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In 1580 Francis Drake becomes the first Englishman to ... which he names Virginia after Elizabeth I, ‘the Virgin Queen’. Elizabeth's Catholic cousin Mary, Queen of Scots is under house arrest ...

Elizabeth’s first priority on becoming Queen was to return England to the ... expand its trade overseas and in 1580 Sir Francis Drake became the first Englishman to successfully circumnavigate ...