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The 1580s decade ran from January 1, 1580, to December 31, 1589. ... On April 10, 1593, the English Parliament will enact the first military pension, "An Acte for ...
23 July (2 August NS) – the English and Spanish fleets meet again, off Portland; the English again have the better of it. 28 July (7 August NS) – the English send fire ships into the French fleet, now anchored off Calais, breaking their formation. 29 July (8 August NS) – the English fleet defeats the Armada at the Battle of Gravelines. [25]
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English achievements in exploration were noteworthy in the Elizabethan era. Sir Francis Drake circumnavigated the globe between 1577 and 1581, and Martin Frobisher explored the Arctic. The first attempt at English settlement of the eastern seaboard of North America occurred in this era—the abortive colony at Roanoke Island in 1587.
Several other English colonies were established in North America during the 17th and 18th centuries. With the authorization of a royal charter, the Hudson's Bay Company established the territory of Rupert's Land in the Hudson Bay drainage basin. The English also established or conquered several colonies in the Caribbean, including Barbados and ...
Martin Pring (1580–1626) was an English explorer from Bristol, England who in 1603 at the age of 23 was captain of an expedition to North America to assess commercial potential; he explored areas of present-day Maine, New Hampshire, and Cape Cod in Massachusetts. During this expedition, he noted a potential site for settlement as "Whitsun Bay ...
An engraving from Henry Holland's HerÅologia Anglica (1620).Animum fortuna sequatur is Latin for "May fortune follow courage.". Sir Thomas Cavendish (1560 [1] – May 1592) was an English explorer and a privateer known as "The Navigator" because he was the first who deliberately tried to emulate Sir Francis Drake and raid the Spanish towns and ships in the Pacific and return by ...
Sir Francis Drake (c. 1540 – 28 January 1596) was an English explorer and privateer best known for his circumnavigation of the world in a single expedition between 1577 and 1580. This was the first English circumnavigation, and second circumnavigation overall.