Timeline June 1767

Events in June 1767 3

• 1767 Samuel Wallis sights Tahiti British explorer becomes the first European to visit the island British captain Samuel Wallis, commanding HMS Dolphin, sighted and landed on Tahiti, becoming the first European known to reach the island. He named it "King George's Island" and claimed it for Britain, and his glowing accounts helped draw later Pacific voyages, including those of James Cook and the Bounty.
• 1767 – 1835 Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767-1835) Died 8 April 1835, aged 67 Humboldt was a Prussian philosopher, diplomat, and linguist whose theories on language and education shaped comparative linguistics and informed the founding of the University of Berlin, which bears his name.
• 1767 Townshend Acts imposed on American colonies Parliament taxes glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea The British Parliament passed the Townshend Acts, imposing new duties on goods imported into the American colonies and creating a Board of Customs Commissioners to enforce trade law. The acts also suspended the New York Assembly for refusing to comply with the Quartering Act, deepening colonial resentment toward London in the years before the American Revolution.