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Period: Oct 1, 1545 to
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Aug 18, 1548
Roanoke Island
In 1584 an English fort and settlement with more than 100 men was established on the north end of the island, but it was abandoned the following year due to weather, lack of supplies and poor relations with the Native Americans. -
Spanish Armada
The Armada set sail from Lisbon and headed for the English Channel. The fleet was composed of 130 ships, 8,000 sailors and 18,000 soldiers, and bore 1,500 brass guns and 1,000 iron guns. The full body of the fleet took two days to leave port. It included twenty eight purpose-built warships, of which twenty were galleons, four galleys and four (Neapolitan) galleasses. The remainder of the heavy vessels were mostly armed carracks and hulks together with thirty-four light ships. -
Dutch East India Company
Originally established as a chartered company in 1602, when the Dutch government granted it a 21-year monopoly on Dutch spice trade. -
Jamestown
104 men and boys sailed to this area to find gold and become rich. They the sailed three boats the Discovery, Godspeed, and the Susan Constant. -
New Amersterdam (New York founded by the Dutch
New Amersterdam (New York) was a 17th-century Dutch settlement established at the southern tip of Manhattan Island, which served as the seat of the colonial government in New Netherland territory. -
House of Bergesses
Was the first legislative assembly of elected representatives in North America. The House was established by the Virginia Company, who created the body as part of an effort to encourage English craftsmen to settle in North America and to make conditions in the colony more agreeable for its current inhabitants -
Africans brought over by the Dutch
It is late summer. Out of a violent storm appears a Dutch ship. The ship's cargo hold is empty except for twenty or so Africans whom the captain and his crew have recently robbed from a Spanish ship. The captain exchanges the Africans for food, then sets sail. -
Sending Women to Virginia
Early Virginia lacked a stable family life. The Virginia Company avidly promoted of the immigration of women, sending "Tobacco Brides" to the colony in 1620 and 1621 for arranged marriages (so-called because the husband was ordered to give payment in tobacco to his wife).
