Joseph Banks on Cook's First Voyage (1768–1771)

1. Royal Society backs Tahiti observing mission

   Jan 1, 1768Labels: Royal Society, Tahiti

   • NMA
   • NHM

2. Banks joins Endeavour as lead naturalist

   Aug 25, 1768Labels: Joseph Banks, HM Bark

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   • NMA

3. First collections begin at Madeira stop

   Sep 12, 1768Labels: Madeira

   • Endeavour
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4. Artist Alexander Buchan dies at Tahiti

   Apr 17, 1769Labels: Alexander Buchan, Tahiti

   • Buchan

5. Transit of Venus observed at Tahiti

   Jun 3, 1769Labels: Tahiti, Transit of

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   • NHM

6. Banks’s team reaches New Zealand

   Oct 6, 1769Labels: New Zealand, Banks and

   • RGSSA
   • CookVoyage

7. First landfall on Australia’s east coast

   Apr 29, 1770Labels: Botany Bay, Botanists Banks

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   • BotanyBay

8. Ship strikes Great Barrier Reef

   Jun 11, 1770Labels: Great Barrier, Endeavour

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   • ANMM

9. Repairs and intensive collecting at Endeavour River

   Jun 22, 1770Labels: Endeavour River, Cooktown

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   • BanksSoc

10. Endeavour anchors at Batavia for refit

    Oct 9, 1770Labels: Batavia, Endeavour

    • CookSoc
    • RGSSA

11. Endeavour departs Batavia amid sickness

    Dec 26, 1770Labels: Batavia, Endeavour

    • CookSoc

12. Banks’s Florilegium engravings produced from voyage drawings

    Jan 1, 1771Labels: Florilegium, Sydney Parkinson

    • Smithsonian
    • NHM

13. Sydney Parkinson dies on return voyage

    Jan 26, 1771Labels: Sydney Parkinson, Batavia

    • BanksFlor
    • RGSSA

14. Endeavour returns to England; Banks becomes celebrity

    Jul 13, 1771Labels: Joseph Banks, Endeavour

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    • NMA