|
Year |
|
| 1600 |
Charles I born
|
| 1602 |
Persia rules Bahrain (1602-1783)
|
| 1603 |
(1)
Queen Elizabeth I dies
(2) James I assumes the English throne
|
| 1606 |
French settlers found Quebec
|
| 1608 |
George Goring born
|
| 1612 |
(1)
British to India
(2)
James Montrose born
|
| 1616 |
Richelieu appointed minister of France
|
| 1618 |
(1)
Defenestration in Prague, starting the Thirty Years War
(2) Sir Walter Raleigh executed
|
| 1619 |
(1)
Prince Rupert born
(2) Dutch take over East Indies
(3) Jamestown colonists meet in a representative body
|
| 1621 |
Dutch West India founded
|
| 1622 |
James I dissolves Parliament
|
| 1630 |
(1)
Richelieu comes to power
(2) Puritans found Boston
|
| 1632 |
Gustavas Adolphus killed at Battle of Luetzen
|
| 1638 |
King Louis XIV born
|
| 1639 |
Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
|
| 1641 |
Star Chamber abolished
|
| 1642 |
(1)
English Civil Wars begins
(2)
Battle of Edgehill
(3)
Battle of Brentford
(4)
Battle of Turnerham Green
|
| 1643 |
(1)
Battle of Newbury I
(2)
Battle of Grantham
(3)
Battle of Stratton
(4)
Battle of Chalgrove Field
(5)
Battle of Adwalton Moor
(6)
Battle of Lansdowne
(7)
Battle of Roundway Down
(8)
Battle of Winceby
(9) Louis XIII dies
(10) Louis XIV assumes French Throne
(11) Confederation of New England
|
| 1644 |
(1)
Battle of Newbury II
(2)
Battle of Cheriton
(3)
Battle of Selby
(4)
Battle of Cropredy Bridge
(5)
Battle of Marston Moor
(6)
Battle of Tippermuir
(7)
Battle of Lostwithiel
(8)
Battle of Aberdeen
(9)
Battle of Nantwich
(10) Rebels take Peking
(11) Last Ming emperor commits suicide
|
| 1645 |
(1)
Battle of Naseby
(2)
Battle of Inverlochy
(3)
Battle of Auldearn
(4)
Battle of Alford
(5)
Battle of Leicester
(6)
Battle of Langport
(7)
Battle of Kilsyth
(8)
Battle of Phillipaugh
(9)
Battle of Stow-on-the-Wold
|
| 1646 |
(1)
Battle of Torrington
(2)
Robert Devereux dies
|
| 1647 |
Masaniello's Revolt in Naples
|
| 1648 |
(1)
Peace of Westphalia ends the Thirty Years War
(2)
Spanish-French Wars begins
(3)
Battle of Preston
|
| 1649 |
(1)
Battle of Drogheda
(2)
Battle of Wexford
(3) British King Charles I executed
(4) Cromwell's Ireland campaign
(5) War of the Fronde begins
|
| 1650 |
(1)
James Montrose dies
(2)
Battle of Carbisdale
(3)
Battle of Dunbar
|
| 1651 |
(1)
Battle of Worcester
(2)
English Civil Wars ends
|
| 1652 |
Dutch colonists arrive in South Africa
|
| 1653 |
(1)
Taj Mahal is completed
(2) Oliver Cromwell takes the title Lord Protector
|
| 1654 |
Louis XIV coroneted
|
| 1655 |
English Parliament dissolved by Oliver Cromwell
|
| 1657 |
George Goring dies
|
| 1658 |
(1)
Oliver Cromwell dies
(2)
Battle of Battle of the Dunes
|
| 1659 |
Spanish-French Wars ends
|
| 1660 |
(1)
The Restoration begins
(2) Louis XIV and Maria Teresa marry
|
| 1661 |
(1)
Charles II coroneted
(2) Louis XIV establishes Absolutism
|
| 1662 |
Mary II born
|
| 1663 |
Ottoman army defeated at Vienna
|
| 1664 |
English take New York
|
| 1671 |
Morgan sacks Panama
|
| 1672 |
(1)
Czar Peter the Great born
(2) English and French war against Dutch
|
| 1673 |
Spencer Compton born
|
| 1675 |
(1)
Greenwich Observatory founded
(2) King Philip's War
(3) The Great Elector at Fehrbellin
|
| 1676 |
(1)
Battle of Lunden
(2)
Robert Walpole born
|
| 1681 |
William Penn and the Charter for Pennsylvania
|
| 1682 |
Prince Rupert dies
|
| 1683 |
Turks lay siege to Vienna, Turks later defeated
|
| 1685 |
Monmouth's Rebellion
|
| 1688 |
James II flees England
|
| 1689 |
(1)
William & Mary assume English throne
(2) Peter the Great assumes Russian throne
(3) Massacre at Lachine
(4)
Jacobite Rebellions begins
|
| 1690 |
Battle of the Boyne
|
| 1691 |
Plymouth Colony becomes part of Massachusetts Bay colony
|
| 1692 |
Salem witch trials
|
| 1693 |
Thomas Pelham-Holles born
|
| 1694 |
(1)
Henry Pelham born
(2) Mary II dies
|
| 1698 |
Russian peasant revolt
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