Sir Francis Drake

Standard Name: Drake, Sir Francis

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Occupation Sir Philip Sidney
On his first return from his travels SPS became a courtier to Elizabeth I , for whom he subsequently conducted diplomatic business with monarchs and others abroad. He also gave the queen gifts, appeared at...
Publishing Christian Isobel Johnstone
CIJ wrote a number of non-fiction books for children. She launched her Aunt Jane persona with The Wars of the Jews, 1823 (reprinted 1853), selected from the work of Josephus . She delineated the...

Timeline

13 December 1577 - 26 September 1580
Sir Francis Drake circumnavigated the world, travelling from Plymouth in Devon through the Straits of Magellan and round the Cape of Good Hope, and back to Plymouth again.
Summer1585
A party of soldiers were landed at Roanoke Island, North Carolina, to form the earliest English North American settlement. The demoralised survivors were picked up by Francis Drake just a year later and...
Earlier 1855
Charles Kingsley published his novelWestward Ho!; Or, The Voyages and Adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight . . . in the Reign of Her Most Glorious Majesty Queen Elizabeth.