1494 Treaty of Tordesillas signed giving Portugal Brazil and Spain the rest of the Americas https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Tordesillas
1496 John Cabot (Italian: Giovanni Caboto) makes first voyage across the Atlantic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Cabot#First_voyage
1497 John Cabot’s 2nd voyage
1498 John Cabot’s final voyage
1503 MacDonald dies, Wife get land in Edinburgh from King James IV of Scotland, builds Mary’s Chapel and first meeting of Freemasons 20:02 of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHpi6NwAykQ&t=42s
1520 Portuguese explorer, Estêvão Gomes, explored the coast and a group of Portuguese fishermen from the Azores created a fishing station here. https://www.oakislandtours.ca/early-history.html
1527 Soon after, in 1527 during the Swedish Reformation, King Gustavus Vasa appropriated Nydala Abbey & Alvastra Abbey and confiscated its remaining valuables in accordance with the Reduction of Gustav I of Sweden.[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nydala_Abbey; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvastra_Abbey
1531 During the Reformation, the abbey was disbanded and its lands on Gotland confiscated by the Danish Crown circa 1531 (as Gotland at the time belonged to Denmark) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roma_Abbey
1534 Jacques Cartier’s first voyage to Acadia
1542 Birth of Mary Queen of Scots Jacques Cartier’s last voyage
Oak Island symbol matches Portuguese church (Igreja de Fonte Arcada) symbol matches Cross of Lorraine https://goo.gl/maps/yALweKbDuEM7q6Ti8; 4:00 of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjHY5_9C7o4
1559 Dr. Rodrigo Lopes was a Portuguese Sephardic Jew, reportedly a New Christian (forced convert), who moved to England in 1559. Lopes was accused during the Portuguese Inquisition of being a Marrano, one who practiced Judaism in secret. This forced him to relocate to England. He was Antonio’s doctor when he was in Portugal. Lopes became the physician to the Queen and other important nobles like Sir Robert Dudley, Earl of Leiceister, Francis Walsingham and Robert Devereaux, Earl of Essex and others. He also acted as Dom António’s interpreter and liaison after he arrived in England.
1561 Francis Bacon born https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Bacon
1566 Cartographer, Bolongnini Zaltieri, gave the name "Larcadia" to an area that includes Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. https://www.oakislandtours.ca/early-history.html
1574 “Lord Torpogen” title given 12:25 of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHpi6NwAykQ&t=42s
1580 In a letter from the Spanish Ambassador to England, Bernadino de Mendoza, to King Phillip II of Spain dated, Aug. 15, 1580, it states, “a Portuguese named Juan Rodriguez de Souza, a man 32 years of age, a knight of the Order of Christ…comes from Dom António with letters for the Queen, the earl of Leicester, and Secretaries Walsingham and Wilson.” De Souza was Dom António’s emissary. At the time, the Azores had a large contingent of Knights of Christ that were loyal to Dom António. He had the connections in the Azores that would have made him very aware of Nova Scotia and any colony there. Records show that Dom António had a treasure and a mint in the Azores before the Spanish attacked in 1583.
1580 Around the same time, the Portuguese Azoreans withdrew from Nova Scotia claiming they could no longer protect their interests.
1582 Cardinal de Bourbon and Bellenger’s operation involved Anne de Batarnay de Joyeuse, known as Duc de Joyeuse. He was the favorite of King Henri III and part of a circle of young courtiers known as Les Mignons that surrounded the King. Their exploits were controversial in France and were notorious for their behavior. King Henri III arranged Joyeuse's marriage to legitimize his favorite to the status of Duc de Joyeuse. He was given precedence over all other dukes and peers of France, except for princes of the blood. In addition, he was given more than 300,000 crowns in dowry, and the seigneury of Limours. In 1582, Joyeuse was made Grand Admiral de France and commander in the Order of the Holy Spirit. He was closely involved with Cardinal de Bourbon and directed activities involving New France https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_de_Bourbon_(cardinal)
1583 Aymar de Clermont de Chaste was the cousin of Duc de Joyeuse. De Chaste was a Knight of the Order of St. John Hospitallers/Malta in France. De Chaste commanded the French-Portuguese naval forces supporting António, Prior of Crato's attempt to defend the Azores from Spain in 1583.
1583 Antonio Prior of Crato, the claimant to the Portuguese throne from 1580 to 1583, had a treasure and mint that disappeared from the Azores and suspected to have went to Nova Scotia. Dom António was a claimant to the Portuguese throne and was connected to the Knights of Christ and the Portuguese Azoreans. Defeat of Antonio Prior of Crato in Portugal and he flees to England; https://youtu.be/2rK6VfBTbkU
1583 Batista Servigi to Walsingham. “I am extremely glad that the Queen (Elizabeth) intends, together with their most Christian Majesties, to assist the King of Portugal (Antonio Prior of Crato) in his just cause, assuring myself that we shall this year see some good issues thereof. —Angra.” 3/1583.
1583 Batista Servigi to Walsingham, “In about ten days a fleet collected by Don Antonio is to depart. There will be in it about 2,000 armed men, furnished for a year with all sorts of munition and provisions. Its destination is not known, only that it is to go to sea, with seven or eight ships, great and small.” Fleet sinks a few months later at Bordeaux during a storm.
1583 Stafford to Walsingham, “Yesterday one who means to be of Richelieu's (father of famous French Richelieu) embarkment was with me. They give out it is for Don Antonio, to fetch some treasure that is hidden. Two evenings ago Don Antonio very courteously came to see my wife and me, and if I had known this then, I would have asked him, but when these holydays [i.e. Christmas, new style] are past I will go and see him, and draw from him what I can.” 12/1583 https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/François_IV_du_Plessis_de_Richelieu
1583 Étienne Bellenger aided Antonio Prior of Crato by financing Phillip Strozzi’s forces in the Azores. Strozzi was a Knight of the Order of the Holy Spirt. Bellenger, around the same time, explored Nova Scotia and, “proceeded to make a thorough survey of the coast, west-southwestwards from the cape, charting bays and harbours, rocks and islands, and sounding shallows and deeps. Some 50 to 60 leagues down the coast he noted the appearance of a large island, which he identified as the island of St. John…it is clear that to him it was what we know as the westerly part of Nova Scotia, divided from the “mainland” probably at Halifax harbour. He coasted down one side of what he eventually sketched as a triangular island, lying about 50 leagues east and west, that is to Cap de Sable, and then turned to enter “the great bay of that island”, … He planted marks of possession at the head of the bay by attaching the arms of Cardinal Bourbon to a tall tree…” Bellenger made a map for the powerful Charles, Cardinal de Bourbon. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Étienne_Bellenger
1583 François du Plessis, Seigneur de Richelieu. François (1548-1590) was a page for Kings Francis II and Charles IX of France. He was the plenipotentiary, a diplomat with negotiating power, to King Henri III, and a Knight of the Order of the Holy Spirit. In the attached picture, he is wearing the cross of the order that is similar to the Knights of Malta Cross with a Dove that symbolizes the Holy Spirit. He is carrying a glove; which often symbolized a Freemason. He fought under Kings Henri III and Henri IV. François’s brother in law, Amador de La Porte, was the Prior of the Order of St. John Hospitallers/Malta in France and was tutor to Cardinal Richelieu, after François’ death. Cardinal Richelieu was suspected of involvement with Oak Island. https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/François_IV_du_Plessis_de_Richelieu
1584 March 25, 1584, Queen Elizabeth I of England granted a charter to Sir Walter Raleigh to search and discover ‘remote and heathen lands.’ https://www.oakislandgold.com/the-plymouth-connection.html
1585 After Bellenger returned to France, Richard Hakluyt soon contacted him. Hakluyt specialized in the writing of the English Colonization of North America. Between 1583 and 1588 he was chaplain and secretary to Sir Edward Stafford, the English ambassador at the French court. As mentioned, Stafford was sending coded messages to Sir Francis Walsingham recording the movements of Antonio Prior of Crato and his treasure. “In accordance with the instructions of Secretary Francis Walsingham, he occupied himself chiefly in collecting information of the Spanish and French movements, and "making diligent inquirie of such things as might yield any light unto our westerne discoveries in America." It’s clear that Hakluyt was collecting intelligence from Bellenger and it was transmitted to the English