
1535
1535 • The first complete English language Bible is printed in Antwerp, with translations by William Tyndale and Miles Coverdale. |
1585
Age: 50y
1585 • The Netherlands adopts the Gregorian calendar. |
about
Age: 72y
1607
Age: 72y
1607 • The Bank of Genoa fails after the announcement of national bankruptcy in Spain. |
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. |