Founding of Jamestown
England's first permanent foothold in North America
Settlers of the Virginia Company founded Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in North America. Tobacco made the colony viable; in 1619 the first enslaved Africans were brought there.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Europe
- 1582 Gregorian calendar — 25 years earlier
- 1598 Edict of Nantes — 9 years earlier
- 1600 East India Company founded — 7 years earlier
- 1610 Galileo's telescopic discoveries — 3 years later
- 1618–1648 Thirty Years' War — 11 years later
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1582 Yermak's conquest of Sibir — 25 years earlier
- 1598–1613 Time of Troubles — 9 years earlier
- 1612 Minin and Pozharsky liberate Moscow — 5 years later
- 1613 Election of Michael Romanov as Tsar — 6 years later
Africa
- 1591 Battle of Tondibi and fall of Songhai — 16 years earlier
- 1624–1663 Nzinga becomes Queen of Ndongo — 17 years later
Asia
- 1592–1598 Imjin War — 15 years earlier
- 1600 Battle of Sekigahara — 7 years earlier
- 1632–1653 Building of the Taj Mahal — 25 years later
Alive at the time
- Tokugawa Ieyasu (aged 64)
- Miguel de Cervantes (aged 60)
- William Shakespeare (aged 43)
- Galileo Galilei (aged 43)
- René Descartes (aged 11)
- Rembrandt (aged 1)
- Matteo Ricci (aged 55)
- Rudolf II (aged 55)
- Henry IV (aged 54)
- James I (aged 41)