Timeline September 1628

Events in September 1628 3

• 1554 – 1628 Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke (1554-1628) Died 30 September 1628, aged 73 Greville was an English poet, dramatist, and statesman who served as Chancellor of the Exchequer under James I. He died from a wound inflicted by his own servant during a dispute over his will.
• 1628 Founding of Salem, Massachusetts Puritan settlers under John Endecott establish a permanent colony A group of Puritan colonists led by John Endecott, sent by the New England Company, settled at Naumkeag on the Massachusetts coast and renamed it Salem. The settlement became the nucleus of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, chartered later that year.
• 1628 Capture of the Spanish Treasure Fleet Dutch admiral Piet Hein seizes Spain's silver fleet at Matanzas Bay Dutch West India Company admiral Piet Hein intercepted and captured the Spanish treasure fleet off the coast of Cuba without a major battle. The seized silver and goods, worth millions of guilders, financed Dutch war efforts against Spain and marked one of the costliest losses of the Spanish crown's American revenues.