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1754	9 Sep	William Bligh Born, Plymouth.
1764	25 Sep	Fletcher Christian Born, Moorland Close, Cumbria.
1767	2 Jul	Carteret In HMS Swallow Discovers Pitcairn’s Island.
1768	26 Jul	Cook Clears Plymouth In HMS Endeavour On First Voyage.
1770		Bligh First Goes To Sea, As A.B. In HMS Hunter, Aged 16.
1771	5 Feb	Bligh Made Midshipman, Customs Ships In Irish Sea.
1775		Bligh Meets Elizabeth Betham, Wife & Patron Family.
1776	20 Mar	Bligh Made Master Of HMS Resolution, Under Cook.
	1 Jul	Bligh Passes Lieutenancy Exams.
	14 Jul	Resolution Sails From Plymouth For Pacific Voyage.
1779	14 Feb	Cook Killed, Kealakakooa Bay, Hawaii.
1780	May	Christian Family, Bankrupt, Move To Douglas, IOM.
	Jun	Bligh, Back From Voyage With Cook, In Douglas, IOM.
1781	4 Feb	Bligh Marries Betsy Betham.
1783	25 Apr	Christian Signs Aboard HMS Eurydice, Spithead.
	Jul	Bligh Turns To Bethams & Campbells For Work.
	Oct	Eurydice Sails For India, Christian's First Voyage.
1784	24 May	Christian Made Acting Lieut.& Watch Leader, Madras.
1785	Jun	Eurydice Returns To Britain.
	Jul	Christian Writes To Bligh For A Place As Midshipman.
1786-7		Bligh & Christian Voyage Together For Duncan Campbell.
1787	May-Sept	Bethia Becomes Bounty, & Prepared For Her Pacific Voyage.
	2 Aug	Britannia Returns From 2ND Voyage Of Bligh & Christian Together.
	5 Aug	Bligh Told By Campbell Of His Selection To Command Bounty.
	5 Sep	Charles Christian Involved In Mutiny Aboard SS Middlesex.
	24 Sep	Bounty At Spithead. Bad Voyage Down Channel, Blown Back, Long Delays Waiting For Orders At Spithead Before Leaving.
	Nov	Fletcher & Charles Talk, Incl.Mutiny, During Delay.
	23 Dec	Bounty Sails From Spithead.
1788	6 Jan	Bounty Makes Santa Cruz de Teneriffe, Canary Is.
	11 Jan	Bounty Departs Teneriffe. Christian Made 3rd Watch Leader.
	7 Feb	Bounty Crosses Equator, ‘Jack' Adams As Neptune.
	2 Mar	Christian Made Acting Lieutenant & Executive Officer.
	24 Mar	Bounty At Tip Of South America.
	28-29 Mar	Bounty's Ordeal At Cape Horn Begins.
	22 Apr	Bounty Turns For Africa & Cape Of Good Hope.
	24 May	Bounty Arrives Cape Town. Christian Borrows Money From Bligh during stay here.
	1 Jul	Bounty Sails From Capetown.
	21 Aug	Bounty Anchors in Adventure Bay, Bruni Island, South-Eastern Tasmania.
	4 Sep	Bounty Sails From Adventure Bay.
	19 Sep	Bounty Islands Discovered SE Of South Island, NZ.
	9 Oct	Fryer Refuses To Sign Logbook Without Reference Of Good Behaviour. A.B James Valentine Dies, Late Same Night.
	26 Oct	Bounty Arrives Matavai Bay, Tahiti.
	Nov	Breadfruit Potting Begins.
	9 Dec	Dr.Huggan Dies Of Alcohol Poisoning.
	Dec-Jan	Discipline Erodes. Bounty Almost Wrecked & Runs Aground When Shifting Harbour; Anchor Cable Cut By Tahitian Taio.
1789	5 Jan	Churchill, Muspratt, Millward Desert: Recaptured.
	Feb	Sails In Lockers Found Rotten. Decline Continues.
	4 Apr	Bounty Sails From Tahiti.
	22 Apr	Bounty Anchors Nomuka, Friendly Ils. Native Trouble.
	27 Apr	The “Coconuts Affair”. Christian Makes Raft.
	28 Apr	Day Of The Mutiny: Bligh & Launch Group Set Adrift.
	28 May	Bounty Anchors At Tubuai, Austral Islands. Launch Sights Gt.Barrier Reef & Queensland Mountains.
	6 Jun	Bounty Returns To Tahiti, For Colonising Materials.
	12 Jun	Launch Party Arrive At Koupang, Dutch East Indies.
	16 Jun	Bounty Leaves Tahiti.
	23 Jun	Bounty Arrives Back At Tubuai.
	Jul-Sep	Settlement at Bloody Bay; Fort George Built. Battles.
	12 Sep	Bounty Leaves Tubuai For The Last Time.
	22 Sep	Bounty Arrives Tahiti. Loyalists & Mutineers Left.
	23 Sep	Bounty Departs Tahiti For Final Time, 9 Mutineers.
	Sep-Dec	Bounty Searches For Uninhabited Islands. Christian Finds Reference To Pitcairn's Island.
1790	15 Jan	Bounty Arrives At Pitcairn.
	23 Jan	Bounty Burned At Pitcairn.
	13 Mar	News Of Mutiny Arrives Britain.
	14 Mar	Bligh Arrives Portsmouth.
	22 Oct	Bligh Courtmartialled For Loss Of Bounty. HMS Pandora Under Edwards Departs Britain.
1791	17 Mar	HMS Pandora Passes Pitcairn, Not Seeing It Over Horizon.
	23 Mar	HMS Pandora Arrives Tahiti, Prisoners Taken.
	8 May	HMS Pandora Departs Tahiti With 14 Bounty Crew.
	3 Aug	Bligh In HMS Providence With Brig. HMS Assistant Leave U.K.
1791	28 Aug	HMS Pandora Wrecked On Gt.Barrier Reef. Open Boat Voyage.
	17 Sep	HMS Pandora & Bounty Survivors Arrive Koupang, Batavia.
1792	10 Apr	Providence & Assistant Arrive Tahiti To Begin Breadfruit Collection.
	18 Jun	Pandora & Bounty Survivors Arrive At Spithead.
	Aug	Providence & Assistant Depart Tahiti For West Indies.
	12 Sep	Surviving 10 Bounty Crew Courtmartialled.
	29 Oct	Ellison, Burkett, Millward Executed At Spithead.
1793	27 Jan	Providence & Assistant Arrive West Indies To Deliver Breadfruit.
	3 Sep	Providence & Assistant Arrive Back In Britain At End Of Voyage.
	20 Sep	Christian & 4 Other Mutineers Murdered On Pitcairn.
	4 Oct	Remaining Native Men Murdered On Pitcairn.
1797	19 May	Bligh Relieved Of Command Of HMS Director By Crew: The Great Nore Mutiny Begins.
1804		Bligh Courtmartialled For Language To Subordinate Officer.
1805		Bligh Made Governer Of NSW, After Battle Of Koebenhavn.
1806		Rum Corps Manufactures Propaganda About Bligh & Discipline.
1807		Ned Young Dies Of Asthma On Pitcairn. NSW Population Supports Bligh Against Rum Corps.
1808	26 Jan	Bligh Ousted As Governer of NSW, In Coup, By Rum Corps.
	28 Sep	Pitcairn Community Discovered By Capt. Mayhew Folger.
1813		Britain Learns Of Final Fate Of Bounty & Mutineers.
1817	7 Dec	Bligh Dies Aged 63 Of Cancer, London.
1829	5 Mar	John Adams, aged 62, Dies On Pitcairn.

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