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In November 2011, researchers at the First Colony Foundation noticed two corrective patches on White's 1585 map La Virginea Pars. At their request, the British Museum examined the original map with a light table. One of the patches, at the confluence of the Roanoke and Chowan rivers, was found to cover a symbol representing a fort at the head ...
William Warner first publishes his long historical poem Albion's England. [20] Oxford University Press is recognised by decree of the Star Chamber. [21] From about this date an informal College or Society of Antiquaries begins to meet. [22] 1587. 8 February – Mary, Queen of Scots, is beheaded at Fotheringay Castle. [5]
The U.S. state of Texas is divided into 254 counties, more than any other U.S. state. [1] While only about 20% of Texas counties are generally located within the Houston—Dallas—San Antonio—Austin areas, they serve a majority of the state's population with approximately 22,000,000 inhabitants.
1585 was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar, the 1585th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 585th year of the 2nd millennium, the 85th year of the 16th century, and the 6th year of the 1580s decade. As of the start of 1585, the ...
A map of "Southamptonshire" (modern-day Hampshire) from the Atlas of the Counties of England and Wales Saxton’s unpublished Proof Map of Wales, 1580. Map making became increasingly common in the reign of Elizabeth I, made possible by advances in surveying technology and printing from engraved copper plates.
Sir Ralph Lane (c. 1532 – October 1603) [1] [2] was an English explorer of the Elizabethan era.He helped colonise the Kingdom of Ireland in 1583 and was sheriff of County Kerry, Ireland, from 1583 to 1585. [3]
Elizabeth Blount, mistress of King Henry VIII of England (died 1540) Henry Percy, 6th Earl of Northumberland, courtier (died 1537) 1503 13 September (?) – John Leland, antiquarian (died 1552) John Frith, Protestant priest and martyr (died 1533) Approximate date – Thomas Wyatt, lyric poet and diplomat (died 1542) 1504
The Anglo-Spanish War (1585–1604) was an intermittent conflict between the Habsburg Kingdom of Spain and the Kingdom of England that was never formally declared. [4] It began with England's military expedition in 1585 to what was then the Spanish Netherlands under the command of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, in support of the Dutch rebellion against Spanish Habsburg rule.