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Year 1457 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar. Events. January–December February 11 ... and the first to carry a printed date, ...
1526: Lucas Vázquez de Ayllón briefly establishes the failed settlement of San Miguel de Gualdape in South Carolina, the first site of enslavement of Africans in North America and of the first slave rebellion. 1527: Fishermen are using the harbor at St. John's, Newfoundland and other places on the coast.
300 B.C. – Maize first grown in Eastern North America. 100 B.C. – A.D. 400 – The Hopewell tradition flourishes. 600 – Emergence of Mississippian culture. 700 – Use of the bow and arrow becomes widespread among peoples of Eastern North America. 1000 – Leif Ericson explores the east coast of North America. [1]
List of incidents of civil unrest in Colonial North America; List of North American settlements by year of foundation; Political culture of the United States; Slavery in the colonial United States; Social history of soldiers and veterans in the United States; Thirteen Colonies; United Colonies, the name for the emerging nation, 1775–1776 ...
Pages in category "1457" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
The Gregorian calendar is the calendar used in most parts of the world. [1] [a] It went into effect in October 1582 following the papal bull Inter gravissimas issued by Pope Gregory XIII, which introduced it as a modification of, and replacement for, the Julian calendar.
1883–84 – German-American anthropologist Franz Boas is the first to see Nettilling Lake on Baffin Island. [78] 1887–89 – Stanley traverses the Ituri Rainforest, explores the Rwenzori, and follows the Semliki to its source (which he names Lake Edward). [124] 1892 – Robert Peary discovers and names Independence Bay and Peary Land. [122]
1 January – Osmund of Salisbury (died 1099) is canonised, the last English saint created until the 20th century. His remains are translated from Old Sarum to Salisbury Cathedral on 23 July.