User:RexxS/Caroline era


 * 1625 : https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1625&oldid=931605303
 * July – The Barbary pirates first attack south-western England. In August they enslave about 60 people from Mount's Bay in Cornwall. ← Conflicts/International
 * September 8 – The Treaty of Southampton makes an alliance between England and the Dutch Republic, against Spain. ← Conflicts/International
 * November 1–7 – Cádiz Expedition: English forces commanded by Admiral George Villiers (which set out from Plymouth on October 8) are decisively defeated by the Spanish at Cádiz. ← Conflicts/International
 * December 9 – Thirty Years' War: The Netherlands and England sign the Treaty of The Hague, a military peace treaty for providing economical aid to King Christian IV of Denmark, during his military campaigns in Germany. ← Conflicts/International
 * An English colony is established in Barbados. ← Colonies


 * 1627 : https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1627&oldid=862122090
 * July 22 – The English, under the Duke of Buckingham, invade Ré Island in support of the Huguenots in La Rochelle; the invasion fails. ← Conflicts/International


 * 1628 : https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1628&oldid=906310170
 * September 6 – Puritans settle Salem, which will later become part of Massachusetts Bay Colony. ← Colonies

Barbados
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Barbados&oldid=942958933:


 * An English ship, the Olive Blossom, arrived in Barbados on 14 May 1625; its men took possession of it in the name of King James I. In 1627, the first permanent settlers arrived from England, and it became an English and later British colony. ← Colonies

After visits by Portuguese and Spanish explorers, Barbados was claimed on 14 May 1625 for James I (who had died six weeks earlier) by Captain John Powell. Two years later, a party of 80 settlers and 10 slaves, led by his brother, Captain Henry Powell, occupied the island. In 1639 the colonists established a local democratic assembly. Agriculture, reliant on indenture, was developed by the introduction of sugar cane, tobacco and cotton, beginning in the 1630s.