Browsing Political Geography






116 articles found

Headword Date Article Type
Henry VII commissions the Cabots to discover new lands 1496 Topics Short note
Unification of English and Welsh systems of government. 1536 Topics Short note
Drake, Francis 1540 - 1596 People
Protector Somerset renews English feudal claims to Scotland 1548 Topics Short note
Spenser, Edmund 1552 - 1599 People
Queen Mary I enters London 1553 Topics Short note
Ralegh, Walter 1554 - 1618 People
Philip of Spain leaves England for the Low Countries 1555 Topics Short note
New royal charter for the English Merchants Adventurers Company 1564 Topics Short note
John Hawkins sets off on a second voyage to the New World 1564 Topics Short note
John Hawkins and Francis Drake are trapped by Spanish ships in the West Indies 1568 Topics Short note
Elizabeth refuses to accept sovereignty of the Netherlands 1575 Topics Short note
Morton, Thomas 1576 - 1647 People
Francis Drake discovers San Francisco Bay 1579 Topics Short note
Sir Humphrey Gilbert's expedition to the West Indies fails 1579 Topics Short note
Smith, John 1580 - 1631 People
New buildings forbidden to restrict London's growth 1580 Topics Short note
Baffin, William 1584 - 1622 People
Sir Francis Drake leaves for the West Indies as a privateer 1585 Topics Short note
Queen Elizabeth declines the sovereignty of the Low Countries 1585 Topics Short note

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