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