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Henry Hudson (c. 1565 – disappeared 23 June 1611) was an English sea explorer and navigator during the early 17th century, best known for his explorations of present-day Canada and parts of the Northeastern United States.
1609 – Henry Hudson explores the Hudson River. 1610- First English settlement in Newfoundland; 1611–16 – Thomas Dale and Thomas Gates serve as Governor of Virginia. 1614 – Peace between the Virginia colony and the Powhatan Confederacy. 1619 – First meeting of the Virginia House of Burgesses. First Africans in Virginia.
The colony developed an agricultural economy based on African slavery. England controlled Suriname during the Napoleonic Wars from 1799 until 1816, when it was returned to the Dutch. The Netherlands abolished slavery in 1863 and later imported indentured labor from the British Raj and the Dutch East Indies to keep the economy going. Internal ...
Abacuk Pricket was the navigator of the Discovery on the fourth voyage of captain Henry Hudson.He was one of the mutineers who set Hudson adrift along with his teenage son John, and seven crewmen in a small boat, and then returned to England, eventually being one of only eight sailors who made it back to England alive. [1]
As of 1778, it was estimated that the Dutch were shipping approximately 6,000 Africans for enslavement in the Dutch West Indies each year. [137] Slavery also characterised the Dutch possessions in Indonesia, Ceylon, and South Africa, where Indonesians have made a significant contribution to the Cape Coloured population of that country. The ...
The port called the Manhattans grew up at the mouth of the North River (Hudson River). New Amsterdam was the capital of the province and received its municipal charter in 1652; this included the isle of Manhattan , Staaten Eylandt , Pavonia , and the Lange Eylandt towns, including Gravesend , Breuckelen , and Nieuw Amersfoort .
Map of Henry Hudson's 1609–1611 voyages to North America for the Dutch East India Company (VOC) The 1497 English expedition authorized by Henry VII of England was led by Italian Venetian John Cabot (Giovanni Caboto); it was the first of a series of French and English missions exploring North America. Mariners from the Italian peninsula played ...
1751 – The ban on slavery was lifted after 19 years in the Province of Georgia. 1752 – Benjamin Kent represented slaves in court against their masters in Massachusetts. 1754 – French and Indian War begins, which was a theater of the Seven Years' War; first engagement at the Battle of Jumonville Glen.