When was Henry Hudson?

Answer 1

Henry Hudson Born: c. 1570 Died: 22-Jun-1611 Location of death: Hudson Bay Cause of death: unspecified Remains: Missing (lost at sea) Gender: Male Race or Ethnicity: White Occupation: Explorer Nationality: England Executive summary: Sought a Northeast Passage English navigator and explorer.

Nothing is known of his personal

history excepting such as falls within

the period of the four voyages on

which his fame rests. The first of

these voyages in quest of new trade and a short route to China by way

of the North Pole, in accordance with

the suggestion of Robert Thorne (d.

1527), was made for the Muscovy

Company with ten men and a boy in

1607. Hudson first coasted the east side of Greenland, and being

prevented from proceeding

northwards by the great ice barrier

which stretches from there to

Spitzbergen, sailed along it until he

reached Newland, as Spitzbergen was then called, and followed its northern

coast to beyond 80° N. latitude. On

the homeward voyage he

accidentally discovered an island in

latitude 71° which he named

Hudson's Touches, and which has since been identified with Jan Mayen

Island. Molineux's chart, published

by Richard Hakluyt about 1600, was Hudson's blind guide in this voyage,

and the polar map of 1611 by

Pontanus illustrates well what he

attempted, and the valuable results

both negative and positive which he

reached. He investigated the trade prospects at Bear Island, and

recommended his patrons to seek

higher game in Newland; hence he

may be called the father of the

English whale-fisheries at Spitzbergen. Next year Hudson was again sent by

the Muscovy Company to open a

passage to China, this time by the

northeast route between Spitzbergen

and Novaya Zemlya, which had been

attempted by his predecessors and especially by the Dutch navigator Willem Barents. This voyage lasted from the 22nd of April to the 26th of

August 1608. He raked the Barents

Sea in vain between 75° 30' N.W. and

71° 15' S.E. for an opening through

the ice, and on the 6th of July, "voide

of hope of a north-east passage (except by the Waygats, for which I

was not fitted to trie or prove)", he

resolved to sail to the northwest, and

if time and means permitted to run a

hundred leagues up Lumley's Inlet

(Frobisher Strait) or Davis's "overfall" (Hudson Strait). But his

voyage being delayed by contrary

winds he was finally compelled to

return without accomplishing his

wish. The failure of this second

attempt satisfied the Muscovy Company, which from that point

directed all its energies to the

profitable Spitzbergen trade. Towards the end of 1608 Hudson

"had a call" to Amsterdam, where he

saw the celebrated cosmographer the

Rev. Peter Plancius and the

cartographer Hondius, and after

some delay, due to the rivalry which was exhibited in the attempt to

secure his services, he undertook for

the Dutch East India Company his

important third voyage to find a

passage to China either by the

northeast or northwest route. With a mixed crew of eighteen or twenty

men he left the Texel in the "Half-

Moon" on the 6th of April, and by

the 5th of May was in the Barents

Sea, and soon afterwards among the

ice near Novaya Zemlya, where he had been the year before. Some of

his men becoming disheartened and

mutinous (it is now supposed that he

had arrived two or three months too

early), he lost hope of effecting

anything by that route, and submitted to his men, as alternative

proposals, either to go to Lumley's

Inlet and follow up Waymouth's

light, or to make for North Virginia

and seek the passage in about 40°

latitude, according to the letter and map sent him by his friend Captain John Smith. The latter plan was adopted, and on the 14th of May

Hudson set his face towards the

Chesapeake and China. He touched

at Stromo in the Faroe Islands for

water, and on the 15th of June off

Newfoundland the "Half-Moon" "spent overboard her foremast." This

accident compelled him to put into

the Kennebec river, where a mast was

procured, and some communication

and an unnecessary encounter with

the Indians took place. Sailing again on the 26th of July, he began on the

28th of August the survey where

Smith left off, at 37° 36' according

to his map, and coasted northwards.

On the 3rd of September, in 40° 30',

he entered the fine bay of New York, and after having gone 150 miles up

the river which now bears his name

to near the position of the present

Albany, treating with the Indians,

surveying the country, and trying

the stream above tide-water, he became satisfied that this course did

not lead to the South Sea or China, a

conclusion in harmony with that of Samuel de Champlain, who the same summer had been making his way

south through Lake Champlain and

Lake St. Sacrement (now Lake

George). The two explorers by

opposite routes approached within 20

leagues of each other. On the 4th of October the "Half-Moon" weighed for

the Texel, and on the 7th of

November arrived at Dartmouth,

where she was seized and detained by

the English government, Hudson and

the other Englishmen of the ship being commanded not to leave

England, but rather to serve their

own country. The voyage had fallen

short of Hudson's expectations, but it

served many purposes perhaps as

important to the world. Among other results it exploded Hakluyt's myth,

which from the publication of Lok's

map in 1582 to the 2nd charter of

Virginia in May 1609 he had lost no

opportunity of promulgating, that

near 40° latitude there was a narrow isthmus, formed by the sea of

Verrazano, like that of Tehuantepec

or Panama. Hudson's confidence in the existence

of a Northwest Passage had not been

diminished by his three failures, and

a new company was formed to

support him in a fourth attempt, the

principal promoters being Sir Thomas Smith (or Smythe), Sir Dudley Digges

and John (afterwards Sir John)

Wolstenholme. He determined this

time to carry out his old plan of

searching for a passage up Davis's

"overfall" -- so-called in allusion to the overfall of the tide which Davis had

observed rushing through the strait.

Hudson sailed from London in the

little ship "Discovery" of 55 tons, on

the 17th of April 1610, and entered

the strait which now bears his name about the middle of June. Sailing

steadily westward he entered Hudson

Bay on the 3rd of August, and

passing southward spent the next

three months examining the eastern

shore of the bay. On the 1st of November the "Discovery" went into

winter quarters in the S.W. corner of

James Bay, being frozen in a few

days later, and during the long

winter months which were passed

there only a scanty supply of game was secured to eke out the ship's

provisions. Discontent became rife,

and on the ship breaking out of the

ice in the spring Hudson had a violent

quarrel with a dissolute young fellow

named Henry Greene, whom he had befriended by taking him on board,

and who now retaliated by inciting

the discontented part of the crew to

put Hudson and eight others

(including the sick men) out of the

ship. This happened on the 22nd of June 1611. Robert Bylot was elected

master and brought the ship back to

England. During the voyage home

Greene and several others were killed

in a fight with the Eskimo, while

others again died of starvation, and the feeble remnant which reached

England in September were thrown

into prison. No more tidings were ever

received of the deserted men. Although it is certain that the four

great geographical landmarks which

today serve to keep Hudson's

memory alive, namely the Hudson

Bay, Strait, Territory and River, had

repeatedly been visited and even drawn on maps and charts before he

set out on his voyages, yet he

deserves to take a very high rank

among northern navigators for the

mere extent of his discoveries and the

success with which he pushed them beyond the limits of his predecessors.

The rich fisheries of Spitzbergen and

the fur industry of the Hudson Bay

Territory were the immediate fruit of

his labors.

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Answer 2

Henry Hudson came to America in the year 1610. While looking for a Northeast route to India. Henry explored the region around Modern New York City.

Answer 3

he sailed in 1609 on the Hopewell for Holland and later On the Half moon.

Answer 4

At first, he was trying to go somewhere else, but he accidentally ended up at North America.

Answer 5

1611. no 1599

Answer 6

He arrived in Canada in the 1607 ✍🏽

Answer 7

Henry Hudson got to America in 1610