January – Baltazar de Cordes' ship along with the surviving crew get captured and imprisoned in Tidore, a Portuguese colony, after battling the Spanish in Chiloé.[1]
August 26 – Olivier van Noort returns to Rotterdam captaining the Mauritius after battling the Spanish, making him the first Dutch person to circumnavigate the globe.[8]
September 9 – James Lancaster's fleet arrives in Table Bay in southern Africa, ravaged with scurvy.[9]
1602
December – Jan de Bouff gets ambushed by six Dutch ships but manages to capture two of them with the help of three other Dunkirkers.
January 24 – Michael Geare and Christopher Newport, working with the French, direct eight ships during a landing of privateers near Santiago de Cuba but are eventually forced to flee.[12]
^Latham, Agnes MC (25 October 2021). "Sir Walter Raleigh". Encyclopedia Britannica. Archived from the original on 10 June 2022. Retrieved 10 July 2022.
^ abcdefghTinniswood, Adrian (2010). Pirates of Barbary: Corsairs, Conquests and Captivity in the Seventeenth-Century Mediterranean. Penguin. ISBN9781101445310.