HMS Endeavour was a British Royal Navy research vessel that Lieutenant James Cook commanded to Tahiti, New Zealand and Australia on his first voyage of...

Bibliotheca, or Voyages and Travels (1744–1748, and 1764), a book which Cook had with him on Endeavour: The first Point, with respect to a Discovery, would...

exploration, and it led to his commission in 1768 as commander of HMS Endeavour for the first of three Pacific voyages. In these voyages, Cook sailed...

death (or the birth of her godson in 1756). Her first known signature is in 1764, making it more likely she was taught to write by Commerson, perhaps to help...

of lectures at Oxford in 1764. Banks left Oxford for Chelsea in December 1763. He continued to attend the university until 1764, but left that year without...

Captain Carteret, and Captain Cook, in the Dolphin, the Swallow, and the Endeavour: drawn up from the journals which were kept by the several commanders...

August Poniatowski, was King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1764 to 1795, and the last monarch of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. Born...

the imperial throne. The Nawab of Awadh also fought the Battle of Buxar (1764) preserving the interests of the Moghul. Oudh State eventually declared itself...

1768. He circumnavigated the world as a commodore with his own squadron in 1764–1766. He fought in battles in the Seven Years' War and the American Revolution...

had been built at Whitby in 1764. Hayes oversaw the refitting at Deptford and relaunched the ship under the name HMS Endeavour. The refit took only around...

Part of his route around New Zealand overlapped that of James Cook in Endeavour, which had preceded him by only a few days. De Surville drowned off the...

work in Russia under her protection. Four years later, in 1766, she endeavoured to embody in legislation the principles of Enlightenment she learned...

participated in two of the Royal Navy's circumnavigation expeditions in 1764–66 and 1766–69. Carteret was the son of Charles de Carteret, Seigneur of...

reefs and islands can make it hazardous to navigate. In the south the Endeavour Strait is located between Prince of Wales Island (Muralug) and the mainland...

shipwrecks in 1764 includes some ships sunk, wrecked or otherwise lost during 1764. "(untitled)". Lloyd's List (2921). 10 January 1764. "(untitled)"....

House of Commons. This they did in a letter to their Agent in the summer of 1764 ... And in this letter they recommend to him a pamphlet, wrote by one of...

travelled separately to Rome to ask for Pope Innocent III's blessing for the endeavour. Boniface was specifically told by Innocent not to attack any Christians...

against the Measure. When I have thus got them all together in one View, I endeavour to estimate their respective Weights; and where I find two, one on each...

the work of at least two hands and to have been written between the years 1764 and 1798. The manuscript is commonly attributed to one Constantine of Berat...

entrusted with a mission to the Prussian court (1800–1803), where he endeavoured in vain to effect an alliance with Austria. He had greater success as...

1762 to February 1764, i.e., No. 50 Pall Mall, next door to the house (No. 49) which from 1759 to 1764 was Almack's tavern and from 1764 to 1778 housed...

Irish Merlin'. He published his Old Moore's Almanac for the first time in 1764, and received such support that the other Irish almanacs gradually dwindled...

of his great strength, he came to it, and seizing it with both hands, endeavoured to wrest it asunder; but the tree (the wedges being fallen out) returning...

know not. But that Providence which has hitherto smiled on the honest endeavours of the well meaning part of the People of this Country will not, I trust...

British explorer John Byron who circumnavigated the globe in HMS Dolphin from 1764 to 1766. The MV Limerick was sunk off Cape Byron in 1943. The Cape is part...

authored two guidebooks on the male prostitutes of Japan, the Kiku no en (1764) and the San no asa (1768).: 75  His birth name was Shiraishi Kunitomo,[citation...

England. Zachary Hickes (d. 1771), Royal Navy first lieutenant aboard HMS Endeavour on its voyage to Australia Kealiiahonui (1800–1849), Kaua'i nobleman buried...

Pacific Ocean in order to observe the transit of Venus aboard James Cook's Endeavour. Born sometime in December 1734, Green was the youngest son of Joshua...

including a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation. One of the more costly endeavours for the museum and the French Fifth Republic has been to repurchase as...

coordinating presence for his Australian and international charitable endeavours. Charles has supported humanitarian projects; for example, he and his...