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Events on Friday 19 June 1767 1
1767Samuel Wallis sights TahitiBritish explorer becomes the first European to visit the islandBritish 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.