1535
1535 • Battle of Bornholm: Combined Swedish and Danish fleets defeat the Hanseatic navy. |
1585
Age: 50y
1585 • Queen Elizabeth I of England agrees to establish a protectorate over the Netherlands. |
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Age: 72y
1607
Age: 72y
1607 • Jamestown: The president directs the fort to be strengthened and armed against the many attacks of the natives: "Hereupon the President was contented the Fort should be pallisadoed, the ordinance mounted, his men armed and exercised, for many were the assaults and Ambuscadoes of the Savages ..." [John Smith, Proceedings (Barbour 1964)] |
1607
Feb 26
1607 • English colonists make landfall at Cape Henry, Virginia, later moving up the James River. |