January 12 – The
Basque witch trials are started in
Spain as the court of the
Inquisition at
Logroño receives a letter from the commissioner of the village of
Zugarramurdi, and orders the arrest of four women, including María de Jureteguía and María Chipía de Barrenetxea.[1]
March 11 – The Swedish Army, under the command of General
Jacob De la Gardie, begins marching east from
Vyborg (at this time, part of the Swedish Empire, modern-day Russia) in order to defend the Russian Empire against the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the course of the
Polish–Muscovite War.
March 19 – The
Dutch warship Mauritius sinks off the coast of the Cape of Cape Lopes Gonçalves on the modern-day West African nation of
Gabon. The wreckage of the Mauritius will not be located until 375 years later, in
1985.
March 24 – Led by the Grand Hetman of Lithuania,
Jan Karol Chodkiewicz, the Lithuanian Navy breaks the blockade of
Riga by sinking two Swedish Navy warships off the coast of
Salacgrīva.
May 23 – The
Second Virginia Charter is officially ratified; it is intended to replace the council with a governor, who has absolute control in the colony.
June 2 – With the Sea Venture as its flagship, a fleet of nine English ships and more than 500 passengers altogether, departs from England to bring supplies to the English settlement in
Jamestown, Virginia. The fleet runs into a storm in July and the Sea Venture is wrecked in the Bermuda islands on July 24.
June 29 – A fleet of ships from the
Kingdom of Spain, assisted by a French warship, fights a battle in the Mediterranean Sea against a larger fleet of 23 ships from the North African
Eyalet of Tunisia and sinks 21 of them. The other two Tunisian ships are captured.
July 23 – A three-day hurricane begins in the Caribbean Sea and separates the nine
London Company's ships and their 600 passengers who are en route to relieve the
Jamestown settlement. One ship sinks, and the flagship is wrecked. Less than 300 settlers make it to Virginia.
The Sea Venture, flagship of the nine-ship fleet of the
London Company is deliberately wrecked at
Bermuda during a storm, as Admiral
George Somers drives the ship into the reefs of Discovery Bay in order to prevent the ship from sinking. A group of 153 survivors stay, making the first English settlement of the island.[5]
After a fight on November 30 in
Portuguese Macau between Japanese traders and Portuguese soldiers, Japan's ruling shogun,
Tokugawa Ieyasu, strictly prohibits further trade between Japan and Portugal.[6]
August 10 – The Spanish galleon San Francisco sinks in a storm off the coast of
Japan, with the loss of 56 men. Clinging to floating wreckage, the survivors are able to reach Yubanda, near
Onjuku in modern-day
Chiba Prefecture.
August 11 – Four ships arrive at the colony of
Jamestown, Virginia, with almost 300 men, women and children, to bring supplies for the starving English colonists. They are followed days later by the other three ships remaining from the
London Company. Most of the supplies, however, are spoiled by rain and seawater, and many of the passengers are ill with the bubonic plague.[7]
August 15 (August 5 O.S.) – English astronomer
Thomas Harriot becomes the first person to make a detailed drawing of the
Moon, based on his observations through a telescope.
09 Octubre Muerte de San Juan Leonardi, Fundador de la Orden de la Madre de Dios y Patrono de los farmacéuticos. Siguiendo las enseñanzas del Concilio de Trento, es elegido como reformador de la Vida Consagrada de diferentes Ordenes Religiosas Masculinas.
December 8 – One of the first
public libraries, the Biblioteca Ambrosiana, is opened in the Italian city of
Milan, founded by Cardinal Federico Borromeo. Unlike other reading rooms, the library houses its collection on shelves along the walls, rather than chained to reading tables.
The Dutch East India Company establishes a
trading post in
Hirado, Japan.
Dutch entrepreneur
Isaac Le Maire devizes the concept of selling
short shares in order to benefit from a falling Dutch East India Company share price.[14]
^"A Historical, Topographical & Agricultrual Survey of the County of Washington, by Dr. Asa Fitch, in Transactions of the New York State Agricultural Society: Report of the Executive Committee for 1848 (New York State Agricultural Society, 1849) p. 882 ("Attended by some of the Mountain Indians, he left Quebec, May 28th, 1609... On the 4th day of July they entered Lake Champlain.")
^James Horn, A Land as God Made It: Jamestown and the Birth of America (Basic Books, 2006) pp. 158–160
^C. R. Boxer, The Christian Century in Japan 1549–1650 (University of California Press, 1951) p. 272
^Lyon Gardiner Tyler, England in America, 1580-1652 (Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1907) p. 63
January 12 – The
Basque witch trials are started in
Spain as the court of the
Inquisition at
Logroño receives a letter from the commissioner of the village of
Zugarramurdi, and orders the arrest of four women, including María de Jureteguía and María Chipía de Barrenetxea.[1]
March 11 – The Swedish Army, under the command of General
Jacob De la Gardie, begins marching east from
Vyborg (at this time, part of the Swedish Empire, modern-day Russia) in order to defend the Russian Empire against the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the course of the
Polish–Muscovite War.
March 19 – The
Dutch warship Mauritius sinks off the coast of the Cape of Cape Lopes Gonçalves on the modern-day West African nation of
Gabon. The wreckage of the Mauritius will not be located until 375 years later, in
1985.
March 24 – Led by the Grand Hetman of Lithuania,
Jan Karol Chodkiewicz, the Lithuanian Navy breaks the blockade of
Riga by sinking two Swedish Navy warships off the coast of
Salacgrīva.
May 23 – The
Second Virginia Charter is officially ratified; it is intended to replace the council with a governor, who has absolute control in the colony.
June 2 – With the Sea Venture as its flagship, a fleet of nine English ships and more than 500 passengers altogether, departs from England to bring supplies to the English settlement in
Jamestown, Virginia. The fleet runs into a storm in July and the Sea Venture is wrecked in the Bermuda islands on July 24.
June 29 – A fleet of ships from the
Kingdom of Spain, assisted by a French warship, fights a battle in the Mediterranean Sea against a larger fleet of 23 ships from the North African
Eyalet of Tunisia and sinks 21 of them. The other two Tunisian ships are captured.
July 23 – A three-day hurricane begins in the Caribbean Sea and separates the nine
London Company's ships and their 600 passengers who are en route to relieve the
Jamestown settlement. One ship sinks, and the flagship is wrecked. Less than 300 settlers make it to Virginia.
The Sea Venture, flagship of the nine-ship fleet of the
London Company is deliberately wrecked at
Bermuda during a storm, as Admiral
George Somers drives the ship into the reefs of Discovery Bay in order to prevent the ship from sinking. A group of 153 survivors stay, making the first English settlement of the island.[5]
After a fight on November 30 in
Portuguese Macau between Japanese traders and Portuguese soldiers, Japan's ruling shogun,
Tokugawa Ieyasu, strictly prohibits further trade between Japan and Portugal.[6]
August 10 – The Spanish galleon San Francisco sinks in a storm off the coast of
Japan, with the loss of 56 men. Clinging to floating wreckage, the survivors are able to reach Yubanda, near
Onjuku in modern-day
Chiba Prefecture.
August 11 – Four ships arrive at the colony of
Jamestown, Virginia, with almost 300 men, women and children, to bring supplies for the starving English colonists. They are followed days later by the other three ships remaining from the
London Company. Most of the supplies, however, are spoiled by rain and seawater, and many of the passengers are ill with the bubonic plague.[7]
August 15 (August 5 O.S.) – English astronomer
Thomas Harriot becomes the first person to make a detailed drawing of the
Moon, based on his observations through a telescope.
09 Octubre Muerte de San Juan Leonardi, Fundador de la Orden de la Madre de Dios y Patrono de los farmacéuticos. Siguiendo las enseñanzas del Concilio de Trento, es elegido como reformador de la Vida Consagrada de diferentes Ordenes Religiosas Masculinas.
December 8 – One of the first
public libraries, the Biblioteca Ambrosiana, is opened in the Italian city of
Milan, founded by Cardinal Federico Borromeo. Unlike other reading rooms, the library houses its collection on shelves along the walls, rather than chained to reading tables.
The Dutch East India Company establishes a
trading post in
Hirado, Japan.
Dutch entrepreneur
Isaac Le Maire devizes the concept of selling
short shares in order to benefit from a falling Dutch East India Company share price.[14]
^"A Historical, Topographical & Agricultrual Survey of the County of Washington, by Dr. Asa Fitch, in Transactions of the New York State Agricultural Society: Report of the Executive Committee for 1848 (New York State Agricultural Society, 1849) p. 882 ("Attended by some of the Mountain Indians, he left Quebec, May 28th, 1609... On the 4th day of July they entered Lake Champlain.")
^James Horn, A Land as God Made It: Jamestown and the Birth of America (Basic Books, 2006) pp. 158–160
^C. R. Boxer, The Christian Century in Japan 1549–1650 (University of California Press, 1951) p. 272
^Lyon Gardiner Tyler, England in America, 1580-1652 (Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1907) p. 63