1600-1700

  • The First permeant English settlement

    Also known as Jamestown
  • German/Dutch man

    invents a refracting telescope.
  • Kalmar War

    A war between Denmark and Sweden over control of norther Norwegian coast
  • Thirty Years War

    religious conflict
  • House of Burgesses

    First ever representative assembly meets for the first time.
  • Plymouth is established

    This colony is established in Massachusetts by pilgrims.
  • Cornelis Drebbel

    invents a submarine
  • Powhatan War

    conflict between Powhatan Indian confederacy and English settlers.
  • Jean Baptiste

    invents a method for blood transfusion
  • Giovanni Branca

    He invents a steam turbine
  • W. Gascoigne

    He invents the micrometer.
  • English Civil War

    Also known as the great rebellion between supporters of the monarchy of Charles I and opposing groups.
  • Eighty Years War

    This was the war Netherlands got independence from Spain.
  • Otto Guericke

    He invents an air pump
  • First Northern War

    struggle over Polish-Swedish succession
  • Isaac Newton

    He invents a reflecting telescope
  • War Of Devolution

    conflict between France and Spain
  • King Philips War

    The first Indian war took place in southern New England
  • War Of The Grand Alliance

    Third major war of Louis XIV of France
  • King Williams War

    The first of the French and Indian wars