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April 28 (April 29 by Cook's log) – Captain Cook drops anchor in a wide bay about 16 km (10 mi) south of the present city of Sydney, Australia. Because the young botanist on board the ship, Joseph Banks, discovers 30,000 specimens of plant life in the area, 1,600 of them unknown to European science, Cook names the place Botany Bay on May 7.
1792 – Opening of the first post office in Montreal on 20 December. 1793 – Importation of slaves into Canada is prohibited on July 9. 1799 – Mary Griffin obtains the lease to Griffintown from a business associate of Thomas McCord. 1799 – The census of 1799 lists 9,000 inhabitants while that of 1761 lists 5,500.
1770s Pacific Northwest smallpox epidemic. The first known smallpox epidemic to strike the native peoples of the coastal and interior Pacific Northwest arrived in the early 1770s, devastating large swathes of the population and causing significant demographic collapse – both from the disease itself and corresponding malnutrition from the ...
Classic explanations include yellow fever, bubonic plague, influenza, smallpox, chickenpox, typhus, and syndemic infection of hepatitis B and hepatitis D. 1,143,000–3,429,000 (estimated 30–90% of population) [68] [69] 1629–1631 Italian plague (part of the second plague pandemic ) 1629–1631. Italy. Bubonic plague.
27 July - French and British navies clash just off the coast of France. 30 December - Britain captures the port of St. Lucia in the Caribbean Sea. British forces capture Pondicherry in the Bay of Bengal from the French, later recaptured. The Dutch port of St Eustatius in the West Indies became the world's busiest port handling the majority of ...
The written history of New York City began with the first European explorer, the Italian Giovanni da Verrazzano in 1524. European settlement began with the Dutch in 1608 and New Amsterdam was founded in 1624. The "Sons of Liberty" campaigned against British authority in New York City, and the Stamp Act Congress of representatives from ...
t. e. In the years from 1726 to 1750, cricket became an established sport in London and the south-eastern counties of England. In 1726, it was already a thriving sport in the south east and, though limited by the constraints of travel at the time, it was slowly gaining adherents in other parts of England, its growth accelerating with references ...
