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Events relating to america
Rich seams of silver are discovered at Potosi, in modern Bolivia
La Paz is founded on the trade route between Lima and the newly discovered silver mines at Potosi
Brazil becomes a Portuguese royal province, under the control of a governor general
The first Portuguese governor general of Brazil selects Bahia (now Salvador) as his capital
Africans, bought in the Portuguese trading posts of west Africa, are shipped across the Atlantic as slaves
Spanish galleons assemble each year at Portobelo to deliver European goods and to ship home the metals of Latin America
Privateers frequent the Spanish main to plunder the richly laden caravels on their way home to Europe
Francis Drake seizes a Spanish vessel laden with gold and silver in the Pacific, formerly a safe area for Spain
Five tribal troups form a League of Five Nations, commonly known as the Iroquois League or Confederacy, against their common enemy the Huron
Humphrey Gilbert claims Newfoundland on behalf of England's queen Elizabeth
Two English ships, sent on reconnaissance by Walter Raleigh, reach Roanake Island off the coast of North Carolina
The local tribe of Indians, the Secotan, welcome the English visitors, offering them a profusion of meat, fish, fruit and vegetables in return for hatchets and axes
Roanoke Island, off the coast of North Carolina, is settled by the first English colonists in America – with disastrous results
The English artist John White paints the everyday life of the Secotan Indians of America
A new group of English settlers arrives at Roanoke Island and makes a second attempt at a settlement
Virginia Dare becomes the first English child to be born in America, on Roanoke Island
An English ship, the first to arrive at Roanoke Island since 1587, finds no remaining trace of the settlers or their settlement
Colonists establish the first lasting British settlement in the new world, at Jamestown
The Jamestown settlers meet an unfriendly reception from the local Powhatan Indians, having to use their muskets to beat off an attack within two weeks of their arrival
Quebec is founded by Samuel de Champlain as a centre for the French fur trade
John Smith claims (many years later) that when captured by Indians he was saved from execution by Pocahontas, daughter of the chief
Henry Hudson reaches the inlet of New York Bay and explores the river now known by his name
Castaways from an English vessel reach Bermuda, which becomes the first British island in the new world
Henry Hudson, after wintering in Hudson Bay, is set adrift in an open boat by his mutinous crew
The American Indian princess Pocahontas is taken hostage by Jamestown colonists in the first Anglo-Powhatan war
