Events
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January 1 - In the Gregorian calendar, January 1 is declared as the first day of the year, instead of March 25.
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February 8 - King James I of England disbands the English Parliament.
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March 22 - In the Jamestown massacre , Algonquian Indians kill 347 English settlers around Jamestown, Virginia (1/3 of the colony's population).
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Étienne Brûlé is the first European to see Lake Superior.
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Portugal loses control of the island of Ormus, after 107 years.
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Albertus Magnus is beatified by the Roman Catholic Church.
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Spanish galleon Nuestra Señora de Atocha sinks off the Florida Keys, while carrying copper, silver, gold, tobacco, and indigo. (Wreck discovered 1985).
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