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* 1770 – James Cook names and lands on Possession Island, Queensland and claims the east coast of Australia as New South Wales in the name of King George III.
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* Mike Fink ( c. 1770 / 1780 – c. 1823 ) called " king of the keelboaters ", was a semi-legendary brawler and river boatman who exemplified the tough and hard-drinking men who ran keelboats up and down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers.
* Christian Bunsen ( librarian ) ( 1770 – 1837 ), chief librarian of Göttingen and professor of modern philology, father of Robert Bunsen
David Thompson ( April 30, 1770 – February 10, 1857 ) was a British-Canadian fur trader, surveyor, and map-maker, known to some native peoples as " Koo-Koo-Sint " or " the Stargazer ".
He overcame the opposition, and went to learn from François Boucher ( 1703 – 1770 ), the leading painter of the time, who was also a distant relative.
Nevertheless, composers continued to write and study fugues for various purposes ; they appear in the works of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ( 1756 – 1791 ) and Ludwig van Beethoven ( 1770 – 1827 ), as well as modern composers such as Dmitri Shostakovich ( 1906 – 1975 ).
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It was from a hill on Arapawa Island in 1770 that Captain James Cook first saw the sea passage from the Pacific Ocean to the Tasman Sea, which was named Cook Strait.
Phillip soon decided that this site, chosen on the recommendation of Sir Joseph Banks, who had accompanied James Cook in 1770, was not suitable, since it had poor soil, no secure anchorage and no reliable water source.
An early Western description of the practice appears in the journals of Captain James Cook, a British explorer, who encountered amok firsthand in 1770 during a voyage around the world.
The trial, for which Allen hired Jared Ingersoll to represent the grantholder interest, began in July 1770, pitting Allen against politically powerful New York grant-holders, including New York's Lieutenant Governor Colden, James Duane ( who was prosecuting the case ), and Robert Livingston, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court ( who was presiding over the case ).
On 22 August 1770, James Cook discovered the eastern coast of Australia while on a scientific voyage to the South Pacific.
* Ukawsaw Gronniosaw, known also as James Albert, lived with his family in the town in the 1760s and 1770.
Other European explorers followed intermittently until, in 1770, James Cook charted the East Coast of Australia for Britain and returned with accounts favouring colonisation at Botany Bay ( now in Sydney ), New South Wales.
The navigator James Cook claimed the east coast of Australia for Britain in 1770, without conducting negotiations with the existing inhabitants.
The Banksia genus was first described and named by Carolus Linnaeus the Younger in his April 1782 publication Supplementum Plantarum ; hence the full name for the genus is " Banksia L. f ." The genus name honours the English botanist Sir Joseph Banks, who collected the first Banksia specimens in 1770, during James Cook's first expedition.
It was subsequently Anglicised as New Zealand by British naval captain James Cook of HM Bark Endeavour who visited the islands more than 100 years after Tasman during 1769 – 1770.
Much later, James Cook sailed around most of New Zealand in 1770, showing that even it could not be part of a large continent.
While the preceding are all distinct languages, they remain similar enough that Tupaia, a Tahitian travelling with Captain James Cook in 1769 – 1770, communicated effectively with Māori.
* James Murray ( Jacobite ) ( 1690 – 1770 ), Scottish Member of Parliament, later Jacobite Secretary of State
Lieutenant James Cook became the first European to note the region when he sailed along the coast on 16 May 1770 in the HM Bark Endeavour.
It was subsequently Anglicised as New Zealand by British naval captain James Cook of HM Bark Endeavour who visited the islands more than 100 years after Tasman during ( 1769 – 1770 ).
Coming from New Zealand in 1770, Captain James Cook in HM Bark Endeavour sighted land at Point Hicks, about 70 km west of Gabo Island, before turning east and north to follow the coast of Australia.
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