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1568
| 1568 • Battle of Jemmingen: The main Spanish army of the Duke of Alva utterly defeats Louis of Nassau's invading army in the Northeastern Netherlands. |
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1592
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| 1592 • Japanese invasions of Korea (1592–1598) open with beginning of the Siege of Busan. |
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Age: 39y
1607
Aug 5
Age: 39y
| 1607 • The ship Gift of God of the Plymouth Company arrives at the mouth of the modern-day Kennebec River in Maine. English colonists establish a Fort St. George, also known as the Popham Colony. The settlement lasts little more than a year, before residents return to England in the first ocean going ship built in the New World, a 30-ton pinnace called The Virginia. |