...Date... AGE Event
1604/--/-- 0 *** Bristow, Robert - Born to Bristow, Robert Clifton and Mitts, Cleo Brinstead, South Hampton, England
1604/--/-- 0 - A false Dmitry lays claim to the Russian throne during the "Time of Troubles."
1604/--/-- 0 - Charles IX is crowned king of Sweden.
1604/--/-- 0 - England and Spain are at peace after 19 years of war.
1604/--/-- 0 - Flemish artist Carel van Mander publishes a handbook for painters Het Schilderboeck.
1604/--/-- 0 - Hieronymus Fabricius writes De formata foctu, a study of human embryology.
1604/--/-- 0 - The French East India Company is founded.
1604/--/-- 0 - The Spanish capture the Dutch city of Ostend after a 3-year siege.
1605/--/-- 1 - English philosopher Francis Bacon publishes The Advancement of Learning.
1605/--/-- 1 - Jahangir succeeds Akbar as Mogul emperor of India.
1605/--/-- 1 - Spanish writer Cervantes publishes part one of Don Quixote.
1605/--/-- 1 - The English claim Barbados in the West Indies.
1605/--/-- 1 - The Gunpowder Plot to blow up the English Parliament is discovered.
1605/--/-- 1 - The first French settlement in North America is founded at Port Royal in Nova Scotia.
1606/--/-- 2 - Ben Jonson's play Volpone is performed for the first time.
1607/--/-- 3 - Claudio Monteverdi's first opera Orfeo is performed.
1607/--/-- 3 - John Smith founds the first English colony at Jamestown in Virginia.
1608/--/-- 4 - Emperor Rudolf II cedes Hungary to his brother Matthias.
1608/--/-- 4 - Girolamo Frescobaldi is appointed as organist at St. Peter's in Rome.
1608/--/-- 4 - Italian scientist Galileo Galilei assembles an astronomical telescope.
1608/--/-- 4 - Samuel de Champlain founds a French settlement in Quebec.
1608/--/-- 4 - The first telescope is invented by Dutch optician Hans Lippershey.
1609/--/-- 5 *** Curtis, Averilla (Bristow) [Wife] - Born to Curtis, Robert
1609/--/-- 5 - A truce with Spain gives the United Provinces (the Netherlands) virtual independence.
1609/--/-- 5 - Johannes Kepler publishes his first law of planetary motion in New Astronomy.
1609/--/-- 5 - Spanish playwright Lope de Vega publishes The New Art of Writing Plays.
1609/--/-- 5 - The English colonize Bermuda.
1609/--/-- 5 - The Spanish found Santa Fe in New Mexico.
1610/--/-- 6 - Ben Jonson's play The Alchemist is performed for the first time.
1610/--/-- 6 - English navigator Henry Hudson becomes the first European to explore Hudson Bay.
1610/--/-- 6 - Galileo Galilei publishes his first stellar observations in The Starry Messenger.
1610/--/-- 6 - Henry IV of France is assassinated; he is succeeded by his son Louis XIII.
1610/--/-- 6 - Maximilian of Bavaria forms the Catholic League to oppose the Protestant Union.
1610/--/-- 6 - The Polish army of Sigismund III invades Russia and captures Moscow.
1611/--/-- 7 - An edition of the Bible authorized by King James I is completed in England.
1611/--/-- 7 - Christian IV of Denmark declares war on Sweden.
1611/--/-- 7 - English and Scottish Protestants settle in Ireland under the Ulster Plantation.
1611/--/-- 7 - Gustav II Adolf succeeds Charles IX as king of Sweden.
1612/--/-- 8 - John Webster's tragedy The White Devil is produced.
1612/--/-- 8 - Matthias succeeds his brother Rudolf II as Holy Roman Emperor.
1613/--/-- 9 - Gabor Bethlen becomes Prince of Transylvania.
1613/--/-- 9 - Gustav II Adolf ends the War of Kalmar with Denmark and attacks Russia.
1613/--/-- 9 - Michael becomes tsar of Russia, founding the Romanov dynasty.
1613/--/-- 9 - Virginia colonists destroy French settlements in Maine and Nova Scotia.
1614/--/-- 10 - James I dissolves the Addled Parliament in England.
1614/--/-- 10 - Pocahontas, a North American Indian princess, marries English settler John Rolfe.
1614/--/-- 10 - Scottish mathematician John Napier publishes Marvelous Canon of Logarithms.
1614/--/-- 10 - Sir Walter Raleigh writes his History of the World.
1615/--/-- 11 - Coffee is introduced into Italy from Turkey.
1615/--/-- 11 - Manchu tribes in China expand to eight banners (military regions) under Nurhachi.
1615/--/-- 11 - The Dutch seize the Spice Islands (the Moluccas) from the Portuguese.
1615/--/-- 11 - The first English language reference is made to tea.
1616/--/-- 12 - A smallpox epidemic decimates the Indian population in New England.
1616/--/-- 12 - Cardinal Richelieu becomes Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in France.
1616/--/-- 12 - Emperor Ieyasu of Japan dies; he is succeeded by his son Hidetada.
1616/--/-- 12 - The Catholic church issues an edict against Copernicanism.
1616/--/-- 12 - William Baffin searches for the Northwest Passage and discovers Baffin Bay.
1617/--/-- 13 - The Treaty of Stolbovo ends the war between Russia and Sweden.
1617/--/-- 13 - Tobacco is established as the major industry in North America.
1618/--/-- 14 - Conflict between Catholic and Protestant states begins the Thirty Years' War.
1618/--/-- 14 - James I orders the execution of Sir Walter Raleigh.
1619/--/-- 15 - Dutch ships bring the first Negro slaves to the colony of Virginia.
1619/--/-- 15 - Ferdinand II is elected Holy Roman Emperor and king of Bohemia.
1619/--/-- 15 - Inigo Jones designs the Banqueting House at Whitehall, London.
1619/--/-- 15 - Louis XIII of France defeats the supporters of his mother Maria de Medicis.
1619/--/-- 15 - Spanish artist Diego Velazquez paints The Water Seller of Seville.
1619/--/-- 15 - The Bohemians depose Ferdinand and elect Frederick V (Elector Palatine) as king.
1620/--/-- 16 - Catholic League forces under Graf von Tilly defeat the Bohemians under Frederick V.
1620/--/-- 16 - Cornelis Drebbel demonstrates a submarine on the River Thames.
1620/--/-- 16 - Ferdinand II is restored to the throne of Bohemia.
1620/--/-- 16 - Gustavus II Adolf begins a war with Poland and captures Livonia.
1620/--/-- 16 - The Pilgrim Fathers arrive at Cape Cod and found the Plymouth Colony.
1621/--/-- 17 - A Huguenot (Protestant) revolt begins against Louis XIII in France.
1621/--/-- 17 - English scholar Robert Burton publishes Anatomy of Melancholy.
1621/--/-- 17 - Philip IV becomes king of Spain and Portugal.
1621/--/-- 17 - The Dutch West India Company is founded.
1621/--/-- 17 - War is renewed between Spain and the United Provinces (the Netherlands).
1622/--/-- 18 - Indian Massacres begin, VA
1622/--/-- 18 - Indians massacre 347 settlers in Virginia.
1623/--/-- 19 - Abbas I, shah of Persia (Iran), captures Bagdhad from the Turks.
1623/--/-- 19 - Catholic League and Imperial forces overrun the Palatinate in Germany.
1623/--/-- 19 - Diego Velazquez is made court painter to Philip IV of Spain.
1623/--/-- 19 - Philosopher Francis Bacon publishes On the Dignity and Growth of Sciences.
1623/--/-- 19 - The first English settlement is founded in New Hampshire.
1624/--/-- 20 - Dutch artist Frans Hals paints the Laughing Cavalier.
1624/--/-- 20 - English poet John Donne publishes Devotions upon Emergent Occasions.
1624/--/-- 20 - Flemish chemist Johannes Baptista van Helmont names compressible fluid gas.
1625/--/-- 21 - Albrecht Wenzel von Wallenstein is made general of Ferdinand II's Imperial armies.
1625/--/-- 21 - Charles I succeeds James I as king of England.
1625/--/-- 21 - Flemish baroque artist Peter Paul Rubens paints The Judgement of Paris.
1625/--/-- 21 - Peter Minuit founds the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam (now New York).
1625/--/-- 21 - The Spanish capture Breda from the Dutch.
1626/--/-- 22 - Graf von Tilly's Catholic army routs the Danes under Christian IV.
1626/--/-- 22 - Imperial forces under Wallenstein defeat Graf von Mansfield at Dessau.
1626/--/-- 22 - The Dutch purchase Manhattan Island from the Indians for the equivalent of $24.
1626/02/-- 22 - Charles I crowned King of England and Scotland at Westminster Abbey by Georg Abb
1627/--/-- 23 *** Bristow, Robert & Curtis, Averilla (Bristow) [Wife] - Married London, England
1627/--/-- 23 - Shah Jahan succeeds Jahangir as Mogul emperor of India.
1627/--/-- 23 - The Huguenots (Protestants) revolt against Cardinal Richelieu at La Rochelle.
1627/--/-- 23 - The Manchus (Ch'ing) begin their conquest of Korea.
1628/--/-- 24 - English physician William Harvey publishes On the Motions of the Heart and Blood.
1628/--/-- 24 - French philosopher Rene Descartes begins Rules For the Direction of the Mind.
1628/--/-- 24 - King Charles I is forced to accept Parliament's Petition of Right.
1628/--/-- 24 - Puritans under John Endecott settle at Salem in Massachusetts.
1628/--/-- 24 - The Duke of Buckingham, a supporter of the French Huguenots, is assassinated.
1628/--/-- 24 - The Huguenots surrender La Rochelle after a 14-month siege.
1629/--/-- 25 - Charles I dissolves Parliament and rules England directly.
1629/--/-- 25 - Ferdinand II's Edict of Restitution restores Catholic properties taken by Protestants.
1630/--/-- 26 - Bhutan becomes independent from Tibet about this time.
1630/--/-- 26 - Dutch landscape artist Salomon van Ruisdael paints River Landscape.
1630/--/-- 26 - Gustav II Adolf invades Germany in support of the Protestant cause.
1630/--/-- 26 - John Winthrop founds a Puritan settlement at Boston in Massachusetts.
1630/--/-- 26 - Spanish artist Francisco de Zubaran paints the Holy House of Nazareth.
1630/--/-- 26 - The Ottoman Turks capture Hamadan in Persia (Iran).
1631/--/-- 27 - Baldassarre Longhena begins building the church of Santa Maria della Salute in Venice.
1631/--/-- 27 - Gustav II Adolf defeats Graf von Tilly's Imperial forces at Breitenfeld.
1631/--/-- 27 - Marie de Medicis goes into exile after a plot to remove Cardinal Richelieu fails.
1631/--/-- 27 - Navigation Act affecting Colonies
1631/--/-- 27 - The building of the Taj Mahal begins at Agra in India.
1631/--/-- 27 - The first newspaper, the Gazette de France, is published in Paris.
1632/--/-- 28 - Antony Van Dyck settles in London and becomes court painter to King Charles I.
1632/--/-- 28 - Bernal Diaz del Castillo's True Story of the Conquest of Mexico is published.
1632/--/-- 28 - Charles I grants a charter for the English colony of Maryland.
1632/--/-- 28 - Christina becomes queen of Sweden at age 6; Count Oxenstierna rules as regent.
1632/--/-- 28 - Dutch artist Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn paints The Anatomy Lesson.
1632/--/-- 28 - Gustavus II Adolf defeats Wallenstein at Lutzen but is killed during the battle.
1632/--/-- 28 - Imperial general Graf von Tilly is mortally wounded at the Battle of Lech.
1633/--/-- 29 - An English colony is established in Connecticut.
1633/--/-- 29 - French artist Nicolas Poussin paints The Adoration of the Golden Calf.
1633/--/-- 29 - Galileo Galilei is imprisoned for "vehement suspicion of heresy."
1634/--/-- 30 - Ferdinand II declares General Wallenstein a traitor; Wallenstein is assassinated.
1634/--/-- 30 - French fur trader Jean Nicolet explores Wisconsin.
1634/--/-- 30 - Hackney carriages are in use in London for public transport.
1634/--/-- 30 - Imperial forces under Ferdinand III defeat the Swedes at Nordlingen.
1635/--/-- 31 - Cardinal Richelieu founds the Academie Francaise in Paris.
1635/--/-- 31 - Claybourne's Rebellion begins, MD
1635/--/-- 31 - France forms an alliance with Sweden and enters the Thirty Years' War.
1635/--/-- 31 - Spanish playwright Pedro Calderon de la Barca writes Life Is a Dream.
1635/--/-- 31 - The Dutch occupy parts of Formosa (Taiwan).
1635/--/-- 31 - The Peace of Prague is signed between Ferdinand II and Protestant German princes.
1636/--/-- 32 - Harvard University is founded in Boston.
1636/--/-- 32 - Pequot Indian War, MASS, CONN, RI
1636/--/-- 32 - Radical Puritan Roger Williams establishes the town of Providence, Rhode Island.
1636/--/-- 32 - The Dutch settle in Ceylon (Sri Lanka).
1637/--/-- 33 - French dramatist Pierre Corneille writes le Cid.
1637/--/-- 33 - Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II dies; he is succeeded by his son Ferdinand III.
1637/--/-- 33 - Pequot Indians are decimated during the first Indian war in New England.
1637/--/-- 33 - Religious radical Anne Hutchinson is tried for heresy in Massachusetts.
1637/--/-- 33 - Rene Descartes publishes his concepts of analytic geometry Discourse on Method.
1637/--/-- 33 - The first opera house Teatro San Cassiano opens in Venice.
1638/--/-- 34 - John Davenport and Theophilus Eaton found New Haven, Connecticut.
1638/--/-- 34 - Swedish and Protestant forces defeat the Imperial army at Breisach.
1638/--/-- 34 - Swedish settlers found Fort Christina (now Wilmington) on the Delaware River.
1638/--/-- 34 - The Turks under Murad IV conquer Baghdad.
1639/--/-- 35 - Charles I concedes to Scottish demands after the First Bishops' War.
1639/--/-- 35 - Persia (Iran) and the Ottoman Empire sign a peace treaty.
1639/--/-- 35 - Spanish artist Jusepe de Ribera paints The Martyrdom of Saint Bartholomew.
1639/--/-- 35 - The first North American printing press is established in Cambridge, Mass..
1639/--/-- 35 - Tokugawa begins a period of isolation in Japan; only Nagasaki is open to foreigners.
1640/--/-- 36 - Coke is made from coal for the first time.
1640/--/-- 36 - Dutch Indian Troubles, NY
1640/--/-- 36 - Russian explorers cross Siberia and arrive at the Pacific Ocean.
1640/--/-- 36 - Scots invade England during the Second Bishops' War; Charles I sues for peace.
1640/--/-- 36 - The Portuguese rebel against Spanish rule; John IV is crowned king.
1641/--/-- 37 - Irish Catholics revolt against the Protestants in Ulster.
1641/--/-- 37 - The Dutch seize Melaka and deny the British access to the Moluccas.
1642/--/-- 38 - Cardinal Richelieu dies; he is succeeded by Cardinal Mazarin as first minister of France.
1642/--/-- 38 - Dutch artist Rembrandt paints the Night Watch.
1642/--/-- 38 - Dutch navigator Abel Tasman discovers Tasmania and New Zealand.
1642/--/-- 38 - English Parliamentarians close the London theaters.
1642/--/-- 38 - Montreal is founded by the French nobleman Sieur de Maisonneuve.
1642/--/-- 38 - The English Civil War begins between the Parliamentarians and the Royalists.
1642/--/-- 38 - The Swedes under Torstenson defeat the Imperial forces at Breitenfeld.
1643/--/-- 39 *** Bristow, Robert [Son] - Born to Bristow, Robert and Curtis, Averilla (Bristow)
1643/--/-- 39 - Christian IV of Denmark renews the war against Sweden.
1643/--/-- 39 - Italian physicist Torricelli demonstrates the principles of the barometer.
1643/--/-- 39 - Louis XIV ascends to the French throne at age 5; Anne of Austria rules as regent.
1643/--/-- 39 - Roger Williams publishes A Key into the Language of America.
1643/--/-- 39 - The New England Confederation is formed against the Indians, Dutch and French.
1643/--/-- 39 - The building of the Potala palace, residence of the Dalai Lama, is begun in Lhasa, Tibet.
1643/--/-- 39 - The first French settlement is founded on Madagascar.
1644/--/-- 40 - End of Indian Massacres, VA
1644/--/-- 40 - French landscape artist Claude Lorrain paints the Embarkation of Saint Ursula.
1644/--/-- 40 - French philosopher Descartes proclaims Cogito, ergo sum (I think, therefore I am).
1644/--/-- 40 - Italian artist Giovanni Bernini sculpts the Ecstasy of St. Teresa.
1644/--/-- 40 - Oliver Cromwell's Model Army defeats a Royalist army at Marston Moor.
1644/--/-- 40 - Queen Christina begins her reign in Sweden.
1644/--/-- 40 - The Manchus seize Peking and establish the Ch'ing dynasty.
1645/--/-- 41 - Alexis succeeds Michael as the Romanov tsar of Russia.
1645/--/-- 41 - Claybourne's Rebellion ends, MD
1645/--/-- 41 - French philosopher and scientist Blaise Pascal invents the first adding machine.
1645/--/-- 41 - Oliver Cromwell defeats Charles I at the Battle of Naseby.
1645/--/-- 41 - The Swedes defeat Denmark and later defeat the Imperial forces at Jankau.
1645/--/-- 41 - William Laud archbishop of Canterbury is executed.
1646/--/-- 42 - Flemish painter Teniers the Younger paints the Village Fete.
1646/--/-- 42 - Spanish artist Bartolome Esteban Murillo paints Holy Family With a Bird.
1646/--/-- 42 - The English Civil War ends when Charles I surrenders to the Parliamentarians.
1646/--/-- 42 - The Swedes capture Prague and invade Bavaria with their French allies.
1647/--/-- 43 - Charles I escapes from England and concludes a treaty with the Scots.
1647/--/-- 43 - Peter Stuyvesant becomes governor of the Dutch colony of the New Netherlands.
1648/--/-- 44 - Dutch architect Jacob van Campen designs the Amsterdam City Hall.
1648/--/-- 44 - Frederick III succeeds Christian IV as king of Denmark.
1648/--/-- 44 - George Fox founds the Society of Friends (Quakers) about this time.
1648/--/-- 44 - Margaret Jones becomes the first person executed as a witch in North America.
1648/--/-- 44 - Naples is restored to Spanish rule after a brief uprising.
1648/--/-- 44 - Russian explorer Semyon Dezhnev discovers the Bering Strait.
1648/--/-- 44 - The Dutch and Swiss republics achieve independence.
1648/--/-- 44 - The English settle in the Bahamas.
1648/--/-- 44 - The Fronde revolt begins in France against Anne of Austria and Cardinal Mazarin.
1648/--/-- 44 - The Scots renew the Civil War but are defeated at Preston; Charles I is captured.
1648/--/-- 44 - The Treaty of Westphalia ends the Thirty Years' War.
1649/--/-- 45 *** Bristow, John [Grandson] - Born to Bristow, Robert Middlesex England or Ayot, St. Lawrence, England
1649/--/-- 45 - Charles I is executed; the English Commonwealth (republic) begins.
1649/--/-- 45 - French artist Georges de La Tour paints Saint Irene Mourning Saint Sebastian.
1649/--/-- 45 - Oliver Cromwell suppresses a Catholic rebellion in Ireland.
1649/01/-- 45 - Cromwellian interregnum begins.
1650/--/-- 46 - Charles II lands in Scotland to renew the English Civil War.
1650/--/-- 46 - Dutch landscape artist Aelbert Cuyp paints the View of Dordrecht.
1650/--/-- 46 - Irish Bishop James Ussher establishes the date of creation at 4004 BC.
1650/--/-- 46 - Oratorios become a popular form of musical performance in Italy.
1650/--/-- 46 - The Holy Roman Empire and Sweden sign the Treaty of Nuremberg.
1650/--/-- 46 - The Ukiyo-e school of art begins to flourish in Japan about this time.
1650/--/-- 46 - The first coffeehouses are opened in London about this time.
1650/--/-- 46 - Whaling becomes an important industry in New England about this time.
1651/--/-- 47 - Charles II is crowned by the Scots; defeated at Worcester, he escapes to France.
1651/--/-- 47 - Navigation Acts affecting Colonies
1651/--/-- 47 - Thomas Hobbes publishes Leviathan, a defense of absolute monarchy.
1652/--/-- 48 - Cape Town is founded by the Dutch in South Africa.
1652/--/-- 48 - The English Navigation Acts (1651) lead to the first Anglo-Dutch War.
1653/--/-- 49 - English writer Izaak Walton publishes The Compleat Angler.
1653/--/-- 49 - French composer Jean Baptiste Lully writes the first minuet.
1653/--/-- 49 - Louis XIV becomes known as the Sun King after his role in the Ballet de la Nuit.
1653/--/-- 49 - Oliver Cromwell becomes the lord protector of England.
1654/--/-- 50 - Blaise Pascal and Pierre de Fermat collaborate on theories of probability.
1654/--/-- 50 - French philosopher Blaise Pascal joins the Jansenist sect at Port-Royal.
1654/--/-- 50 - Poland and Russia are at war over possession of the Ukraine.
1654/--/-- 50 - Queen Christina of Sweden abdicates and becomes a Roman Catholic.
1654/--/-- 50 - The Portuguese drive the Dutch from Brazil.
1654/--/-- 50 - The Treaty of Westminster ends the first Anglo-Dutch War.
1655/--/-- 51 - Civil War, MD (Catholic & Protestant)
1655/--/-- 51 - Conquest of New Sweden, DL
1655/--/-- 51 - Dutch colonists under Peter Stuyvesant seize Swedish settlements in Delaware.
1655/--/-- 51 - The English capture Jamaica from Spain.
1655/--/-- 51 - The Little Northern War begins with Sweden invading Poland and capturing Warsaw.
1656/--/-- 52 - Diego Velazquez paints The Maids of Honor at the court of Spain.
1656/--/-- 52 - Dutch philosopher Baruch Spinoza is expelled from the synagogue at Amsterdam.
1656/--/-- 52 - Dutch philosopher Christiaan Huygens patents the first pendulum clock.
1656/--/-- 52 - England joins France in the war against Spain.
1656/--/-- 52 - Italian artist and architect Giovanni Bernini designs the Piazza of St. Peter's, Rome.
1656/--/-- 52 - Quaker Persecution, MASS, VA, CONN
1656/--/-- 52 - The Holy Roman Empire, Russia and Denmark declare war on Sweden.
1657/--/-- 53 - Otto von Guericke demonstrates that it is possible for a vacuum to exist.
1657/--/-- 53 - The Swedes attack Denmark and besiege Copenhagen.
1658/--/-- 54 - Aurangzeb deposes his father Shah Jahan as Mogul emperor of India.
1658/--/-- 54 - Dutch genre artist Jan Vermeer paints The Milkmaid.
1658/--/-- 54 - Dutch naturalist Jan Swammerdam describes red blood cells.
1658/--/-- 54 - French colonists found the city of Saint-Louis on the Senegal River in Africa.
1658/--/-- 54 - Leopold I succeeds Ferdinand III as Holy Roman Emperor.
1658/--/-- 54 - Oliver Cromwell dies; he is succeeded by his son Richard as lord protector of England.
1659/--/-- 55 - French explorers Radisson and Groseilliers explore Minnesota.
1659/--/-- 55 - Richard Cromwell resigns as lord protector of England.
1659/--/-- 55 - The Peace of the Pyrenees ends a 24-year war between France and Spain.
1660/--/-- 56 - Charles II is restored to the English throne by Parliament.
1660/--/-- 56 - Dutch farmers (Boers) settle in South Africa.
1660/--/-- 56 - Dutch genre artist Gabriel Metsu paints The Sick Child.
1660/--/-- 56 - English public servant Samuel Pepys begins his Diary.
1660/--/-- 56 - Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg, gains control of Prussia from Poland.
1660/--/-- 56 - Louis XIV of France marries Marie Therese of Spain.
1660/--/-- 56 - Peter Stuyvesant founds the first permanent settlement in New Jersey at Bergen (Jersey City).
1660/--/-- 56 - The Bambara kingdom begins to flourish on the upper Niger about this time.
1660/--/-- 56 - The Peace of Copenhagen ends the war between Sweden and Denmark.
1660/--/-- 56 - The Peace of Oliva ends the war between Sweden, Poland, Austria and Brandenburg.
1660/--/-- 56 - The Peace of Oliva ends the war between Sweden, Poland, Austria and Brandenburg.
1660/--/-- 56 - Theaters are reopened in England; the period of Restoration drama begins.
1660/05/09 56 - Charles Stuart restored to throne of England as Charles II.
1661/--/-- 57 - Charles II orders that Cromwell's corpse be disinterred, hanged and beheaded.
1661/--/-- 57 - Chinese pirate Koxinga drives the Dutch from Formosa (Taiwan).
1661/--/-- 57 - Dutch-born artist Peter Lely is made court painter to Charles II.
1661/--/-- 57 - Emperor K'ang-hsi succeeds to the throne in China.
1661/--/-- 57 - The English acquire Bombay from Portugal.
1661/--/-- 57 - The first Bible printed in North America is John Elliot's translation into Algonquian.
1661/04/03 57 - Charles II crowned King of England and Scotland at Westminster Abbey by William
1662/--/-- 58 - Charles II grants a charter to the Royal Society of London for Natural Knowledge.
1662/--/-- 58 - France purchases Dunkerque from England.
1662/--/-- 58 - French architect Andre Le Notre designs the gardens for the Palace of Versailles.
1662/--/-- 58 - Robert Boyle develops his theory of gases (now known as Boyle's Law).
1662/--/-- 58 - The Portuguese surrender Tangier to England.
1662/--/-- 58 - The Theatre Royal is built in Drury Lane, London.
1663/--/-- 59 - Dutch genre artist Jan Steen paints the Woman Undressing.
1663/--/-- 59 - The Ottoman Turks invade Hungary.
1663/--/-- 59 - The first turnpike (toll) roads are established in England.
1664/--/-- 60 - England seizes New Amsterdam from the Dutch, renaming it New York.
1664/--/-- 60 - The Austrians defeat the Turks at Saint Gotthard and conclude a 20-year truce.
1664/--/-- 60 - The French East India Company is founded.
1664/--/-- 60 - The Trappists order of monks is founded at La Trappe in France.
1665/--/-- 61 - An outbreak of the Great Plague begins in London.
1665/--/-- 61 - Charles II succeeds Philip IV as king of Spain.
1665/--/-- 61 - Dutch genre artist Gerard Ter Borch paints the Flea Hunt.
1665/--/-- 61 - England and Portugal defeat Spain and establish Portuguese independence.
1665/--/-- 61 - Jean Baptiste Colbert becomes minister of finance for Louis XIV.
1665/--/-- 61 - Robert Hooke publishes his microscope observations in Micrographia.
1665/--/-- 61 - The Portuguese invade the Kingdom of Kongo and kill the monarch Antonio I.
1665/--/-- 61 - The Second Anglo-Dutch War begins.
1665/--/-- 61 - The first horse race track in North America is constructed on Long Island.
1666/--/-- 62 - British scientist Isaac Newton completes his theory of fluxional calculus.
1666/--/-- 62 - Large sections of London are destroyed in the Great Fire.
1666/--/-- 62 - Moliere's play The Misanthrope is performed for the first time.
1666/--/-- 62 - Puritans from Connecticut settle in New Jersey.
1666/--/-- 62 - Sabbatai Zevi claims to be the messiah and founds a Jewish sect.
1666/--/-- 62 - The Alawite dynasty assumes power in Morocco.
1666/--/-- 62 - The French join the Dutch in the war with England.
1667/--/-- 63 - English poet John Milton writes Paradise Lost.
1667/--/-- 63 - Japanese poet Basho begins to compose his haiku poetry.
1667/--/-- 63 - Louis XIV begins the War of Devolution and captures the Spanish Netherlands.
1667/--/-- 63 - Louis XIV sponsors the first official Salon art exhibition at the Louvre.
1667/--/-- 63 - Mexico City Cathedral is completed.
1667/--/-- 63 - Suleiman succeeds Abbas II as shah of Persia (Iran).
1667/--/-- 63 - The Dutch acquire Suriname from the British in exchange for Manhattan.
1667/--/-- 63 - The Dutch destroy the English fleet at anchor in the Medway.
1667/--/-- 63 - The Peace of Breda ends the war between the English, French and Dutch.
1667/--/-- 63 - The building of the Paris Observatory is begun.
1668/--/-- 64 - A Triple Alliance of England, Sweden, and the Dutch Republic is formed against France.
1668/--/-- 64 - By the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle France gives up its conquests but keeps Flanders.
1668/--/-- 64 - By the Treaty of Lisbon Spain recognizes the independence of Portugal.
1668/--/-- 64 - French fabulist Jean de La Fontaine begins publishing his Fables.
1668/--/-- 64 - Jacques Marquette founds the first settlement in Michigan at Sault Saint Marie.
1668/--/-- 64 - King John II of Poland abdicates; he is succeeded by Michael Wisniowiecki.
1669/--/-- 65 - French courtesan Madame de Sevigne begins writing her Letters.
1669/--/-- 65 - German Alchemist Hennig Brandt makes phosphorus for the first time.
1669/--/-- 65 - Louis Le Vau begins the expansion of the Palace of Versailles for Louis XIV.
1669/--/-- 65 - Mount Etna erupts in Italy, killing 20,000.
1669/--/-- 65 - Venice surrenders Crete to the Ottoman Turks.
1670/--/-- 66 - English architect Sir Christopher Wren begins rebuilding Saint Paul's Cathedral.
1670/--/-- 66 - The Don Cossacks under Stenka Razin rebel against Russian rule.
1670/--/-- 66 - The English establish a settlement at Charles Towne (Charleston), South Carolina.
1670/--/-- 66 - The Hudson's Bay Company is founded.
1671/--/-- 67 - Buccaneers under Sir Henry Morgan capture the city of Panama.
1672/--/-- 68 - Astronomer Giovanni Cassini becomes the first director of the Paris Observatory.
1672/--/-- 68 - Grenades become an important weapon; the French army forms grenadier companies.
1672/--/-- 68 - Jean Baptiste Lully produces the first French operas.
1672/--/-- 68 - Sebastien Le Prestre de Vauban founds the French army engineering corps.
1672/--/-- 68 - The French and British declare war on the Dutch.
1672/--/-- 68 - William III prince of Orange leads the defense of the Netherlands.
1673/--/-- 69 - Leibniz begins to develop his theories of differential and integral calculus.
1673/--/-- 69 - Marquette and Jolliet explore the Great Lakes region and the Mississippi River.
1673/--/-- 69 - The Polish army under John Sobieski defeats the Turks at Cochim (Khotin).
1673/--/-- 69 - The Test Act excludes Catholics from public office in England.
1673/--/-- 69 - The first mail service in North America is established between New York and Boston.
1674/--/-- 70 - Early American artist the Freake limner paints portraits of the Freake family.
1674/--/-- 70 - Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I declares war on France.
1674/--/-- 70 - John Sobieski is elected as King John III of Poland.
1674/--/-- 70 - Maratha leader Sivaji establishes a kingdom in Maharashtra, India.
1674/--/-- 70 - The Dutch under William III make peace with England.
1674/--/-- 70 - The Treaty of Westminster establishes New Yorkers as British subjects.
1675/--/-- 71 - Conflict begins between the Indians under King Philip and New England settlers .
1675/--/-- 71 - Dutch-Jewish philosopher Baruch Spinoza finishes his Ethics.
1675/--/-- 71 - English dramatist William Wycherley writes The Country Wife.
1675/--/-- 71 - King Philip's War (Indian) MASS, RI
1675/--/-- 71 - The Prussians under Frederick William defeat the Swedes at Fehrbellin.
1675/--/-- 71 - The Royal Observatory is established at Greenwich.
1676/--/-- 72 - Bacon's Rebellion, VA
1676/--/-- 72 - English playwright Sir George Etherege writes Man of Mode.
1676/--/-- 72 - German astronomer Ole Romer discovers the velocity of light.
1676/--/-- 72 - Indians in New England are subdued after the year-long King Philip's War.
1676/--/-- 72 - The Sikhs under Guru Gobind Singh revolt against Mogul rule in India.
1676/--/-- 72 - The Swedes defeat the Danes at the Battle of Lunden.
1677/--/-- 73 - Charles II appoints Henry Purcell as court composer.
1677/--/-- 73 - English author John Dryden writes the tragedy All for Love.
1677/--/-- 73 - French dramatist Jean Racine writes the tragedy of Phedre.
1677/--/-- 73 - William III prince of Orange marries Mary, daughter of the Duke of York.
1678/--/-- 74 - Charles Le Brun designs the Hall of Mirrors for the Palace of Versailles.
1678/--/-- 74 - Comtesse de La Fayette writes the novel La Princesse de Cleves.
1678/--/-- 74 - French explorer Louis Hennepin discovers Niagara Falls.
1678/--/-- 74 - John Bunyan publishes the first part of The Pilgrim's Progress.
1678/--/-- 74 - The Hungarians rebel against Habsburg rule.
1678/--/-- 74 - The Treaty of Nijmegen establishes peace between France, the Dutch and Spain.
1679/--/-- 75 *** Nicholls, Michal (Bristow) & Bristow, John [Grandson] - Married
1679/--/-- 75 - The English Parliament passes the Habeas Corpus Act.
1680/--/-- 76 - Antonio Stradivari opens his violin workshop in Cremona, Italy.
1680/--/-- 76 - Sadler's Wells theater opens in London.
1680/--/-- 76 - The Comedie Francaise is founded in Paris.
1680/05/09 76 *** Bristow, Joanna [Great Granddaughter] - Born to Bristow, John and Nicholls, Michal (Bristow)
1681/--/-- 77 - Aurangzeb suppresses a Rajput revolt and campaigns against Hindu kingdoms in India.
1681/--/-- 77 - English Quaker William Penn is granted the Providence of Pennsylvania.
1681/--/-- 77 - John Dryden publishes his satirical poem Absalom and Achitophel.
1681/--/-- 77 - The dodo, a large flightless bird, becomes extinct.
1682/--/-- 78 - Edmund Halley observes the Great Comet, which is later named for him.
1682/--/-- 78 - French explorer La Salle navigates the Mississippi River to the Gulf of Mexico.
1682/--/-- 78 - Peter the Great succeeds Fyodor III as tsar of Russia.
1682/--/-- 78 - The Palace of Versailles becomes the French royal residence.
1682/--/-- 78 - The Spanish establish the first settlement in Texas at Yselta (near El Paso).
1682/--/-- 78 - William Penn founds the city of Philadelphia.
1682/10/29 78 *** Bristow, William [Great Grandson] - Born to Bristow, John and Nicholls, Michal (Bristow)
1683/--/-- 79 - Chinese emperor K'ang-hsi conquers Formosa (Taiwan).
1683/--/-- 79 - Louis XIV secretly marries Madame de Maintenon .
1683/--/-- 79 - The Turks lay siege to Vienna but are defeated by Imperial and Polish forces.
1683/--/-- 79 - Van Leeuwenhoek's microscope drawings of Protozoa are published.
1683/--/-- 79 - William Penn makes a peace treaty with the Delaware Indians.
1684/--/-- 80 - England abandons Tangier to the Moroccans.
1684/--/-- 80 - La Salle claims Louisiana, a region from Quebec to the Gulf of Mexico, for France.
1684/--/-- 80 - The Dutch whaling fleet at Spitsbergen (Svalbard) numbers 246 vessels.
1684/02/15 80 *** Bristow, Michal (Owen) [Great Granddaughter] - Born to Bristow, John and Nicholls, Michal (Bristow)
1685/--/-- 81 - Charles II of England dies; he is succeeded by his brother James II.
1685/--/-- 81 - Increase Mather becomes president of Harvard College.
1685/--/-- 81 - Japanese Bunraku (puppet theater) is performed in Osaka about this time.
1685/--/-- 81 - Louis XIV revokes the Edict of Nantes and exiles thousands of French Huguenots.
1685/--/-- 81 - Rice cultivation begins in North America.
1685/--/-- 81 - The Duke of Monmouth rebels against James II; he is captured and executed.
1685/--/-- 81 - The Huguenots begin a silk industry in London and settle in the American colonies.
1685/04/03 81 - James II crowned King of England and Scotland at Westminster Abbey by William Sa
1686/--/-- 82 - Henri de Tonty establishes the first European settlement in Arkansas.
1686/--/-- 82 - The League of Augsburg is formed as a coalition of European states against France.
1686/--/-- 82 - The Turks are expelled from Budapest by a Habsburg army.
1687/--/-- 83 - English actress and royal mistress Nell Gwynne dies.
1687/--/-- 83 - Isaac Newton publishes Principia, establishing his laws of motion and gravity.
1687/--/-- 83 - James II issues a Declaration of Indulgence suspending the laws against Catholics.
1687/--/-- 83 - The city of Lima, Peru, is virtually destroyed by an earthquake.
1687/06/12 83 *** Bristow, Thomas [Great Grandson] - Born to Bristow, John and Nicholls, Michal (Bristow)
1688/--/-- 84 - English Protestants demand a Glorious Revolution against Catholicism.
1688/--/-- 84 - Insurance underwriters begin meeting at Lloyd's Coffee House in London.
1688/--/-- 84 - Louis XIV declares war on the Holy Roman Empire and captures Heidelberg.
1688/--/-- 84 - William of Orange is invited to England as king; James II escapes to France.
1689/--/-- 85 - British composer Henry Purcell writes the opera Dido and Aeneas.
1689/--/-- 85 - Chinese emperor K'ang-hsi establishes diplomatic relations with Russia.
1689/--/-- 85 - England and the Netherlands join the Grand Alliance against France.
1689/--/-- 85 - French and Indian allies attack English colonists during King William's War.
1689/--/-- 85 - William and Mary are proclaimed king and queen of England.
1689/01/08 85 - James II declared to have abdicated by Parliament.
1689/02/03 85 - William III and Mary II proclaimed King and Queen of England, Scotland, and Irel
1689/04/01 85 - William III and Mary II crowned King and Queen of England, Scotland, and Ireland
1690/--/-- 86 - Benjamin Harris publishes the first American newspaper in Boston.
1690/--/-- 86 - Carlos de Siguenza y Gongora publishes The Misadventures of Alfonso Ramirez.
1690/--/-- 86 - Jose Churriguera becomes court architect to Philip V of Spain.
1690/--/-- 86 - Philosopher John Locke publishes his Essay Concerning Human Understanding.
1690/--/-- 86 - Spain joins the War of Grand Alliance against France.
1690/--/-- 86 - The French defeat the English fleet at the Battle of Beachy Head.
1690/--/-- 86 - William III defeats James II at the Battle of the Boyne in Ireland.
1690/07/06 86 *** Bristow, Elizabeth [Great Granddaughter] - Born to Bristow, John and Nicholls, Michal (Bristow)
1691/--/-- 87 - Juana Ines de la Cruz writes a defense of women's rights Reply to Sister Philotea.
1691/--/-- 87 - The Irish rebellion ends with the Treaty of Limerick.
1691/03/13 87 *** Bristow, Sarah [Great Granddaughter] - Born to Bristow, John and Nicholls, Michal (Bristow)
1692/--/-- 88 - Port Royal in Jamaica is destroyed by an earthquake; the city of Kingston is founded.
1692/--/-- 88 - Salem Witchcraft Trials, MASS
1692/--/-- 88 - The Macdonald clan are massacred by the Campbells at Glencoe in Scotland.
1692/--/-- 88 - The first English patent for a wallpaper design is issued.
1692/--/-- 88 - Witchcraft trials are held at Salem in New England.
1693/--/-- 89 - James Blair founds William and Mary College in Williamsburg, Virginia.
1693/--/-- 89 - John Ray publishes the first major classification of animals.
1694/--/-- 90 - The Academie Francaise introduces the first French national dictionary.
1694/--/-- 90 - The Bank of England is founded.
1694/06/17 90 *** Bristow, Nicholas [Great Grandson] - Born to Bristow, John and Nicholls, Michal (Bristow) Middlesex County Virginia
1694/12/28 90 - William III rules as sole King.
1696/--/-- 92 *** Bristow, James [Great Grandson] - Born to Bristow, John and Nicholls, Michal (Bristow)
1696/--/-- 92 - Russia annexes the Kamchatka Peninsula.
1696/--/-- 92 - Russian tsar Peter the Great captures Azov from the Turks.
1696/--/-- 92 - The Chinese under K'ang-hsi defeat the Dzungar Mongol chieftain Galdan.
1696/--/-- 92 - William III campaigns in Holland against the French.
1697/--/-- 93 - Augustus II elector of Saxony becomes king of Poland.
1697/--/-- 93 - French poet Charles Perrault publishes the Tales From Mother Goose.
1697/--/-- 93 - Russian tsar Peter the Great sets out to study the European way of life.
1697/--/-- 93 - Sir John Vanbrugh's play The Relapse is produced in London.
1697/--/-- 93 - The Habsburg army under Eugene of Savoy defeats the Turks at Zenta.
1697/--/-- 93 - The Treaty of Ryswick ends the War of the Grand Alliance.
1698/--/-- 94 - Calcutta is founded by the British East India Company.
1698/--/-- 94 - Russian tsar Peter the Great imposes a tax on beards.
1698/--/-- 94 - Thomas Savery invents a water pump -- the first practical application of steam power.
1699/--/-- 95 - Austria, Russia, Poland and Venice sign the Peace of Karlowitz treaty with Turkey.
1699/--/-- 95 - Francis Moore's Vox stellarum, known as Old Moore's Almanac, is published.
1699/--/-- 95 - Japanese master ceramicist Ogata Kenzan opens his kiln at Narutaki.
1699/--/-- 95 - Peter the Great changes the Russian New Year from September 1 to January 1.
1699/--/-- 95 - William Dampier explores the northwest coast of Australia.
1700/--/-- 96 - Charles II of Spain dies, ending the Spanish Habsburg line.
1700/--/-- 96 - Johann Denner invents the clarinet about this time.
1700/--/-- 96 - Kabuki Theater develops in Japan about this time.
1700/--/-- 96 - Peter the Great's Russian army is defeated by the Swedes at the Battle of Narva.
1700/--/-- 96 - Philip V, grandson of Louis XIV, becomes the first Bourbon king of Spain.
1700/--/-- 96 - The Great Northern War begins; Denmark, Poland and Russia attack Sweden.
1700/--/-- 96 - The Swedes under Charles XII defeat the Danes.
1700/--/-- 96 - The rococo style is introduced into French architecture about this time.
1700/--/-- 96 - William Congreve's comedy The Way of the World is produced in London.
1701/--/-- 97 - Captain Kidd is hanged for piracy.
1701/--/-- 97 - Frederick I Elector of Saxony proclaims himself the first king of Prussia.
1701/--/-- 97 - French artist Hyacinthe Rigaud paints a portrait of Louis XIV.
1701/--/-- 97 - The Act of Settlement in Britain establishes the Hanoverian succession to the throne.
1701/--/-- 97 - The War of the Spanish Succession begins.
1701/--/-- 97 - Yale University is founded in New Haven, Connecticut.
1702/--/-- 98 - Anne succeeds William III as queen of England.
1702/--/-- 98 - England declares war on France and Spain.
1702/--/-- 98 - French fur traders found Vincennes, the first permanent European settlement in Indiana.
1702/--/-- 98 - Queen Anne's War begins in America; the British attack Saint Augustine in Florida.
1702/--/-- 98 - The Camisards (French Huguenots) rebel in southern France.
1702/--/-- 98 - The French under the duc de Villars defeat the Grand Alliance at Friedlingen.
1702/--/-- 98 - The first daily newspaper The Daily Courant is published in London.
1702/--/-- 98 - The royal colony of New Jersey is founded in America.
1702/04/03 98 - Anne crowned Queen of England, Scotland, and Ireland at Westminster Abbey by Tho
1703/--/-- 99 - Archduke Charles of Austria claims the Spanish throne for the Habsburgs.
1703/--/-- 99 - Buckingham Palace is rebuilt for the Duke of Buckingham in London.
1703/--/-- 99 - Peter the Great lays the foundations of St. Petersburg (Leningrad).
1704/--/-- 100 - Augustus II is deposed; Stanislaw I is crowned king of Poland.
1704/--/-- 100 - Issac Newton publishes his theory of color and light in Opticks.
1704/--/-- 100 - John Campbell founds the Boston News-Letter, the first successful American newspaper.
1704/--/-- 100 - The Duke of Marlborough and Eugene of Savoy defeat the French at Blenheim.
1704/--/-- 100 - The English capture Gibraltar from Spain.
1704/--/-- 100 - The Indians and the French massacre British settlers in Deerfield, Mass.
1704/12/07 100 *** Stark, Margaret (Bristow) & Bristow, William [Great Grandson] - Married
1705/--/-- 101 - Edmund Halley predicts that the comet of 1682 will return in 1758.
1705/--/-- 101 - Nicolas Hawksmoor designs Blenheim Palace for the Duke of Marlborough.
1705/--/-- 101 - The English Navy occupies Barcelona.
1706/--/-- 102 - Eugene of Savoy defeats the French at Turin and drives them from Italy.
1706/--/-- 102 - George Farquhar's comedy The Recruiting Officer is produced.
1706/--/-- 102 - The Duke of Marlborough conquers the Spanish Netherlands.
1706/09/20 102 *** Bristow, Robert - Died London, Middlesex, England
In 1604 Transportation was by:
Foot
Horse
Sailing ship
In 1604 Communications was by:
Word of Mouth
In 1604 Food Preparation was by:
Wood
In 1604 Entertainment was by:
Social Intercourse
Organized Sports
Travel
Professional Sports
Movies
Radio
Television
Theme parks
Computer
In 1604 Health Care was by:
Operations
Anesthetic
X-Rays
MRI
In 1604 War Making was by:
Bow & Arrow
Swords & body armor
Calvary
gun
Artillery
By 1706 War Making by:
Bow & Arrow
Swords & body armor
had been discontinued.
In 1604 Navigation was by:
Stars & Maps
Compass
from the SFHR database of Duane Bristow 03-13-2021 19:57:24