1. James Cook was ..... on 27th October 1728.2. He first ...... as an apprentice to a shopkeeper in Staithes, N. Yorkshire.
3. He ..... the Royal Navy in 1755, aged 26 years old.
4. He ..... Elizabeth Batts on 21st December 1762.
5. He ..... from his first voyage to Newfoundland as a surveyor in November 1763.
6. He was ..... to the rank of lieutenant in the Royal Navy in 1768.
7. He ..... from Plymouth in the Endeavour on 26th August 1768.
8. The Endeavour ..... at Tahiti on 11th April 1769.
9. Cook and his men ..... at Botany Bay (in Australia) on 28th April 1770.
10. The Endeavour ..... a coral reef, causing great problems, in June 1770. 11. Cook and his wife ..... with his father in Yorkshire in December 1771.
12. Cook ..... Plymouth in the Resolution for his second round-the-world voyage on 13th July 1772.
13. The Resolution ..... the Antarctic Circle for the first time in January 1773.
14. Cook ..... ill as the expedition neared Easter Island in February 1774. King
15. When he arrived back in England in the summer of 1775 he ..... George III.
16. Cook ..... the west coast of North America on 6th March 1778.
17. He was ..... in Hawaii on Valentine's Day 1779.
18. The remains of Cook's body werein ..... Kealakekua Bay on 22nd February 1779​