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  • to enter New York Harbor, in 1524. Following the 1609 voyage of Henry Hudson, European settlement began with the founding of the Dutch fur trading settlement ...
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  • However, the Dutch thought they also had a claim, based on the 1609 explorations of Henry Hudson, and under the auspices of the Dutch West India ...
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  • believed it was "perfectly smooth." In 1609, Galileo Galilei drew one of the first telescopic drawings of the Moon in his book, Sidereus Nuncius ...
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  • granted a Royal Charter to The Virginia Company. In 1609, a flotilla of ships left England under the Company's admiral, Sir George Somers, to relieve ...
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  • Fearful of pirate attacks, the king of Spain in 1609 ordered all colonists on Hispaniola to move closer to the capital city, Santo Domingo. However ...
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  • In January 1609 a General Committee of Review met at Stationers' Hall, London to review the completed manuscripts from the six companies ...
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  • their systematic expulsion in the years from 1609 to 1614. Henri Lapeyre has estimated that this affected 300,000 out of a total of 8 million inhabitants ...
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  • During the Twelve Years' Truce of 1609 through 1621, in the Eighty Years’ War, the Netherlands experienced a civil war along religious ...
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  • the celebrated Dutch Reformed theologian (1560-1609), and Molinists in Catholicism, named after Luis de Molina, the Spanish Jesuit theologian (1535 ...
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  • In 1609 the Bank of Amsterdam was created as an exchange bank, an early central bank. The small country was awash in coins and currencies from ...
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  • php. John Smith's Chesapeake Voyages, 1607-1609]. Maryland Historical Trust. Retrieved December 26, 2007. [[Image:Calvertcecil.jpg|200px ...
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  • declared himself Emperor of the Later Jin in 1609. In the same year, he expanded the state's economic and human resources as well as technology by ...
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  • to have been Jacques Cartier, in 1535. On July 30, 1609, French explorer Samuel de Champlain claimed the area of what is now Lake Champlain, naming the ...
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  • of Morga's Sucesos de las islas Filipinas (1609), which he copied word for word from the British Museum and had published, called attention to an ...
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  • to settle in Leiden was secured in 1609. With the congregation reconstituted as the English Exiled Church in Leyden, Robinson now became pastor ...
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  • first to Amsterdam and finally to Leiden, in 1609. Addison, (1911), 51 In Leiden, the congregation found the freedom to worship as it chose, ...
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  • complete and reliable text, and was reprinted in 1609 (Q3), 1622 (Q4) and 1637 (Q5). In fact, all later Quartos and Folios of Romeo and Juliet are based ...
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  • now grew steadily, promoted by John Dee (1527-1609), who coined the phrase "British Empire." An expert in navigation, he was visited by ...
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  • radical and definitive solution, and on April 4, 1609, during the reign of Philip III, an expulsion order was decreed that would take place in stages ...
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  • III tried to take the Russian throne. In 1609 the Swedish-Finnish army, led by Count Jacobus (Jaakko) De la Gardie ("Lazy Jaakko") ...
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