Mary (Fuller) Williams1644 through 1720
1231-1808 Papal Inquisition
1478-1834 Torquemadas Spanish Inquisition
1618-1648 30 years war
1625-1649 Reign of King Charles I (Stuart)
1642-1649 English Civil War
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
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)
1707 Mount Fujiyama erupts
1712 Slave revolts in New York
1712 Last execution for witchcraft in England
1714 Farenheit invents mercury thermometer
1714-1727 Reign of King George I (Hanover)
1714 Witch trials abolished in Prussia
1716 Christian teaching forbidden in China
1718 Peter the Great has son and heir murdered
1718 Spain seizes Sicily (from Savoy)
1718 New Orleans founded
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