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1542 CE - 1591 CE: Life of the Elizabethan adventurer, mariner and privateer Sir Richard Grenville.
1562 CE: Richard Grenville is pardoned after killing a man during a riot.
1563 CE: Richard Grenville serves as a Member of Parliament.
1568 CE: Richard Grenville creates a plantation in the Munster region of Ireland.
1571 CE: Richard Grenville represents Cornwall as a Member of Parliament.
1571 CE: Richard Grenville fails to win royal approval for his proposed expedition to find the great southern continent.
1585 CE: Settlers sail to Virginia in North America to create England's first colony on Roanoke Island.
1588 CE: Richard Grenville fights against the Spanish Armada.
1591 CE: Richard Grenville sails as vice-admiral to Lord Thomas Howard in an expedition to plunder Spanish treasure ships in the Azores.
1591 CE: Richard Grenville commands the galleon Revenge in a heroic but losing battle against a large Spanish fleet in the Azores.