1 Jan 1770 Jahr - Captain Cook 1770-79

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1770 Captain Cook sails to New Zealand, arriving unaware of the presence of French explorer, Jean-François-Marie de Surville, who is anchored there. Cook claims the area for King George III and sails to Australia.

1774 An expedition led by Britain's Captain James Cook returns to Tahiti.

1778 Two ships under the command of Captain James Cook, sailing from Tahiti, arrive in the Hawaiian Islands, perhaps the first Europeans to visit these islands. Cook finds a tribal and religious people. He was already experienced with Polynesians and thought of them as generally intelligent. Cook and company find the Hawaiians with a different sense of property than Europeans, what Europeans would describe as thievery.

1779 On his second visit to the Hawaiian Islands, Captain Cook is killed during a conflict over one of his small boats taken by islanders.

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