January 2 – The first of the
Jamestown supply missions returns to the Colony of Virginia with
Christopher Newport commanding the John and Francis and the Phoenix bringing about 100 new settlers to supplement the 38 survivors he finds at Jamestown.
January 11 –
John Smith is released by
Powhatan after 15 days of captivity, and arrives back at
Jamestown the next day. [1] Upon his return, instead of being welcomed, he is charged with negligence for the deaths of the two men with him at the time of his capture, Jehu Robinson and Thomas Emery, but later exonerated.
February 26 – After being held captive in
Morocco for more than 13 years, popular professor Malian
Ahmad Baba is able to return to
Timbuktu on 10 Dhu 'l-Qa'da 1016 A.H.
October 1 – The second of the
Jamestown supply missions, which set out in July from
England, arrives at
Jamestown, Virginia, with
Christopher Newport commanding the Mary and Margaret carrying 70 settlers, bringing the population back up to 120; the passengers include two women and some skilled artisans, mostly from continental Europe, to develop industries.[8]
November 30 – At the colony of
Portuguese Macau, a port on the Chinese mainland leased from the Chinese Empire,
a group of 100 Japanese samurai, wielding katana and muskets engage in a fight with musket-armed Portuguese soldiers commanded by Governor André Pessoa. [9] Around 50 Japanese are killed and the others are imprisoned until they sign an affidavit blaming themselves for the incident.
Tokugawa Ieyasu, the principal shogun of
Japan, subsequently ends the "
red seal ships" program of authorizing Japanese nationals to visit Macau. The incident eventually leads to much larger naval battle in 1610, the
Nossa Senhora da Graça incident.
December – Jamestown supply missions:
Christopher Newport returns to England from
Jamestown carrying cargo with "tryals of Pitch, Tarre, Glasse, Frankincense, Sope Ashes ..."
^Alexander Brown, The First Republic in America: An Account of the Origin of this Nation, Written from the Records Then (1624) Concealed by the Council, Rather Than from the Histories Then Licensed by the Crown (Houghton, 1898) p.55
^Günther, Hans-Jürgen, Der Humanist Johannes Pistorius – Gründer des „Gymnasium Illustre“ zu Durlach, Markgrafen-Gymnasium Karlsruhe Durlach, Jahresbericht 1993/94, Durlach 1994.
January 2 – The first of the
Jamestown supply missions returns to the Colony of Virginia with
Christopher Newport commanding the John and Francis and the Phoenix bringing about 100 new settlers to supplement the 38 survivors he finds at Jamestown.
January 11 –
John Smith is released by
Powhatan after 15 days of captivity, and arrives back at
Jamestown the next day. [1] Upon his return, instead of being welcomed, he is charged with negligence for the deaths of the two men with him at the time of his capture, Jehu Robinson and Thomas Emery, but later exonerated.
February 26 – After being held captive in
Morocco for more than 13 years, popular professor Malian
Ahmad Baba is able to return to
Timbuktu on 10 Dhu 'l-Qa'da 1016 A.H.
October 1 – The second of the
Jamestown supply missions, which set out in July from
England, arrives at
Jamestown, Virginia, with
Christopher Newport commanding the Mary and Margaret carrying 70 settlers, bringing the population back up to 120; the passengers include two women and some skilled artisans, mostly from continental Europe, to develop industries.[8]
November 30 – At the colony of
Portuguese Macau, a port on the Chinese mainland leased from the Chinese Empire,
a group of 100 Japanese samurai, wielding katana and muskets engage in a fight with musket-armed Portuguese soldiers commanded by Governor André Pessoa. [9] Around 50 Japanese are killed and the others are imprisoned until they sign an affidavit blaming themselves for the incident.
Tokugawa Ieyasu, the principal shogun of
Japan, subsequently ends the "
red seal ships" program of authorizing Japanese nationals to visit Macau. The incident eventually leads to much larger naval battle in 1610, the
Nossa Senhora da Graça incident.
December – Jamestown supply missions:
Christopher Newport returns to England from
Jamestown carrying cargo with "tryals of Pitch, Tarre, Glasse, Frankincense, Sope Ashes ..."
^Alexander Brown, The First Republic in America: An Account of the Origin of this Nation, Written from the Records Then (1624) Concealed by the Council, Rather Than from the Histories Then Licensed by the Crown (Houghton, 1898) p.55
^Günther, Hans-Jürgen, Der Humanist Johannes Pistorius – Gründer des „Gymnasium Illustre“ zu Durlach, Markgrafen-Gymnasium Karlsruhe Durlach, Jahresbericht 1993/94, Durlach 1994.