England- Explorers Project
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è stato aggiornato: 14 ott 2017
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Henry Hudson
was bornHenry Hudson was
hired to find a shorter
route to AsiaGot back onto the “Discovery” to
Asia (His boat) and failed
to come back with anythingCabot was born Giovanni
Caboto in Genoa, Italy, 1450In 1474, John Cabot met and
married a young woman
named Mattea, together
they had three sonsCabot official became
a Venetian citizen in 1476
and started to conduct
trade in the eastern
mediterraneanJohn Cabot left Bristol,
England in
the May, 1497Cobot finally got
approved to go
back to North
America in February,1498John Cabot is believed
to have disappeared
from the face of the
earth in 1499 or 1500Sir Walter
Raleigh was
born in the
year 1552
or
possibly on
1554In 1578, Raleigh went to
find the Northwest Passage
in North America with
his half brother
(Sir Humphrey Gilbert)
but they didn’t reach the
destination.Between 1579 and 1583
Raleigh fought in Ireland
while being in service
of Queen Elizabeth l.Between 1585 and
1588 Raleigh went
on many expeditions
across the Atlantic. He
also made a colony near
Roanoke, which is now
North Carolina, which
he tried to name Virginia
in honor of Queen Elizabeth.
However, Indians forced
some of the Colonists to
return to England with
Potatoes and Tobacco,
which was unknown
at the time.In around 1592
Raleigh forfeited
Queen Elizabeth’s
favor of courtship and
married Bessy ThrockMorton,
who was the Queen’s maid - of -
honor, this threw the Queen
into a rage and arrested them
for about 2 years.In 1594, Raleigh had
subsequent forays
with the Cadiz and
the Azores, which
made him go to
prison in 160, as
the new King was
pacifist King James
l, Elizabeth's successor.
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