1600
Giordano Bruno burned as a heretic. English East India Company established.
1603
Ieyasu rules Japan, moves capital to Edo (Tokyo)..
Shakespeare’s Hamlet
1605
Cervantes’s Don Quixote de la Mancha, the first modern novel.
1607
Jamestown, Virginia, established—first permanent English colony on American mainland.
Pocahontas, daughter of Chief Powhatan, saves life of John Smith.
1609
Samuel de Champlain establishes French colony of Quebec.
The Relation, the first newspaper, debuts in Germany.
1610
Galileo sees the moons of Jupiter through his telescope.
1611
Gustavus Adolphus elected King of Sweden.
King James Version of the Bible published in England.
Rubens paints his Descent from the Cross.
John Napier discovers logarithms.
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.
1619
A Dutch ship brings the first African slaves to British North America.
In the colony as Jamestown, Virginia, the House of burgesses convened for the first time.
1620
Pilgrims, after three-month voyage in Mayflower, land at Plymouth Rock. 41 men abord the Mayflower signed their names to the Mayflower compact sttting the stage for modern democracy in the United States.
Francis Bacon’s Novum Organum.
1623
New Netherland founded by Dutch West India Company.
1630
Massachusetts Bay Colony.
1632
Maryland founded by Lord Baltimore.
1633
Inquisition forces Galileo (astronomer) to recant his belief in Copernican theory.
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.
1643
Taj Mahal completed.
1644
End of Ming Dynasty in China—Manchus come to power.
Descartes’s Principles of Philosophy.
1648
End of the Thirty Years’ War. German population about half of what it was in 1618 because of war and pestilence.
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