1600-1700

By charlie bigbie
  • The gunpowder plot

    The gunpowder plot

    The Gunpowder Plot was a failed attempt to blow up England's King James I and the Parliament on November 5, 1605. The plot was organized by Robert Catesby in an effort to end the persecution of Roman Catholics by the English government.
  • Jamestown

    Jamestown

    Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in America, is established by the London Company in southeast Virginia.
  • The Treaty of Stolbovo

    The Treaty of Stolbovo

    The Treaty of Stolbovo ends the Ingrian War between Sweden and Russia.
  • Battle of Martqopi

    Battle of Martqopi

    The Safavids are defeated in Georgia. March 27
  • The Mystic Massacre of 1637

    The Mystic Massacre of 1637

    the pivotal event of the Pequot War (1636-1638) in New England fought between the English (along with their Native American allies the Mohegan and Narragansett tribes) and the Pequot tribe of modern-day Connecticut
  • First English Civil War

    First English Civil War

    Battle of Torrington: A decisive Parliamentary victory is gained over the Royalists.
  • Anglo-Spanish War: Invasion of Jamaica

    Anglo-Spanish War: Invasion of Jamaica

    Forces of the English Protectorate led by William Penn and Robert Venables capture the island of Jamaica from Spain. June 13
  • King Philip's War

    King Philip's War

    also known as the First Indian War, the Great Narragansett War or Metacom's Rebellion—took place in southern New England from 1675 to 1676
  • The Treaty of Perpetual Peace

    The Treaty of Perpetual Peace

    The Treaty of Perpetual Peace is signed between the Tsardom of Russia and the Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth, recognizing the former's possession of Left-bank Ukraine and the city of Kiev, as agreed upon in the earlier Treaty of Andrusovo in 1667.
  • The Manchus of the Qing dynasty conquer Outer Mongolia.

    The Manchus of the Qing dynasty conquer Outer Mongolia.

    The British government passes the Trade with Africa Act 1697, confirming the Royal African Company's loss of monopoly on the Atlantic slave trade.