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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Thomas Cavendish has received more than 260,915 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Thomas Cavendish is the 106th most popular explorer (up from 115th in 2019), the 859th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,004th in 2019) and the 16th 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 106 out of 498. Before him are Philip Johan von Strahlenberg, Bartholomew Columbus, Enrique of Malacca, Juan de la Cosa, Michael Rockefeller, and Mary Kingsley. After him are João Gonçalves Zarco, Adam Johann von Krusenstern, Semyon Dezhnev, Bernal Díaz del Castillo, Fernão Mendes Pinto, and Sacagawea.

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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, Jan Karol Chodkiewicz, and Gaspard Bauhin. After him are Maximilien de Béthune, Duke of Sully, Christian I, Elector of Saxony, Juan Sánchez Cotán, Anton Praetorius, Charles I, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld, and Marco Antonio de Dominis. Among people deceased in 1592, Thomas Cavendish ranks 8. Before him are John III of Sweden, Alexander Farnese, Duke of Parma, Elisabeth of Austria, Queen of France, Hümaşah Sultan, Jacopo Bassano, and Bartolomeo Ammannati. After him are Ana de Mendoza, Princess of Eboli, William, Duke of Jülich-Cleves-Berg, Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, William IV, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel, William the Younger, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, and Michiel Coxie.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Thomas Cavendish ranks 859 out of 8,785. Before him are Michael York (1942), Ray Milland (1907), Stephen Frears (1941), Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig (1861), Mary Kingsley (1862), and Edmund Tudor, 1st Earl of Richmond (1430). After him are Malcolm IV of Scotland (1141), George Canning (1770), Lady Margaret Beaufort (1443), James Gregory (1638), Andy Serkis (1964), and Simon Cowell (1959).

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Among EXPLORERS In United Kingdom

Among explorers born in United Kingdom, Thomas Cavendish ranks 16. Before him are John Davis (1550), Richard Francis Burton (1821), William Dampier (1651), James Clark Ross (1800), Robert FitzRoy (1805), and Mary Kingsley (1862). After him are George Vancouver (1757), Isabella Bird (1831), Mark Sykes (1879), Martin Frobisher (1535), James Bruce (1730), and John Rolfe (1585).

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