Record · Early modern world · Oceania
Taputapuātea, the marae complex at Ōpoa on Ra'iatea
Shells in the ahu of marae Taputapuātea on Ra'iatea date to AD 1503 to 1722 at the earliest. The World Heritage text says 14th to 18th centuries.
· 1600Early modern world Oceania
Oceania in the early modern world (1500 – 1800). Oceans became highways, gunpowder empires rose, and the scientific revolution began. These articles cover the three centuries in which the world's regions first became one system.
Record · Early modern world · Oceania
Australia del Espiritu Santo: Quiros at a bay in Vanuatu, 1606
Quiros's fleet entered a bay in Vanuatu on May 1, 1606, named the land Australia del Espiritu Santo; a storm later parted his ship from Torres's.
· 1606
Record · Early modern world · Oceania
Pelsaert's journal, June 4, 1629: the Batavia on Morning Reef
Pelsaert's journal records the Batavia's grounding on Morning Reef in 1629, the mutiny that followed, its trial, and the wreck's 1963 rediscovery.
· 1629
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December 19, 1642: four Dutch sailors die in a bay Māori already held
Tasman's ships anchored in Golden Bay on December 18, 1642. A canoe rammed the Zeehaen's boat next morning; four men died and Tasman left without landing.
· 1642
Record · Early modern world · Oceania
Tupaia, the Tahitian navigator who sailed with Cook in 1769
He came aboard Endeavour on July 13, 1769, at Banks's request, spoke to Māori for Cook in New Zealand, drew a chart of islands and died at Batavia in 1770.
· 1769
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Botany Bay, April 1770: what Cook and Banks wrote about the Gweagal spears
Cook's journal records a musket fired between two Gweagal men at Botany Bay; Banks put the number of spears taken afterward at forty or fifty.
· 1770
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"Come, captain Bligh": the Bounty mutiny of April 28, 1789, on record
Bligh's own account of the dawn of April 28, 1789, the 3618-mile boat voyage to Timor, and the Portsmouth court-martial of 1792 that hanged three men.
· 1789