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In 1607, he joined the Dutch East India Company and left for Asia, returning with the rank of captain ( of the Hollandia ) five years later.
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1607 and joined
When Rory fled with Hugh O ' Neill the Earl of Tyrone to Rome in 1607, Nuala, who had deserted her husband when he joined the English against her brother, accompanied him, taking with her her daughter Grania.
In 1606, they left Leiden briefly for Norwich, England, where they joined another Walloon church, returning to Leiden in 1607, possibly for religious reasons.
Henry became king of France as Henry IV in 1589 and joined Armagnac to the royal domain in 1607.
Consequently, along with Southwell Minster, Manchester was one of only two medieval collegiate foundations where daily choral worship was maintained after the Reformation ; although these two were joined by Ripon when that collegiate foundation was restored in 1607.
Rory then unfortunately joined in the Flight of the Earls in 1607, which led to the title becoming attainted in 1614, and Tyrconnell and Ulster being colonised in the Plantation of Ulster.
1607 and Dutch
* 1607 – Eighty Years ' War: The Dutch fleet destroys the anchored Spanish fleet at Gibraltar.
* 1607 25 April – During the Eighty Years ' War between the United Provinces and the King of Spain, a Dutch fleet surprised and engaged a Spanish fleet anchored at the Bay of Gibraltar ( Battle of Gibraltar ).
* 1607 – Michiel de Ruyter, Dutch admiral ( d. 1667 )
* May 4 or May 14 – Anna Maria van Schurman, Dutch poet and scholar ( b. 1607 )
* April 29 – Michiel de Ruyter, Dutch admiral ( b. 1607 )
* Anna Maria van Schurman, ( 1607 – 1678 ), first Dutch female university student and scholar
At the age of nine, Tromp went to sea with his father and was in 1607 present in a squadron covering the Dutch main fleet fighting the Battle of Gibraltar.
* Battle of Gibraltar ( 1607 )-Battle of the Eighty Years ' War when a Dutch fleet surprised and engaged a Spanish one.
Michiel Adriaenszoon de Ruyter (; 24 March 1607 – 29 April 1676 ) is the most famous and one of the most skilled admirals in Dutch history.
By 1607 two inns had been opened to serve Dutch sailors.
When the Scrooby congregation decided in 1607 to leave England illegally for the Dutch Republic ( where religious freedom was permitted ), William Bradford determined to go with them.
Spínola's campaigns and the threat of diplomatic isolation induced the Dutch Republic to accept a ceasefire in April 1607.
Joining the Dutch East India Company ( VOC ), he made trading voyages to Indonesia in 1607 and 1612.
* Jan Lievens ( Dutch, 1607 – 1674 )
However, earlier in 1607 a Spanish fleet had been destroyed by the Dutch in the Battle of Gibraltar.
About the same time the news was received of a major defeat a Dutch fleet under admiral Jacob van Heemskerk had dealt the Spanish navy in the Battle of Gibraltar of 25 April 1607.
The naval Battle of Gibraltar took place on 25 April 1607 during the Eighty Years ' War when a Dutch fleet surprised and engaged a Spanish fleet anchored at the Bay of Gibraltar.
The men from Scrooby, Nottinghamshire, chartered a Dutch vessel to transport them to the Netherlands in 1607, but the attempt was thwarted when the captain betrayed them to the local authorities.
Gillis van Coninxloo ( 1544 – 1607 ) was a Dutch painter of forest landscapes, the most famous member of a large family of artists.
Sometime later in the winter of 1607 / 08, Thomas Helwys, John Smyth, and around forty others from the Gainsborough and Scrooby congregations fled to the safety of Amsterdam in the more tolerant Dutch Republic.
The large Fort Oranye, built by the Dutch in 1607, was the home of the Dutch East Indies Company until it moved to Batavia ( Jakarta ) around 1619.
In 1607 the Dutch came back in Ternate where with the help of Ternateans built a fort in Malayo.
Abraham Pietersen van Deursen ( before November 11, 1607 – c. 1670 ), aka Abraham Pietersen van Deusen, was an immigrant from Holland who settled in New Amsterdam and become one of the Council of 12 that was the first representative democracy in the Dutch colony.
1607 and East
Torres successfully reached Manila, the center of the Spanish East Indies in May 1607, charting the southern coastline of New Guinea on the way and in doing so sailing through the strait that now bears his name.
1607 and India
It withstood Dutch attacks in 1607 and 1608 and remained a major post for the Portuguese on their trips to India.
1607 and Company
In 1607 and 1608, the English Muscovy Company had sent him northward to look for a route over the North Pole or across the top of Russia.
The first English settlement in Maine, the short-lived Popham Colony, was established by the Plymouth Company in 1607.
In 1607 the London Company established the Colony of Virginia as the first permanent New World English colony.
Fortunately for Smith, upon first landing at what is now Cape Henry on 26 April 1607, unsealed orders from the Virginia Company designated Smith to be one of the leaders of the new colony, thus, perhaps, sparing Smith from the gallows.
Arriving in August 1607, these Plymouth Company colonists established their settlement, known as the Popham Colony, in the present-day town of Phippsburg, Maine near the mouth of the Kennebec River.
The School was founded in 1607 and built in 1614, through the generosity of Robert Smyth, a poor native of the town who became Comptroller of the Lord Mayor's Court of the City of London and member of the Merchant Taylors ' Company.
The London Company made landfall on April 26, 1607 at the southern edge of the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay, which they named Cape Henry, in present day Virginia Beach.
Later in 1607, the Plymouth Company established its Popham Colony in present day Maine, but it was abandoned after about a year.
Shirley was imprisoned in the Tower of London in September 1607 on a charge of illegal interference with the operations of the Levant Company.
On 13 August 1607, the Plymouth Company established the Popham Colony along the Kennebec River in present day Maine.
On 14 May 1607, the London Company established the Jamestown Settlement about 40 miles inland along the James River, a major tributary of the Chesapeake Bay in present-day Virginia.
In 1607, as a shareholder in the Plymouth Company, he helped fund the failed Popham Colony, near present-day Phippsburg, Maine.
Bartholomew Gosnold ( 1572 – 22 August 1607 ) was an English lawyer, explorer, and privateer who was instrumental in founding the Virginia Company of London, and Jamestown in colonial America.
In 1607, a ship of British settlers of the Virginia Company sets sail to the " New World ".
The Popham Colony ( also known as the Sagadahoc Colony ) was a short-lived English colonial settlement in North America that was founded in 1607 and located in the present-day town of Phippsburg, Maine near the mouth of the Kennebec River by the proprietary Virginia Company of Plymouth.
It was founded a few months after, and in the same year as, its more successful rival, the colony at Jamestown, which was established on May 4, 1607 by the Virginia Company of London in present-day James City County, Virginia.
The previously existing Jamestown, founded in 1607 by the London Company, is denoted as J.
In 1607 Bristol's Society of Merchant Venturers which included Sir Francis Bacon, Sir Percival Willoughby and John Slany, had formed the Newfoundland Company with shares selling at 25 £.
Originally settled in 1607 by the Plymouth Company, the coastal areas of western Maine first became the Province of Maine in a 1622 land patent.
* Godspeed ( ship ), one of the three ships of the English Virginia Company in 1607
He is best known as the captain of the Susan Constant, the largest of three ships which carried settlers for the Virginia Company in 1607 on the way to find the settlement at Jamestown in the Virginia Colony, which became the first permanent English settlement in North America.
The first Church of England parish in British North America was founded in Jamestown, Virginia, in 1607 under the charter of the Virginia Company of London.
The proprietary Virginia Company of London had established the settlement of Jamestown in Virginia in 1607, and delivered supplies and additional settlers in 1608, raising the English colony's population to 200, despite many deaths.
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