Sir Francis Drake
Standard Name: Drake, Sir Francis
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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 |
Timeline
13 December 1577 - 26 September 1580: Sir Francis Drake circumnavigated the world,...
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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.
: A party of soldiers were landed at Roanoke...
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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 novel Westward...
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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.
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