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| 1575 |
| | English sailor and slave-trader John Hawkins turns the top-heavy carrack into the more seaworthy galleon | |
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| 1577 |
| | Francis Drake sails from Plymouth, heading west for the Pacific and the East Indies | |
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| 1579 |
| | Francis Drake seizes a Spanish vessel laden with gold and silver in the Pacific, formerly a safe area for Spain | |
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| 1580 |
| | Francis Drake returns to England after his three-year voyage round the world and is knighted by Queen Elizabeth on board his Golden Hind | |
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| 1583 |
| | Humphrey Gilbert claims Newfoundland on behalf of England's queen Elizabeth | |
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| 1585 |
| | Roanoke Island, off the coast of North Carolina, is settled by the first English colonists in America – with disastrous results | |
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| c. 1585 |
| | The English artist John White paints the everyday life of the Secotan Indians of America | |
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| 1587 |
| | A new group of English settlers arrives at Roanoke Island and makes a second attempt at a settlement | |
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| 1587 |
| | Virginia Dare becomes the first English child to be born in America, on Roanoke Island | |
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| 1590 |
| | An English ship, the first to arrive at Roanoke Island since 1587, finds no remaining trace of the settlers or their settlement | |
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