Age of Exploration · event 7 of 7

1768

Cook’s first Pacific voyage. James Cook sails to observe the transit of Venus and charts New Zealand and the east coast of Australia. The three voyages map much of the Pacific and open it to European settlement, with consequences for its peoples that are still being reckoned with.

The Age of Exploration era

  1. 1271
  2. 1325
  3. 1405
  4. 1492
  5. 1497
  6. 1519
  7. 1768

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