...Date... AGE Event
1578/--/-- 0 *** Bristow, Robert Clifton - Born
1578/--/-- 0 - English dramatist John Lyly writes Euphues, the Anatomy of Wit.
1578/--/-- 0 - King Sebastian of Portugal is killed by Muslims at Alcazrquivir in Morocco.
1578/--/-- 0 - The Christian catacombs are rediscovered in Rome.
1579/--/-- 1 - English explorer Francis Drake discovers San Francisco Bay.
1580/--/-- 2 - French writer Michel de Montaigne publishes his Essays.
1580/--/-- 2 - Philip II of Spain invades Portugal.
1580/--/-- 2 - Witches are persecuted throughout western Europe.
1581/--/-- 3 - Beaujoyeux's Ballet Comique de la Reigne is performed in Paris.
1581/--/-- 3 - The Dutch Republic is founded after the Union of Utrecht.
1581/--/-- 3 - The Russian conquest of Siberia begins with the expedition of Yermak Timofeyevich.
1582/--/-- 4 - Geographer Richard Hakluyt publishes an account of the discovery of America.
1582/--/-- 4 - The Gregorian calendar is introduced into Catholic countries by Pope Gregory XIII.
1583/--/-- 5 - Edinburgh University is founded in Scotland.
1583/--/-- 5 - Japanese leader Hideyoshi builds Osaka castle.
1583/--/-- 5 - Sir Humphrey Gilbert claims Newfoundland for England.
1584/--/-- 6 - Russian tsar Ivan the Terrible dies.
1584/--/-- 6 - Walter Raleigh and Richard Grenville organize English colonizing ventures to North America.
1584/--/-- 6 - William I, leader of the Dutch Revolt, is assassinated.
1585/--/-- 7 - England is at war with Spain (until 1604).
1585/--/-- 7 - John Davis discovers Davis Strait between Greenland and North America.
1585/--/-- 7 - Roanoke Island in North Carolina is settled as the first English colony in Virginia.
1586/--/-- 8 - Mary, Queen of Scots, is found guilty of treason and executed (1587).
1586/--/-- 8 - Pipe smoking is introduced into England.
1587/--/-- 9 - Francis Drake attacks the Spanish fleet in Cadiz harbor.
1587/--/-- 9 - Japanese leader Hideyoshi bans Christian missionaries.
1588/--/-- 10 - Christian IV succeeds Frederick II as king of Denmark.
1588/--/-- 10 - The Catholic League expels Henry III from Paris.
1588/--/-- 10 - The Spanish Armada is defeated by the English navy.
1588/--/-- 10 - Timothy Bright composes the first manual of shorthand.
1589/--/-- 11 - Galileo Galilei is made professor of mathematics at Pisa.
1589/--/-- 11 - Henry III is assassinated; he is succeeded by Henry IV as king of France.
1590/--/-- 12 - Christopher Marlowe's drama Tamburlaine the Great is published in London.
1590/--/-- 12 - English poet Edmund Spenser begins The Faerie Queene.
1590/--/-- 12 - Hideyoshi completes the unification of Japan.
1590/--/-- 12 - Viete, inventor of symbolic algebra, writes his Introduction to the Analytic Art.
1590/--/-- 12 - William Shakespeare begins writing plays about this time.
1591/--/-- 13 - The Roanoke colony dies out in North Carolina.
1591/--/-- 13 - The Songhai Empire is destroyed by the Moroccan army.
1592/--/-- 14 - Elizabeth I founds Trinity College in Dublin.
1592/--/-- 14 - Italian philosopher Giordano Bruno is imprisoned for heresy.
1592/--/-- 14 - London theaters are closed because of the plague.
1592/--/-- 14 - Playwright Christopher Marlowe writes Doctor Faustus.
1592/--/-- 14 - Thomas Kyd writes his revenge play The Spanish Tragedy.
1593/--/-- 15 - English theologian Richard Hooker publishes his Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity.
1593/--/-- 15 - Henry IV of France converts to Catholicism.
1594/--/-- 16 - Henry IV of France captures Paris.
1594/--/-- 16 - Jacopo Peri's Dafne, the first opera, is performed in Italy about this time.
1595/--/-- 17 - Hugh O'Neill leads a rebellion against the English in Ireland.
1596/--/-- 18 - Warsaw is established as the capital of Poland.
1597/--/-- 19 - English composer John Dowland publishes his First Booke of Songes.
1597/--/-- 19 - Spanish artist El Greco paints The Agony in the Garden.
1598/--/-- 20 - Abbas I of Persia (Iran) defeats the Uzbeks at Herat.
1598/--/-- 20 - Boris Godunov becomes tsar of Russia; the Time of Troubles begin.
1598/--/-- 20 - English playwright Ben Jonson writes Every Man in His Humour.
1598/--/-- 20 - John Florio produces an Italian-English dictionary.
1598/--/-- 20 - Philip III succeeds Philip II as king of Spain.
1598/--/-- 20 - The Edict of Nantes grants French Huguenots equal rights with Catholics.
1599/--/-- 21 - The Earl of Essex is imprisoned for negotiating a truce with the Irish rebels.
1599/--/-- 21 - The Globe theater is built in London.
1600/--/-- 22 - A charter is granted to the East India Company by Queen Elizabeth I.
1600/--/-- 22 - Giordano Bruno is burned at the stake in Rome for heretical writing.
1600/--/-- 22 - Hans and Zacharias Jannsen construct the first microscope about this time.
1600/--/-- 22 - Maurice of Nassau defeats the Austrian army at Nieuport.
1600/--/-- 22 - The Baroque period in art and architecture begins in Italy about this time.
1600/--/-- 22 - Wigs become fashionable at European courts about this time.
1600/--/-- 22 - William Gilbert publishes his treatise on magnetism.
1601/--/-- 23 - Italian artist Caravaggio paints the Conversion of St. Paul.
1601/--/-- 23 - Jesuit missionary Matteo Ricci arrives in Peking.
1601/--/-- 23 - Manchurian leader Nurhachi unites the Manchu tribes under the banner system.
1601/--/-- 23 - The Earl of Essex is executed by Elizabeth I after his rebellion fails.
1601/--/-- 23 - The Gobelins tapestry factory is established in Paris.
1602/--/-- 24 - Abbas I leads Persia (Iran) in a holy war against the Ottoman Turks.
1602/--/-- 24 - Bartholomew Gosnold explores the New England coast and names Cape Cod.
1602/--/-- 24 - The Bodleian Library, the first public library in Europe, opens in Oxford, England
1602/--/-- 24 - The Dutch East India Company is founded.
1603/--/-- 25 - Ieyasu founds the Tokugawa shogunate in Japan.
1603/--/-- 25 - Queen Elizabeth I dies; she is succeeded by James I (James IV of Scotland).
1603/--/-- 25 - The first Kabuki performance is given in Japan.
1603/--/-- 25 - William Shakespeare's play Hamlet is performed for the first time.
1603/07/05 25 - James I crowned King of England at Westminster Abbey by John Whitgift, Archbisho
1604/--/-- 26 *** Bristow, Robert [Son] - Born to Bristow, Robert Clifton and Mitts, Cleo Brinstead, South Hampton, England
1604/--/-- 26 - A false Dmitry lays claim to the Russian throne during the "Time of Troubles."
1604/--/-- 26 - Charles IX is crowned king of Sweden.
1604/--/-- 26 - England and Spain are at peace after 19 years of war.
1604/--/-- 26 - Flemish artist Carel van Mander publishes a handbook for painters Het Schilderboeck.
1604/--/-- 26 - Hieronymus Fabricius writes De formata foctu, a study of human embryology.
1604/--/-- 26 - The French East India Company is founded.
1604/--/-- 26 - The Spanish capture the Dutch city of Ostend after a 3-year siege.
1605/--/-- 27 - English philosopher Francis Bacon publishes The Advancement of Learning.
1605/--/-- 27 - Jahangir succeeds Akbar as Mogul emperor of India.
1605/--/-- 27 - Spanish writer Cervantes publishes part one of Don Quixote.
1605/--/-- 27 - The English claim Barbados in the West Indies.
1605/--/-- 27 - The Gunpowder Plot to blow up the English Parliament is discovered.
1605/--/-- 27 - The first French settlement in North America is founded at Port Royal in Nova Scotia.
1606/--/-- 28 - Ben Jonson's play Volpone is performed for the first time.
1607/--/-- 29 - Claudio Monteverdi's first opera Orfeo is performed.
1607/--/-- 29 - John Smith founds the first English colony at Jamestown in Virginia.
1608/--/-- 30 - Emperor Rudolf II cedes Hungary to his brother Matthias.
1608/--/-- 30 - Girolamo Frescobaldi is appointed as organist at St. Peter's in Rome.
1608/--/-- 30 - Italian scientist Galileo Galilei assembles an astronomical telescope.
1608/--/-- 30 - Samuel de Champlain founds a French settlement in Quebec.
1608/--/-- 30 - The first telescope is invented by Dutch optician Hans Lippershey.
1609/--/-- 31 - A truce with Spain gives the United Provinces (the Netherlands) virtual independence.
1609/--/-- 31 - Johannes Kepler publishes his first law of planetary motion in New Astronomy.
1609/--/-- 31 - Spanish playwright Lope de Vega publishes The New Art of Writing Plays.
1609/--/-- 31 - The English colonize Bermuda.
1609/--/-- 31 - The Spanish found Santa Fe in New Mexico.
1610/--/-- 32 - Ben Jonson's play The Alchemist is performed for the first time.
1610/--/-- 32 - English navigator Henry Hudson becomes the first European to explore Hudson Bay.
1610/--/-- 32 - Galileo Galilei publishes his first stellar observations in The Starry Messenger.
1610/--/-- 32 - Henry IV of France is assassinated; he is succeeded by his son Louis XIII.
1610/--/-- 32 - Maximilian of Bavaria forms the Catholic League to oppose the Protestant Union.
1610/--/-- 32 - The Polish army of Sigismund III invades Russia and captures Moscow.
1611/--/-- 33 - An edition of the Bible authorized by King James I is completed in England.
1611/--/-- 33 - Christian IV of Denmark declares war on Sweden.
1611/--/-- 33 - English and Scottish Protestants settle in Ireland under the Ulster Plantation.
1611/--/-- 33 - Gustav II Adolf succeeds Charles IX as king of Sweden.
1612/--/-- 34 - John Webster's tragedy The White Devil is produced.
1612/--/-- 34 - Matthias succeeds his brother Rudolf II as Holy Roman Emperor.
1613/--/-- 35 - Gabor Bethlen becomes Prince of Transylvania.
1613/--/-- 35 - Gustav II Adolf ends the War of Kalmar with Denmark and attacks Russia.
1613/--/-- 35 - Michael becomes tsar of Russia, founding the Romanov dynasty.
1613/--/-- 35 - Virginia colonists destroy French settlements in Maine and Nova Scotia.
1614/--/-- 36 - James I dissolves the Addled Parliament in England.
1614/--/-- 36 - Pocahontas, a North American Indian princess, marries English settler John Rolfe.
1614/--/-- 36 - Scottish mathematician John Napier publishes Marvelous Canon of Logarithms.
1614/--/-- 36 - Sir Walter Raleigh writes his History of the World.
1615/--/-- 37 - Coffee is introduced into Italy from Turkey.
1615/--/-- 37 - Manchu tribes in China expand to eight banners (military regions) under Nurhachi.
1615/--/-- 37 - The Dutch seize the Spice Islands (the Moluccas) from the Portuguese.
1615/--/-- 37 - The first English language reference is made to tea.
1616/--/-- 38 - A smallpox epidemic decimates the Indian population in New England.
1616/--/-- 38 - Cardinal Richelieu becomes Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in France.
1616/--/-- 38 - Emperor Ieyasu of Japan dies; he is succeeded by his son Hidetada.
1616/--/-- 38 - The Catholic church issues an edict against Copernicanism.
1616/--/-- 38 - William Baffin searches for the Northwest Passage and discovers Baffin Bay.
1617/--/-- 39 - The Treaty of Stolbovo ends the war between Russia and Sweden.
1617/--/-- 39 - Tobacco is established as the major industry in North America.
1618/--/-- 40 - Conflict between Catholic and Protestant states begins the Thirty Years' War.
1618/--/-- 40 - James I orders the execution of Sir Walter Raleigh.
1619/--/-- 41 - Dutch ships bring the first Negro slaves to the colony of Virginia.
1619/--/-- 41 - Ferdinand II is elected Holy Roman Emperor and king of Bohemia.
1619/--/-- 41 - Inigo Jones designs the Banqueting House at Whitehall, London.
1619/--/-- 41 - Louis XIII of France defeats the supporters of his mother Maria de Medicis.
1619/--/-- 41 - Spanish artist Diego Velazquez paints The Water Seller of Seville.
1619/--/-- 41 - The Bohemians depose Ferdinand and elect Frederick V (Elector Palatine) as king.
1620/--/-- 42 - Catholic League forces under Graf von Tilly defeat the Bohemians under Frederick V.
1620/--/-- 42 - Cornelis Drebbel demonstrates a submarine on the River Thames.
1620/--/-- 42 - Ferdinand II is restored to the throne of Bohemia.
1620/--/-- 42 - Gustavus II Adolf begins a war with Poland and captures Livonia.
1620/--/-- 42 - The Pilgrim Fathers arrive at Cape Cod and found the Plymouth Colony.
1621/--/-- 43 - A Huguenot (Protestant) revolt begins against Louis XIII in France.
1621/--/-- 43 - English scholar Robert Burton publishes Anatomy of Melancholy.
1621/--/-- 43 - Philip IV becomes king of Spain and Portugal.
1621/--/-- 43 - The Dutch West India Company is founded.
1621/--/-- 43 - War is renewed between Spain and the United Provinces (the Netherlands).
1622/--/-- 44 - Indian Massacres begin, VA
1622/--/-- 44 - Indians massacre 347 settlers in Virginia.
1623/--/-- 45 - Abbas I, shah of Persia (Iran), captures Bagdhad from the Turks.
1623/--/-- 45 - Catholic League and Imperial forces overrun the Palatinate in Germany.
1623/--/-- 45 - Diego Velazquez is made court painter to Philip IV of Spain.
1623/--/-- 45 - Philosopher Francis Bacon publishes On the Dignity and Growth of Sciences.
1623/--/-- 45 - The first English settlement is founded in New Hampshire.
1624/--/-- 46 - Dutch artist Frans Hals paints the Laughing Cavalier.
1624/--/-- 46 - English poet John Donne publishes Devotions upon Emergent Occasions.
1624/--/-- 46 - Flemish chemist Johannes Baptista van Helmont names compressible fluid gas.
1625/--/-- 47 - Albrecht Wenzel von Wallenstein is made general of Ferdinand II's Imperial armies.
1625/--/-- 47 - Charles I succeeds James I as king of England.
1625/--/-- 47 - Flemish baroque artist Peter Paul Rubens paints The Judgement of Paris.
1625/--/-- 47 - Peter Minuit founds the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam (now New York).
1625/--/-- 47 - The Spanish capture Breda from the Dutch.
1626/--/-- 48 - Graf von Tilly's Catholic army routs the Danes under Christian IV.
1626/--/-- 48 - Imperial forces under Wallenstein defeat Graf von Mansfield at Dessau.
1626/--/-- 48 - The Dutch purchase Manhattan Island from the Indians for the equivalent of $24.
1626/02/-- 48 - Charles I crowned King of England and Scotland at Westminster Abbey by Georg Abb
1627/--/-- 49 *** Bristow, Robert [Son] & Curtis, Averilla (Bristow) - Married London, England
1627/--/-- 49 - Shah Jahan succeeds Jahangir as Mogul emperor of India.
1627/--/-- 49 - The Huguenots (Protestants) revolt against Cardinal Richelieu at La Rochelle.
1627/--/-- 49 - The Manchus (Ch'ing) begin their conquest of Korea.
1628/--/-- 50 - English physician William Harvey publishes On the Motions of the Heart and Blood.
1628/--/-- 50 - French philosopher Rene Descartes begins Rules For the Direction of the Mind.
1628/--/-- 50 - King Charles I is forced to accept Parliament's Petition of Right.
1628/--/-- 50 - Puritans under John Endecott settle at Salem in Massachusetts.
1628/--/-- 50 - The Duke of Buckingham, a supporter of the French Huguenots, is assassinated.
1628/--/-- 50 - The Huguenots surrender La Rochelle after a 14-month siege.
1629/--/-- 51 - Charles I dissolves Parliament and rules England directly.
1629/--/-- 51 - Ferdinand II's Edict of Restitution restores Catholic properties taken by Protestants.
1630/--/-- 52 - Bhutan becomes independent from Tibet about this time.
1630/--/-- 52 - Dutch landscape artist Salomon van Ruisdael paints River Landscape.
1630/--/-- 52 - Gustav II Adolf invades Germany in support of the Protestant cause.
1630/--/-- 52 - John Winthrop founds a Puritan settlement at Boston in Massachusetts.
1630/--/-- 52 - Spanish artist Francisco de Zubaran paints the Holy House of Nazareth.
1630/--/-- 52 - The Ottoman Turks capture Hamadan in Persia (Iran).
1631/--/-- 53 - Baldassarre Longhena begins building the church of Santa Maria della Salute in Venice.
1631/--/-- 53 - Gustav II Adolf defeats Graf von Tilly's Imperial forces at Breitenfeld.
1631/--/-- 53 - Marie de Medicis goes into exile after a plot to remove Cardinal Richelieu fails.
1631/--/-- 53 - Navigation Act affecting Colonies
1631/--/-- 53 - The building of the Taj Mahal begins at Agra in India.
1631/--/-- 53 - The first newspaper, the Gazette de France, is published in Paris.
1632/--/-- 54 - Antony Van Dyck settles in London and becomes court painter to King Charles I.
1632/--/-- 54 - Bernal Diaz del Castillo's True Story of the Conquest of Mexico is published.
1632/--/-- 54 - Charles I grants a charter for the English colony of Maryland.
1632/--/-- 54 - Christina becomes queen of Sweden at age 6; Count Oxenstierna rules as regent.
1632/--/-- 54 - Dutch artist Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn paints The Anatomy Lesson.
1632/--/-- 54 - Gustavus II Adolf defeats Wallenstein at Lutzen but is killed during the battle.
1632/--/-- 54 - Imperial general Graf von Tilly is mortally wounded at the Battle of Lech.
1633/--/-- 55 - An English colony is established in Connecticut.
1633/--/-- 55 - French artist Nicolas Poussin paints The Adoration of the Golden Calf.
1633/--/-- 55 - Galileo Galilei is imprisoned for "vehement suspicion of heresy."
1634/--/-- 56 - Ferdinand II declares General Wallenstein a traitor; Wallenstein is assassinated.
1634/--/-- 56 - French fur trader Jean Nicolet explores Wisconsin.
1634/--/-- 56 - Hackney carriages are in use in London for public transport.
1634/--/-- 56 - Imperial forces under Ferdinand III defeat the Swedes at Nordlingen.
1635/--/-- 57 - Cardinal Richelieu founds the Academie Francaise in Paris.
1635/--/-- 57 - Claybourne's Rebellion begins, MD
1635/--/-- 57 - France forms an alliance with Sweden and enters the Thirty Years' War.
1635/--/-- 57 - Spanish playwright Pedro Calderon de la Barca writes Life Is a Dream.
1635/--/-- 57 - The Dutch occupy parts of Formosa (Taiwan).
1635/--/-- 57 - The Peace of Prague is signed between Ferdinand II and Protestant German princes.
1636/--/-- 58 - Harvard University is founded in Boston.
1636/--/-- 58 - Pequot Indian War, MASS, CONN, RI
1636/--/-- 58 - Radical Puritan Roger Williams establishes the town of Providence, Rhode Island.
1636/--/-- 58 - The Dutch settle in Ceylon (Sri Lanka).
1637/--/-- 59 - French dramatist Pierre Corneille writes le Cid.
1637/--/-- 59 - Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II dies; he is succeeded by his son Ferdinand III.
1637/--/-- 59 - Pequot Indians are decimated during the first Indian war in New England.
1637/--/-- 59 - Religious radical Anne Hutchinson is tried for heresy in Massachusetts.
1637/--/-- 59 - Rene Descartes publishes his concepts of analytic geometry Discourse on Method.
1637/--/-- 59 - The first opera house Teatro San Cassiano opens in Venice.
1638/--/-- 60 - John Davenport and Theophilus Eaton found New Haven, Connecticut.
1638/--/-- 60 - Swedish and Protestant forces defeat the Imperial army at Breisach.
1638/--/-- 60 - Swedish settlers found Fort Christina (now Wilmington) on the Delaware River.
1638/--/-- 60 - The Turks under Murad IV conquer Baghdad.
1639/--/-- 61 - Charles I concedes to Scottish demands after the First Bishops' War.
1639/--/-- 61 - Persia (Iran) and the Ottoman Empire sign a peace treaty.
1639/--/-- 61 - Spanish artist Jusepe de Ribera paints The Martyrdom of Saint Bartholomew.
1639/--/-- 61 - The first North American printing press is established in Cambridge, Mass..
1639/--/-- 61 - Tokugawa begins a period of isolation in Japan; only Nagasaki is open to foreigners.
1640/--/-- 62 - Coke is made from coal for the first time.
1640/--/-- 62 - Dutch Indian Troubles, NY
1640/--/-- 62 - Russian explorers cross Siberia and arrive at the Pacific Ocean.
1640/--/-- 62 - Scots invade England during the Second Bishops' War; Charles I sues for peace.
1640/--/-- 62 - The Portuguese rebel against Spanish rule; John IV is crowned king.
1641/--/-- 63 - Irish Catholics revolt against the Protestants in Ulster.
1641/--/-- 63 - The Dutch seize Melaka and deny the British access to the Moluccas.
1642/--/-- 64 - Cardinal Richelieu dies; he is succeeded by Cardinal Mazarin as first minister of France.
1642/--/-- 64 - Dutch artist Rembrandt paints the Night Watch.
1642/--/-- 64 - Dutch navigator Abel Tasman discovers Tasmania and New Zealand.
1642/--/-- 64 - English Parliamentarians close the London theaters.
1642/--/-- 64 - Montreal is founded by the French nobleman Sieur de Maisonneuve.
1642/--/-- 64 - The English Civil War begins between the Parliamentarians and the Royalists.
1642/--/-- 64 - The Swedes under Torstenson defeat the Imperial forces at Breitenfeld.
1643/--/-- 65 *** Bristow, Robert [Grandson] - Born to Bristow, Robert and Curtis, Averilla (Bristow)
1643/--/-- 65 - Christian IV of Denmark renews the war against Sweden.
1643/--/-- 65 - Italian physicist Torricelli demonstrates the principles of the barometer.
1643/--/-- 65 - Louis XIV ascends to the French throne at age 5; Anne of Austria rules as regent.
1643/--/-- 65 - Roger Williams publishes A Key into the Language of America.
1643/--/-- 65 - The New England Confederation is formed against the Indians, Dutch and French.
1643/--/-- 65 - The building of the Potala palace, residence of the Dalai Lama, is begun in Lhasa, Tibet.
1643/--/-- 65 - The first French settlement is founded on Madagascar.
1644/--/-- 66 - End of Indian Massacres, VA
1644/--/-- 66 - French landscape artist Claude Lorrain paints the Embarkation of Saint Ursula.
1644/--/-- 66 - French philosopher Descartes proclaims Cogito, ergo sum (I think, therefore I am).
1644/--/-- 66 - Italian artist Giovanni Bernini sculpts the Ecstasy of St. Teresa.
1644/--/-- 66 - Oliver Cromwell's Model Army defeats a Royalist army at Marston Moor.
1644/--/-- 66 - Queen Christina begins her reign in Sweden.
1644/--/-- 66 - The Manchus seize Peking and establish the Ch'ing dynasty.
1645/--/-- 67 - Alexis succeeds Michael as the Romanov tsar of Russia.
1645/--/-- 67 - Claybourne's Rebellion ends, MD
1645/--/-- 67 - French philosopher and scientist Blaise Pascal invents the first adding machine.
1645/--/-- 67 - Oliver Cromwell defeats Charles I at the Battle of Naseby.
1645/--/-- 67 - The Swedes defeat Denmark and later defeat the Imperial forces at Jankau.
1645/--/-- 67 - William Laud archbishop of Canterbury is executed.
1646/--/-- 68 - Flemish painter Teniers the Younger paints the Village Fete.
1646/--/-- 68 - Spanish artist Bartolome Esteban Murillo paints Holy Family With a Bird.
1646/--/-- 68 - The English Civil War ends when Charles I surrenders to the Parliamentarians.
1646/--/-- 68 - The Swedes capture Prague and invade Bavaria with their French allies.
1647/--/-- 69 - Charles I escapes from England and concludes a treaty with the Scots.
1647/--/-- 69 - Peter Stuyvesant becomes governor of the Dutch colony of the New Netherlands.
1648/--/-- 70 - Dutch architect Jacob van Campen designs the Amsterdam City Hall.
1648/--/-- 70 - Frederick III succeeds Christian IV as king of Denmark.
1648/--/-- 70 - George Fox founds the Society of Friends (Quakers) about this time.
1648/--/-- 70 - Margaret Jones becomes the first person executed as a witch in North America.
1648/--/-- 70 - Naples is restored to Spanish rule after a brief uprising.
1648/--/-- 70 - Russian explorer Semyon Dezhnev discovers the Bering Strait.
1648/--/-- 70 - The Dutch and Swiss republics achieve independence.
1648/--/-- 70 - The English settle in the Bahamas.
1648/--/-- 70 - The Fronde revolt begins in France against Anne of Austria and Cardinal Mazarin.
1648/--/-- 70 - The Scots renew the Civil War but are defeated at Preston; Charles I is captured.
1648/--/-- 70 - The Treaty of Westphalia ends the Thirty Years' War.
1649/--/-- 71 *** Bristow, John [Great Grandson] - Born to Bristow, Robert Middlesex England or Ayot, St. Lawrence, England
1649/--/-- 71 - Charles I is executed; the English Commonwealth (republic) begins.
1649/--/-- 71 - French artist Georges de La Tour paints Saint Irene Mourning Saint Sebastian.
1649/--/-- 71 - Oliver Cromwell suppresses a Catholic rebellion in Ireland.
1649/01/-- 71 - Cromwellian interregnum begins.
1650/--/-- 72 - Charles II lands in Scotland to renew the English Civil War.
1650/--/-- 72 - Dutch landscape artist Aelbert Cuyp paints the View of Dordrecht.
1650/--/-- 72 - Irish Bishop James Ussher establishes the date of creation at 4004 BC.
1650/--/-- 72 - Oratorios become a popular form of musical performance in Italy.
1650/--/-- 72 - The Holy Roman Empire and Sweden sign the Treaty of Nuremberg.
1650/--/-- 72 - The Ukiyo-e school of art begins to flourish in Japan about this time.
1650/--/-- 72 - The first coffeehouses are opened in London about this time.
1650/--/-- 72 - Whaling becomes an important industry in New England about this time.
1651/--/-- 73 - Charles II is crowned by the Scots; defeated at Worcester, he escapes to France.
1651/--/-- 73 - Navigation Acts affecting Colonies
1651/--/-- 73 - Thomas Hobbes publishes Leviathan, a defense of absolute monarchy.
1652/--/-- 74 - Cape Town is founded by the Dutch in South Africa.
1652/--/-- 74 - The English Navigation Acts (1651) lead to the first Anglo-Dutch War.
1653/--/-- 75 - English writer Izaak Walton publishes The Compleat Angler.
1653/--/-- 75 - French composer Jean Baptiste Lully writes the first minuet.
1653/--/-- 75 - Louis XIV becomes known as the Sun King after his role in the Ballet de la Nuit.
1653/--/-- 75 - Oliver Cromwell becomes the lord protector of England.
1654/--/-- 76 - Blaise Pascal and Pierre de Fermat collaborate on theories of probability.
1654/--/-- 76 - French philosopher Blaise Pascal joins the Jansenist sect at Port-Royal.
1654/--/-- 76 - Poland and Russia are at war over possession of the Ukraine.
1654/--/-- 76 - Queen Christina of Sweden abdicates and becomes a Roman Catholic.
1654/--/-- 76 - The Portuguese drive the Dutch from Brazil.
1654/--/-- 76 - The Treaty of Westminster ends the first Anglo-Dutch War.
1655/--/-- 77 - Civil War, MD (Catholic & Protestant)
1655/--/-- 77 - Conquest of New Sweden, DL
1655/--/-- 77 - Dutch colonists under Peter Stuyvesant seize Swedish settlements in Delaware.
1655/--/-- 77 - The English capture Jamaica from Spain.
1655/--/-- 77 - The Little Northern War begins with Sweden invading Poland and capturing Warsaw.
1656/--/-- 78 - Diego Velazquez paints The Maids of Honor at the court of Spain.
1656/--/-- 78 - Dutch philosopher Baruch Spinoza is expelled from the synagogue at Amsterdam.
1656/--/-- 78 - Dutch philosopher Christiaan Huygens patents the first pendulum clock.
1656/--/-- 78 - England joins France in the war against Spain.
1656/--/-- 78 - Italian artist and architect Giovanni Bernini designs the Piazza of St. Peter's, Rome.
1656/--/-- 78 - Quaker Persecution, MASS, VA, CONN
1656/--/-- 78 - The Holy Roman Empire, Russia and Denmark declare war on Sweden.
1657/--/-- 79 - Otto von Guericke demonstrates that it is possible for a vacuum to exist.
1657/--/-- 79 - The Swedes attack Denmark and besiege Copenhagen.
1658/--/-- 80 - Aurangzeb deposes his father Shah Jahan as Mogul emperor of India.
1658/--/-- 80 - Dutch genre artist Jan Vermeer paints The Milkmaid.
1658/--/-- 80 - Dutch naturalist Jan Swammerdam describes red blood cells.
1658/--/-- 80 - French colonists found the city of Saint-Louis on the Senegal River in Africa.
1658/--/-- 80 - Leopold I succeeds Ferdinand III as Holy Roman Emperor.
1658/--/-- 80 - Oliver Cromwell dies; he is succeeded by his son Richard as lord protector of England.
1659/--/-- 81 - French explorers Radisson and Groseilliers explore Minnesota.
1659/--/-- 81 - Richard Cromwell resigns as lord protector of England.
1659/--/-- 81 - The Peace of the Pyrenees ends a 24-year war between France and Spain.
1660/--/-- 82 - Charles II is restored to the English throne by Parliament.
1660/--/-- 82 - Dutch farmers (Boers) settle in South Africa.
1660/--/-- 82 - Dutch genre artist Gabriel Metsu paints The Sick Child.
1660/--/-- 82 - English public servant Samuel Pepys begins his Diary.
1660/--/-- 82 - Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg, gains control of Prussia from Poland.
1660/--/-- 82 - Louis XIV of France marries Marie Therese of Spain.
1660/--/-- 82 - Peter Stuyvesant founds the first permanent settlement in New Jersey at Bergen (Jersey City).
1660/--/-- 82 - The Bambara kingdom begins to flourish on the upper Niger about this time.
1660/--/-- 82 - The Peace of Copenhagen ends the war between Sweden and Denmark.
1660/--/-- 82 - The Peace of Oliva ends the war between Sweden, Poland, Austria and Brandenburg.
1660/--/-- 82 - The Peace of Oliva ends the war between Sweden, Poland, Austria and Brandenburg.
1660/--/-- 82 - Theaters are reopened in England; the period of Restoration drama begins.
1660/05/09 82 - Charles Stuart restored to throne of England as Charles II.
1661/--/-- 83 - Charles II orders that Cromwell's corpse be disinterred, hanged and beheaded.
1661/--/-- 83 - Chinese pirate Koxinga drives the Dutch from Formosa (Taiwan).
1661/--/-- 83 - Dutch-born artist Peter Lely is made court painter to Charles II.
1661/--/-- 83 - Emperor K'ang-hsi succeeds to the throne in China.
1661/--/-- 83 - The English acquire Bombay from Portugal.
1661/--/-- 83 - The first Bible printed in North America is John Elliot's translation into Algonquian.
1661/04/03 83 - Charles II crowned King of England and Scotland at Westminster Abbey by William
1662/--/-- 84 - Charles II grants a charter to the Royal Society of London for Natural Knowledge.
1662/--/-- 84 - France purchases Dunkerque from England.
1662/--/-- 84 - French architect Andre Le Notre designs the gardens for the Palace of Versailles.
1662/--/-- 84 - Robert Boyle develops his theory of gases (now known as Boyle's Law).
1662/--/-- 84 - The Portuguese surrender Tangier to England.
1662/--/-- 84 - The Theatre Royal is built in Drury Lane, London.
1663/--/-- 85 - Dutch genre artist Jan Steen paints the Woman Undressing.
1663/--/-- 85 - The Ottoman Turks invade Hungary.
1663/--/-- 85 - The first turnpike (toll) roads are established in England.
1664/--/-- 86 - England seizes New Amsterdam from the Dutch, renaming it New York.
1664/--/-- 86 - The Austrians defeat the Turks at Saint Gotthard and conclude a 20-year truce.
1664/--/-- 86 - The French East India Company is founded.
1664/--/-- 86 - The Trappists order of monks is founded at La Trappe in France.
1665/--/-- 87 - An outbreak of the Great Plague begins in London.
1665/--/-- 87 - Charles II succeeds Philip IV as king of Spain.
1665/--/-- 87 - Dutch genre artist Gerard Ter Borch paints the Flea Hunt.
1665/--/-- 87 - England and Portugal defeat Spain and establish Portuguese independence.
1665/--/-- 87 - Jean Baptiste Colbert becomes minister of finance for Louis XIV.
1665/--/-- 87 - Robert Hooke publishes his microscope observations in Micrographia.
1665/--/-- 87 - The Portuguese invade the Kingdom of Kongo and kill the monarch Antonio I.
1665/--/-- 87 - The Second Anglo-Dutch War begins.
1665/--/-- 87 - The first horse race track in North America is constructed on Long Island.
1666/--/-- 88 - British scientist Isaac Newton completes his theory of fluxional calculus.
1666/--/-- 88 - Large sections of London are destroyed in the Great Fire.
1666/--/-- 88 - Moliere's play The Misanthrope is performed for the first time.
1666/--/-- 88 - Puritans from Connecticut settle in New Jersey.
1666/--/-- 88 - Sabbatai Zevi claims to be the messiah and founds a Jewish sect.
1666/--/-- 88 - The Alawite dynasty assumes power in Morocco.
1666/--/-- 88 - The French join the Dutch in the war with England.
1667/--/-- 89 - English poet John Milton writes Paradise Lost.
1667/--/-- 89 - Japanese poet Basho begins to compose his haiku poetry.
1667/--/-- 89 - Louis XIV begins the War of Devolution and captures the Spanish Netherlands.
1667/--/-- 89 - Louis XIV sponsors the first official Salon art exhibition at the Louvre.
1667/--/-- 89 - Mexico City Cathedral is completed.
1667/--/-- 89 - Suleiman succeeds Abbas II as shah of Persia (Iran).
1667/--/-- 89 - The Dutch acquire Suriname from the British in exchange for Manhattan.
1667/--/-- 89 - The Dutch destroy the English fleet at anchor in the Medway.
1667/--/-- 89 - The Peace of Breda ends the war between the English, French and Dutch.
1667/--/-- 89 - The building of the Paris Observatory is begun.
1668/--/-- 90 - A Triple Alliance of England, Sweden, and the Dutch Republic is formed against France.
1668/--/-- 90 - By the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle France gives up its conquests but keeps Flanders.
1668/--/-- 90 - By the Treaty of Lisbon Spain recognizes the independence of Portugal.
1668/--/-- 90 - French fabulist Jean de La Fontaine begins publishing his Fables.
1668/--/-- 90 - Jacques Marquette founds the first settlement in Michigan at Sault Saint Marie.
1668/--/-- 90 - King John II of Poland abdicates; he is succeeded by Michael Wisniowiecki.
1669/--/-- 91 - French courtesan Madame de Sevigne begins writing her Letters.
1669/--/-- 91 - German Alchemist Hennig Brandt makes phosphorus for the first time.
1669/--/-- 91 - Louis Le Vau begins the expansion of the Palace of Versailles for Louis XIV.
1669/--/-- 91 - Mount Etna erupts in Italy, killing 20,000.
1669/--/-- 91 - Venice surrenders Crete to the Ottoman Turks.
1670/--/-- 92 - English architect Sir Christopher Wren begins rebuilding Saint Paul's Cathedral.
1670/--/-- 92 - The Don Cossacks under Stenka Razin rebel against Russian rule.
1670/--/-- 92 - The English establish a settlement at Charles Towne (Charleston), South Carolina.
1670/--/-- 92 - The Hudson's Bay Company is founded.
1671/--/-- 93 - Buccaneers under Sir Henry Morgan capture the city of Panama.
1672/--/-- 94 - Astronomer Giovanni Cassini becomes the first director of the Paris Observatory.
1672/--/-- 94 - Grenades become an important weapon; the French army forms grenadier companies.
1672/--/-- 94 - Jean Baptiste Lully produces the first French operas.
1672/--/-- 94 - Sebastien Le Prestre de Vauban founds the French army engineering corps.
1672/--/-- 94 - The French and British declare war on the Dutch.
1672/--/-- 94 - William III prince of Orange leads the defense of the Netherlands.
1673/--/-- 95 - Leibniz begins to develop his theories of differential and integral calculus.
1673/--/-- 95 - Marquette and Jolliet explore the Great Lakes region and the Mississippi River.
1673/--/-- 95 - The Polish army under John Sobieski defeats the Turks at Cochim (Khotin).
1673/--/-- 95 - The Test Act excludes Catholics from public office in England.
1673/--/-- 95 - The first mail service in North America is established between New York and Boston.
1674/--/-- 96 - Early American artist the Freake limner paints portraits of the Freake family.
1674/--/-- 96 - Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I declares war on France.
1674/--/-- 96 - John Sobieski is elected as King John III of Poland.
1674/--/-- 96 - Maratha leader Sivaji establishes a kingdom in Maharashtra, India.
1674/--/-- 96 - The Dutch under William III make peace with England.
1674/--/-- 96 - The Treaty of Westminster establishes New Yorkers as British subjects.
1675/--/-- 97 - Conflict begins between the Indians under King Philip and New England settlers .
1675/--/-- 97 - Dutch-Jewish philosopher Baruch Spinoza finishes his Ethics.
1675/--/-- 97 - English dramatist William Wycherley writes The Country Wife.
1675/--/-- 97 - King Philip's War (Indian) MASS, RI
1675/--/-- 97 - The Prussians under Frederick William defeat the Swedes at Fehrbellin.
1675/--/-- 97 - The Royal Observatory is established at Greenwich.
1676/--/-- 98 - Bacon's Rebellion, VA
1676/--/-- 98 - English playwright Sir George Etherege writes Man of Mode.
1676/--/-- 98 - German astronomer Ole Romer discovers the velocity of light.
1676/--/-- 98 - Indians in New England are subdued after the year-long King Philip's War.
1676/--/-- 98 - The Sikhs under Guru Gobind Singh revolt against Mogul rule in India.
1676/--/-- 98 - The Swedes defeat the Danes at the Battle of Lunden.
1677/--/-- 99 - Charles II appoints Henry Purcell as court composer.
1677/--/-- 99 - English author John Dryden writes the tragedy All for Love.
1677/--/-- 99 - French dramatist Jean Racine writes the tragedy of Phedre.
1677/--/-- 99 - William III prince of Orange marries Mary, daughter of the Duke of York.
1678/--/-- 100 - Charles Le Brun designs the Hall of Mirrors for the Palace of Versailles.
1678/--/-- 100 - Comtesse de La Fayette writes the novel La Princesse de Cleves.
1678/--/-- 100 - French explorer Louis Hennepin discovers Niagara Falls.
1678/--/-- 100 - John Bunyan publishes the first part of The Pilgrim's Progress.
1678/--/-- 100 - The Hungarians rebel against Habsburg rule.
1678/--/-- 100 - The Treaty of Nijmegen establishes peace between France, the Dutch and Spain.
1679/--/-- 101 *** Nicholls, Michal (Bristow) & Bristow, John [Great Grandson] - Married
1679/--/-- 101 - The English Parliament passes the Habeas Corpus Act.
1680/--/-- 102 - Antonio Stradivari opens his violin workshop in Cremona, Italy.
1680/--/-- 102 - Sadler's Wells theater opens in London.
1680/--/-- 102 - The Comedie Francaise is founded in Paris.
1681/--/-- 103 - Aurangzeb suppresses a Rajput revolt and campaigns against Hindu kingdoms in India.
1681/--/-- 103 - English Quaker William Penn is granted the Providence of Pennsylvania.
1681/--/-- 103 - John Dryden publishes his satirical poem Absalom and Achitophel.
1681/--/-- 103 - The dodo, a large flightless bird, becomes extinct.
1682/--/-- 104 - Edmund Halley observes the Great Comet, which is later named for him.
1682/--/-- 104 - French explorer La Salle navigates the Mississippi River to the Gulf of Mexico.
1682/--/-- 104 - Peter the Great succeeds Fyodor III as tsar of Russia.
1682/--/-- 104 - The Palace of Versailles becomes the French royal residence.
1682/--/-- 104 - The Spanish establish the first settlement in Texas at Yselta (near El Paso).
1682/--/-- 104 - William Penn founds the city of Philadelphia.
1683/--/-- 105 - Chinese emperor K'ang-hsi conquers Formosa (Taiwan).
1683/--/-- 105 - Louis XIV secretly marries Madame de Maintenon .
1683/--/-- 105 - The Turks lay siege to Vienna but are defeated by Imperial and Polish forces.
1683/--/-- 105 - Van Leeuwenhoek's microscope drawings of Protozoa are published.
1683/--/-- 105 - William Penn makes a peace treaty with the Delaware Indians.
1684/--/-- 106 - England abandons Tangier to the Moroccans.
1684/--/-- 106 - La Salle claims Louisiana, a region from Quebec to the Gulf of Mexico, for France.
1684/--/-- 106 - The Dutch whaling fleet at Spitsbergen (Svalbard) numbers 246 vessels.
1685/--/-- 107 - Charles II of England dies; he is succeeded by his brother James II.
1685/--/-- 107 - Increase Mather becomes president of Harvard College.
1685/--/-- 107 - Japanese Bunraku (puppet theater) is performed in Osaka about this time.
1685/--/-- 107 - Louis XIV revokes the Edict of Nantes and exiles thousands of French Huguenots.
1685/--/-- 107 - Rice cultivation begins in North America.
1685/--/-- 107 - The Duke of Monmouth rebels against James II; he is captured and executed.
1685/--/-- 107 - The Huguenots begin a silk industry in London and settle in the American colonies.
1685/04/03 107 - James II crowned King of England and Scotland at Westminster Abbey by William Sa
1686/--/-- 108 - Henri de Tonty establishes the first European settlement in Arkansas.
1686/--/-- 108 - The League of Augsburg is formed as a coalition of European states against France.
1686/--/-- 108 - The Turks are expelled from Budapest by a Habsburg army.
1687/--/-- 109 - English actress and royal mistress Nell Gwynne dies.
1687/--/-- 109 - Isaac Newton publishes Principia, establishing his laws of motion and gravity.
1687/--/-- 109 - James II issues a Declaration of Indulgence suspending the laws against Catholics.
1687/--/-- 109 - The city of Lima, Peru, is virtually destroyed by an earthquake.
1688/--/-- 110 - English Protestants demand a Glorious Revolution against Catholicism.
1688/--/-- 110 - Insurance underwriters begin meeting at Lloyd's Coffee House in London.
1688/--/-- 110 - Louis XIV declares war on the Holy Roman Empire and captures Heidelberg.
1688/--/-- 110 - William of Orange is invited to England as king; James II escapes to France.
1689/--/-- 111 - British composer Henry Purcell writes the opera Dido and Aeneas.
1689/--/-- 111 - Chinese emperor K'ang-hsi establishes diplomatic relations with Russia.
1689/--/-- 111 - England and the Netherlands join the Grand Alliance against France.
1689/--/-- 111 - French and Indian allies attack English colonists during King William's War.
1689/--/-- 111 - William and Mary are proclaimed king and queen of England.
1689/01/08 111 - James II declared to have abdicated by Parliament.
1689/02/03 111 - William III and Mary II proclaimed King and Queen of England, Scotland, and Irel
1689/04/01 111 - William III and Mary II crowned King and Queen of England, Scotland, and Ireland
1690/--/-- 112 - Benjamin Harris publishes the first American newspaper in Boston.
1690/--/-- 112 - Carlos de Siguenza y Gongora publishes The Misadventures of Alfonso Ramirez.
1690/--/-- 112 - Jose Churriguera becomes court architect to Philip V of Spain.
1690/--/-- 112 - Philosopher John Locke publishes his Essay Concerning Human Understanding.
1690/--/-- 112 - Spain joins the War of Grand Alliance against France.
1690/--/-- 112 - The French defeat the English fleet at the Battle of Beachy Head.
1690/--/-- 112 - William III defeats James II at the Battle of the Boyne in Ireland.
1691/--/-- 113 - Juana Ines de la Cruz writes a defense of women's rights Reply to Sister Philotea.
1691/--/-- 113 - The Irish rebellion ends with the Treaty of Limerick.
1692/--/-- 114 - Port Royal in Jamaica is destroyed by an earthquake; the city of Kingston is founded.
1692/--/-- 114 - Salem Witchcraft Trials, MASS
1692/--/-- 114 - The Macdonald clan are massacred by the Campbells at Glencoe in Scotland.
1692/--/-- 114 - The first English patent for a wallpaper design is issued.
1692/--/-- 114 - Witchcraft trials are held at Salem in New England.
1693/--/-- 115 - James Blair founds William and Mary College in Williamsburg, Virginia.
1693/--/-- 115 - John Ray publishes the first major classification of animals.
1694/--/-- 116 - The Academie Francaise introduces the first French national dictionary.
1694/--/-- 116 - The Bank of England is founded.
1694/12/28 116 - William III rules as sole King.
1696/--/-- 118 - Russia annexes the Kamchatka Peninsula.
1696/--/-- 118 - Russian tsar Peter the Great captures Azov from the Turks.
1696/--/-- 118 - The Chinese under K'ang-hsi defeat the Dzungar Mongol chieftain Galdan.
1696/--/-- 118 - William III campaigns in Holland against the French.
1697/--/-- 119 - Augustus II elector of Saxony becomes king of Poland.
1697/--/-- 119 - French poet Charles Perrault publishes the Tales From Mother Goose.
1697/--/-- 119 - Russian tsar Peter the Great sets out to study the European way of life.
1697/--/-- 119 - Sir John Vanbrugh's play The Relapse is produced in London.
1697/--/-- 119 - The Habsburg army under Eugene of Savoy defeats the Turks at Zenta.
1697/--/-- 119 - The Treaty of Ryswick ends the War of the Grand Alliance.
1698/--/-- 120 - Calcutta is founded by the British East India Company.
1698/--/-- 120 - Russian tsar Peter the Great imposes a tax on beards.
1698/--/-- 120 - Thomas Savery invents a water pump -- the first practical application of steam power.
In 1578 Transportation was by:
Foot
Horse
Sailing ship
In 1578 Communications was by:
Word of Mouth
In 1578 Food Preparation was by:
Wood
In 1578 Entertainment was by:
Social Intercourse
Organized Sports
Travel
Professional Sports
Movies
Radio
Television
Theme parks
Computer
In 1578 Health Care was by:
Operations
Anesthetic
X-Rays
MRI
In 1578 War Making was by:
Bow & Arrow
Swords & body armor
Calvary
gun
Artillery
In 1578 Navigation was by:
Stars & Maps
Compass
from the SFHR database of Duane Bristow 03-13-2021 19:58:10