1769	April - June	Cook was at Tahiti observing the Transit of Venus.
1772	January - March	Cook was preparing for his Second Voyage.
	April - June	Cook was sailing from Deptford to Plymouth.
	July - September	Cook was sailing south to Cape Town.
	October - December	Cook was visiting Cape Town and sailing into the Antarctic Seas.
1773	January - March	Cook was sailing in the Antarctic Seas, trying to find the extent of the Great Southern Continent.
	April - June	Cook was recuperating at New Zealand before continuing to try to find the extent of the Great Southern Continent.
	July - September	Cook was visiting Tahiti and the Society Islands.
	October - December	Cook was visiting Tonga and New Zealand.
1774	January - March	Cook was visiting Easter Island.
	April - June	Cook was visiting the Marquesas islands, Tahiti, Huaheine, Niue and Nomuka.
	July - September	Cook was visiting the New Hebrides and New Caledonia.
	October - December	Cook was visiting New Zealand and Tierra del Fuego.
1775	January - March	Cook was visiting South Georgia and Cape Town.
	April - June	Cook was visiting Cape Town, St Helena and Ascension.
	July - September	Cook was arriving home at the end of his Second Voyage.
	October - December	Cook was editing his journals of his Second Voyage.
1776	January - March	Cook was volunteering for his Third Voyage.
	April - June	Cook was preparing for his Third Voyage.
	July - September	Cook was sailing south in the Atlantic Ocean.
	October - December	Cook was at Cape Town and Kerguelen Island.
1777	January - March	Cook was at Tasmania and New Zealand on his Third Voyage.
	April - June	Cook was among the Tongan Islands, where he was nearly killed.
	July - September	Cook went from Tonga to Tahiti.
	October - December	Cook was in the Society Islands and discovered Christmas Island.
1778	January - March	Cook was at the western Hawaiian Islands and sailed to America.
	April - June	Cook was searching the coasts of British Columbia and Alaska for a passage to the Atlantic.
	July - September	Cook was searching the coasts of Asia and America for a passage to the Atlantic.
	October - December	Cook was sailing south from America to the Hawaiian Islands.
1779	January - March	Cook was at the eastern Hawaiian Islands, where he was killed.
	April - June	Cook's ships sailed to Kamchatka on the east coast of Russia.

Updated: May 2004.