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  National Maritime Museum, Greenwich
 Dutch reach Easter Island 1722 Hodges Monuments on Easter Island (detail)
National Maritime Museum
 
Canaletto paints the view to Greenwich Hospital c. 1750 Canaletto Greenwich Hospital (detail) c.1750
National Maritime Museum
 
 Harrison's chronometer is accurate 1761 Tassaert John Harrison (detail)
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 Captain Cook sails for Pacific 1768 Dance Captain James Cook (detail)
National Maritime Museum
 
 Cook observes transit of Venus 1769 Hodges Tahiti Revisited (detail)
National Maritime Museum
 
 Cook charts coast of New Zealand 1769 Hodges Dusky Bay, New Zealand (detail)
National Maritime Museum
 
 Convicts settled in Sydney Cove 1788
 
  1788 Brierly Sydney Harbour, Emigrants Arriving (detail)
National Maritime Museum
 
  1793 Romney Lady Hamilton as Ariadne (detail)
National Maritime Museum
 
 Nelson meets Emma 1793 Enlarge graphicRigaud Captain Horatio Nelson (detail)
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 Nelson dies at Trafalgar 1805 Dighton The Battle of Trafalgar (detail)
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 18-year-old girl on British throne 1837 Winterhalter Queen Victoria (detail)
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  1844 Meridian Line, Greenwich
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 Franklin searches for northwest passage 1845 Carmichael HMS Erebus and Terror in the Arctic (detail)
National Maritime Museum
 
 Greenwich is 0° longitude 1884
 
 Scott sails for the Antarctic 1901 Mitchell HMS Discovery in the ice (detail)
National Maritime Museum
 
 Titanic hits iceberg 1912 Titanic underway
National Maritime Museum