What is Matthew Flinders' timeline?

Answer 1

A basic timeline for Matthew Flinders is:

• Matthew Flinders was born on 16 March 1774 in Lincolnshire, England
• He arrived in Australia in the 1790s.
• Between October 1798 and January 1799, Flinders joined George Bass in circumnavigating Van Diemen's Land.
• He circumnavigated the Australian continent between December 1801 and June 1803.
• Flinders was captured by the French on the island of Mauritius in 1803.
• He was kept prisoner until 1810 on the grounds that he was a spy.
• After he was released, he returned to England, but his health began to fail and he died young, on 19 July 1814. Before his death he completed a book on his travels called 'A Voyage to Terra Australis', and died on the day that his book was published.