Cities around the world keep their histories on dates. Here is what happened on November 7 across the 1 editorial events Pyflo has so far catalogued for this date.
(1728-1779) was born November 7, 1728 at Marton, a small farming village 8 km west of where Middlesbrough now stands — the second of eight children born to a Scottish-Borders farm laborer, also named James Cook, who had migrated south for work, and a Yorkshire woman, Grace Pace.
Drawn from the Pyflo Atlas — an interactive timeline of 1,601 editorial events reaching back to 2100 BCE, each pin a deep link into a city's full story. Watch history play out on the map →