William Barker1518 through 1618
1231-1808 Papal Inquisition
1454-1611 The Renaissance
1478-1834 Torquemadas Spanish Inquisition
1509-1547 Reign of King Henry VIII (Tudor)
1519 Leonardo da Vinci dies
1522 Magellan circumnavigates the world
1540 Jesuit Order Founded
1547-1553 Reign of King Edward VI (Tudor)
1553-1558 Reign of Queen Mary I (Tudor)
1557 Portuguese settle Macao
1558-1603 Reign of Queen Elizabeth I (Tudor)
1562-1598 Wars of religion in France
1563 Black Plague (again)
1569 Union of Lublin - Treaty
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
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