January 11 – Workers in a sandpit in the
Dauphiné region of
France discover the skeleton of what is alleged to be a 30-foot tall man (the remains, it is supposed, of the giant
Teutobochus, a legendary Gallic king who fought the Romans).[1]
February 24 – King Anaukpetlun of Burma blockades the
Portuguese port at Syriam with 80 warships and 3,000 men, then sets about to tunnel into the city.
Burmese soldiers, tunneling under the walls of the Portuguese colonial fortress at
Syriam (now Thanlyin), bring down a section of the walls and sack the city. Portuguese Governor
Filipe de Brito e Nicote and rebel Burmese General
Natshinnaung are captured, and executed by impalement on April 9.
June 28 (July 8 N.S.) – From
Jamestown,
John Rolfe makes the first shipment to England of
tobacco grown in Virginia, dispatching it on the ship The Elizabeth. [5] The tobacco arrives in England after a voyage of three weeks.
July 20 (July 30 N.S.) – The first American-grown tobacco, produced in the British colony of Virginia, arrives in England after being dispatched 22 days earlier by John Rolfe. [5]
July 26 –
Diego Marín de Negron, the Spanish Governor of Rio de la Plata y Paraguay, is assassinated by poisoning at his palace in
Buenos Aires.C. Antonio Zinny, History of the governors of the Argentine provinces from 1810 to the present (Editoriales Huemul, 1941) p.105
July 28 – Gregor Richter, the chief pastor of
Görlitz, denounces
Jacob Boehme as a heretic, in his Sunday sermon.
October 21 –
Gabriel Bathory, ruler of the
Principality of Transylvania, is removed from office by vote of the nobles meeting at
Gyulafehérvár (now Alba Iulia in Romania).[7]: 279 Bathory refuses to vacate the palace at the Transylvanian capital at
Várad, (now Oradea in Romania), and is murdered on October 27.[7]
The Date Maru, carrying the Japanese diplomatic mission commanded
Hasekura Tsunenaga, reaches North America, sighting
Cape Mendocino on the California coast.[9]
December 26 – The Burmese Army defeats the Siamese Army at
Tavoy. The city is now part of Myanmar as Dawei.
December 27 –
Mateo Leal de Ayala becomes the new Governor of Rio de la Plata y Paraguay, covering what will become the nations of Argentina, Chile and Paraguay. He succeeds
Diego Marín de Negron, who was poisoned on July 26.
^
abAlexander Brown, The Genesis of the United States: A Narrative of the Movement in England, 1605-1616, which Resulted in the Plantation of North America by Englishmen (Houghton Mifflin, 1897) p. 639
^
abNagy, László (1988). Tündérkert fejedelme: Báthory Gábor [Prince of the Pixies' Garden: Gabriel Gáthory]. Zrínyi Kiadó. pp. 279–282.
ISBN963-326-947-4.
^"The Emergence of the Principality and its First Crises (1526–1606)", by Gábor Barta, in History of Transylvania (Akadémiai Kiadó, 1994) p.313
^"A Quarter Century of Trans-Pacific Diplomacy: New Spain and Japan, 1592–1617", by W. Michael Mathes, Journal of Asian History (1990) pp.1–29
January 11 – Workers in a sandpit in the
Dauphiné region of
France discover the skeleton of what is alleged to be a 30-foot tall man (the remains, it is supposed, of the giant
Teutobochus, a legendary Gallic king who fought the Romans).[1]
February 24 – King Anaukpetlun of Burma blockades the
Portuguese port at Syriam with 80 warships and 3,000 men, then sets about to tunnel into the city.
Burmese soldiers, tunneling under the walls of the Portuguese colonial fortress at
Syriam (now Thanlyin), bring down a section of the walls and sack the city. Portuguese Governor
Filipe de Brito e Nicote and rebel Burmese General
Natshinnaung are captured, and executed by impalement on April 9.
June 28 (July 8 N.S.) – From
Jamestown,
John Rolfe makes the first shipment to England of
tobacco grown in Virginia, dispatching it on the ship The Elizabeth. [5] The tobacco arrives in England after a voyage of three weeks.
July 20 (July 30 N.S.) – The first American-grown tobacco, produced in the British colony of Virginia, arrives in England after being dispatched 22 days earlier by John Rolfe. [5]
July 26 –
Diego Marín de Negron, the Spanish Governor of Rio de la Plata y Paraguay, is assassinated by poisoning at his palace in
Buenos Aires.C. Antonio Zinny, History of the governors of the Argentine provinces from 1810 to the present (Editoriales Huemul, 1941) p.105
July 28 – Gregor Richter, the chief pastor of
Görlitz, denounces
Jacob Boehme as a heretic, in his Sunday sermon.
October 21 –
Gabriel Bathory, ruler of the
Principality of Transylvania, is removed from office by vote of the nobles meeting at
Gyulafehérvár (now Alba Iulia in Romania).[7]: 279 Bathory refuses to vacate the palace at the Transylvanian capital at
Várad, (now Oradea in Romania), and is murdered on October 27.[7]
The Date Maru, carrying the Japanese diplomatic mission commanded
Hasekura Tsunenaga, reaches North America, sighting
Cape Mendocino on the California coast.[9]
December 26 – The Burmese Army defeats the Siamese Army at
Tavoy. The city is now part of Myanmar as Dawei.
December 27 –
Mateo Leal de Ayala becomes the new Governor of Rio de la Plata y Paraguay, covering what will become the nations of Argentina, Chile and Paraguay. He succeeds
Diego Marín de Negron, who was poisoned on July 26.
^
abAlexander Brown, The Genesis of the United States: A Narrative of the Movement in England, 1605-1616, which Resulted in the Plantation of North America by Englishmen (Houghton Mifflin, 1897) p. 639
^
abNagy, László (1988). Tündérkert fejedelme: Báthory Gábor [Prince of the Pixies' Garden: Gabriel Gáthory]. Zrínyi Kiadó. pp. 279–282.
ISBN963-326-947-4.
^"The Emergence of the Principality and its First Crises (1526–1606)", by Gábor Barta, in History of Transylvania (Akadémiai Kiadó, 1994) p.313
^"A Quarter Century of Trans-Pacific Diplomacy: New Spain and Japan, 1592–1617", by W. Michael Mathes, Journal of Asian History (1990) pp.1–29