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Roanoke was the first English settlement in the new world. Unfortunately the inhabitants of the colony would completely vanish, leading to the legendary tale of the Lost Colony of Roanoke. -
L’Orfeo was a highly influential piece which is believed to be the very first Opera ever written. -
L’Orfeo was released and first performed publicly in this year, it was a massive success and gave rise to the genre of opera -
First permanent English settlement in the New World. Would lead way to Anglo dominance across North America and eventually the United States of America. -
Prominent Italian composer and opera singer who was one of the only female composers of the baroque era. -
First ever slaves arrive in North America at the English colony of Jamestown. The start of an institution that would stay with the descendants of the Jamestown colonists until chaotically ending with the American Civil War. -
Influential Italian composer who moved to Florence and began writing operas -
War fought between colonists in the New England Confederacy and many Indian tribes in the area. The war was very costly for both sides and lasted 2 years, half of the colonists in New England died in the war and 11 English settlements were burned by the Indians. Colonists fought for their existence on the continent. -
Handel is granted permission and leaves Germany to find work in England on the condition that he would return in “reasonable time,” he would never return to Germany. -
Economic and political differences, paired with the issue of governing large swaths of land, causes the Northern and Southern halves of the English colony of Carolina to split up into the separate colonies of North Carolina and South Carolina, a separation which persists to this day. -
Bach revises many of his works and canons to clearly redefine the Flugue as it’s own unique genre -
Spanish ship La Fortuna sails up the Cape Fear river to Brunswick, colonial capital of North Carolina. They burn the town before being chased off by colonial militia. Attack results in capital being moved to Newbern and causes many colonists to leave the area and establish the nearby Port of Wilmington. Brunswick remains abandoned to this day.