* 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.

* 1780 – James Cook's ship HMS Resolution returns to England ( Cook having been killed on Hawaii during the voyage ).

* 1770 – James Cook arrives at and names Botany Bay, Australia.

* 1770 – James Cook formally claims eastern Australia for Great Britain, naming it New South Wales.

* 1768 – James Cook begins his first voyage.

* 1770 – Captain James Cook sights the eastern coast of what is now Australia.

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.

From 1778 a display of objects from the South Seas brought back from the round-the-world voyages of Captain James Cook and the travels of other explorers fascinated visitors with a glimpse of previously unknown lands.

The Cook Islands are named after Captain James Cook, who visited the islands in 1773 and 1777.

British navigator Captain James Cook arrived in 1773 and 1777 ; Cook named the islands the ' Hervey Islands ' to honour a British Lord of the Admiralty ; Half a century later the Baltic German Admiral Adam Johann von Krusenstern published the Atlas de l ' Ocean Pacifique, in which he renamed the islands the Cook Islands to honour Cook.

1773 — Captain James Cook explores the islands and names them the Hervey Islands.

* 1777 – Kiritimati, also called Christmas Island, is discovered by James Cook.

* 1779 – James Cook is killed by Native Hawaiians near Kealakekua on the Island of Hawaii.

The country is named after Captain James Cook who surveyed and landed on some of the islands between 1773 and 1777.

*, the vessel of Captain James Cook in his explorations.

Captain James Cook, FRS, RN ( 7 November 1728 – 14 February 1779 ) was a British explorer, navigator, cartographer, and captain in the Royal Navy.

Cook was the second of eight children of James Cook, a Scottish farm labourer from Ednam near Kelso, and his locally born wife, Grace Pace, from Thornaby-on-Tees.

Walton, who served as a correspondent with General James Gavin's paratroopers during the invasion of France, combines the soul of an artist with the lingo of a tough guy.

It was during `` Old Music '' at the St. James Theater that Hollywood's Louis B. Mayer spotted her.

Following the Glorious Revolution, the line of succession to the English throne was governed by the Bill of Rights 1689, which declared that the flight of James II from England to France during the revolution amounted to an abdication of the throne and that James ' son-in-law, ( and nephew ) William of Orange, and his wife, James ' daughter, Mary, were James ' successors, who ruled jointly as William III and Mary II.

Only during the 1970s and 1980s did television chefs such as James Beard and Jeff Smith shift the focus towards home-grown cooking styles, particularly those of the different ethnic groups within the nation.

James VanderKam and Peter W. Flint further explain that the stories of Daniel and his friends, set in Babylon during the Exile, encouraged readers to remain faithful to God and to refuse compromise in the face of their oppressors, and offered the prospect of triumph over wickedness and idolatry.

The final straw for many in the Manifesto Group was the behaviour of former Chancellor of the Exchequer Denis Healey at a meeting with them during the Labour leadership campaign to replace James Callaghan.

A National Hurricane Center satellite specialist, James Lushine, stated " during very unstable weather conditions the downburst of cold air from aloft can hit the surface like a bomb, exploding outward like a giant squall line of wind and water.

The death of James Wolfe | General Wolfe during the Battle of the Plains of Abraham ; the campaigns of the French and Indian War resulted in British control of modern Canada.

According to writer / director Peter Bogdanovich, Marlene Dietrich told him during an aircraft flight that she and James Stewart had an affair during shooting and that she became pregnant and had the baby surreptitiously aborted without telling Stewart.

In May 1997, Prime Minister James joined 14 other Caribbean leaders, and President Clinton, during the first-ever U. S .- regional summit in Bridgetown, Barbados.

The highest-ranking official whose term unquestionably continued during the interim was Polk's Secretary of State, James Buchanan ( later elected President himself in 1856 ), whose term did not formally expire until his successor, John M. Clayton, took office on March 7.

Among notable recipients below flag rank are: X-1 test pilot Chuck Yeager and X-15 test pilot Robert M. White, who both received the DSM as U. S. Air Force majors ; Air Force Major Rudolf Anderson, the U-2 pilot shot down during the Cuban Missile Crisis ; director Frank Capra, decorated in 1945 as an Army colonel ; actor James Stewart, decorated in 1945 as an Army Air Forces colonel ( later Air Force Brigadier General ); Col. Wendell Fertig, who led Filipino guerrillas behind Japanese lines ; Col. ( later Major General ) John K. Singlaub, who led partisan forces in the Korean War ; and Maj. Maude C. Davison, who led the " Angels of Bataan and Corregidor " during their imprisonment by the Japanese, and Colonel William S. Taylor, Program Manager Multiple Launch Rocket System.

Its capabilities and political implications were investigated by a committee of the European Parliament during 2000 and 2001 with a report published in 2001, and by author James Bamford in his books on the National Security Agency of the United States.

Authorship has also occasionally been attributed to the apostle James the Great, brother of John the Evangelist and son of Zebedee The letter does mention persecutions in the present tense ( 2: 6 ), and this is consistent with the persecution in Jerusalem during which James the Great was martyred ( Acts 12: 1 ).

James Thurber described White as being a quiet man, disliking publicity, who during his time at The New Yorker would slip out of his office via the fire escape to a nearby branch of Schrafft's to avoid visitors whom he didn't know.

However, during the planning process, it was noted that James Exon was the governor of Nebraska.

* James D. Linxwiler, The Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act: The First Twenty Years Paper 2, Proceedings from the 38th Annual Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Institute ( 1992 )

* James Bovard Feeling Your Pain: The Explosion and Abuse of Government Power in the Clinton-Gore Years ( 2000 ) ISBN 0-312-23082-6

* Famous Forrie Fotos: Over 70 Years of Ackermemories, 117pp, trade paperback, 2001, Sense of Wonder Press, James A.

There was however much harsh treatment of POWs in Germany, as recorded by the American ambassador to Germany ( prior to America's entry into the war ), James W. Gerard, who published his findings in " My Four Years in Germany ".

Tourism is very important thanks to the Way of St. James, particularly in Holy Compostelan Years ( when 25 July falls on a Sunday ).

* The Years with Ross by James Thurber ( 1959 )

Smith drank as steadily as his characters ; his appearance in James Thurber's The Years with Ross involves an unexplained week-long disappearance.

It was during World War I and their first nationally syndicated film was My Four Years in Germany based on a popular book by former American Ambassador James W. Gerard.

* June 12 – Seven Years ' War – French and Indian War: Siege of Louisbourg: James Wolfe's attack at Louisbourg, Nova Scotia commences.

James Cook, during the Years, 1772, 3, 4, and 5 was published.

James Cook, during the Years, 1772, 3, 4, and 5 ( 1777 ) ( preview )

* James Murray ( of Strowan ) ( 1734 – 1794 ), Scottish general of the Seven Years ' War and the American Revolution

The song makes reference to James Wolfe capturing Quebec in 1759 during the Seven Years ' War and the Battle of Queenston Heights and Battle of Lundy's Lane during the War of 1812.

Very late in life James began a series of autobiographical works: A Small Boy and Others, Notes of a Son and Brother, and the unfinished The Middle Years.

* James T. Fain, Henderson County — The Past 137 Years: A Chronicle of the History of Hendersonville and Henderson County Featuring Original Photographs Depicting our Area and its People.

Years later, James spent at least part of his honeymoon in Sherman, where he was photographed on horseback.

* Cox, James M., Journey Through My Years, Simon and Schuster, 1946

Examples of the full page Sunday strip were printed in The Comic Strip Century ( 1995, reissued in 2004 as 100 Years of Comic Strips ), edited by Bill Blackbeard, Dale Crain and James Vance.

* The Harry James Years, Vol.

** James " Spanish " Blake, Nine Years ' War figure

He served on the continent under William of Orange during the Nine Years ' War and, having been promoted to major-general, he fought at the Battle of Steenkerque in August 1692 and the Battle of Landen in July 1693, where he was taken prisoner by the French and then exchanged for the Duke of Berwick, James II's illegitimate son.

* James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Alan Walker, Franz Liszt: The Virtuoso Years

* James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: G. G. Coulton, Fourscore Years

* James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Mary Moorman, William Wordsworth: The Later Years 1803 – 1850