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Date |
Event(s) |
| 1 | 1580 | - 1580—1580: Colonisation of Ireland
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| 2 | 1584 | - 4 Jun 1584—4 Jun 1584: Sir Walter Raleigh establishes first English colony in the New World, on
Roanoke Island, Virginia (now in North Carolina) - the so-called 'Lost Colony'
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| 3 | 1587 | - 1587—1587: Introduction of potatoes to England
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| 4 | 1588 | - 1588—1588: Invention of shorthand by Dr Timothy Bright
- 29 Jul 1588—29 Jul 1588: Defeat of Spanish Armada off Gravelines
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Bef 1575 - Aft 1597 (> 24 years)
