Hanna (Williams) Blish1618 through 1657
1231-1808 Papal Inquisition
1478-1834 Torquemadas Spanish Inquisition
1603-1625 Reign of King James I (Stuart)
1618-1648 30 years war
1619 1st negro slaves arrive in Virginia
1620 First Submarine (Cornelius van Drebel, Dutch)
1620 Mayflower lands at Plymouth
1620 Scientific Method, via Sir Francis Bacon
1620 Sir Francis Bacon suggests heat may be movement
1625 English population in America hits 2000
1625-1649 Reign of King Charles I (Stuart)
1626 Manhatten island purchased from indians by Dutch
1629 Colony of Massachusetts founded
1630-1642 English aggressively settle Massachusetts
1633 Heads of households in New England reaches 950
1633 Colony of Connecticut founded
1634 1st settlement in Maryland
1635 Connecticut first settled
1639 1st printing press in America (Massachusetts)
1642-1649 English Civil War
1642 Pascal invents Calculator
1643 Barometer invented
1645 Rainbow, 1st American slave ship, sails for Africa
1649-1660 Oliver Cromwell rules (Stuart)
1650 World pop. est. at 500 million
1650 Chattel slavery officially recognized
1652-1654 Anglo-Dutch war
1652 Air Pump invented
1654 Theory of Probability - Pascal and Fermat
1655 Oliver Cromwell allows Jews back in England
1657 Pendulum Clock invented by Galileo
1657 First Stockings
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