Timeline
Developments that created the City of Raleigh
or
better known as the Lost
Colony
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Oct 1492 |
Christopher Columbus |
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/columbus1.html
http://www.sispain.org/english/history/discover.html
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Discovery of the Americas - The Spanish were especially well prepared by history to
conquer, occupy, populate and exploit new lands and assimilate new
people. America thus became the new frontier-land for those people used
to its ways and with the military, diplomats and administrative arms at
their disposal to face the challenge. By the middle of the 16th century,
they had settled in the two most important viceroyalties, Mexico on the
Atlantic, and Peru on the Pacific. |
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1493 |
Pope
Alexander (1431 - 1503) |
http://www.nndb.com/people/159/000092880/ |
| Alexander
VI, given name Rodrigo Borgia, Roman Catholic Pope from 1492 until his
death, is the most memorable of the corrupt and secular popes of the
Renaissance. Pope
Alexander divides the world between Portugal and Spain, excluding all
others |
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1399 - 1413 |
Henry IV King of England |
http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A0823368.html |
| eldest son of John of Gaunt and grandson of Edward III; called Henry of
Bolingbroke. He founded the Lancastrian dynasty. |
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1455 - 1485
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Wars of the Roses |
http://www.warsoftheroses.com/ |
| WARS OF THE ROSES,1 a name given to a
series of civil wars in England during the reigns of Henry
VI, Edward
IV and Richard
III. They were marked by a ferocity and brutality which are
practically unknown in the history of English wars before and since.
Major causes of the conflict include: 1) both houses were direct
descendents of king Edward III; 2) the ruling Lancastrian king, Henry
VI, surrounded himself with unpopular nobles; 3) the civil unrest of
much of the population; 4) the availability of many powerful lords with
their own private armies; and 5) the untimely episodes of mental illness
by king Henry VI. |
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| 1485 - 1509 |
King Henry VII |
http://www.royal.gov.uk/output/Page15.asp |
| Henry VII was the founder of the
Tudor dynasty, unifying the warring factions in the Wars of the Roses. Although
supported by Lancastrians and Yorkists alienated by Richard III's
usurpation, Henry VII's first task was to secure his position. In 1486
he married Elizabeth of York, eldest daughter of Edward IV, thus uniting
the Houses of York and Lancaster. Henry used dynastic royal marriages to
establish his dynasty in England and help maintain peace. One daughter,
Margaret, was married to James IV of Scotland (from whom Mary, Queen of
Scots and her son, James VI of Scotland and James I of England, were
descended); the other daughter married Louis XII of France. |
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June 24, 1497 |
John Cabot (about 1450-1499) |
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1497cabot-3docs.html |
was an Italian-born English explorer and navigator. In Italy, he is known as Giovanni Caboto (which is his original name).
Cabot was born in Italy but moved to England in 1495. At the request of King Henry VII of England, Cabot sailed to Canada in 1497, commanding the small ship called "Matthew." Cabot landed near Labrador, Newfoundland, or Cape Breton Island (the exact spot is uncertain) on June 24, 1497. One of John Cabot's three sons, the explorer Sebastian Cabot, accompanied him on this trip. Cabot claimed the land for England.
Cabot explored the Canadian coastline and named many of its islands and capes. The mission's purpose was to search for a Northwest passage across North America to Asia (a seaway to Asia). Cabot was unsuccessful, although he thought that he had reached northeastern Asia.
Cabot undertook a second, larger expedition in 1498. On this trip, Cabot may have reached America, but that is uncertain. Cabot's expeditions were the first of Britain's claims to Canada.
John Cabot died in England in 1499. |
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1492-1898 |
Spanish Exploration of the
Americas |
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_colonization_of_the_
Americas
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| Spain's conquest, settlement, and rule over much of the western hemisphere from 1492-1898. Beginning with the arrival of Christopher Columbus in 1492, the Spanish Empire gradually expanded from early small settlements in the Caribbean to over three centuries to include Central America, most of South America, Mexico, what today is Southwestern United States, the Pacific and Caribbean coasts of North America, reaching Alaska[1]. At the beginning of the 19th century, the Spanish possessions in America began a series of independence movements, which culminated in Spain's loss of all of its colonies on the mainland of North, Central and South America by 1825. The remaining Spanish colonies of Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Philippines were occupied by the United States following the Spanish-American War (1898), ending Spanish rule in the Americas |
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1498 |
Shipwrecked off of Cape
Hatteras, North Carolina |
Adam S. Eterovich, Croatia
and the Croatians on the East Coast of
Canada and America, 1492-1700
(Calgary, Canada: Croatian Canadian National Federation, 1993).
http://www.marylandciviceducation.org/croatia/
walterraleigh.htm |
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Possibly seamen from Ragusa were among those on Columbus voyage along with Croatian sailors who shipwrecked off of Cape
Hatteras. This legend is unsubstantiated, but not disproven. Additional
information. Venetian-Slavonians who shipwrecked in 1498 off of Cape Hatteras were Croatians as carved on a tree as reported by the English in the 1580s? Were the carvers of Croatoan—Croatians of 1498?
Were these Dalmatian mariners who shipwrecked and later mixed with the Indians, the fathers of the Indians with light hair and eyes later reported by the English?
A number of maps made in 1597 and 1599 list Croatia—Croatian place names with variations of
Croatoan. Croato is the Italian form of Croatia so a person from Croatia would be
Croatoan. Cape Hatteras is spelled in a variety of forms such as
Hatarask, Hotoras, Hatorask. Hrvastko means Croatia |
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1509 - 1547 |
Henry VIII of England |
http://www.royal.gov.uk/output/Page19.asp |
| the second son of Henry VII and
Elizabeth of York. He became heir to the throne on the death of his
elder brother, Prince Arthur, in 1502 and succeeded in 1509. The second
half of Henry's reign was dominated by two issues very important for the
later history of England and the monarchy: the succession and the
Protestant Reformation, which led to the formation of the Church of
England. Henry had married his brother's widow, Catherine of Aragon, in
1509. Catherine had produced only one surviving child - a girl, Princess
Mary, born in 1516. By the end of the 1520s, Henry's wife was in her
forties and he was desperate for a son. The Tudor dynasty had been
established by conquest in 1485 and Henry was only its second monarch.
England had not so far had a ruling queen, and the dynasty was not
secure enough to run the risk of handing the Crown on to a woman,
risking disputed succession or domination of a foreign power through
marriage. |
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September 8, 1519 |
Ferdinand Magellan (1480-1521) |
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/explorers/america.shtml |
| was a Portuguese explorer who led the first expedition that sailed around the Earth (1519-1522). Magellan also named the Pacific Ocean (the name means that it is a calm, peaceful ocean). Magellan and his friend the astronomer Ruy de Falero proposed to King Charles V (of Spain) that a westward voyage around the tip of South America would take them to the Moluccas (spice-rich islands) and avoid the Portuguese (with whom they were competing fiercely). The voyage began September 8, 1519, and lasted until September 6, 1522 (almost 3 years). Magellan sailed from Seville, Spain, with five ships, the Trinidad, San Antonio,
Concepcion, Victoria, and Santiago. Three years later, only one ship (the Victoria) made it back to Seville, carrying only 18 of the original 270 crew members. Magellan was killed towards the end of the voyage, on the Island of Mactan in the Philippines, during a battle with the natives. The Basque navigator Juan Sebastián de Elcano (del Cano) completed the trip. |
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1519 - 1521 |
Hernán Cortés
(also spelled Cortez), Marqués Del Valle De Oaxaca (1485-1547)
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http://www.answers.com/topic/hern-n-cort-s |
| was a Spanish adventurer and conquistador (he was also a failed law student) who overthrew the Aztec empire and claimed Mexico for Spain (1519-21). Cortes sailed with 11 ships from Cuba to the Yucatan Peninsula to look for gold, silver, and other treasures. Hearing rumors of great riches, Cortés traveled inland and "discovered"
Tenochtitlan, the capital of the Aztec empire. He then brutally killed the Aztec emperor Montezuma and conquered his Aztec Empire of Mexico, claiming all of Mexico for Spain in 1521. Treasures from the Aztecs were brought to Spain, and Cortés was a hero in his homeland. Cortés was appointed governor of the colony of New Spain, but eventually fell out of favor with the royals. He then returned to Spain where he died a few years later. |
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1524 - 1542 |
Hernando De Soto (1500?-1542) |
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/explorers/america.shtml |
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was a Spanish explorer who sailed the Atlantic Ocean and was the first European to explore Florida and the southeastern US.
De Soto arrived on the west coast of Florida on May 30, 1539 with 10 ships carrying over 600 soldiers, priests, and explorers. They spent four years searching for gold and silver, exploring the area, and brutally contacting native societies, including the Cherokees, Seminoles, Creeks, Appalachians, and Choctaws. De Soto died during the explorations and was buried on the banks of the Mississippi River in late June, 1542. |
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| 1526 |
Lucas Vasquez de Ayllon |
http://www.jgoins.com/webtimeline.htm |
| with six vessals carrying five
hundred men and women, and eighty to ninety fine horses arrived at
present-day North Carolina and Virginia in vicinity of Albemarle
Sound and Chesapeake Bay. "Of the five hundred colonists who
went on the 1526 expedition, only one hundred fifty returned safely to
the Indies. The number who remained in the interior of present-day
North Carolina and Virginia is not known, however, that they survived
and reproduced is a certainty. Reference to non-Indian peoples
residing in the vicinity of the Albemarle /Pamlico/Chesapeake Bay area
was made by other Europeans of a later date, i.e. The English of
Raleigh's venture and Captain John Smith of the Jamestown Colony."
Eloy J. Gallegos "The Melungeons." |
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1528 |
Panfilo de Narvaez (1470?-1528) |
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%A1nfilo_de_
Narv%C3%A1ez
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| was a Spanish explorer and soldier. He helped conquer Cuba in 1511 and led a Spanish royal expedition to North America (leaving Spain in 1527). He was born in Valladolid, Spain and died on his expedition to Florida. De Narvaez was granted the land of Florida by the Emperor Charles V in 1526. He led an expedition there with 300 men, including Cabeza de
Vaca. After surviving a hurricane near Cuba, his expedition landed on the west coast of Florida (near Tampa Bay) in April, 1528, claiming the land for Spain. |
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1534 and 1535 and 1541 |
Jacques Cartier (1491-1557) |
http://www.stemnet.nf.ca/CITE/excartier.htm |
| was a French explorer who led three expeditions to Canada, in 1534, 1535, and 1541. He was looking for a route to the Pacific through North America (a Northwest Passage) but did not find one. Cartier paved the way for French exploration of North America. Cartier sailed inland, going 1,000 miles up the St. Lawrence River. He also tried to start a settlement in Quebec (in 1541), but it was abandoned after a terribly cold winter. Cartier named Canada;
"Kanata" means village or settlement in the Huron-Iroquois language. Cartier was given directions by Huron-Iroquois Indians for the route to
"kanata," a village near what is now Quebec, but Cartier later named the entire region Canada. |
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| 1539 |
Baltasar de Gallegos |
http://www.floridahistory.com/elvas1.html |
| When Baltasar de Gallegos came into
the open field, he discovered ten or eleven Indians, among whom was a
Christian, naked and sun-burnt, his arms tattooed after their manner,
and he in no respect differing from them. As soon as the horsemen came
in sight, they ran upon the Indians, who fled, hiding themselves in a
thicket, though not before two or three of them were overtaken and
wounded. The Christian, seeing a horseman coming upon him with a lance,
began to cry out: " Do not kill me, cavalier; I am a Christian! Do
not slay these people; they have given me my life! " Directly he
called to the Indians, putting them out of fear, when they left the wood
and came to him. The horsemen took up the Christian and Indians behind
them on their beasts, and, greatly rejoicing, got back to the Governor
at nightfall. When he and the rest who had remained in camp heard the
news, they were no less pleased than the others |
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1547 - 1543 |
Edward VI
King of England |
http://www.royal.gov.uk/output/Page43.asp |
Edward VI became king at the age of nine upon the death of his father, Henry VIII, and a Regency was created. Although he was intellectually precocious (fluent in Greek and Latin, he kept a full journal of his reign), he was not, however, physically robust. His short reign was dominated by nobles using the Regency to strengthen their own positions. The King's Council, previously dominated by Henry, succumbed to existing factionalism. On Henry's death, Edward Seymour, Earl of Hertford and soon to be Duke of Somerset, the new King's eldest uncle, became Protector. Seymour was an able soldier; he led a punitive expedition against the Scots, for their failure to fulfil their promise to betroth Mary, Queen of Scots to Edward, which led to Seymour's victory at the Battle of Pinkie Cleugh in 1547 - although he failed to follow this up with satisfactory peace terms. During Edward's reign, the Church of England became more explicitly Protestant - Edward himself was fiercely so. The Book of Common Prayer was introduced in 1549, aspects of Roman Catholic practices (including statues and stained glass) were eradicated and the marriage of clergy allowed. The imposition of the Prayer Book (which replaced Latin services with English) led to rebellions in Cornwall and Devon.
Northumberland took greater trouble to charm and influence Edward; his
powerful position as Lord President of the Council was based on his
personal ascendancy over the King. However, the young king was ailing.
Northumberland hurriedly married his son Lord Guilford Dudley to Lady
Jane Grey, one of Henry VIII's great-nieces and a claimant to the
throne.
Edward accepted Jane as his heir and, on his death from tuberculosis in
1553, Jane assumed the throne. |
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10/19
July 1553 |
Lady Jane Gray
Queen of England |
http://www.royal.gov.uk/output/Page44.asp |
| The accession of Lady Jane Grey as
Queen was engineered by the powerful Duke of Northumberland, President
of the King's Council, in the interests of promoting his own dynastic
line. Northumberland persuaded the sickly Edward VI to name Lady Jane
Grey as his heir. As one of Henry VIII's great-nieces, the young girl
was a genuine claimant to the throne. Northumberland then married his
own son, Lord Guilford Dudley, to Lady Jane. On the death of Edward,
Jane assumed the throne and her claim was recognized by the Council.
Despite this, the country rallied to Mary, Catherine of Aragon's
daughter and a devout Roman Catholic. Jane reigned for only nine days
and was later executed with her husband in 1554 |
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Mary I Queen of England and Ireland,
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Also known as Bloody Mary
due to having almost three hundred religious dissenters burned on the
stake in the Marian
Persecutions, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Mary_I_of_England
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| daughter of Henry VIII and his
1st wife Mary Princess of Spain. At age 37, Mary turned her attention to finding a husband and producing an heir, thus preventing the Protestant Elizabeth (still her successor under the terms of Henry VIII's will) from succeeding to the throne. Mary rejected Edward Courtenay, 1st Earl of Devon, as a prospect when her cousin Charles V suggested she marry his only son, the Spanish prince Philip, later Philip II of Spain.
http://www.royal.gov.uk/output/Page45.asp
Mary's decision to marry Philip, King of Spain from 1556, in 1554 was
very unpopular; the protest from the Commons prompted Mary's reply that
Parliament was 'not accustomed to use such language to the Kings of
England' and that in her marriage 'she would choose as God inspired
her'. The marriage was childless, Philip spent most of it on the
continent, England obtained no share in the Spanish monopolies in New
World trade and the alliance with Spain dragged England into a war with
France. Popular discontent grew when Calais, the last vestige of
England's possessions in France dating from William the Conqueror's
time, was captured by the French in 1558. Dogged by ill health, Mary
died later that year, possibly from cancer, leaving the crown to her
half-sister Elizabeth. |
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1556 |
Phillip II of Spain (Mary
I's Widow) |
http://www.channel4.com/history/microsites/M/
monarchy/biogs/philip_ii.html
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| Philip
II ascends the throne of Spain and controls half of Europe. Although,
upon the death of Mary I, he loses control of England. Philip was the only son and heir of Holy Roman emperor Charles V. When his father abdicated in 1556, he inherited a vast empire, including territory in Spain, Italy, the Netherlands and the New World.
To Philip, his marriage to the English queen Mary in 1554 was simply an alliance of two Catholic realms against the growing Protestantism of much of Europe. To Mary, it was a match literally made in heaven. To the English, it was an extremely unpopular union and led directly to Wyatt's Rebellion, which Mary suppressed with difficulty.
A year after the wedding, Mary went through a phantom pregnancy. Embarrassed, Philip left England with the excuse that he needed to look after his extensive possessions. He returned to persuade his wife to go to war with the French. She agreed, but the venture was unpopular and financially draining and, worst of all, England lost Calais, its last foothold in France.
.Philip toyed with the idea of marrying Mary's half-sister Elizabeth, the new queen, but his plans fell through. |
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Nov
17, 1558 |
Elizabeth I Queen of England (1558 - 1603)
Ascends throne |
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_I_of_England#Spain |
| The daughter of Henry VIII, she was born a princess, but her mother, Anne
Boleyn, was executed three years after her birth, and Elizabeth was declared illegitimate. Perhaps for that reason, her brother, Edward VI, cut her out of the succession. His will, however, was set aside, as it contravened the Third Succession Act of 1543, in which Elizabeth was named as successor provided that Mary I of England, Elizabeth's half-sister, should die without issue. In 1558, Elizabeth succeeded her half-sister, during whose reign she had been imprisoned for nearly a year on suspicion of supporting Protestant rebels.
In government, Elizabeth was more conservative than her father and siblings.[2] One of her mottos was video et
taceo: "I see, and say nothing".[3] This strategy, viewed with impatience by her
counsellors, often saved her from political and marital misalliances. Though Elizabeth was cautious in foreign affairs and only half-heartedly supported a number of ineffective, poorly resourced military campaigns in the Netherlands, France and Ireland, the defeat of the Spanish armada in 1588 associated her name forever with what is popularly viewed as one of the greatest victories in British history. Within twenty years of her death, she was being celebrated as the ruler of a golden age, an image that retains its hold on the English people. Elizabeth's reign is known as the Elizabethan era, famous above all for the flourishing of English drama, led by playwrights such as William Shakespeare and Christopher
Marlowe, and for the seafaring prowess of English adventurers such as Francis Drake and slave-trader John Hawkins.
After the disastrous occupation and loss of Le Havre in 1562–1563, Elizabeth avoided military expeditions on the continent until 1585. In that year, she sent an English army to aid the Protestant Dutch rebels against Philip II. This followed the deaths in 1584 of the allies William the Silent, Prince of Orange, and François, Duke of Anjou, and the surrender of a series of Dutch towns to Alexander
Farnese, Duke of Parma, Philip's governor of the Spanish Netherlands. |
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1552 |
Sir Walter Raleigh |
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Raleigh |
| Was a famed English writer, poet, courtier and explorer.
Walter Raleigh born at Hayes Barton in Devon, the youngest of 5 sons, and attended Oxford.
He rose rapidly in Queen Elizabeth's favour, being knighted in 1585, and was involved in the early English colonisation of the New World in Virginia under a royal patent. In 1591 he secretly married Elizabeth Throckmorton, one of the Queen's ladies-in-waiting, without requesting the Queen's permission, for which he and his wife were sent to the Tower of London. After his release they retired to his estate at
Sherborne, Dorset. |
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February 1562
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Admiral Gaspard de Coligny and Norman navigator Jean Ribault
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Caroline
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| A French expedition, organized by Protestant leader Admiral Gaspard de Coligny and led by the Norman navigator Jean Ribault had landed at the site on the River of May (now the St. Johns River) in February 1562, before moving north to Port Royal Sound. There, on present-day Parris Island, Ribault
left twenty eight men to build a settlement known as
Charlesfort. Ribault then returned to Europe to arrange supplies for the new colony, but was arrested in England due to complications arising from the French Wars of Religion, which prevented his return.
Without supplies or leadership, and beset by hostility from the native
populations, all but one of the colonists sailed back to Europe after only
a year. During their voyage in an open boat, they were reduced to
cannibalism before the survivors were rescued in English waters. |
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August 28, 1565
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Captain Pedro Menendez de Aviles (Feb. 15, 1519-Sept. 17, 1574)
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http://www.enchantedlearning.com/explorers/america.shtml
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| was a brutal Spanish sailor, soldier, explorer, and conquistador. The King of Spain sent Aviles to Florida in the New World, to start a Spanish settlement (St. Augustine, in northeastern Florida), and to decimate a nearby French settlement (Fort Caroline). July 1565 with 11 ships and about 2,000 soldiers. They landed in Florida on August 28, 1565, at the Bay of St. Augustine and established a settlement at St. Augustine (the oldest continually-inhabited city in the United States), in what is now northeastern Florida, USA. On September 20, 1565, Aviles and his soldiers
attacked the nearby French colony called Fort Caroline, murdering everyone (men, women and children), hanging some of the butchered bodies from trees. De Aviles also explored the coastline of North America as far north as St. Helena Island, South Carolina, and had forts built along the coast for protection. Aviles returned to Spain in 1567, and later died while fighting the British in a naval battle at
Santander, Spain. |
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1566 |
Spanish Forts |
The Melungeons: The Pioneers of the Interior Southeastern
United States 1526-1997, Eloy J. Gallegos, pf timeline
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| Spanish Fort was erected on Beaufort River. Pardo and his men built no less than four forts and two settlement towns in the interior, and as late as the later part of the sixteenth century, those Spaniards, Pardo's men and their families were still living in the general area where their captain stationed them--more than three hundred miles in the interior of the present-day Southeastern United States. |
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Feb
16, 1568
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Philip
II continues to overrun European countries
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| The entire population of the Netherlands is condemned to death within the realm of the Inquisition. |
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Dec 1568
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French Huguenots
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| French Huguenots chase Spanish ships carrying a loan to finance subduing the Netherlands rebellion into the English harbor. Elizabeth confiscates the funds, causing a “furious rage” in Spain. |
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1569
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Northern England Catholics
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| Catholics revolt in northern England spurred by the Spanish |
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1570
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Queen Elizabeth I
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| The Pope excommunicates Queen Elizabeth I and encourages her overthrow. |
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1570 |
The Jesuits arrived at Chesapeake Bay |
http://www.companysj.com/sjusa/02-06-22.htm
#dioceseofrichmond
Penny Ferguson Timeline
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| The Jesuits arrived at Chesapeake Bay in September 1570, then continued about 40 miles up the James River to what is now College Creek. They then traveled by land to a settlement off the York River. De Velasco soon left the Jesuits' mission to live with the Indians, and in February 1571 led the killing of the missionaries, according to the accounts. The only person spared from the group was Alonso de Olmos, a boy whose father was a Spanish settler in Florida. The fact that the Indians didn't kill the only non-Jesuit in the group indicates the Jesuits were slain because of their religion, according to Catholic scholars. [Source: AP] |
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| 1571 |
the Jesuits |
http://www.seattlecatholic.com/article_20030830.html
Penny Ferguson TimeLine |
| Fr. Rogel, while taking part in the belated relief expedition to Ajacan in August 1572, wrote the following account: "Father Master Baptista [Segura] sent a message by a novice Brother on two occasions to the renegade. Don Luis would never come, and [the Jesuits] stayed there in great distress, for they had no one by whom they could make themselves understood to the Indians.... They got along as best they could, going to other villages to barter for maize with copper and tin, until the beginning of February. The boy [Alonso] says that each day Father Baptista caused prayers to be said for Don Luis, saying that the devil held him in great deception. As he had twice sent for him and he had not come, he decided to send Father Quiros and Brother Gabriel de Solis and Brother Juan Baptista to the village of the chief near where Don Luis was staying. Thus they could take Don Luis along with them and barter for maize on the way back. On the Sunday after the Feast of the Purification, Don Luis came to the three Jesuits who were returning with other Indians. He sent an arrow through the heart of Father Quiros and then murdered the rest...." |
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August 22, 1572
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St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre
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St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre in Paris. Catholics massacre 30,000 Huguenots.
Sir Walter Raleigh has dropped out of Oxford and fights in France. |
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| 1576 |
French survivors |
http://www.cas.sc.edu/sciaa/staff/depratterc/hstory2.html
pf timeline |
| Only a few months after the Spanish settlement of Santa Elena was abandoned in the summer of 1576, a French ship, Le Prince, wrecked in Port Royal Sound. This ship carried a large contingent of Frenchmen who may have been intent on resettling Port Royal Sound. The survivors of the wreck built a fort on high ground, and soon they were viciously attacked by Indians who thought they were Spaniards. Once the Frenchmen were able to establish their identity, the Indians befriended them and took them to their villages. |
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1577
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John White
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John White first noted in history as an artist in Bristol, sketching a native, Calichoughe, from Baffin Island.
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1577
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Walsingham
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Walsingham saves Simon Fernandez, pirate, from the gallows for murdering Portuguese sailors.
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June 11 1578
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Sir Humphrey Gilbert
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| Raleigh’s brother, is granted a patent by the Queen
Elizabeth I, which expires in 6 years if not successful, to discover and occupy North American lands not inhabited by Spain.
Raleigh and his brother Carew captain a reconnaissance mission with Portuguese pirate, Simon Fernandez, “a thorough-paced scoundrel”. |
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1580
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Sir
Humphrey Gilbert
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leaking
ships, storms and desertions cause the expedition to end in failure and
Gilbert’s fortune is lost
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1580
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Portugal's invasion
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| Spain invades and Captures Portugal in 70 days. |
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1580
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The Painters and Stainers Company
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| John White joins the Painters and Stainers Company in London. |
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1580
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Sir Walter Raleigh
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Sir Walter Raleigh hired Lemoyne in London to paint the Timuca in Florida. White may have been studying under Lemoyne
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1581
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Queen Elizabeth I
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| Raleigh is summoned by Elizabeth I to court to air his opinion on Irish politics and remains at court, the Queen’s new favorite, viewed as a type of oracle. Raleigh’s rise at court was meteoric, creating many enemies. Raleigh was “a tall, handsome and bold man”, and Elizabeth is quite smitten, giving him the pet name of “her Water”, her “Shepherd of the Ocean”. He is called the “darling of the English Cleopatra.” He lives at the Queen’s palace. She personally finances his Roanoke expeditions. |
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circumnavigation of the world on the Golden Hind. Was Continuing
westward, the Golden Hind crossed the Indian Ocean without incident,
rounded the Cape of Good Hope into the Atlantic, sailed up the coast of
Africa, and arrived triumphantly in England in the fall of 1580, nearly
three years and some 36,000 miles having passed beneath her keel. |
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Raleigh’s brother, planned to settle Catholic dissidents in Newfoundland as expendable English colonists.
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Philip II and the French Catholic League
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Nonsuch, whereby Elizabeth, pressured by her advisors, promised military support to the Dutch. The treaty marked the beginning of the Anglo-Spanish War, which lasted until the Treaty of London in 1604. |
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Captain Barlowe |
The Spanish Pioneers In United States
History, The Melungeons:
The Pioneers of the Interior Southeastern United States 1526-1997,
Eloy J. Gallegos.
PF Timeline |
| Captain Barlowe took note of the people with yellowish coloring, fine auburn and chestnut colored hair. Barlowe mentions a particular kingdom called Sequotan (Secotan) which is a peninsula located between Albemarle Sound and Pamlico Sound. His account tells of "white" people, "whom the countrey people preserved." "Frances Yeardley many years later found large group of Spaniards residing very comfortable among a great nation called the Newxes (Neuse)" |
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Richarde Hackluyt of Oxforde, |
http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Richard_Hakluyt |
| A particuler discourse
concerning Westerne discoveries written in the yere 1584, by Richarde
Hackluyt of Oxforde, at the requeste and direction of the righte
worshipfull Mr Walter Raghly before the comynge home of his twoo barkes.
This long-lost MS. was at last printed in 1877. Its object was to
recommend the enterprise of planting the English race in the unsettled
parts of North
America. Hakluyt's other works consist mainly of translations and
compilations, relieved by his dedications and prefaces, which last, with
a few letters, are the only material we possess out of which a biography
of him can be framed. Hakluyt revisited England
in 1584,, laid before Queen Elizabeth a copy of the Discourse "
along with one in Latin
upon Aristotle's Politicks," and obtained, two days before
his return to Paris, the grant of the next vacant prebend at Bristol,
to which he was admitted in 1586 and held with his other preferments
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Exploratory expedition |
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Walter Raleigh launched exploratory expedition under the explorers
Captain Philip Amadas and Arthur Barlowe. They were the
first to set eyes on Roanoke Island. They had the mission of scouting the broad sounds and
estuaries in search of an ideal location for settlement. Amadas and
Barlowe wrote glowing reports of Roanoke Island, and when they returned
to England a year later with two Natives, Manteo and Wanchese, all of Britain was abuzz with talk of the New World's wonders.
John White was with Amadas and Barlowe on the expedition. Queen Elizabeth herself was impressed, and she granted Raleigh a patent
to all the lands he could occupy. She named the new land
"Virginia", in honor of the Virgin Queen. |
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Military expedition |
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on Roanoke Island until spring of 1586. (John White is among them.) |
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Colonizing Roanoke Island |
The Only Land I know, a History of the Lumbee Indians p 2; Adolph L. Dial, David K. Eliades |
| A colonizing effort was made on Roanoke Island in 1585-1586; this attempt was abortive. Beset by internal dissension supply shortages, and Indian hostilities, the colonists returned to England. Ironically, within a month after their departure, three ships reached the Roanoke area with needed supplies and additional colonist. Finding all settlers gone, fifteen courageous men were now left on Roanoke Island to maintain England’s claim to the region |
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Sir Francis Drake returned to
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city of Santo Domingo. Later in Columbia he captured Cartagena. By now
with one-third of his men dead and many others unfit for service, Drake
was unable to attack Havana. After sacking St. Augustine, he sailed up
the coast to Roanoke Island where he arrived on
26 June 1586. There he visited Sir Walter Ralegh's colony
headed by
Ralph Lane, planted in 1585. He found a disheartened group of
men. The once-friendly Indians were now hostile, and the supply ship was
late. Drake offered Lane victuals for one month and a ship, the 40 tun
Francis. He also agreed to take some of Lane's weaker men back to
England and to replace them with his own men. A major storm, however,
forced the Francis out to sea and caused a change in plans. Drake
offered Lane a larger ship, the 170 tun Bark Bonner but it was too large
to pass through the inlets. Instead Lane and his
colonists decided to return to England with Drake. \ Concerning
persons left behind on Roanoke, expedition leader Ralph Lane's own
published account says that 3 men who were away on an expedition of some
sort were left behind when the other survivors of the Lane
colony returned to England with Sir France Drake in the summer of 1586.
Lane's account has been republished many times and is not hard to find,
including Quinn's "Set Fair for Roanoke: Voyages and Colonies,
1584-1590," published by the University of
North Carolina Press in connection with the 400th anniversary of
Raleigh's colonies 1984-7. |
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Relief ship |
http://www.dur.ac.uk/4schools/Roanoke/Timeline.htm |
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Sir Richard Grenville finally
returns with supplies. |
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/explorers/
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| Ironically, a supply ship from England arrived at
Roanoke less than a week later . Finding the island deserted, the leader
left behind 15
of his men to hold the fort and returned to England for reinforcements.
Not finding Lane's colony there (not even the 3 men who had
earlier been abandoned), Grenville returned to England, but left 15 men
on Roanoke (presumably to maintain the claims of both England and his
cousin, Water Raleigh). |
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Grenville, arrives in Virginia |
http://www.dur.ac.uk/4schools/Roanoke/Timeline.htm |
| Three ships, led by Grenville,
arrive in Virginia. They search for the settlers. Grenville leaves
behind 15 men and enough supplies to last two years. Nobody knows what
happened to these men. |
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GRENVILLE'S FIFTEEN MEN |
http://statelibrary.dcr.state.nc.us/nc/ncsites/English2.htm |
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Shortly after Drake and
the colonists had sailed, a supply ship sent out by Sir Walter Raleigh
arrived at Hatoraske and after searching in vain for the colonists
returned to England. About a fortnight after Raleigh's ship had left,
Grenville arrived with three ships and likewise searched in vain for the
colonists. Grenville found the places of colonial settlement desolate,
but being "unwilling to loose the possession of the country which
Englishmen had so long held," he left 15 men on Roanoke Island,
fully provisioned for 2 years, to hold the country for the Queen while
he returned to England.
Walking Toward the Sunset Wayne Winkler p. 34
http://books.google.com/
books?id=bPV05xDZe70C&pg=PA34&lpg=PA34&dq=grenville+supply+ship+delayed&source=
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Commentary
by Admin.
Actually
a single ship sent by Raleigh, when he learned Grenville had been
delayed, arrived about a week later. It was intended as an emergency
supply. Finding the island deserted, the men searched for the
colonists and finding no one, finally returned to England with the
supplies. Grenville's ships arrived about 14 days after this ship
departed. He had 6 ships and 600 intended settlers along with more
supplies. He abandoned his plan to settle these people when he found
Roanoke deserted. After a very thorough search into the main, he decided
to leave 15 soldiers (some say 18) to hold possession of Virginia for
England. The entire fleet then returned to England.
Set
Fair to Roanoke David Beers Quinn p. 142-145, Roanoke
Island David Stick p. 148-151
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is the main point I feel proves that Drake did not leave a large number
of persons behind. They could not be found even a few days later. |
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Cittie of Raleigh |
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Cittie of Raleigh was designed as a joint-stock corporation in which colonists were to invest and in return receive a land grant of “500 acres to a man”. Colonists includes John Jones physician, William Browne goldsmith, Anthony Cage Sheriff, Thomas Hewet lawyer, Thomas Harris faculty at Cambridge, Richard Wildye graduate of Oxford. Two had criminal records for theft.
Of this group John White was the governor of the colony and with him was his daughter Eleanor, who was married to Ananias Dare, one of the twelve assistants to the governor. From the beginning White had problems with Simon
Fernandes, the pilot. Sailing from Portsmouth on 26 April 1587 the small fleet did not actually leave England until May 8. They finally reached the Outer Banks on July 22 where they were to pick up men left by the supply ship the previous year. The colony was then to settle on the Chesapeake Bay. But Fernandes refused to take the colonists any farther; hence, the second colony was also on Roanoke Island. |
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John White Colony |
The Only Land I know, a History of the Lumbee Indians p 2; Adolph L. Dial, David K. Eliades |
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Virginia Dare |
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Governor White |
http://www.nps.gov/archive/fora/search.htm
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http://www.nps.gov/archive/fora/search.htm |
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Philip II of Spain invades
England |
http://www.channel4.com/history/microsites/M/monarchy/
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Philip II was engaged in suppressing a Protestant revolt in the Netherlands. When the Dutch were supported by the English, he became determined to achieve by military conquest what Mary had failed to achieve as queen.
He used Elizabeth's execution of Mary Queen of Scots in February 1587 as an excuse to invade England, sending an armada of 130 ships in 1588. But weather conditions and the
maneuverability of the smaller English ships proved disastrous to the Spanish. |
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Sir Walter Ralegh |
http://www.nps.gov/archive/fora/search.htm |
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Merchants" of London concerning the colony, making preparations for
its continued support |
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Protestant Henry IV, King of
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Norreys, who led 3,000 men to Brittany, was even more of a disaster.[114] As for all such expeditions, Elizabeth was unwilling to invest in the supplies and reinforcements requested by the commanders. Norreys left for London to plead in person for more support. In his absence, a Catholic League army almost destroyed the remains of his army at
Craon, north-west France, in May 1591. In July, Elizabeth sent out another force under Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, to help Henry IV in besieging Rouen. The result was just as dismal. Essex accomplished nothing and returned home in January 1592.[115] As usual, Elizabeth lacked control over her commanders once they were abroad. "Where he is, or what he doth, or what he is to do," she wrote of Essex, "we are ignorant".[116] |
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Some of the above information is
also cited from "Roanoke, Solving the Mystery of the Lost Colony
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