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Hans Lippershey invented the first refracting telescope.
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Sweden and Denmark battled for control of the northern Norwegian Coast.
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In England, the King James Version of the Bible was published.
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English playwright and poet William Shakespeare died at the age of 52 in his hometown of Stratford-upon-Avon on April 23,1616.
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Beginning of the Thirty Years' War where Protestants rebelled against Catholic injustice.
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African slaves are brought to Jamestown for the first time in 1619.
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The first human-powered submarine was built by Dutchman Cornelis Drebbel.
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The Mayflower arrives at Plymouth, Massachusetts carrying Pilgrims from England.
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A conflict between English settlers and Powhatan Indians which resulted in the extinction of Indian power.
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William Oughtred, English mathematician, invents the slide ruler.
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Giovanni Branca, an Italian architect and engineer, creates a steam turbine.
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W. Gascoigne, an English mathematician and astronomer, invents the micrometer.
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Two small fights between Charles I and the Scottish over revoking episcopacy and upholding Anglican observances.
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Also referred to as the Great Rebellion, the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, or the British Civil Wars.
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The adding machine was invented by Blaise Pascal, a French mathematician.
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The barometer was invented by an Italian physicist and mathematician named Evangelista Torricelli.
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Because of the war, Germany had about half the number of people it had in 1618.
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Otto von Guericke created the first air pump.
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Polish-Swedish Succession
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Dutchman Christian Huygens develops the pendulum clock.
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In the Black Forest region of Furtwangen, Germany, cuckoo clocks were made.
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France and Spain fighting over control of the Spanish Netherlands.
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Physicist and mathematician Isaac Newton made a reflecting telescope.
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The initial mention of candy cane is made.
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A cellar master and monk named Dom Perignon invented Champagne at a French monastery.
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The calculating machine was created by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz who was a German philosopher and mathematician.
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Anton Van Leeuwenhoek, a Dutch Microbiologist, was the first to describe bacteria viewed with a microscope.
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Christian Huygens, a Dutch mathematician, physicist, and astronomer, patents the pocket watch.
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Also known as the Great Narragansett War in which the British colonial Americans set the Native Americans against English settlers and their Indian friends.
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The universal joint was created by natural philosopher and English architect, Robert Hooke.
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French inventor, physicist, and mathematician Denis Papin invented the pressure cooker. Image:
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Also referred to as the War of the League of Augsburg where the hidden conflict was the balance of influence between the Bourbon and Habsburg regimes.
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North Americans continuance of the War of the Grand Alliance.
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A steam pump was invented by English engineer and inventor Thomas Savery.
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