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1577
Sir Francis Drake sails to the West Indies
Drake was an Elizabethan sailor and navigator, and the first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe.
1579 October 16
Drake sights land in the Philippines. 1579 November 3
Lands at Ternate in the East Indies. Makes a treaty with the Sultan and buys a cargo of cloves. https://memory.loc.gov/intldl/drakehtml/rbdktime.html