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  • English East India Company established.

    1600
    Giordano Bruno burned as a heretic. English East India Company established.

  • Shakespeare's Hamlet.

    Shakespeare's Hamlet.
    Shakespeare's Hamlet.

  • the first modern novel

    1605
    Cervantes's Don Quixote de la Mancha, the first modern novel.

  • Pocahontas

    1607
    Jamestown, Virginia, established—first permanent English colony on American mainland. Pocahontas, daughter of Chief Powhatan, saves life of John Smith.

  • the first newspaper

    1609
    Samuel de Champlain establishes French colony of Quebec. The Relation, the first newspaper, debuts in Germany.

  • Galileo

    1610
    Galileo sees the moons of Jupiter through his telescope.

  • King James Version of the Bible published in England.

    1611
    Gustavus Adolphus elected King of Sweden. King James Version of the Bible published in England. Rubens paints his Descent from the Cross.

  • logarithms

    1614
    John Napier discovers logarithms.

  • Thirty Years' War

    1618
    Start of the Thirty Years' War > Protestants revolt against Catholic oppression; Denmark, Sweden, and France will invade Germany in later phases of war. Kepler proposes last of three laws of planetary motion.

  • first African slaves

    1619
    A Dutch ship brings the first African slaves to British North America

  • Pilgrims

    1620
    Pilgrims, after three-month voyage in Mayflower, land at Plymouth Rock. Francis Bacon's Novum Organum.

  • Dutch West India Company

    1623
    New Netherland founded by Dutch West India Company.

  • Massachusetts Bay Colony

    1630
    Massachusetts Bay Colony

  • Maryland

    1632
    Maryland founded by Lord Baltimore.

  • Galileo

    1633
    Inquisition forces Galileo (astronomer) to recant his belief in Copernican theory

  • English Civil War

    1642
    English Civil War. Cavaliers, supporters of Charles I, against Roundheads, parliamentary forces. Oliver Cromwell defeats Royalists (1646). Parliament demands reforms. Charles I offers concessions, brought to trial (1648), beheaded (1649). Cromwell becomes Lord Protector (1653). Rembrandt paints his Night Watch.

  • Taj Mahal

    1643
    Taj Mahal completed.

  • End of Ming Dynasty

    1644
    End of Ming Dynasty in China—Manchus come to power. Descartes's Principles of Philosophy.

  • End of the Thirty Years' War.

    1648
    End of the Thirty Years' War. German population about half of what it was in 1618 because of war and pestilence.

  • Puritan government collapses

    1658
    Cromwell dies; son Richard resigns and Puritan government collapses.

  • monarchy

    1660
    English Parliament calls for the restoration of the monarchy; invites Charles II to return from France.

  • King of England

    1661
    Charles II is crowned King of England. Louis XIV begins personal rule as absolute monarch; starts to build Versailles.

  • gravity.

    1664
    British take New Amsterdam from the Dutch. English limit “Nonconformity” with reestablished Anglican Church. Isaac Newton's experiments with gravity.

  • Great Plague

    1665
    Great Plague in London kills 75,000.

  • Great Fire of London.

    1666
    Great Fire of London. Molière's Misanthrope.

  • Milton's Paradise Lost

    1667
    Milton's Paradise Lost, widely considered the greatest epic poem in English

  • Pennsylvania

    1682
    Pennsylvania founded by William Penn.

  • War of European powers against the Turks

    1683
    War of European powers against the Turks (to 1699). Vienna withstands three-month Turkish siege; high point of Turkish advance in Europe.

  • James II succeeds Charles II in England

    1685
    James II succeeds Charles II in England, calls for freedom of conscience (1687). Protestants fear restoration of Catholicism and demand “Glorious Revolution.” William of Orange invited to England and James II escapes to France (1688). William III and his wife, Mary, crowned. In France, Edict of Nantes of 1598, granting freedom of worship to Huguenots, is revoked by Louis XIV; thousands of Protestants flee.

  • Peter the Great becomes Czar of Russia

    1689
    Peter the Great becomes Czar of Russia—attempts to westernize nation and build Russia as a military power. Defeats Charles XII of Sweden at Poltava (1709). Beginning of the French and Indian Wars (to 1763), campaigns in America linked to a series of wars between France and England for domination of Europe.

  • William III

    1690
    William III of England defeats former king James II and Irish rebels at Battle of the Boyne in Ireland. John Locke's Human Understanding.