December 13 1577 – Francis Drake sets out for Plymouth, England on a mission to raid Spanish holdings and to explore the Pacific Ocean 1585 – Scottish poet William Drummond is born 1621 – The first American furs to be exported leave for England aboard Robert Cushman’s Fortune  1642 – Dutch navigator Abel Tasman discovers […]

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