The expedition sailed from England on 26 August 1768, rounded Cape Horn and continued westward across the Pacific to arrive at Tahiti on 13 April 1769, where the observations of the Venus Transit were made.

* 2004 – The first Venus Transit in modern history takes place, the previous one being in 1882.

* December 11, 2117: Transit of Venus.

* December 8, 2125: Transit of Venus.

* May 24 – The Transit of Venus occurs, the last before optical filters allowed astronomers to observe them.

* May 26 – A Transit of Venus occurs.

* November 24 – Transit of Venus – the last not to be part of a pair.

He wrote three novels – The Fifth String, Pipetown Sandy, and The Transit of Venus – as well as a full-length autobiography, Marching Along and a great number of articles and letters-to-the-editor on a variety of subjects.

An early scientific duty assigned to the Observatory was the U. S. contribution to the definition of the Astronomical Unit, or the AU, which defines a standard mean distance between the Sun and the Earth, conducted under the auspices of the Congressionally funded U. S. Transit of Venus Commission.

* Transit of Venus

The obsession of the undiscovered continent culminated in the brain of Alexander Dalrymple, the brilliant and erratic hydrographer who was nominated by the Royal Society to command the Transit of Venus expedition to Tahiti in 1769.

* March 17 – Transit of Venus from Uranus

* October 29 – Transit of Venus from Uranus.

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Josephine would inspire Crosby's next collection of poems which he dedicated to her, titled Transit of Venus.

Caresse published a boxed set of Harry's work titled Collected poems of Harry Crosby containing Chariot of the Sun with D. H. Lawrence's intro, Transit of Venus with T. S. Eliot's intro, Sleeping Together with Stuart Gilbert's intro and Torchbearer in 1931.

* Transit of Venus.

* Transit of Venus.

Commented on by one of the solar scientists during the NASA Edge Live Broadcast of the Transit of Venus, June 5, 2012.

* " Transit Of Venus March " m. John Philip Sousa

Henry died on 13 May 1878, and was buried in Oak Hill Cemetery in the Georgetown section of northwest Washington, D. C. John Phillips Sousa wrote the Transit of Venus March for the unveiling of the Joseph Henry statue in front of the Smithsonian Castle.

In 1761, Mason was assigned to travel to the island of Sumatra to observe the Transit of Venus as part of an international effort to record data that would enable scientists to determine the distance from the earth to the sun.

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Transit of Venus was performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company and recorded by the BBC.

An opera version of Transit of Venus premiered at Manitoba Opera in 2007.

The Cadillac / Wexford Transit Authority ( CWTA ) is a demand-response, public transportation system, and has been in operation since 1974.

The first level is a public thoroughfare for three pedestrian bridges linking the Mass Transit Railway, the Convention and Exhibition Centre and the China Resource Building.

An early example, which is today known as an opium clipper, was the Transit of 1819.

Bus service across the bridge is provided by the Dumbarton Express, run by a consortium of local transit agencies ( SamTrans, AC Transit, VTA and others ) which connects to BART at Union City and Caltrain at Palo Alto and California Avenue.

One of these lines is the electrified Dublin Area Rapid Transit ( DART ) line, which runs primarily along the coast of Dublin, from Malahide and Howth southwards as far as Greystones in County Wicklow.

Available for purchase in every station of the Mass Transit Railway system, the Octopus card is a non-touch payment system which allows payment for not only public transport ( such as trains, buses, trams, ferries and minibuses ), but also at parking meters, convenience stores, supermarkets, fast-food restaurants and most vending machines.

The Kuwait Metropolitan Rapid Transit System Project is a planned four-line metro network which will total 160 km with 69 stations.

Ultra-low sulfur kerosene is a custom-blended fuel used by the New York City Transit to power its bus fleet.

Popular within the cities is Light Rail Transit, which reduces the traffic load on other systems, and is considered safe, comfortable and reliable.

In Ghostbusters II, the " river of slime " under New York city is found by the Ghostbusters boys to be flowing through an old pneumatic tube line – a reference to the Beach Pneumatic Transit tube.

The other major form of transportation within Singapore is rail: the Mass Rapid Transit which runs the length and width of Singapore, and the Light Rail Transit which runs within a few neighbourhoods.

The Mass Rapid Transit ( MRT ) is a standard gauge system with a total rail network length of and 102 stations, including under-construction and under-planning.

Local bus service is provided by the Toledo Area Regional Transit Authority ; commonly shortened to TARTA.

The Toronto Transit Commission ( TTC ) is a public transport agency that operates transit bus, streetcar, and rapid transit services in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

There is a public bus service called Virgin Islands Transit ( VITRAN ), operated by Department of Public Works.

Local public transportation is run by the Victoria Regional Transit System, which is part of BC Transit.

Public transportation is provided by Island Transit, which provides a zero-fare bus service paid for by a 6 / 10th of 1 % sales tax within the county.

* September 17 – The first Navy Navigation Satellite System Transit 1A is launched but fails to reach orbit.

** GO Transit, Canada's first interregional public transit system, is established.

" The original model of this original vision of EPCOT can still be seen by passengers riding the Tomorrowland Transit Authority attraction in the Magic Kingdom park ; when the PeopleMover enters the showhouse for Stitch's Great Escape !, the model is visible on the left ( when facing forward ) behind glass.