Privateer Captain and Jamestown Fleet Commander

Privateer Captain and Jamestown Fleet Commander

Christopher Newport

Drawing on navigation experience honed through military and privateering activities, he took charge of voyages to the North American colony, resupply missions, and negotiations with Indigenous peoples. In 1609, as captain of the Sea Venture and vice-admiral of the Third Supply fleet, he experienced a shipwreck off Bermuda. Afterwards, he joined the East India Company and made voyages toward Southeast Asia and India.

Timeline

Category
Element
Year Christopher Newport
1561
Birth of Christopher Newport (Period: December 1561 (data shows uncertainty regarding the exact birthdate))
1580
Commencement of Life at Sea (Age: 18 years old, Period: Around 1580)
1584
Marriage (Christopher Newport, Katherine Proctor, Age: 22 years old, Period: October 19, 1584)
1585
Anglo-Spanish War (Age: 23 years old, Period: 1585–1604)
1590
Privateering Expeditions to the Caribbean and Spanish Territory (Age: 28 years old, Period: Around 1590–1604)
Battle in Which He Lost His Right Arm (Age: 28 years old, Period: 1590)
Marriage (Christopher Newport, Ellen Ade, Age: 28 years old, Period: Around 1590)
1591
Blockade of Cuba and Attacks on Spanish Ships (Age: 29 years old, Period: 1591)
1592
Capture of the Madre de Deus (Age: 30 years old, Period: 1592)
Newport’s 1592 Expedition (Age: 30 years old, Period: April–June 1592)
1595
Marriage (Christopher Newport, Elizabeth Glanville, Age: 33 years old, Period: 1595)
1596
Participation in the Raid on Cádiz (Age: 34 years old, Period: 1596)
1599
Raid on Tabasco (Age: 37 years old, Period: November 1599)
1603
Failed Raid on Spanish Jamaica (Age: 41 years old, Period: January 1603)
Raid on Puerto Caballos (Age: 41 years old, Period: 1603)
1606
Command of the Virginia Company’s Colonizing Voyage (Age: 44 years old, Period: 1606–1607)
Voyage of the Jamestown Colonists (Age: 45 years old, Period: December 1606 – May 1607)
1607
Participation in the Construction of Jamestown (Age: 45 years old, Period: 1607)
First Supply Mission (Age: 45 years old, Period: 1607–1608)
Erection of the Cross at Cape Henry (Age: 45 years old, Period: April 29, 1607)
1608
Coronation of Powhatan (Age: 46 years old, Period: 1608)
Namontack’s Visit to England (Age: 46 years old, Period: 1608)
Second Supply Mission (Age: 46 years old, Period: 1608)
1609
Third Supply Mission (Age: 47 years old, Period: 1609–1610)
Shipwreck of the Sea Venture (Age: 47 years old, Period: July 1609 – May 1610)
1610
Final Voyage to Jamestown (Age: 48 years old, Period: 1610–1611)
1612
Joining the East India Company (Age: 50 years old, Period: 1612)
1613
East India Company’s Eastern Voyage (Age: 51 years old, Period: 1613–1617)
1617
Arrival at Bantam and Death (Christopher Newport, Age: 55 years old, Period: August 1617)
Arrival at Bantam and Death (Age: 55 years old, Period: August 1617)
Death of Christopher Newport (Age: 55 years old, Period: After August 1517)

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Colonial settlement John Smith Christopher Newport George Percy Edward Maria Wingfield Thomas Gates Samuel Argall William Strachey
Bacon's Rebellion Nathaniel Bacon William Berkeley William Drummond Richard Lawrence Thomas Hansford Joseph Ingram
The Washington family Augustine Warner Jr. Lawrence Washington Augustine Washington Sr. George Washington John Washington
North Carolina Early Settlers John Lawson Thomas Cary Edward Hyde John Jenkins John Culpeper
Virginia politician George Washington Patrick Henry Thomas Jefferson Richard Henry Lee Francis Lightfoot Lee Peyton Randolph George Mason IV

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