Page 24 - Chinese Porcelain Vol I, Galland

xx CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE.

more and more troublesome, and the emperor finally died of
a broken heart.
1577. — Drake circumnavigated the globe.
—
1579. Jesuits first reached Canton, and had great influence
till about 1700. Christian teachers had into the
penetrated
centuries Marco Polo
country before, and are referred to by
(Enc. Brit).
1587-1588.— Amongst the New Year's gifts to Queen
Elizabeth, Lord Treasurer Burghley offered one porringer of
"
white with
porselyn garnished gold," and Mr. Kobert Cecill
" " "
a of
cup grene pursselyne (Nichals, Progress of Elizabeth ").
1595. — Dutch set out on their to the
ships first voyage
East Indies.
—
1596. Three were sent to inter-
English ships open up
course with China, bearing letters from Queen Elizabeth to
the emperor, but were lost (Davis).
1599. — "The English East India Company established.
Did not, for a after its formation, succeed in
long period open-
ing a direct trade with India and China, being excluded from
those countries by the Portuguese and Dutch. At length
they, however, formed their first establishment at the Port of
to Ormus, in the Persian Gulf, where
Gombron, opposite they
engrossed a large share of the commerce, which was very
extensive, as that place was the entrepot where the commodi-
ties of India and China were exchanged for those of Europe.
From this the of China was first introduced
place porcelain
directly into England, and from this circumstance it received
the name of Gombron ware, so Horace Wal-
designated by
and Lister, and which was at first to
pole designation applied
' '
'
all porcelain in general before it was called China (Marryat,
p. 192).
1601-1610.— Ricci, the Jesuit missionary, was allowed to
remain in Peking, where he died.
1602.— Dutch East India Company established, during the
of Ostend, on the basis laid down the Amsterdam
siege by
traders in 1595.
—
1609. Dutch East India Company allowed to trade with
.Japan. —
1613. Captain Saris founded an English factory at Hirado,
but it did not exist for any length of time.