• 1600  wigs become popular
     dress trains become fashionable 
     Shakespeare "Hamlet"
     Shakespeare "The Merry Wives of Windsor"
     English East India Co. founded
     Dutch opticians invent the telescope
  • 1601  Shakespeare "Troilus and Cressida"
    Kepler becomes astronomer & astrologer to
     Emperor Rudolph II
  • 1602  war between Persia & Turkey
     Shakespeare "All's Well That Ends Well"
     Galileo investigates the law of gravitation
     Galileo investigates the law of oscillation
  • 1603  Queen Elizabeth I of England dies
     Ahmad I, Sultan of Turkey
     outbreak of plague in England
  • 1604  peace between England & Spain
     Tomsk founded by Russian cossacks
  • 1605  Shakespeare "King Lear"
     Shakespeare "MacBeth"
     Santa Fé, New Mexico founded
  • 1606  Shakespeare "Antony and Cleopatra"
     first open air opera in Rome
     Galileo invents proportional compass
     massive road building project begun in France
  • 1607  Charles IX, King of Sweden
     Shakespeare "Coriolanus"
     Shakespeare "Timon of Athens"
     Jamestown founded, first Eng. settlement
     in America
  • 1608  Shakespeare "Pericles"
     Galileo makess astronomical telescope
     first banking checks used in Netherlands
  • 1609  Shakespeare "Cymbeline"
     Blue Mosque, Constantinople begun
     Henry Hudson explores Delaware Bay and
     Hudson River
     tea first shipped to Europe from China
  • 1610  Jean Beguin writes first textbook on chemistry
     Galileo observes Jupiter's moons
     Nicolas Pieresc discovers Orion nebula
  • 1611  George Chapman completes translation of
     Homer's "Iliad"
     Shakespeare "The Tempest"
     University of Rome founded
     Henry Hudson dies
  • 1612  Shakespeare "Henry VIII"
     last recorded burning of heretics in England
     Simon Marius rediscovers Andromeda galaxy
     Bartholemew Pitiscus uses decimal point in
     trigonometrical tables
     John Smith "A Map of Virginia"
  • 1613  Turks invade Hungary
     fire destroys Globe Theater, London
     copper coins come into use
  • 1614  El Greco born
     Adriaen Block explores Long Island Sound
     development of glass industry in England
     Pocahontas marries John Rolfe
  • 1615  Galileo faces Inquisition for first time
  • 1616  Sir Walter Raleigh released from Tower of
     London to lead expedition for El Dorado
     Hidetada becomes ruler of Japan
     Tartars of Manchu invade China
     war between Venice and Austria
     Shakespeare dies
     Galileo banned from scientific work by Catholic
     Church
     Willebrord Snellius discovers law of refraction
  • 1617  Pocahontas dies
  • 1618  Francis Bacon created Lord Chancellor
     Ferdinand of Styria, King of Hungary
     Sir Walter Raleigh returns to England and
     is executed
     Kepler states the third law of planetary motion
  • 1619  first representative colonial assembly in
     America held at Jamestown
     John Bainbridge "An Astronomical Description of
     a Late Comet"
     William Harvey discovers circulation of blood
     first negro slaves arrive in America in Virginia
  • 1620  Mayflower, carrying the Pilgrims, land at New
     Plymouth, Mass.
     John Carver first governor of Plymouth Colony
     Oliver Cromwell denounced for playing the game
     cricket
  • 1621  Philip IV, King of Spain
     Alexander Ludovisi becomes Pope Gregory XV
     English attempt to colonize Nova Scotia and
     Newfoundland
     potatoes first grown in Germany
  • 1623  Rembrandt becomes pupil of J.I.Swaneburg
     in Leiden
     patent laws passed in England
  • 1624  England declares war on Spain
     Virginia becomes crown colony
     Bernini begins "Apollo and Daphne" sculpture
     Dutch settle in New Amsterdam
     first English settlement in eastern India
  • 1625  Order of Sisters of Mercy founded in Paris by
     Vincent de Paul
     first fire engines in England
     hackney coaches appear in London streets
     tobacco tax and monopoly in England
     introduction of full-bottomed wigs in Europe
  • 1626  first production of Shakespeare's "Hamlet"
     in Germany
     Francis Bacon dies
     Santorio Santorio measures human temperature
     for first time
     French edict condemns anyone to death when
     killing adversary in duel
  • 1627  Korea becomes a state of China
     Shah Jahan becomes Great Mogul of India
     Kepler gives places of 1,005 fixed stars
  • 1628  Taj Mahal, Agra, India begun
     first harbor with sluices begun at Le Havre
  • 1629  Peace of Susa ends English/French war
     Peter Paul Rubens knighted by Charles I
     Shah Jahan orders making of the Peacock Throne
     colony of Massachusetts founded
  • 1630  Johann Kepler dies
     pirates settle in Tortuga
     public advertising begins in Paris
  • 1631  William Oughtred proposes use of "x" for
     multiplication
     earthquake in Naples
     volcano Vesuvius erupts
  • 1632  first coffee shop opens in London
     Russian fur trade established
  • 1633  outbreak of plague in Bavaria
     Galileo forced to renounce theories of Copernicus
     windmill sawmill erected near London
  • 1634  Rembrandt begins "Artemisia" painting
     Jean Nicolet lands on Green Bay, explores
     Wisconsin
     Covent Garden Market opens in London
  • 1635  Dutch occupy Formosa
     hackney coach speed limit: 3 mph
     French limit tobacco sales to prescription only
  • 1636  Manchus Proclaim Ch'ing Dynasty
     tea appears for first time in Paris
     Harvard University in Massachusetts
  • 1637  John Milton writes "Lycidas"
     collapse of Dutch tulip trade
  • 1638  Ruben's paints "The Three Graces"
     torture abolished in England
  • 1639  Rembrandt paints a portrait of his mother
     quinine used for medicinal purposes
     Gérard Désargues publishes book on modern
     geometry
     William Gascoigne invents micrometer
     first printing press in N.America
  • 1640  Swedes withdraw from Bohemia
     Portugal becomes independent country
     Rembrandt paints "Self Portrait"
     Coke made from coal for first time
  • 1641  René Descartes writes "Meditations
     Métaphysiques"
     arsenic prescribed for medical purposes for
     first time
     cotton goods manufactured in England
     French settle in Michigan
     rise of Swedish iron industry
  • 1642  all theaters in England closed by Puritan orders
     Galileo dies
     Isaac Newton born
     income & property taxes introduced in England
     Montreal, Canada founded
     Abel Tasman dicovers Tasmania & New Zealand
  • 1643  5 year old Louis XIV becomes King of France
     Moliére founds "Illustre Théatre" in Paris
     Evangelista Torricelli invents the barometer
  • 1644  Manchu dynasty has power in China
     William Penn born
     last of fine Chinese porcelain
  • 1645  Alexis I crowned Czar of Russia
     Dalai Lama residence built in Tibet
  • 1646  Swedes take Prague
     English occupy Bahamas
  • 1647  revolt against Czar Alexis I in Moscow
     yellow fever in Barbados
  • 1648  Frederick III crowned King of Denmark
     German population shrinks from 17 million to 8
     because of war, famine, and plague
     Mirrors & chandeliers manufactured in Murano
  • 1649  England declared a Commonwealth
     Cromwell invades Ireland
     English becomes official language on English
     documents replacing Latin
     Puritan exiles from Virginia settle in Providence,
     Maryland
  • Johannes Kepler was the first strong supporter of the heliocentric theory of Copernicus.


    Henry Hudson was an English navigator.


    Orion Nebula


    Andromeda Galaxy


    Captain John Smith helped establish the first permanent English colony in North America at Jamestown, Va.


    Pocahontas supposedly saved the life of Capt. John Smith and befriended the English colony at Jamestown, Va.



    Francis Bacon was an English essayist, lawyer, statesman, and philosopher who had a major influence on the philosophy of science.


    Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn was one of the greatest masters of European art.


    Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini was one of the most original, versatile, and prolific masters of Italian baroque art.


    Taj Mahal is a monumental Islamic edifice built by Shah Jahan, Mogul emperor of India.


    John Milton is one of the major figures of Western literature.


    Rene Descartes is sometimes called the founder of modern philosophy.




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