In A.D. 15 1 1 year, the book The Messenger of Babylon written by martyr Peter Dan Guillerat mentioned Bermuda and the Spanish. In the same year, Spain added islands to the chart. Spanish and Portuguese ships use Bermuda as a supply station for fresh meat and water. However, the legend of ghosts makes people afraid to settle in Devil's Island for a long time. It is said that this story is caused by the harsh cry of birds (probably Bermuda petrel) and the persistent storm (which is the situation in which most early tourists arrived).
Bermuda and Gonzá lez Ferdinando Oviedo speculated on Bermuda around1514-1515, intending to buy pigs on the island as fresh meat futures and sell them to future ships. However, the bad weather in Bermuda prevented them from landing.
A few years later, a Portuguese ship returning from Santo Domingo hit two rocks on the reef. The crew tried their best to rescue and built a new hull with Bermuda cypress in the next four months, returning to the original starting point. It is said that one of the stranded crew members carved the initials "R" and "P" and the year "1543" on the Spanish rock. The original letter may be a symbol of "Rex Portugaline", but it was later misinformed by the Spanish, so that this stone was mistakenly called "Spanish stone".
In the next century, some people stayed at Bermuda's level, but no one settled yet. Britain's first two colonies in Virginia failed, and King James I and King James VI of England resolutely decided to grant the Virginia company a royal franchise. 1609, Admiral Sir George Summers, commander of the company's fleet, led the fleet out of England to help Jamestown colony which was colonized two years ago. Summers had sailed with Sir Francis Drake and Sir Walter Raleigh and accumulated experience. The fleet was damaged in the storm, and the flagship "Ocean Adventure" was wrecked in the waters near Bermuda (as depicted in Bermuda's coat of arms), so the survivors had to live in a new territory. William shakespeare's play The Tempest may have been influenced by William Strachey's account of the shipwreck. The British royal family claimed Bermuda, so they added relevant clauses to the articles of association of the Virginia company. 16 15, Bermuda handed over a new company-Summers Island Company (Summers Island is still the official name of the colony), which was composed of the same shareholders. The first British coin in America was minted here.
In 16 10, most of the survivors of ocean exploration were taken to Jamestown by two Bermuda-made ships. John Rolf is one of the survivors. His wife and children are buried in Bermuda. Later, he married pocahontas, the daughter of Chief Powhatan, in Jamestown, and Rolf started the tobacco industry in Virginia alone (logging would be the economic base of the colony). 16 12 With the arrival of plough, the carefully studied Bermuda colonization finally began.
Due to the shortage of land, Bermuda is facing problems brought about by population growth. In the first two colonial centuries, the local population was controlled by stable immigrants. Before the American War of Independence, 1 10,000 Bermudians immigrated, mainly to the southern United States. There, England (later called Great Britain) is replacing Spain as the empire that rules Europe. Before the end of 18, the continuous flow of immigrants has not stopped, and the navigation industry has become the only industry. At that time, at least one third of the people on the island were sailing at sea at any time.
However, in the17th century, Summers Island Company suppressed the shipbuilding industry because they needed Bermudians to farm to earn income. Bermuda cannot be a successful agricultural colony. It is reported that the Bermuda cypress wooden box for transporting tobacco to Britain and the goods from Binet.Alfred are even more valuable. However, the quality and quantity of tobacco produced by Virginia Colony are better than Bermuda. After the collapse of Summers Island Company, Bermudians immediately gave up agriculture and turned to shipbuilding. They replanted the original cypress (Sabina Bermuda, scientific name "Juniper", also known as "Bermuda cypress") on the agricultural land, and the trees quickly grew all over the island. Bermudians made full use of Turks and Caicos Islands, and after deforestation, they started the largest salt trade in the world. Salt trade will become Bermuda's economic pillar in the next century.
Bermuda sailors want to trade, not just supply salt. However, whaling, privateering and commercial trade have developed steadily. The speed and maneuverability of Bermuda dhows are highly valued. At the end of the Battle of Trafalgar, Bermuda's sloop, HMS Pickle, one of the fastest ships in the Royal Navy, even returned to England at full speed with the good news of victory and the death of Admiral Lord Nelson.
After the American War of Independence, the Royal Navy built a large shipyard on the island of Ireland in order to improve the port. In the future, the navy will regard the base as a strategic asset, and later the base will be more beneficial to the United States (see the next paragraph). Bermuda allowed the United States of America's "blockade messenger" spacecraft to stay for a while before sailing south. Now, a small museum preserves the offices used by Confederate troops for espionage.
At the beginning of the 20th century, with the development of modern transportation and communication system, Bermuda became a popular tourist destination for American, Canadian and British tourists. 1930, the United States promulgated the smoot-Hawley Tariff Act, which interrupted Bermuda's prosperous agricultural export trade to trading partners (mainly supplying fresh vegetables to the United States) and encouraged Bermuda to develop tourism. From an economic point of view, the importance of tourism follows the international financial industry.