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Thomas Cavendish

1560 - 1592

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Sir Thomas Cavendish (1560 – May 1592) was an English explorer and a privateer known as "The Navigator" because he was the first who deliberately tried to emulate Sir Francis Drake and raid the Spanish towns and ships in the Pacific and return by circumnavigating the globe. Magellan's-Elcano, Loaísa, Drake's, and Loyola's expeditions had preceded Cavendish in circumnavigating the globe. His first trip and successful circumnavigation made him rich from captured Spanish gold, silk and treasure from the Pacific and the Philippines. His richest prize was the captured 600-ton sailing ship the Manila Galleon Santa Ana (also called Santa Anna). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Thomas Cavendish is the 115th most popular explorer (down from 106th in 2019), the 1,079th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 860th in 2019) and the 17th most popular British Explorer.

Thomas Cavendish is most famous for being the first Englishman to circumnavigate the world.

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Thomas Cavendish ranks 115 out of 498. Before him are Heinrich Barth, Ferdinand Columbus, Gonzalo Pizarro, Fernão Mendes Pinto, Martín Alonso Pinzón, and Carsten Niebuhr. After him are Sacagawea, Bernal Díaz del Castillo, Juan de la Cosa, René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, Calamity Jane, and Lope de Aguirre.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1560, Thomas Cavendish ranks 7. Before him are Elizabeth Báthory, Annibale Carracci, Thomas Harriot, Jacobus Arminius, Gaspard Bauhin, and Jan Karol Chodkiewicz. After him are Anton Praetorius, Maximilien de Béthune, Duke of Sully, Christian I, Elector of Saxony, Juan Sánchez Cotán, Charles I, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld, and Lodovico Grossi da Viadana. Among people deceased in 1592, Thomas Cavendish ranks 9. Before him are Alexander Farnese, Duke of Parma, Elisabeth of Austria, Queen of France, Jacopo Bassano, William the Younger, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Hümaşah Sultan, and Bartolomeo Ammannati. After him are Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa, William IV, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel, Paschal Baylón, William, Duke of Jülich-Cleves-Berg, and Ana de Mendoza, Princess of Eboli.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Thomas Cavendish ranks 1,079 out of 8,785. Before him are Tony Richardson (1928), Robert Grosseteste (1175), Peter Benenson (1921), Roger Scruton (1944), Slash (1965), and Peter Tait (1831). After him are Anne of York (1475), Keith Moon (1946), George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon (1866), Colin Baker (1943), Pete Townshend (1945), and Alasdair MacIntyre (1929).

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Among EXPLORERS In United Kingdom

Among explorers born in United Kingdom, Thomas Cavendish ranks 17. Before him are William Dampier (1651), John Smith (1580), Richard Francis Burton (1821), William Parry (1790), Robert FitzRoy (1805), and James Clark Ross (1800). After him are George Vancouver (1757), Mary Kingsley (1862), Ranulph Fiennes (1944), Sir John Barrow, 1st Baronet (1764), Samuel Wallis (1728), and Isabella Bird (1831).

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