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Captain Cooks first voyage

By Wood0291
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    Captain cooks first voyage

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  • Birth

    Birth
    Captain cook is born, Marton, United Kingdom

  • The departure

    Cook and his crew of nearly 100 men left Plymouth (August 1768) in the Endeavour and travelled via Madeira (September), Rio de Janiero (November-December) and Tierra del Fuego (January 1769) to Tahiti.

  • Tahiti

    Tahiti
    Cook and his crew experienced good relations with the Tahitians and returned to the islands on many occasions, attracted by the friendly people of this earthly paradise. On arrival Cook had set out the rules, including:
    “To endeavour by every fair means to cultivate a friendship with the Natives and to treat them with all imaginable humanity.”

  • First sight of Aus

    First sight of Aus
    Captain James cooks ship ‘the endeavor’ lands on the east coast of Australia. in his journal he recorded his landing at Botany Bay on the afternoon of Sunday 29 April 1770. In civil time that was the afternoon of 28 April and that is the time inscribed on the Captain Cook monument at Kurnell.

  • Cooks Death

    Cooks Death
    On February 14, 1779, Captain James Cook, the great English explorer and navigator, is murdered by natives of Hawaii during his third visit to the Pacific island group.