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1560 - 1592Life of the Elizabethan mariner, privateer and explorer Thomas Cavendish.
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1586 - 1588Thomas Cavendish circumnavigates the globe, only the third man to do so.
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Nov 1587The English privateer Thomas Cavendish captures the Manila galleon Great Saint Anna (actually a carrack).
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Jun 1588Thomas Cavendish is the first Englishman to land at Saint Helena.
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1591 - 1592Thomas Cavendish's attempt at a second circumnavigation of the globe ends in his death at sea.