Drake, Hawkins, Raleigh and exploration

• Muscovy Company created


  1555
• John Hawkins seized slaves from Portugal


  1562
• Hawkins kidnapped several hundred Africans to be slaves


  1564
• Drake attacked Spanish ships


  1568
• Drake circumnavigated the globe


  1577-1580
• Eastland Company created


  1579
• drake knighted


  1581
• Levant Company created


  1581
• Ralph Fitch to India


  1582
• Queen gives Raleigh permission to explore


  1584
• Raleigh fails to establish a colony in Roanoke


  1585
• First colony in America


  1587
• Armada defeated


  1588
• Raleigh banished for marrying the Queen's lady-in-waiting


  1592
• East India Trade Company created


  1600