Answer:
1. James Cook was born
on 27th October 1728.
2. He first worked
as an apprentice to a shopkeeper in Staithes. N. Yorkshire.
3. He joined
the Royal Navy in 1755, aged 26 years old.
4. He married
Elizabeth Batts on 21st December 1762.
He departed
from his first voyage to Newfoundland as a surveyor in
November 1763.
6. He was promoted
to the rank of lieutenant in the Royal Navy in 1768.
7. He left
from Plymouth in the Endeavour on 26th August 1768.
8 The Endeavour stayed
at Tahiti on 11th April 1769
9. Cook and his men arrived
at Botany Bay (in Australia) on 28th April 1770.
10. The Endeavour hit
a coral reef. causing great problems in June 1770.
11. Cook and his wife met
with his father in Yorkshire in December 1771.
12. Cook crossed
Plymouth in the Resolution for his second round-the-world
voyage on 13th July 1772.
13. The Resolution crossed
the Antarctic Circle for the first time in January 1773
14. Cook became
ill as the expedition neared Easter Island in February 1774.
15. When he arrived back in England in the summer of 1775 he met King
George III
16. Cook left
the west coast of North America on 6th March 1778
17 He was murdered
in Hawaii on Valentine's Day 1779.
18. The remains of Cook's body were buried
in Kealakekua Bay on 22nd
February 1779.
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