I think not because chronology as we know it came out "only" starting from the XVI-XVII century and it was institutionalized from the start and considered the ultimate scientific proof which had to be adjusted in details and nothing else. So I guess there were few alternative chronologies around already a hundred years later and those who disagreed with Scaliger were notorious, like Newton for example, as Fomenko points out.
When it comes to this example the doubt is right there before our eyes because Columbus is said to have discovered America in 1592 and Vespucci rediscovered in 1599 but then few lines below we start again from Francis Drake in 1579 so the question is if the first two dates were just an mistake. But in that case it would be TWO mistakes (1592 and 1599), which is weird!