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A 17th-century map shows New England as a coastal enclave extending from Cape Cod to New France. On April 10, 1606, King James I of England issued a charter for the Virginia Company of Plymouth, (often referred to as the Plymouth Company).
17th; 18th; 19th; 20th; 21st; 22nd ... 17th-century maps and globes" The following 23 pages are in this category, out of 23 total. This list may not reflect recent ...
A Temperate Empire explores perceptions of climate among colonists and colonial scientists in New England and Nova Scotia during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. [1] This time span corresponded with the Little Ice Age , a period of lower average global temperatures.
A 17th-century map of the Plantations of New England. Beginning in the 15th century with the voyages of Christopher Columbus, various European colonial powers established colonies in the Americas. The Portuguese introduced Sugar plantations in the Caribbean in the 1550s.
They sought to reform the Church of England by creating a new, ideologically pure church in the New World. By 1640, 20,000 had arrived ; many died soon after arrival, but the others found a healthy climate and an ample food supply.
England, France, and the Netherlands made several attempts to colonize New England early in the 17th century, and those nations were often in contention over lands in the New World. French nobleman Pierre Dugua Sieur de Monts established a settlement on Saint Croix Island, Maine in June 1604 under the authority of the King of France.
The Massachusetts Bay Colony French settlements and forts in the so-called Illinois Country, 1763, which encompassed parts of the modern day states of Illinois, Missouri, Indiana and Kentucky) A 1775 map of the German Coast, a historical region of present-day Louisiana located above New Orleans on the eastern bank of the Mississippi River Vandalia was the name of a proposed British colony ...
It was the largest and most expensive book published in the seventeenth century. Earlier, much smaller versions, titled Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, sive, Atlas Novus , were published from 1634 onwards. Like Abraham Ortelius 's Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (1570), the Atlas Maior is widely considered a masterpiece of the Golden Age of Dutch ...