* 1579 – Sir Francis Drake claims a land he calls Nova Albion ( modern California ) for England.

The closest she came to marriage was between 1579 and 1581, when she was courted by Francis, Duke of Anjou, the son of Henry II of France and Catherine de ' Medici.

On June 7, 1579, the English explorer Sir Francis Drake saw an excellent harbor, on a land-mass that he called Nova Albion and claimed for England.

In 1579 the British captain and erstwhile privateer Francis Drake sailed up the west coast of North America perhaps as far as Oregon or even British Columbia before returning south to land and make ship repairs.

In 1579 Sir Francis Drake is purported to have sought shelter for his ship, the Golden Hinde, around Cape Arago.

When the Spanish tried to send the library home to Spain in 1579, the ships were captured by Sir Francis Drake.

Church of the Company of Jesus ( Iglesia de la Compañia de Jesús ), located to the southwest of the Zócalo, was built by the Jesuits in 1579 and consecrated to Francis Xavier and the Immaculate Conception.

He travelled in Italy ; in Scotland, where he accompanied Mary, Queen of Scots ( then the widow of Francis II of France ); in England, where he saw Elizabeth I ( 1561, 1579 ); in Morocco ( 1564 ); and in Spain and Portugal.

* 1579: British Navigator Sir Francis Drake ( c. 1540-96 ) on a voyage around the world in the Golden Hind, claims California for Queen Elizabeth I.

While it is thought that Sir Francis Drake may have explored the British Columbian coast in 1579, it was Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra who completed the first documented voyage, which took place in 1775.

New Albion, also known as Nova Albion, was the name of the region of the Pacific coast of North America explored by Sir Francis Drake and claimed by him for England in 1579.

Nearly one hundred pieces of sixteenth-century Chinese porcelains have been found in the vicinity of the Drake's Cove site which “ must fairly be attributed to Francis Drake ’ s Golden Hind visit of 1579 .”

By 1579 the family was living in Totnes, where in the high street Hayman as a small boy met Sir Francis Drake, who presented him with an orange ( Hayman records the incident in one of his poems ).

Documentation of Miwok peoples dates back as early as 1579 by a priest on a ship under the command of Francis Drake.

Documentation of Miwok peoples dates back as early as 1579 by a priest on a ship under the command of Francis Drake.

The bay is named after Sir Francis Drake and has long been considered Drake's most likely landing spot on the west coast of North America during his circumnavigation of the world by sea in 1579.

Along with nearby Drakes Bay, the bay is considered one of the possible landing spots of Francis Drake in 1579 during his circumnavigation of the world by sea.

It is a part of the Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary and is considered to be among the possible landing spots of Sir Francis Drake on the west coast of North America in 1579.

Drakes Estero is considered by many historians to be the most likely landing spot of Francis Drake on the coast of North America in 1579 during his circumnavigation of the world.

Drake's Bay and Drake's Estero are named after English seafarer Sir Francis Drake who possibly hauled his ship, the Golden Hinde, up onto the beach for repairs in June 1579.

Francis Drake is thought to have landed in nearby Drakes Estero in 1579.

Campbell Cove, on the east side of the promontory, is a candidate for Sir Francis Drake's 1579 landing site.

Campbell Cove near the entrance of the harbor from Bodega Bay is sometimes mentioned as a possible landing site of Francis Drake on the coast of North America in 1579.

( Sir Francis Drake was ravaging the coast of Peru in 1579.

On 17 June 1579, Drake landed somewhere north of Spain's northern-most claim at Point Loma.

" In his full analysis, Heizer concludes, " in June 1579, then, Drake probably landed in what is now known as Drake's Bay.

He sailed out of the port of Callao with eleven vessels in 1579 to capture Drake.

Britain's claims to the region were dated back to the voyage of Sir Francis Drake in 1579, and also by right of prior discovery by Captain James Cook in 1778, although the Spanish had explored and claimed the region in 1774, under Juan Pérez, and in 1775, under Bruno de Heceta and Bodega y Quadra.

Inoculation was reportedly not widely practised in China until the reign of the Longqing Emperor ( r. 1567 – 1572 ) during the Ming Dynasty ( 1368 – 1644 ), as written by Yu Tianchi in his Shadou jijie ( 痧痘集解 ) of 1727, which he alleges was based on Wang Zhangren's Douzhen jinjing lu ( 痘疹金鏡錄 ) of 1579.

He was also the first Pope to bestow the Immaculate Conception as Patroness to the Philippine Islands on 9 February 1579.

The original name of the city, Tsaritsyn, was first recorded by English explorer Barry in 1579, though he did not refer to the city, but to the island on the Volga.

Year 1579 ( MDLXXIX ) was a common year starting on Thursday ( link will display the full calendar ) of the Julian calendar.

The Union of Utrecht () was a treaty signed on 23 January 1579 in Utrecht, the Netherlands, unifying the northern provinces of the Netherlands, until then under the control of Habsburg Spain.

Gresham died suddenly, apparently of apoplexy, on 21 November 1579.

To this Baius submitted ; though certain indiscreet utterances on the part of himself and his supporters led to a renewal of the condemnation in 1579 by Pope Gregory XIII.

* From 1579 on, a Swiss Guard served the House of Savoy, rulers of Savoy and later the Kingdom of Sardinia.

Sir Thomas Benger succeeded Cawarden, and Edmund Tylney followed him ( 1579 – 1610 ); it was the appointment of the latter's nephew, Sir George Buck, as deputy-master, with the reversion to the mastership, which led to so much repining on the part of the dramatist, John Lyly, who was himself a candidate.

* At least 27 Maya codices were ceremonially destroyed by Diego de Landa ( 1524 – 1579 ), bishop of Yucatán, on 12 July 1562.

In 1579 the house was inherited by Sir Edward Fitton III on the death of his father, Sir Edward Fitton II.

It is generally believed that he was at least partly motivated by Stephen Gosson, a former playwright who dedicated his attack on the English stage, The School of Abuse, to Sidney in 1579, but Sidney primarily addresses more general objections to poetry, such as those of Plato.

Whittingham's death came on 10 June 1579.

In the 1570s, Oda Nobunaga subjugated Omi and built Azuchi Castle on the eastern shores of Lake Biwa in 1579.

During the period from 1576 to 1579, Nobunaga constructed on the shore of Lake Biwa at Azuchi ( in present-day Shiga Prefecture ) Azuchi Castle, a magnificent seven-story castle that was intended to serve not simply as an impregnable military fortification but also as a sumptuous residence that would stand as a symbol of unification.

The astronomer Tycho Brahe applied the method in Scandinavia, completing a detailed triangulation in 1579 of the island of Hven, where his observatory was based, with reference to key landmarks on both sides of the Øresund, producing an estate plan of the island in 1584.

He was the eldest son of John Dee, by his second wife, Jane, daughter of Bartholomew Fromond of East Cheam, Surrey, and was born at Mortlake on 13 July 1579.

William Fulke referred to Tom in 1579 in Heskins Parleament Repealed and Thomas Nashe referred to him in 1592 in his prose satire on the vices of the age, Pierce Penniless, His Supplication to the Divell.

He died in 1581 on a raid, was O ' Neill tanist in 1579.

One of his earliest works was The Mirror of Mutability, 1579, when he was in his 26th year: he dedicated it to his long-time patron Earl of Oxford, and perhaps then belonged to the company of players of that nobleman, to which he had again attached himself on his return from Italy.

The Post Office Directory of trades in London of 1895 lists its office at 32 Victoria Street SW ( London ) on page 1579.

" He dedicated, however, a second tract, The Ephemerides of Phialo ... and A Short Apologie of the Schoole of Abuse, to Sidney on 28 October 1579.

On the death of his elder brother Jean ( April 5, 1579 ), who was maître des requêtes to the parlement, his relations prevailed on him to leave the Church, and he entered the parlement and got married ( 1588 ).

A major design change was made in 1579 requiring the widening of the bridge to allow houses to be built ( though they never were ) made the piers on the long arm longer.