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| 1769 |
| | Captain Cook's distinguished passengers, Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander, collect valuable specimens of Pacific flora | |
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| 1769 |
| | Franciscan missionary Junipero Serra begins work at San Diego de Cala, the first of his nine California missions | |
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| 1769 |
| | Captain Cook observes in Tahiti the transit of Venus, the primary purpose of his voyage to the Pacific | |
| | Hodges Tahiti Revisited (detail) National Maritime Museum
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| 1769 |
| | Napoleon Bonaparte is born a French citizen in Ajaccio, in Corsica, the son of a local lawyer | |
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| 1769 |
| | Captain Cook reaches New Zealand and sets off to chart its entire coastline | |
| | Hodges Dusky Bay, New Zealand (detail) National Maritime Museum
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| 1769 |
| | French inventor Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot successfully tests a steam wagon, probably the first working mechanical vehicle | |
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| 1769 |
| | Robert Mylne completes his new bridge at Blackfriars | |
| | Blackfriars Bridge, by James Black, 1802 Guildhall Library
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| c. 1770 |
| | The triangular trade, controlled from Liverpool, ships millions of Africans across the Atlantic as slaves | |
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| 1770 |
| | Walpole adds the Great North Bedchamber to Strawberry Hill. | |
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| 1770 |
| | British troops fire into an unruly crowd in Boston, Massachusetts, killing five | |
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