Monday, May 9, 2016

1600-1609 Timeline


Note: I will keep adding to this, so please make sure to check back here periodically.

1603

March 24, 1603 is when Queen Elizabeth I died. She died when she was 69 years old.

August 1594 to March 31, 1603 was the Nine Years' War (Gaelic Irish Chieftqins vs. England). It's also known as Tyrone's Rebellion.

April 28, 1603 is when Queen Elizabeth I  was buried at Westminster Abbey.

1603 Sir Walter Raleigh or Ralegh was imprisoned in the Tower of London because he was involved in a plot against King James I.

1606

1606 Sir Walter Raleigh received the high honor of being one of eight who received Letters Patents by King James I. This particular patent was to establish two colonies: the Plymouth Colony and the London Colony.

December 1606 Captain Christopher Newport of the London colony (aka the London Company) set sail.

1607

May 13, 1607 Captain Christopher Newporthe reached the Chesapeake Bay. Jamestown was founded.

May 31, 1607 Sir Walter Raleigh and George Popham of the Plymouth colony  (aka the Plymouth Company) left from Plymouth, England.

August 01, 1607 Sir Walter Raleigh and George Popham arrived in what we now call Maine. Many colonists died that winter there. MORE INFORMATION NEEDED HERE.

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