Historedia
Person

Samuel Wallis

Events
1
Episodes
2
Years
1767–1768

Every event in Historedia whose sources name Samuel Wallis, with the role they cite and all of that event’s episodes. This is not a biography, and mentions are grouped by name, so two people with the same name can share this page.

Events and episodes

  1. Wallis Visits Tahiti

    1767–1768

    Role: Royal Navy captain commanding HMS Dolphin; first recorded European navigator to visit Tahiti

    1. 18 June 1767 (sighting); landfall June 1767 · Tahiti, Society IslandsSighting and First European Landfall at Tahiti

      Circumnavigating in HMS Dolphin, Wallis's expedition sighted Tahiti on 18 June 1767 and made the first European landfall there in June 1767.

    2. May 1768 · Unspecified (Batavia, Cape of Good Hope, and England are named without a single occurrence locality)Return to England and Information Passed to Cook

      After the voyage, Wallis reached England in May 1768 and passed useful Pacific information to James Cook, though whether they met is unknown.

Sources

  1. Samuel Wallis Wikipedia, revision of 2026-05-05
  2. Tahiti Wikipedia, revision of 2026-07-15