==Events and trends== The 'Golden Age' of Literature in England began. The eighth and last French War of Religion started, and that war would end ten years later by the Peace of Vervins and the Edict of Nantes. Sir Humphrey Gilbert claimed Newfoundland as England's first overseas colony in 1583. Francis Drake had come back from going around the world, bringing back with him many treasures. Jesuits arrived in China. Queen Elizabeth I of England complained that there were too many "blackamoo… (More on 1580s)