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1. Hudson was born in England during the 1560s

2. In 1607, the Muscovy Company of the Kingdom of England hired Hudson to find a northerly route to the Pacific coast of Asia.

3.Hudson sailed for the first time on the 1st of May,1607 with a crew of ten men and a boy on the 80-ton Hopewell.

4. Hudson was abandoned on a lifeboat along with his son and some loyal crew members by his crew.

5.In 1610, Hudson managed to get backing for yet another voyage, this time under the English flag.

6. Henry Hudson died in 1611 at the Hudson bay

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About his life

Henry Hudson was an English sea explorer and navigator in the early 17th century.

After several voyages on behalf of English merchants to explore a prospective Northeast passage to India, Hudson explored the region around modern New York City while looking for a western route to Asia under the auspices of the Dutch East India Company. He explored the river which eventually was named for him, and laid thereby the foundation for Dutch colonization of the region.

Henry Hudson was a very good navigator and sailor who named and explored the Hudson Bay in Canada and the Hudson river in America. His quest was to find a shortcut from Europe to the far east. Hudson was from England, but nothing is known about his life before 1607.

On May 1, 1607, Hudson, his son, and 11 other crew members sailed from England on the Hopewell. He and his crew went past Greenland toward the North Pole. They were working for an English trading company and were hoping to find a quicker way to get from England to the Far East, by way of the Arctic Ocean. In the next two years, he tried twice more to find a "northeast passage" but failed and returned to England. The trading company would not send him on any more explorations

Delaware Bay, and later New York Bay. He was the first European to ascend (1609) the Hudson River (named for him), nearly to present-day Albany. His voyage gave the Dutch their claim to the region. His fourth expedition (1610), financed by English adventurers, started from England. Again he sailed westward, hoping to find the Northwest Passage. Between Greenland and Labrador he entered Hudson Strait and by it reached Hudson Bay. After weeks of exploration, he was forced by ice to winter there. By the next summer (1611) his starved and diseased crew mutinied and set Hudson, with his son and seven men, adrift in a small boat, without food or water. He was never seen again. His discoveries, however, gave England its claim to the Hudson Bay region. caravel was a ship with improved sails to float in to the wind, hudson used them' Hudson, like many navigators of his era, had heard rumors about all-water passages to the west the opposite direction from that mandated in his instructions. One popular story stemmed from a voyage taken by George Weymouth in 1602, in which the explorer speculated about the existence of a passage through northern North America to the Pacific Ocean

Henry Hudson established New World claims for the Dutch in what would become the New York area, and for the English in northern Canada

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 * 1565: Henry Hudson was born in London, England
 * Henry Hudson came from a wealthy family. His grandfather, also named Henry Hudson, had been a founding member of the Merchant Adventurers on 18th of December 1551 which later became the Muscovy Trading Company
 * John Dee was a consultant to the Muscovy Company which was formed by the navigator and explorer Sebastian Cabot together with a number of London merchants. The Muscovy Company was granted a monopoly of Anglo-Russian trade and aimed to search for the Northeast Passage
 * There is little information about the early life of Henry Hudson but he would have been well educated and would have studied cartography, navigation, astronomy, mathematics and seamanship in his early life
 * Henry Hudson would also have accompanied various voyages of exploration and discovery financed by the Muscovy Company
 * Henry Hudson married a girl called Katherine and they had three sons called John, Richard and Oliver
 * The Hudson family lived in London

When the ice cleared in the spring of 1611, Hudson planned to continue exploring but his crew wanted to return home. Matters came to a head and the crew mutinie d in June. The people in charge of the mutiny were Hudson's close friends, Robert Juet and Henry Greene (according to Abacuk Pricket 's journal). According to the mutineers, they set Hudson, his teenage son John and six crewmen—either sick and infirm or loyal to Hudson—adrift in a small open boat, effectively marooning them. According to Pricket's journal, the castaways were provided with powder and shot, some pikes, an iron pot, some meal, and other miscellaneous items, as well as clothing.

In November 1610, the Discovery became locked in ice in Hudson Bay. The crew wanted to get back to England, but Hudson would not let them leave. It was a very cold winter, and the crew suffered greatly in the icy conditions. The crew was thinking of mutiny. In June 1611, they decided to put Hudson, his son, and the seven others into a small boat, and they were never heard from again.

1607: Henry Hudson was selected by the Muscovy Company to command an expedition "to discover a passage by the North Pole to Japan and China."


 * The Hopewell was a small, old ship
 * There were only about 20 crew members
 * 1607 May: Henry Hudson set sail in the Hopewell from Gravesend in England


 * 1607 June: Henry Hudson reached Greenland
 * Henry Hudson steered the Hopewell further North and stopped in what would later be called Whale Bay 750 miles north of the Arctic Circle


 * 1608: Henry Hudson was ready to command his second expedition to discover a northeast passage through the Arctic waters north of Russia
 * The Muscovy Company again financed the expedition the Hopewell was again used for the expedition
 * 1608 April: Henry Hudson set sail in the Hopewell from St. Katherine's Docks, on the Thames in London
 * Henry Hudson travelled past Norway and towards Russia
 * Conditions on board and the freezing weather and ice lead to near mutiny by the crew
 * Hudson was forced to sail back to England
 * 1608 August 28: Henry Hudson landed at Gravesend, England

The contract was very specific as to what was required of Henry Hudson:


 * "the above named Hudson shall, about the first of April, sail in order to search for a passage by the north, around the north side of Nova Zembla, and shall continue thus along that parallel until he shall be able to sail southward to the latitude of sixty degrees. He shall obtain as much knowledge of the lands as can be done without any considerable loss of time, and if it is possible return immediately in order to make a faithful report and relation of his voyage to the Directors, and to deliver over his journals, log-books, and charts, together with an account of everything whatsoever which shall happen to him during the voyage without keeping anything back."

media type="youtube" key="qkno_ceoUvM?fs=1" height="214" width="263"Henry Hudson (1565-1611) was an English explorer and navigator who explored parts of the Arctic Ocean and northeastern North America. The Hudson River, Hudson Strait, and Hudson Bay are named for Hudson. Little is known about Hudson's early life. Hudson was hired by the Muscovy Company in 1607, to find a waterway from Europe to Asia. Hudson made two trips (in 1607 and 1608), but failed to find a route to China. In 1607, he sailed to Spitzbergen (an island north of Scandinavia in the Arctic Ocean) and discovered Jan Mayen Island (a tiny island off eastern Greenland). In 1608, he sailed to Novaya Zemlya(an island north of Russia in the Arctic Ocean)
 * Another old, small ship called the Half Moon was provided for the expedition - the Dutch United East India Company told Hudson that if he had any complaints they would find another Captain
 * There were only about 20 crew members - a mixture of Dutch and English
 * 1609 April: Henry Hudson set sail in the Half Moon from Holland sailing under the Dutch flag
 * Henry Hudson travelled towards the cold waters of Norway and towards Russia
 * Conditions on board and the freezing weather and ice once again lead to near mutiny by the crew just as in his previous voyage
 * Henry Hudson decided to completely change direction and head West towards warmer waters and the New World!

On his fourth expedition in 1610, attempting to find the Northwest Passage through the North American Arctic, Hudson's ship became trapped in the ice. In June of 1611, as he sought to continue on, his crew mutinied. Hudson, his son, his wife, and seven others were set adrift in a small rowboat and he was never seen again.

= Biographical sketch =

He was born in Lodan.Henry Hudson was a normal sized man, he had a modern day haircut and he also had a mustache and a beard. He was an english explorer who wantes to find a all water route to the east he traveled west to the east. He was well educated early in his life and became successful. Hudson explored the area and found nothing. His crew demanded to go home, but Hudson would not give in. Winter set in and the ship was stranded on the ice. When Spring came, Hudson wanted to continue, but the crew had had enough. They mutinied and left Hudson, his son John and six other supporters to die at sea in a small boat. Nothing was seen of them since. As for the crew members. They returned to England, but any of them died on the way, because of starvation. When they returned to England, they were not hung. For they were too valuable to hang, because they had seen the only Northwest route thought to exist to the Orient. sent a description of his journey back to Holland and asked for funding on for another voyage. Holland demanded that he returned back to Holland, but the English wouldn’t let him go back. They did not want anymore voyages to benefit Holland. Hudson’s fourth voyage was financed by the English merchant Thomas Smith. He left in the ship Discovery, in April, 1610. He sailed across the North Atlantic into the Hudson Strait and then into Hudson Bay. He was convinced that the large sea led to the Orient.

Apr 19, 1607 - On 19 April 1607, Henry Hudson together with his crew, took Communion at St Ethelburga's prior to putting to sea in search of the North-East passage to India. Hudson was a mercenary, and, it seems

1609 - HENRY HUDSON. An eminent English navigator, who discovered the Hudson River in 1609. to the valley, but extend at times to the adjacent roads, and especially to the vicinity of a church at no great distance.

Apr 4, 1609 - On April 4, 1609, the English navigator Henry Hudson left Amsterdam harbor to search for a shortcut to Asia. Hudson's instructions from the Dutch East India Company were to sail east, as he had on two earlier voyages that were thwarted by Arctic ice.

Sep 1609 - In September, 1609, Henry Hudson, an English explorer in the employ of the Dutch, sailed to the uppermost limit of navigation on the river that now bears his name. Hudson may have been aware 8 of the lakes that lay but a few miles to the north of where he ended