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Pocahontas fascinates Londoners when she arrives with her husband to publicize Jamestown
John Smith publishes A Description of New England, an account of his exploration of the region in 1614
The treaty of Stolbova brings into Swedish hands the coast round the Gulf of Finland, ending Russian access to the Baltic
The Teatro Farnese in Parma is the first to have a proscenium arch, framing perspective scenery painted on flat wings
The 19-year-old Flemish painter Anthony van Dyck is employed by Rubens in Antwerp as his chief assistant
Jan Pieterszoon Coen destroys the town of Jakarta, on the coast of Java, and rebuilds it as a Dutch trading centre under the name Batavia
The Pilgrims (or Pilgrim Fathers), a group of 102 English settlers, sail in the Mayflower to the new world
Ten days after their first landfall, at Cape Cod, the adult males on the Mayflower agree a form of government for their new colony
The Dutch painter Frans Hals displays exceptional brilliance in his group portraits, including several of the civic guards of Haarlem
Delft becomes the centre for tin-glazed earthenware in nothern Europe, specializing in the blue-and-white Chinese style
In his Novum Organum Francis Bacon introduces a modern philosophy of experimental science
The Pilgrims on the Mayflower select a place for their settlement, and give it the name of Plymouth, their port of departure in England
William Bradford begins a journal of the Pilgrims' experience in New England, subsequently published (in 1856) as History of Plymouth Plantation
The Mayflower settlers in Plymouth offer thanksgiving for their first harvest, eating turkeys in a celebration shared by local Indians
William Bradford, one of the Pilgrims from the Mayflower, is elected governor of the new Plymouth Colony
The Dutch West India Company is chartered to trade and found colonies anywhere along the entire American coast
John Donne, England's leading Metaphysical poet, becomes dean of St Paul's
A sudden attack by Powhatan Indians, led by their chieftain Opechancanough against the English colony at Jamestown, results in the death of more than 300 settlers
Bernini's youthful Pluto and Proserpina, suggesting soft flesh in cold marble, introduces the lively tradition of baroque sculpture
The Flemish painter Anthony van Dyck begins a five-year stay, and a successful career as a portrait painter, in Genoa
John Heminge and Henry Condell publish thirty-six Shakespeare plays in the First Folio
Diego Velazquez becomes court painter to the king of Spain - a post which he will hold for the remaining thirty-seven years of his life
Nicolas Poussin arrives in Rome, where he develops the tradition of French classicism
Gustavus II, king of Sweden, conscripts and trains an army far more mobile than those of his rivals
Ordnance factories in Sweden begin producing light but powerful field artillery, easy to move on the battlefield
