| 1600 |
Shakespeare publishes "Hamlet" |
| 1601 |
Earl of Essex leads unsuccessful revolt
against Queen Elizabeth I |
| 1603 |
James 1 succeeds Elizabeth I to the
English throne; Heavy outbreak of plague in England. |
| 1605 |
Cervantes' "Don Quixote" is published
(Part I) |
| 1607 |
Jamestown, Virginia founded -- the first
English settlement on the American mainland |
| 1610 |
Henry IV of France assassinated; son
Louis XIII succeeds him |
| 1611 |
Dutch merchants are permitted to trade in
Japan; the King James Bible is published |
| 1612 |
Last recorded burning of heretics in
England |
| 1613 |
Turks invade Hungary |
| 1614 |
Pocahontas marries John Rolfe; Galileo
Galilei faces the Inquisition |
| 1616 |
First rounding of Cape Horn |
| 1618 |
Sir Walter Raleigh executed |
| 1620 |
French nobles revolt against Louis XIII;
The Mayflower lands at New Plymouth, Massachusetts |
| 1621 |
Huguenot rebellion against Louis
XIII |
| 1623 |
First English settlement in New
Hampshire |
| 1624 |
England declares war on Spain |
| 1625 |
Charles I succeeds to the English
throne |
| 1626 |
Dueling is declared to be a capitol
offense in France; Dutch colony of New Amsterdam founded in America; Peter
Minuit "buys" Manhattan for 60 guilders |
| 1629 |
Colony of Massachusetts founded |
| 1630 |
Pirates settle in Tortuga; Richelieu
overthrows the conspiracy of Maria de Medici, the Queen Mother |
| 1631 |
Mt. Vesuvius erupts, destroying five
towns; Rembrandt's Portrait of His Mother finished |
| 1632 |
Colony of Maryland chartered |
| 1633 |
Charles I crowned King of Scotland;
English trading post established in Bengal |
| 1636 |
Manchus proclaim Ch'ing Dynasty |
| 1638 |
Torture is officially abolished in
England |
| 1639 |
First Bishops' War in Scotland; Russain
cossacks advance over the Urals towards the Pacific |
| 1641 |
Massacre of Ulster Protestants; Catholic
rebellion in Ireland |
| 1642 |
English civil war begins; Income and
property tax introduced in England |
| 1644 |
Ming Dynasty ends in China; Rene
Descartes published the maxim, "Principia philosophicae" -- "cogito, ergo sum"
(I think, therefore I am) |
| 1646 |
Swedes take Prague; Swedes and French
invade Bavaria |
| 1647 |
Revolt against Czar Alexis I in
Moscow |
| 1648 |
Peace of Westphalia ends Thirty Years'
War; George Fox founds the Society of Friends (Quakers) |
| 1649 |
Charles I beheaded; England declared a
Commonwealth; Cromwell invades Ireland; Sultan Ibrahim deposed and murdered,
succeeded by son Mohammed IV; First British naval frigate built |
| 1650 |
Harvard College granted a charter |
| 1651 |
Charles II crowned Kind of Scots, flees
to France following defeat by Cromwell at Worcester; Treaty between Czar Alexis
I and Cossacks |
| 1652 |
The minuet comes into fashion at French
court |
| 1653 |
Oliver Cromwell becomes Lord
Protector |
| 1660 |
Parliament invites Charles II to return
to England |
| 1669 |
South Carolina founded |
| 1671 |
Former buccaneer Sir Henry Morgan made
deputy governor of Jamaica by Charles II; Pairs Opera opens |
| 1682 |
French Huguenots forced to
conversion |
| 1683 |
Peace treaty between William Penn and
North American Indians; Sir Isaac Newton explains his gravitational
theories |
| 1684 |
English court annuls the Massachusetts
charter |
| 1685 |
Chinese ports opened to foreign trade;
Louis XIV revokes the Edict of Nantes, exiles French Protestants |
| 1689 |
Peter the Great becomes Czar of Russia;
Declaration of Rights in England; William and Mary crowned King and Queen |
| 1693 |
Carolina divided into North and South
Carolina |
| 1697... |
Last remains of the Mayan civilization
destroyed by the Spanish in the Yucatan |
