the signing of the Treaty of Antwerp, allowing the Dutch East India Company to trade within the Spanish Empire. May 20 – London publisher Thomas Thorpe issues Shake-speares Sonnets, with a dedication to "Mr. W.H.", and the poem A Lover's Complaint appended; it is uncertain whether this publication has Shakespeare's authority. May 23 – The Second Virginia Charter is officially ratified; it is intended to replace the council with a governor, who has absolute control in the colony. June 2 – With the Sea Venture as its flagship, a fleet of nine English ships and more than 500 passengers altogether, depart from England to bring supplies to the English settlement in Jamestown, Virginia. The fleet runs into a storm in July and the Sea Venture is wrecked in the Bermuda islands on July 24. June 10 – The War of the Jülich Succession begins as the Margraviate of Brandenburg and the Duchy of Palatinate-Neuburg sign a treaty at Dortmund and then send troops to establish Protestant Union rule in the Roman Catholic United Duchies of Jülich-Cleves-Berg. June 16 – The Battle of Tashiskari is fought as General Giorgi Saakadze of the Georgian Kingdom of Kartli repels invading troops from the Ottoman Empire before they can capture Tbilisi. June 29 – A fleet of ships from the Kingdom of Spain, assisted by a French warship, fights a battle in the Mediterranean Sea against a larger fleet of 23 ships from the North African kingdom of Tunisia and sinks 21 of them. The other two Tunisian ships are captured. July–September July 4 – French explorer Samuel de Champlain and his entourage of 60 men in 24 canoes, become the first Europeans to enter Lake Champlain, located between what are now the U.S. states of Vermont and New York. <ref>"A Historical, Topographical & Agricultrual Survey of the County of Washington, by Dr. Asa Fitch, in Transactions of the New York State Agricultural Society: Report of the Executive Committee for 1848 (New York State Agricultural Society, 1849) p. 882 ("Attended by some of the Mountain Indians, he left Quebec, May 28th, 1609... On the 4th day of July they entered Lake Champlain.")</ref> July 9 – Bohemia is granted freedom of religion (Letter of Majesty). July 10 – The German Catholic League is formed in Munich by Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria to counteract the Protestant Union. Maximilian assembles representatives from Augsburg, Konstanz, Passau, Regensburg,