January(?) 1(?), 1558 - Utrecht - Olivier Van Noort is born
June 28, 1598 - Rotterdam - Van Noort receives a "Letter of Marque" from States Gereral of the Netherlands, as a member of a Company =(START)
September 13, 1598 - Goree - Sets sail for Plymouth with Four ships: "Mauritius", "Hendrick Frederick", "Eendracht" and "Hoop" in order to take on board the cloaths and other necessaries of their pilot, Mr.Mellish, and english who had been abroad before, with Thomas Cavendish
September 21, 1598 - Plymouth - The squadron leaves Plymouth with a fresh gale from northeast
October(?) 26(?), 1598 - Canary Islands - Passage through the Canary Islands
December 4, 1598 - Off Cape Palma (Liberia/Ivory Coast border) - Off Cape Palma
December 10, 1598 - Island of Príncipe (São Tomé) - Van Noort reaches the Island of Príncipe. Sending their boats on shore, they carry a flag of truce, and a negro with some portuguese meet them with a like token of peace. The dutch ask for a supply of provisions, but are suddenly ambushed and several of them killed
December 17, 1598 - Island of Príncipe (São Tomé) - It is determined in council of war, to revenge the outrage by attacking the fort, but it was strongly defended and they withraw. Van Noort then sends a contingent to burn the cane fields, but they suffer more casualties. Having taken in a supply of fresh water, they decide to set sail
December 25, 1598 - Cape Lopez (Cape Lopo Gonçalves), Gabon - Dutch ships appear, bringing news of the death of Admiral Jacques Mahu. A court is assembled and a navigator is set ashore for "mutinous practices"
January 1, 1599 - Off Annobon Island - After passing Annobon Island, Van Noort directs his course westward for Brazil
February 5, 1599 - Cape São Tomé, SE of Campo dos Goytacazes, Brazil - Van Noort reaches the Coast of Brazil
February 9, 1599 - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - The squadron anchors at the entrance of Rio de Janeiro, but it engages in a seafight with the portuguese
March 10, 1599 - Rio de Janeiro - Van Noort is unable to load fresh water, so the dutch captains decide to spend the South Winter in St.Helena Island.March 30, 1599 - Between Brazil and St.Helena - Without fresh provisions and water running low, the first death from scurvy is recorded
May 8, 1599 - Between St.Helena and Africa - Van Noort doesn't find St.Helena and the crew starts suffering from scurvy
May 31, 1599 - Off Brazil - Van Noort turns west, still without finding St.Helena Island
June 2, 1599 - Santa Clara Island(?) - Van Noort anchors at an island 3 miles from the Brazilian coast. They find herbs that were efficient to treat scurvy, and plenty of fish. However, water was short, and five more men die there. Two crewmen are justiced to abandonment at some future convenient place for mutinous practices. Another man was sentenced to have his hand fastened to the mast by his knife driven through it for having attacked the pilot with the same knife. He could only release himself by drawing his hand through the blade. The "Eendracht" is surveyed and found unfit for further use, and she is dismantled and burned.
June 30, 1599 - São Sebastião Island (Ilhabela - State of São Paulo) - Sailing by the coast of Brazil, Van Noort is finally able to load fresh water
July 9, 1599 - São Sebastião Island (Ilhabela - State of São Paulo) - Van Noort weighs anchor and sails to Puerto Deseado
September(?) 1(?), 1599 - Off La Plata - Speculative date - The three dutch ships are sighted by the spanish, who warn the Viceroy of Peru
September 20, 1599 - Puerto Deseado - After a storm, the dutch reach Puerto Deseado. Seals and penguins were plentiful there, and the ships were careened and the bottoms scraped
October 20, 1599 - Puerto Deseado - Natives are seen. Van Noort sends two boats to the place where they were seen, but sees no one. He lands and marches off into the interior with 20 men. In his absence, the five men tending the boats are attacked - Three men are killed and one badly wounded. After salting down a plentiful supply of penguins and seals, they sail away for the Strait of Magellan
November 4, 1599 - Cape Virgenes - Van Noort anchors off Cape Virgenes, the southerneastern tip of continental Argentina. Van Noort lost three of his anchors in stormy weather and requested Van Ilpendam to supply him with one from the Hendrik Frederik. Van Ilpendam refused, and offended Van Noort in his refusal by declaring that he was as much a master as the Admiral. Van Noort took notice, but deferred any action
November 22, 1599 - Strait of Magellan - Van Noort enters the Strait of Magellan after four attempts against frontal winds
November 25, 1599 - Penguin Islands, Strait of Magellan - The second narrows were traversed on 25 November and the fleet arrived at the Penguin Islands. On the smaller of the two, they saw some natives, and two boats were sent to them. The islanders, about forty in number, collected themselves on a high cliff and motioned the sailors not to advance further. They threw penguins down to them, assuming that collecting penguins was the strangers’intent. When the Dutchmen continued on, the natives shot arrows at them. They responded with musket fire, driving the natives from the cliff. After landing, the Dutchmen found the natives had sought refuge in a large cave where they had also placed the women and children of the tribe. The native weapons were no match for the Dutch arms, and a wholesale massacre ensued. Van Noort later recounted this episode with equanimity, regarding it as a measured retaliation for the attack he had suffered at Port Desire, hundreds of miles away. Four boys and two girls escaped the massacre and were taken aboard the ships
December 1, 1599 - Cape Froward - Van Noort anchors where the Strait changes direction to Northwest and finds herbs which seemed to help those who were suffering from diarrhoea
December 15, 1599 - Cape Froward - Van Noort sights the "Geloof" from Jacques Mahu's expedition. The captain of the "Geloof", Seebald De Weert, joins the squadron
December 19, 1599 - Cape Froward - Vice-Admiral Van Ilpendam sails away without orders, giving the signal by firing a cannon
December 22, 1599 - Last Third of the Strait - Van Noort sets sail. De Weert, undermanned and fatigued from a year in the strait, falls behind and abandons the venture
December 25, 1599 - Last third of the Strait - Van Noort rejoins Van Ilpendam. Van Noort called for the ships’council to assemble, in which proceeding it was determined that Van Ilpendam’s conduct ‘had a tendency to excite mutiny in the fleet’. He was arrested and removed to Van Noort’s ship, with notice that he had three weeks to prepare a defence for himself at trial
January 8, 1600 - Last Third of the Strait - Ambushes. Van Noort receives a boat from De Weert asking for bread and refuses
January 26, 1600 - Last Third of the Strait - The promised court was assembled to try Van Ilpendam. His defence was considered inadequate, and he was sentenced to abandonment on shore. The punishment was carried out on the same day. The unfortunate man was put on shore with a small supply of bread and wine
February 6, 1600 - Last Third of the Strait - In council, Van Noort announces that he doesn't intend to spend Winter in the Strait as De Cordes had done
February 29, 1600 - Pacific Ocean - Van Noort reaches the Pacific Ocean
March 12, 1600 - Pacific Ocean - The "Hendrik Frederik" with 61 men, becomes separated from the main body of the fleet, never to be seen again
March 21, 1600 - Mocha Island, Chile - Van Noort anchors at the Island of Mocha. He sends one of the two men ashore that he had sentenced to abandonment while at Santa Clara to parlay with the natives, in exchange for remittance of his sentence. The man convinces the natives that he is not Spanish, and he opens trading with them. The following day a great exchange of goods is accomplished, and the Hollanders are hospitably entertained. They are treated to the local beer, made of masticated maize.
March 25, 1600 - Santa Maria Island (SW Talcahuano) - Van Noort arrives earlier to Santa Maria, where he waits for the rest of his ships, however, they fail to meet, as the admiral decides to pursue a spanish ship, the "Buen Jesus", while De Lint reaches Santa Maria Island on the same day.
April 28, 1600 - Valparaíso, Chile - Arrival to Valparaíso. Van Noort set free the prisoners and takes a ship laden with victuals
May 1, 1600 - Huasco - Landing at Huasco to load victuals. Van Noort decides to stay away from Callao
May 10, 1600 - Close to Cocos Island, Off Costa Rica - Without finding Cocos Island, Van Noort decides to cross the Pacific Ocean towards the Philippines
August 15, 1600 - Western Pacific Ocean - Van Noort abandons the "Buen Jesus" which had broken her rudder
August 28, 1600 - Western Pacific Ocean - Van Noort abandons an unidentified prize for which he had no further use. Shortly after that, he threw the coastal pilot, Juan de San Aval, captured from the Buen Jesus, over the side, a punishment usually reserved for pirates. The unfortunate man had accused Van Noort of trying to poison him to death, so Van Noort accommodated him, even though De San Aval had heretofore been treated with courtesy and took his meals with the officers
September 15, 1600 - Guam Island - The dutch sight Guam Island where he is greeted by 200 canoes, and is able to trade bits of iron for food
October 14, 1600 - Luzón(?), Philippines - Van Noort arrives in the Philippines
October 15, 1600 - Luzón, Philippines - Disguised as a french merchant, Van Noort is able to purchase rice, hogs and poultry, but he is uncovered three days later
October 24, 1600 - San Bernardino Strait - After taking a ship laden with rice, Van Noort lands
October 28, 1600 - San Bernardino Strait - When john Caleway, the ship's musician, is kidnapped, Van Noort bombards several villages
October 29, 1600 - Bastien, one of the slaves captured from the "Buen Jesus", deserted. His fellow slave, Emmanuel, was interrogated and Van Noort, not satisfied with Emmanuel’s answers, ordered the man shot
October 30, 1600 - A shore party lands and finds more hidden rice and hogs, which they slaughter. Four more villages, each of fifty to sixty houses are put to the torch
November 6, 1600 - On his way to Manila - Van Noort takes a spanish Barque
November 7, 1600 - On his way to Manila - Van Noort takes a chinese sampan which he keeps to use as a tender
November 21, 1600 - On his way to Manila - The chinese sampan vanishes, with no trace of his crewmen
November 24, 1600 - Isla Corregidor (Manila Bay) - Arrival in Manila, where Van Noort lurks outside the harbour, continuing his piracies
December 3, 1600 - Isla Corregidor (Manila Bay) - Van Noort stops a japanese ship, laden with flour, iron, fish and hams. The dutch admiral uncharacteristically purchases provisions from her, as well as a well-made wooden anchor, and let her go on her way
December 9, 1600 - Isla Corregidor (Manila Bay) - Van Noort takes a spanish vessel with a cargo of coconut wine and a chinese sampan with a cargo of rice. Both he sinks
December 14, 1600 - Fortune Island, W Nasugbu, Philippines - Naval combat with the spanish, that loose the "San Diego" galleon. Van Noort quickly extinguishes the fire and sets about setting his ship to rights. In a short time he has his ship under control, rigs a foremast sail and sets about sailing through the horde of Spanish swimmers, his men shooting and stabbing with pikes all they could reach. Many of the Spaniards were wearing heavy armour
December 26, 1600 - Brunei - The dutch arrive in Brunei with cloths but are not welcomed, narrowly escaping an attempt by the ruler there to capture his ship
January 29, 1601 - Gresik-Djaratan, Java - Stop at Gresik for a few bags of pepper
February 4, 1601 - Gresik-Djaratan, Java - Van Noort sets sail towards the Cape of Good Hope
May 3, 1601 - Cape of Good Hope - Van Noort crosses the Cape of Good Hope
May 26, 1601 - St.Helena Island - Van Noort arrives off St.Helena, where the crew refresh themselves with fresh meat, fish and water
May 30, 1601 - St.Helena Island - Van Noort leaves St.Helena
June 16, 1601 - N of St.Helena Island - Van Noort's and Van Heemskerck's ships meet north of St.Helena Island
July(?) 5(?), 1601 - Canary Island - Passage by the Canary Islands - speculative date
July 22, 1601 - ? - The crew gets extremely distressed as there wasn't enough bread and what they had was worm eaten
August 18, 1601 - ? - Van Noort meets three ships from Emden, who give him bread and fresh meat, for rice and pepper
August 26, 1601 - Goree - Van Noort returns to Rotterdam, after the Circumnavigation
January(?) 1(?), 1612 - Antwerp - Van Noort's book with the description of his voyage from 1598 to 1601 appears in Antwerp
January(?) 1(?), 1620 - Schoonhoven - Van Noort becomes commander of the Schoonhoven garrison until the end of his life
February 22, 1627 - Schoonhoven - Olivier Van Noort dies, aged 68 =(END)
