in the Sandwich Islands, now Hawaii 
01/17/1779-Captain James Cook's last notation in Discovery's log [apparently wrong date...s/b jun? -ed] 
02/14/1779-Captain James Cook is is murdered by natives in Hawaii
08/22/1780-Resolution, without Captain James Cook, returns to England 
 Mentions (7)
Joseph Banks
...Newfoundland and Labrador. He took part in Captain James Cook's first great voyage (1768–1771), visiting Brazil,...
Louis Antoine de Bougainville
...and explorer. A contemporary of the British explorer James Cook, he took part in the Seven Years' War in North...
Jose de Bustamante y Guerra
...scientific expedition modeled after the voyages of James Cook. From 1789 to 1794 Bustamante and Malaspina sailed...
Tobias Furneaux
...navigator and Royal Navy officer, who accompanied James Cook on his second voyage of exploration. He was the first...
Charles Green
...expedition to observe the transit of Venus aboard James Cook's Endeavour. Cook noted in his log that the times...
Kamakahelei
...sovereign of the Island of Kauai at the time Captain James Cook landed on its shores. The Chiefess Kamakahelei...
John Ledyard
...and adventurer. In June 1776, Ledyard joined Captain James Cook's third and final voyage as a British marine. Explored...
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James Cook1728, Nov 71755
 
17791779, Feb 14
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17561793, Apr 15
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17691769, May 5
 a Russian navigator, explorer, and fur trader. He was the first Russian captain to enter the wate...
Charles Green17351760
 
 
17711771, Jan 29
 a British astronomer and member of the expedition to observe the transit of Venus aboard James Co...
Robert Rogers1731, Nov 71746
 
17791795, May 18
 an American colonial frontiersman. Rogers served in the British army during both the French and I...
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17801780, Apr
 One of the leaders of the Dominguez-Escalante Expedition, a journey under a commission from the S...
Maurycy Beniowski1746, Sep 201762
 
17861786, May 23
 a Hungarian nobleman of Polish and Hungarian ancestry. He was an explorer, writer, the self-decla...
Juan Bautista de Anza1736, Jul 6/71752
 
17881788, Dec 19
 a New-Spanish explorer of Basque descent, and Governor of New Mexico for the Spanish Empire. In 1...
Thomas Walker1715, Jan 251740
 
17891794, Nov 9
 a distinguished physician and explorer from Virginia; in the mid-18th century, he was part of an ...
John Ledyard1751, Nov1770
 
17891789, Jan 10
 an American explorer and adventurer. In June 1776, Ledyard joined Captain James Cook's third and ...
James Bruce1730, Dec 141762
 
17901794, Apr 27
 a Scottish traveller and travel writer who spent more than a dozen years in North Africa and Ethi...
George Vancouver1757, Jun 221772
 
17951798, May 10
 an English officer of the Royal Navy, who explored and charted North America's northwestern Pacif...
Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra1744, May 221770
 
17991794, Mar 26
 a Spanish naval officer born in Lima, Peru. Assigned to the Pacific coast Spanish Naval Departmen...
Francisco Dominguez1740 ca1757
 
18001804 ca
 One of the leaders of the Dominguez-Escalante Expedition, a journey under a commission from the S...
Nicolas Baudin1754, Feb 171769
 
18031803, Sep 16
 a French explorer, cartographer, naturalist and hydrographer. At the age of 15 he joined the merc...
Francisco de Eliza17591773
 
18091825, Feb 19
 a Spanish naval officer, navigator, and explorer. He is remembered mainly for his work in the Pac...
Louis Antoine de Bougainville1729, Nov 121753
 
18111811, Aug 31
 a French admiral and explorer. A contemporary of the British explorer James Cook, he took part in...
Daniel Boone1734, Oct 221755
 
18161820, Sep 26
 an American pioneer, explorer, woodsman, and frontiersman, whose frontier exploits made him one o...
Jose de Bustamante y Guerra1759, Apr 11770
 
18171825, Mar 10
  a Spanish naval officer, explorer, and politician. With Alessandro Malaspina, they proposed to t...
Joseph Banks1743, Feb 131766
 
18201820, Jun 19
 a British naturalist, botanist and patron of the natural sciences. Banks made his name on the 176...
Manuel Quimper17571770
 
18291844, Apr
 a Spanish Peruvian explorer, cartographer, naval officer, and colonial official. He participated ...
Edmund Fanning [2]1769, Jul 161773
 
18411841, Apr 23
 an American explorer and sea captain, known as the "Pathfinder of the Pacific." As master of the ...
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