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Pirates • Explorers born active died
1519, Feb 15 1565 1574, Sep 17
a Spanish admiral and explorer from the region of Asturias, Spain, who is remembered for planning the first regular trans-oceanic convoys and for founding St. Augustine, Florida, in 1565. This was the first successful Spanish settlement in La Florida and the most significant city in the region for nearly three centuries. St. Augustine is the oldest continuously-inhabited, European-established settlement in the continental United States. He was also the first governor of Florida (1565-74).
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Pedro Menendez de Aviles 1519, Feb 15 1565
1565 1574, Sep 17
Salih Reis 1488 ca 1529 1568 1568 a Turkish privateer and Ottoman admiral. In 1529, he took part in the Turkish-Spanish battle near... Captain Robert Blondel 1530 ca 1550 1568 1568 ca wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_San_Juan_de_Ulúa_(1568)
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French captai... Takanobu Matsura 1529 1540 1569 1599, Apr 1 a 16th-century Japanese samurai and 25th hereditary lord of the Matsura clan of Hirado. He was on... Francois Le Clerc unknown 1550 1569 1563 a 16th-century French privateer, originally from Normandy. He is credited as the first pirate in... Matsura Takanobu 1529 1550 1569 1599, Apr 1 a 16th-century Japanese samurai and 25th hereditary lord of the Matsura clan of Hirado. He was o... Mustapha unknown 1558 1569 unknown In 1558 he sailed, with a fleet of 140 vessels, to the Island of Minorca. Landed, and besieged th... William Burder unknown 1560 1569 unknown Mayor of Dover. It may seem strange to accuse the mayor of so important a seaport as Dover of bei... Richard Deigle unknown 1560 1569 unknown An Elizabethan pirate. Wrecked in the John of Sandwich at Alderney in 1564, when he was arrested,... Captain Heidon unknown 1560 1569 unknown Arrested for piracy in 1564 for having captured a Flemish ship. This vessel he manned with thirte... Philip Readhead unknown 1560 1569 1564 One of Captain Heidon's crew of the pirate ship John of Sandwich, wrecked on Alderney Island in 1... Roger Shaster unknown 1560 1569 1564 One of Captain Heidon's crew of the pirate ship John of Sandwich, which was wrecked on the coast ... Ali Basha unknown 1560 1570s 9 unknown From Algiers. Barbary corsair. Conquered the Kingdom of Tunis in the sixteenth century, and captu... Jean Bontemps 1530 ca 1559 1572 1572 a French privateer. In 1559, sailing with Jean-Martin Cotes, he attacked the towns of Santa Marta... Richard Allen [1] unknown 1560 1572 1572, Nov a young English sailor turned pirate. He worked in the Bay of Biscay and English Channel. Along w... Charles Glub 1540 ca 1560 1572 1572 English quartermaster and pirate.
He was very popular with the crew for his cheerful disposition... Klein Henszlein unknown 1560 1573 1573 a German pirate from 1560 to 1573 who raided shipping in the North Sea until his defeat and captu... Louis de Boisot 1530 ca 1560 1576 1576, May 27 After 1567 he joined the watergeuzen. He took part in a battle under Willem van Oranje in 1572. H... Andrew Barker unknown 1560 1577 1577 an English merchant. In 1575 at Tenerife, the Inquisition laid hands on the captain and crew of t... Richard Minivy 1545 ca 1560 1578 1578 Richard Minivy *1545?? - +prosinec 1578. English pirate.
He was a member of the crew by Francis ... Captain John Thomas [1] 1540 ca 1560 1578 1578 ca English captain and pirate.
He was a member of the crew by Francis Drake in 1560 and attended al... Jacques de Sores unknown 1550 1579 unknown A French pirate whose sole documented act was his attack and burning of Havana in 1555. Other tha... Guillaume Le Testu 1509 ca 1560 1579 1573 a French privateer, explorer and navigator. He was one of the foremost cartographers of his time ... Leonard Vicary 1540 ca 1560s 1579 1578 ca English officer and a pirate. He was a student rights.
He was a member of the crew by Francis Dr... John Brewer 1540 ca 1560 1580s 9 1600 ca Sailed with Francis Drake on his round the world journey ......
English captain and pirate.
H... Giovanni Dionigi 1519 1536 1587 1587, Jun 21 an Italian born corsair (privateer) who later became an Ottoman admiral (Reis), Bey of the Regenc... Lady Mary Killigrew [3] 1525 ca 1540 1587 1587 ca Mary was the daughter of a former Suffolk pirate. Mary's husband Sir Henry Killigrew, a former pi... Edward Bright unknown 1560 1589 1589 Sailed with Francis Drake on his round the world journey ......
English pirate.
He was a memb... John Cooke [1] 1545 ca 1560 1589 1600 ca English pirate.
He was a member of the crew by Francis Drake in 1560 and attended all his robber... Lawrence Eliot 1545 ca 1560 1589 1600 ca English pirate.
He was a member of the crew by Francis Drake in 1560 and attended all his robber... George Fortescue [1] 1550 ca 1560 1589 unknown English pirate.
He was a member of the crew by Francis Drake in 1563 and attended all his robber... James Rance 1545 ca 1560 1589 1589 ca English pirate.
He was a member of the crew of Francis Drake from 1560 to r.1567 and attended al... Thomas Fenner 1550 ca 1564 1591 1591 Privateer .....
English officer and a pirate.
He was a close friend of Francis Drake.
Even a... Thomas Drake unknown 1560 1595 1595 an English pirate captain, commanded the ship Thomas for his brother Francis Drake during the cam... Sir John Hawkins 1532 1562 1595 1595, Nov 12 an English naval commander and administrator, merchant, navigator, shipbuilder, privateer and sla... Sir Francis Drake 1540 ca 1563 1596 1596, Jan 27/28 an English sea captain, privateer, navigator, slaver, and politician of the Elizabethan era. Drak... Grace O'Malley 1530 1550 1603 1603 chieftain of the Ó Máille clan in the west of Ireland, following in the footsteps of her father... George Clifford unknown 1558 1605 unknown an English peer, naval commander and courtier of Queen Elizabeth I. He helped to prepare an exped... Murat Reis the Elder 1534 1560 1608/38 1608/9/38 an Albanian privateer and admiral of the Ottoman Navy. He is regarded as one of the most importan... Richard Bishop 1550 ca 1561 1617 1617 ca Pirate of the Mediterranean and the Atlantic. .....
English pirate. He served in the Mediterra...
