1535
| 1535 • Paracelsus visits Bad Pfäfers. |
1585
Age: 50y
| 1585 • Chocolate is introduced to Europe commercially. |
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1607
Age: 72y
| 1607 • San Agustin Church, Manila, is officially completed; it is currently the oldest church in the Philippines |
1607
Feb 26
| 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. |