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{103} Chronological Table
Of the most remarkable passages in that part of America, known to us by the name of NEW-ENGLAND.[287]
Anno Dom. 1492. Christ. Columbus discovered America.
1516. The Voyage of Sir Thomas Pert, Vice Admiral of England, and Sir Sebastian Cabota to Brazile, &c.
1527. New-found-Land, discovered by the English.
1577. Sir Francis Drake began his Voyage about the World.
{104} 1585. Nova Albion discovered by Sir Francis Drake, and by him so Named.
1585. April 9. Sir Richard Greenevile was sent by Sir Walter Rawleigh with a Fleet of Seven Sail to Virginia, and was stiled the General of Virginia.
1586. Captain Thomas Candish, a Suffolk Gentleman, began his Voyage round about the World, with three Ships past the Streights of Magellan, burn’d and ransack’d in the entry of Chile, Peru, and New-Spain, near the great Island Callifornia in the South Sea; and returned to Plymouth with a precious Booty Anno Dom. 1588. September the 8th; being the third since Magellan that circuited the Earth.
1588. Sir Walter Rawleigh first discovered Virginia, by him so Named, in honour of our Virgin Queen.