Mar 26 Bristol England William Baffin c1584-1622 leaves on 5th voyage on 'Discovery'; will pass Greenland coast and sail north another 480 km.

Mar 05 Copernicus' "de Revolutionibus" placed on Catholic Forbidden index

Mar 20 Walter Raleigh released from Tower of London to seek gold in Guyana

Feb 26 Spanish Inquisition delivers injunction to Galileo

May 03 Treaty of Loudun kills French civil war

Jan 24 Jacques Le Maire discovers Street Lemaire/Cape Receiver

Jan 05 Samuel de Champlain c1570-1635 sets off to visit Petun (Tobacco) Nation, south of Nottawasaga Bay, with Father Le Caron.

Jan 05 Samuel de Champlain c1570-1635 sets off to visit Petun (Tobacco) Nation, south of Nottawasaga Bay, with Father Le Caron.