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1651 CE: William Dampier is born in East Coker, Somerset, England.
1672 CE: William Dampier joins the Royal Navy and takes part in maritime encounters during the Third Anglo-Dutch War.
1674 CE: William Dampier manages a sugar plantation in Jamaica, then joins a band of buccaneers.
1676 CE: William Dampier makes the first recognised scientific observation of a hurricane.
1688 CE: William Dampier's first visit to New Holland on the Cygnet, a British privateer.
1699 CE: William Dampier's second visit to New Holland aboard HMBS Roebuck.
1701 CE: Court-martial & enquiry into the sinking of HMBS Roebuck.
1703 CE: William Dampier returns to bucanneering.
1708 CE: William Dampier's third and final voyage, circumnavigating the world once more.
1709 CE: Alexander Selkirk is rescued from the Juan Fernández Islands by Woodes Rogers during his privateering circumnavigation.
1710 CE: The English privateer Woodes Rogers captures the Manila galleon Nuestra Señora de la Encarnación Disengaño.
1715 CE: William Dampier dies in London at age 63.