Table II: 1600-1699
| 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 |
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