1600-1700- Dual Credit History Technology Project #3- Brianna Belcher

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    1600-1700 Technology Project 3

  • 1601

    1601
    The Portuguese were defeated by the Dutch in a naval battle in the Indonesian Archipelago.

  • 1602

    1602
    The Persian army under the command of Imam-Quli Khan, managed to expel the Portuguese from Bahrain, by the order of Abbas I.

  • 1603

    1603
    Queen Elizabeth dies at age 69. She is then succeeded by a Calvinist and devout Presbyterian, King James VI of Scotland, who is the eldest son of Elizabeth's cousin, Mary I, Queen of Scots. He soon becomes James I, King of England, Ireland and Scotland.

  • 1619

    1619
    African slaves are being transported to the West Indies to replace the African Americans who have passed. A big factor to the decrease in number is the sugar industry which is killing them faster than they can be replaced.

  • 1630

    1630
    Sweden fears Habsburg power along the Baltic Sea, so the country joins the Thirty Year's War. Sweden soon invades northern Germany, where they are not welcomed there by fellow Lutherans.

  • 1632

    1632
    The town of Boston is founded.

  • 1636

    1636
    Even though they are a largely Catholic country, France allied with Sweden and the Dutch, and enter the Thirty Years' War against Spain and the Holy Roman Empire.

  • 1638

    1638
    Pequot Indians raid and kill 600 members of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

  • 1662

    1662
    After marrying a Portuguese princess, Charles acquires Tangier in North Africa and Bombay on the west coast of India.

  • 1696

    1696
    Ivan, brother of Peter, dies. So, at the age of 24, Peter becomes Russia's sole star.