Nathaniel Williams1577 through 1677
1231-1808 Papal Inquisition
1454-1611 The Renaissance
1478-1834 Torquemadas Spanish Inquisition
1558-1603 Reign of Queen Elizabeth I (Tudor)
1562-1598 Wars of religion in France
1580 Flint-lock firing mechanism
1587 Sir Walter Ralighs lost colony at Roanoke
1588 Spanish Armada defeated by the English
1589 Harington invents the Flush Toilet
1592-1593 Hideyoshi invades Korea
1603-1625 Reign of King James I (Stuart)
1603 Galileo invents Thermometer
1603 Heavy outbreak of plague in England
1605 Guy Fawkes attempts to blow up parliament
1605 Telescope
1606 Australia discovered by William Jansz
1606 Virginia Company Chartered
1607 Jamestown Colony Established
1608 Quebec founded
1609 Keplers laws of planetary motion
1611 King James Bible is published
1612 Tobacco planted in Virginia
1612 Last (recorded) burning of heretics in England
1614 Dutch trading post on manhatten island
1615 Galileo faces inquisition (1st time)
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
1660-1685 Reign of King Charles II (Stuart)
1660 British Navigation Acts restrict commerce
1660 Light composition discovered by Isaac Newton
1661 Manometer
1664 English take New York from the Dutch, no shots fired
1664-1665 Great Plague in London kills 68,596
1665 Differential Calculus (Isaac Newton)
1666 Great fire of London - 9/2 to 9/9. 14,000+ buildings burned
1666 1st Armenian Bible printed
1668 Isaac Newton makes first reflecting telescope
1675-1676 King Phillips War
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