1600 - 1700

  • Jamestown, Virginia

    Jamestown, Virginia
    Jamestown is established as the first permanent English colony.
  • Laws of Planetary Motion

    Johannes Kepler publishes his laws of planetary motion.
  • William Shakespeare Death

    William Shakespeare Death
    William Shakespeare dies.
  • Start of the "30 years War"

    The protestant people revolt against Catholic oppression. Sweden,France and Denmark invade Germany later on in the war.
  • Slavery Begins

    Slavery Begins
    The first African American slave is brought to Jamestown.
  • Pilgrims Arrive in the New World

    The Pilgrims arrive in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
  • Boston Founded

    Boston Founded
    Boston is founded by a Massachusetts colonists. Lead by John Winthrop.
  • Rhode Island

    Rhode Island by Roger Williams.
  • End of the Thirty Years War

    End of the Thirty Years War
    Germany population as cut in half after the war
  • Carolina

    Carolina was founded
  • Isaac Newton Gravity Experiment

    Isaac Newton Gravity Experiment
    Isaac Newton experiments with gravity and the English capture New Amsterdam from the Dutch and rename it New York
  • London Plague

    The Great Plague kill 75,000
  • Bacon's Rebellion

    Nathaniel Bacon revolts and causes the burning of Jamestown
  • French Settles in Mississippi

    French Settlers move into Mississippi and Lousiana
  • The Burning of Jamestown

    After Jamestown burned down the colonist left and moved to the middle plantation which soon became Williamsburg