1569: Davy Ingram shipwrecked in Mexico, walks to Cape Breton, Canada.
1571: Russia. Slave Chancellery established in Moscow.
1572: London. The Vagabond Act outlaws poverty, homelessness, and forms the basis of the white slave trade.
1578: June. Walter Raleigh’s brother, Sir Humphrey Gilbert is granted a patent by Queen Elizabeth to discover and occupy new lands in North America.
1580: Irish Rebellion.
1581: Autumn, Raleigh serves as a captain in Ireland.
1582: Davy Ingram interrogated by English Authorities in London.
1583: Abortive plan to settle English Catholics in Newfoundland.
1584: Raleigh’s expedition to Roanoke.
1585: 300 Irish soldiers conscripted for Roanoke expedition.
1585: Darby Glande kidnapped by Grenville aboard a French ship.
1585: Grenville’s expedition to Roanoke.
1585-86: Lane’s war on the Indians. Darby Glande serves as conscript.
1586: Darby Glande returns to London.
1587: Spring. Darby Glande kidnapped by Grenville in London.
1587: July. Puerto Rico, Darby Glande surrenders to Spanish governor, informs about the Roanoke Colony.
1587: July 15. Roanoke, Carolina, colony of religious separatists marooned intentionally to discredit their patron, Sir Walter Raleigh.
1587: August. Roanoke colonists find remains of a dead Englishman.
1587: Darby Glande sold as a galley slave.
1587: Sir Francis Bacon writes “Of Plantations,” speaking against the practice of using slave labor for colonies.
1588: The Spanish search for Roanoke Colony.
1590: Relief expedition to Roanoke finds no survivors.
1593: February. John White, governor of Roanoke, writes a letter and is never heard from again.
1594: Darby Glande survives seven years as a galley slave and is hired as a French soldier in Cuba.
1599: Dutch, Sephardic Jews enter the Trans Atlantic slave trade, eventually dominating the trade.
1600: Saint Augustine, Florida. Darby Glande employed as a soldier by the Spanish.
1603: May. Raleigh sends two vessels under Bartholomew Gilbert to the Chesapeake Bay in search of the lost colonists. Gilbert is killed by Indians, the last of nine unsuccessful expeditions to find the colony.
1603: November. Raleigh charged with treason, jail, eventually convicted and killed. The Queen’s patent is null and void.
