Renaissance · Europe · Exploration
1580
Drake Returns to Plymouth
September 26, 1580
The Golden Hind slipped into Plymouth harbor with spices, plundered silver, and a crew that had been given up for dead. Elizabeth I knighted Francis Drake on the deck of his ship the following April. She had personally received an estimated twenty-four times her annual income as her share of the loot.
In context
Also in 1580 (4 other events on record)
- Iberian Union · Europe · Politics
- Montaigne Publishes the Essays · Europe · Culture
- Plague Sweeps Venice · Europe · Disaster
- Drake Knighted on the Golden Hind · Europe · Politics
Before and after in Europe
- Before: 1579: Union of Arras
- After: July 26, 1581: Act of Abjuration
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Era
Renaissance (1501–1650), one of 715 events from that era on Saeculum.