Historical Events

1439 Plymouth, England, becomes the first town incorporated by the English Parliament

1555 The English Parliament re-establishes Catholicism

Curator of Experiments

1661 Robert Hooke appointed Curator of Experiments to the Royal Society, England

Royal Society Appoints James Cook

1767 Meeting of the Royal Society appoints James Cook as head of an expedition to the Pacific Ocean to observe the transit of Venus on Tahiti in 1769 (will be Cook's 1st voyage aboard HMS Endeavour) [1]

1847 Sir James Young Simpson, a British physician, is the first to use chloroform as an anesthetic

1899 British troops reach Durban, Natal

PM Andrew Fisher

1908 Andrew Fisher assumes the position of prime minister for what turns out to be a short-lived second Labour governmen

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