{"slug": "tahiti", "label": "Tahiti", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tahiti", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q42000", "qid": "Q42000", "description": "island in the Southern Pacific Ocean", "entries": 11, "years": 8, "span": [1767, 1880], "span_label": ["1767 CE", "1880 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 8}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 2}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 1}], "also_known_as": [], "related": [{"slug": "james-cook", "label": "James Cook", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "france", "label": "France", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "royal-navy", "label": "Royal Navy", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "pacific-ocean", "label": "Pacific Ocean", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "earth", "label": "Earth", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "venus", "label": "Venus", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "sun", "label": "Sun", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1767, "year_label": "1767 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "June 17", "text": "June 17 – British Royal Navy Captain Samuel Wallis becomes the first European to visit the island of Tahiti in the Pacific Ocean, during HMS Dolphins second circumnavigation; he also sights Mehetia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365587024#April–June", "title": "1767", "revid": 1365587024, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1769, "year_label": "1769 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "April 13", "text": "April 13 – James Cook arrives in Tahiti, on the ship HM Bark Endeavour, preparing for the 1769 Transit of Venus observed from Tahiti on June 3. After the voyage, the data is found to be inaccurate in determining the distance between the Sun and Earth.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1354215144#April–June", "title": "1769", "revid": 1354215144, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1769, "year_label": "1769 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "April 13", "text": "13 April – first voyage of James Cook: James Cook arrives in Tahiti on the ship HM Bark Endeavour, preparing to observe the transit of the planet Venus, which takes place on 3 June. After the voyage, the data is found to be inaccurate in determining the distance between the Sun and Earth.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1356128438#Events", "title": "1769 in Great Britain", "revid": 1356128438, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1774, "year_label": "1774 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "November 27", "text": "November 27 – Spanish Navy Captain Domingo de Bonechea arrives at Tahiti in the ship Aguila and tries unsuccessfully to claim it for Spain and to convert the Tahitians to the Roman Catholic faith.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369560805#October–December", "title": "1774", "revid": 1369560805, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1787, "year_label": "1787 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "December 23", "text": "December 23 – Captain William Bligh sets sail from England for Tahiti, on HMS Bounty.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370561702#October–December", "title": "1787", "revid": 1370561702, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1787, "year_label": "1787 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "December 23", "text": "23 December – Captain William Bligh sets sail from Spithead for Tahiti on HMS Bounty.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1357609502#Events", "title": "1787 in Great Britain", "revid": 1357609502, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1797, "year_label": "1797 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "March 5", "text": "March 5 – Protestant missionaries from the London Missionary Society land in Tahiti, from the Duff (celebrated as Missionary Day in French Polynesia).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368310974#January–March", "title": "1797", "revid": 1368310974, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1801, "year_label": "1801 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "April 20", "text": "20 April – The Royal Admiral, Captain William Wilson, arrives at Hauraki to collect timber before taking several London Missionary Society Brothers to the mission in Tahiti. They encounter Māori who help with provisioning and inform them of a ship further up river. They send a boat several days later which soon finds the El Plumier. Captain Wilson later encounters Thomas Taylor who had been staying with local Māori for 2 years. Captain Wilson and the LMS Brothers record some details of Māori life given to them by Taylor.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1357096196#Events", "title": "1801 in New Zealand", "revid": 1357096196, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1842, "year_label": "1842 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "The Polynesian islands of Tahiti and Tahuata are declared a protectorate of France.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365455258#Date_unknown", "title": "1842", "revid": 1365455258, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1880, "year_label": "1880 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "June 29", "text": "June 29 – France annexes Tahiti.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371273111#June", "title": "1880", "revid": 1371273111, "section": "Events › June"}}, {"year": 1880, "year_label": "1880 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "June 29", "text": "29 June – France annexes Tahiti.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1333460207#Events", "title": "1880 in France", "revid": 1333460207, "section": "Events"}}]}