HISTORICAL DATA-1609:

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•  JULY:    On July 25 (Old Style) of this year the Sea Venture, one of the nine vessels in Sir George Somers' colonizing expedition to the English colony of Virginia in North America is wrecked in the Bermuda Islands. It is believed that this wreck suggested to William Shakespeare the setting for his play, The Tempest.  (SOURCE:  A Virginia Chronology, 1585-1783, by W. W. Abbot ((October, 1957)) pg. 5).

•     On the evening of July 29 of this year the French explorer Samuel de Champlain, with a raiding party of 60 Mohawk Indians and two French soldiers, comes upon a band of some 200 Iroquois Indians who are camped on the Ticonderoga peninsula in what will become the northeastern section of New York State. Champlain prepares to attack them tomorrow morning.  (SOURCE:  Fort Ticonderoga.org, OUR STORY Samuel de Champlain web page at:  http://www.fortticonderoga.org/ story/people/champlain accessed 10/14/2013-GD).

•  AUGUST

•  SEPTEMBER:    On September 11 of this year Henry Hudson, an English sea captain working for the Dutch East India Company, discovers the river which will initially be called the North River and which will later bear his name, while travelling north along the eastern seaboard of what will later become the United States of America.  (SOURCE:  HISTORY OF THE DIOCESE OF BROOKLYN 1853-1953 by John K. Sharp Volume I Fordham University Press New York, 1954, page 2).

•  OCTOBER

•  NOVEMBER

•  DECEMBER

•  FULL YEAR  

•  (NO SPECIFIC DATE):    At some time during this year the "Five Nattions" Iroquois Confederation of Native Americans centered in what will become New York State go to war against the French and their Native American allies.  (Source:  The American Nation...to 1877-Volume I, Second Edition-John A. Garraty, pg. 106).