1600s

• 1602 Dutch East India Company Founded

• 1605 Don Quixote published (first modern novel)

• 1606 Jamestown colony established in Virginia

• 1610 Galileo sees moons of Jupiter through telescope

• King James version of bible published

• 1618 Start of the Thirty Years war

• 1619 First African slaves brought to Jamestown

• 1620 Pilgrims arrive at Plymouth

• 1626 Dutch buy Manhattan from the Man-a-hat Indians

• 1630 Boston founded

• 1633 Galileo forced to recant by the Inquisition

• 1636 Harvard founded

• 1642 English Civil War-Roundheads vs. Charles 1

• 1649 Charles beheaded for Treason

• 1563 Oliver Cromwell defeats Royalists and named Lord Protectorate

• 1658 Cromwell dies

• 1660 Parliament calls for Restoration of Monarchy Puritan gov’t collapes

• 1661 Charles II in crowned King of England

• 1661 Louis XIV begins personal rule and begins to build Versailles

• 1664 Newton experiments with gravity

• 1665 Great Plague in London kills 75,000

• 1699 French settle in Mississippi and Louisiana