Timeline: Thomas RUSHBROOKE: Chris Korte's New Zealand Genealogy Project

Chris Korte's New Zealand Genealogy Project

1762 - 1770 (8 years)

	Date	Event(s)
1	1769	6 Oct 1769: James Cook arrives in NZ The English navigator Captain James Cook sighted New Zealand on 6 October 1769, and landed at Poverty Bay (now Gisborne) two days later. He drew detailed and accurate maps of the country, and wrote about the Maori people. Thanks to Cook’s detailed charts, and his gentlemen passengers’ scientific and artistic documentation, accurate knowledge of New Zealand was available in Europe for the first time from the 1770s.