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Events relating to athens
Stefan Báthory, prince of Transylvania, is elected king of Poland
The Union of Arras and the Union of Utrecht split the Netherlands into Catholic and Protestant camps
Five tribal troups form a League of Five Nations, commonly known as the Iroquois League or Confederacy, against their common enemy the Huron
The first Jesuit missionaries arrive in England, with Edmund Campion among their number
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
Catholics are now the martyrs in England, their numbers almost matching the Protestant martyrs of the previous reign
The English artist John White paints the everyday life of the Secotan Indians of America
Venice opens the first modern bank (the Banco della Piazza di Rialto) for safe deposits and credit transfers
Zacharias Janssen, a spectacle maker in the Dutch town of Middelburg, creates the first microscope
Henry IV becomes a Catholic so as to secure Paris and the throne of France
The Edict of Nantes secures the civil rights of France's Protestants, the Huguenots
James I commissions the Authorized version of the Bible, which is completed by forty-seven scholars in seven years
The Gunpowder Plot, attempting murder and treason, severely damages the Catholic cause in Britain
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
A lucky accident reveals the principle of the telescope to a spectacle maker, Hans Lippershey. In the Dutch town of Middelburg
A shipload of Puritans, among them some of the future Pilgrim Fathers, sail from Boston in Lincolnshire to seek religious freedom in Holland
John Smith claims (many years later) that when captured by Indians he was saved from execution by Pocahontas, daughter of the chief
A 3 storey brick mansion set in 74 acres, later known as Cambridge Park, is built by Sir Humphrey Lynd.
The establishment of a Baptist church in London is a defining moment for the Baptist sect within Christianity
The American Indian princess Pocahontas is taken hostage by Jamestown colonists in the first Anglo-Powhatan war
An edict is passed expelling Jesuit missionaries from Japan, and ordering their converts to revert to Buddhism
Pocahontas is baptized a Christian and marries John Rolfe, one of the Jamestown colonists
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 Protestant Frederick V (elector palatine of the Rhine) is elected king by the rebellious Bohemian nobles
