* 1642 – Abel Janszoon Tasman reaches New Zealand.

Dutch explorers, sailing around southern Africa, also engaged in discovery and trade ; Abel Janszoon Tasman discovered Tasmania and New Zealand in 1642.

* October 10 – Abel Janszoon Tasman, Dutch seafarer and explorer ( d. 1659 )

The first European explorer to discover New Zealand was Abel Janszoon Tasman on 13 December 1642.

For instance, Abel Janszoon Tasman is " Abel son of Jan Tasman ", and Kenau Simonsdochter Hasselaer: " Kenau, daughter of Simon Hasselaer ".

The sea was named after the Dutch explorer Abel Janszoon Tasman, the first recorded European to encounter New Zealand and Tasmania.

In the 19th century some Australian Catholics, living under a Protestant ascendancy, claimed that Queirós had in fact discovered Australia, in advance of the Protestants Willem Janszoon, Abel Tasman and James Cook.

Visscher mapped out three different routes and van Diemen decided in August 1642 to send Abel Janszoon Tasman, accompanied by Visscher, in search of the Great South Land, which Tasman would soon dub " Nieuw Holland ".

They were named Drie Koningen Eyland on 6 January 1643 by Dutch explorer Abel Janszoon Tasman who three weeks earlier had become the first European known to have seen New Zealand.

) The Discovery of Tasmania: Journal Extracts from the Expeditions of Abel Janszoon Tasman and Marc-Joseph Marion Dufresne 1642 & 1772, St David's Park Publishing / Tasmanian Government Printing Office, Hobart, 1992, pp. 106, ISBN 0-7246-2241-1.

In 1642 Abel Janszoon Tasman landed in Tasmania and after examining notches cut at considerable distances on tree trunks, speculated that the newly discovered country must be peopled by giants.

* 1642 – Abel Tasman becomes first European to land in New Zealand.

In 1643 AD, Abel Tasman sighted Vanua Levu Island and northern Taveuni.

* 1642-Aoraki sighted by Abel Tasman

* 1642 – Abel Tasman becomes the first European to discover the island Van Diemen's Land ( later renamed Tasmania ).

In the 17th century Dutch explorers such as Abel Tasman explored the coasts of Australia, while in the 18th century it was British explorer James Cook who mapped much of Polynesia.

On January 21, 1643, the Dutch explorer Abel Tasman was the first European to visit the main island ( Tongatapu ) and

The Dutch explorer Abel Tasman was the first European to land on the shores of Tasmania.

Eventually, in order to remove the unsavoury connotations with crime associated with its name ( and its homophonic connection to " demon "), in 1856 Van Diemen's Land was renamed Tasmania in honour of Abel Tasman.

* November 24 – Abel Tasman becomes the first European to discover the island Van Diemen's Land ( later renamed Tasmania ).

* December 13 – Abel Tasman is the first recorded European to sight New Zealand.

* January 21 – Abel Tasman discovers the island of Tonga.

* February 6 – Abel Tasman discovers the Fiji islands.

* October 10 – Abel Tasman, Dutch explorer ( b. 1603 )

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The Abel Tasman map 1644, also known as the Bonaparte Tasman map that is part of the collection of the State Library of New South Wales, Australia.

The first Europeans known to reach New Zealand were the crew of Dutch explorer Abel Tasman who arrived in his ships Heemskerck and Zeehaen.

Totaranui beach, Abel Tasman National Park.

New Zealand, first seen by the Dutch explorer Abel Tasman in 1642, was regarded by some as a part of the continent.

Abel Eduardo Balbo (; born 1 June 1966 in Empalme Villa Constitución, Santa Fe ) is an Argentine football manager currently of Arezzo and former striker.

* Abel Tasman ( 1603 – 1659 ) – Dutch explorer.

This is a result of Galois theory ( see Quintic equations and the Abel – Ruffini theorem ).

* 1989 – Florian Abel, German footballer

* 1925 – Abel Muzorewa, African politician, Prime Minister of Republic of Zimbabwe Rhodesia ( d. 2010 )

* 1936 – Bobby Abel, English cricketer ( b. 1857 )

* 1723 – Carl Friedrich Abel, German composer ( d. 1787 )

By his second season, Howe was paired with Sid Abel and Ted Lindsay to form what would become one of the great lines in NHL history – the " Production Line ".

In contrast, their first six full-time coaches – Art Duncan, Adams, Ivan, Jimmy Skinner and Abel – covered a 42 – year period.

The theory of field extensions ( including Galois theory ) involves the roots of polynomials with coefficients in a field ; among other results, this theory leads to impossibility proofs for the classical problems of angle trisection and squaring the circle with a compass and straightedge, as well as a proof of the Abel – Ruffini theorem on the algebraic insolubility of quintic equations.

* 1644 – Abel Tasman's second Pacific voyage began.

* 1962 – Captured American U2 spy-plane pilot Gary Powers is exchanged for captured Soviet spy Rudolf Abel.

* 1918 – Sid Abel, Canadian ice hockey player ( d. 2000 )

:* Bereishit, on Genesis 1 – 6: Creation, Eden, Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, Lamech, wickedness

* 1951 – Abel Ferrara, American director and screenwriter

Carl Friedrich Abel ( 22 December 1723 – 20 June 1787 ) was a German composer of the Classical era.

* 1987 – Jake Abel, American actor

Niels Henrik Abel ( 5 August 1802 – 6 April 1829 ) was a Norwegian mathematician who proved the impossibility of solving the quintic equation by radicals.

For, in 1823, Abel had at last proved the impossibility of solving the quintic equation in radicals ( now referred to as the Abel – Ruffini theorem ).

* 1889 – Abel Gance, French film director ( d. 1981 )