Elizabethan explorers

Dee proposed exploration of routes to china and East Indies

1577

Drake left England with 5 ships and 170 men

November 1577

Claimed several islands in Strait of Magellan

Spring and summer 1578

Raided the Spanish and Native settlements across Chile and Peru

Winter 1578-79

Claimed California as New Albion

June 1579

Traded Linen cloth for cloves, ginger and pimento in Spice Islands

Summer 1579

Returned to England with Treasure

September 1580

Knighted and given the Golden Hind

April 1581

Gilbert first attempt was a disaster

1579

Raleigh made it across the Atlantic

1579

Gilbert claimed Newfoundland

1583

Ship wreaked and killed men

80

Initial survey of Roanoke

April 1584

Grenville and Lane led the expedition with 600 men from Plymouth

April 1585

Fleet got stuck on sandbanks in a storm

July 1585

The Algonquian fought back and Drake came to take away the colonists

June 1586

Colonisation of Jamestown

1607

Spain invades Portugal

1580

Turkish company

1581

Fitch set off to South-east Asia with 4 men

March 1583

Fitch returns to England 8 years later

April 1591

Lancaster given command of East India Company's first fleet

April 1601

England's first trading post in the East, Java

1601

Lancaster's voyage

1601-03

East India trading company was the biggest in the world

200 years later