Martha (Shaw) Blish1655 through 1706
1231-1808 Papal Inquisition
1478-1834 Torquemadas Spanish Inquisition
1649-1660 Oliver Cromwell rules (Stuart)
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
1678 Polarization of light discovered (Huygens)
1679 Habeas Corpus passed in England - trial before imprisonment
1680 Dodo becomes extinct
1681 Pennsylvania founded
1682 Appearance of Halleys Comet
1683 Newton explains tides via theory of gravitation
1684 Street lighting introduced in London
1687 Newton publishes his Laws of Motion
1688 Plate glass cast for 1st time
1689-1702 Reign of King William III and Queen Mary II (Stuart)
1692 The Puritans murder 20 alleged witches in Salem, MA
1700-1721 Great Northern War
1701 Captain William Kidd hung for piracy
1701-1713 War of Spanish Succession
1702-1714 Reign of Queen Anne (Stuart)
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