1600-1800

By Triangle
  • East India Company was established.

    East India Company was established.

    East India Company was a company established by England for trade with Asia.
  • Colony

    Colony

    The first permanent English settlement is founded in Jamestown, Virginia.
  • Discovery

    Discovery

    Galileo discovers Callisto, which is the 4th moon​ of Jupiter
  • Condemning

    Condemning

    Inquisition condemns Galileo for supporting Copernicus's theory.
  • A Tragic End

    A Tragic End

    Shakespeare dies.
  • Slaves

    Slaves

    The first enslaved African-Americans​ arrive in Jamestown.
  • Piilgrims

    Piilgrims

    The pilgrims from the Mayflower start a colony at Plymouth.
  • John Smith publishes "The General History of Virginia"

    John Smith publishes "The General History of Virginia"

    This was a publication about the colonies and his encounters with Native Americans.
  • Taj Mahal

    Taj Mahal

    Shah Jahan starts construction of Taj Mahal for his dead wife.
  • School

    School

    North Americas first public school was founded in Boston.
  • Bay Psalm Book

    Bay Psalm Book

    This book was printed in Cambridge, Massachusets. There are 11 surviving copies.
  • "The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America"

    "The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America"

    Ann Bradstreet's poems are collected into a book and published in London. She was the first woman in the North American colonies to get published.
  • Cape Town

    Cape Town

    The Dutch found Cape Town on the southern tip of South Africa
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    The Great Fire of London

    A fire started in a bakery ran rampant in London for 3 days, killing 6 people.
  • Puritans

    Puritans

    Puritans win in King Philips war and stop Native American resistance in colonies.
  • "The Sovereignty and Goodness of God"

    "The Sovereignty and Goodness of God"

    Mary Rowlandson publishes an account​ of her capture by Algonquin Indians.
  • Pennsylvania.

    Pennsylvania.

    William Penn founds the colony of Pennsylvania.
  • Opposition

    Opposition

    Quakers pose opposition to slavery.
  • Salem Witch Trials

    Salem Witch Trials

    Salem witch trials cause mass hysteria and many innocent women are killed.
  • "The Wonders of the Invisible World"

    "The Wonders of the Invisible World"

    A publication by Cotton Mathers defending the Salem witch trials.​
  • A poetic death

    A poetic death

    Matsuo Bansho who revitalized the haiku form, dies.
  • "The Boston Newsletter"

    "The Boston Newsletter"

    The first American newspaper is established.
  • New Orleans is founded by the French.

    New Orleans is founded by the French.

  • Criticism

    Criticism

    Benjamin Franklin criticizes​ Puritans with his first published work, "The Dogood Papers"
  • "Gulliver's Travels"

    "Gulliver's Travels"

    Jonathan Swift publishes "Gulliver's Travels".
  • Catherine

    Catherine

    "Catherine The Great" Becomes the empress of Russia
  • England declares war on Spain

    England declares war on Spain

    This war was called War on Jenkin's ear and King George's War
  • The Boston Tea Party

    The Boston Tea Party

    A rebellion​ to England's taxation. One of the triggers of the Revolutionary war.

  • Familiar Letters of John Adams and His Wife Abigail Adams

    A publication by Abigail Adams
  • Independence

    Independence

    Second Continental Congress adopts the Declaration of Independence.
  • Constitutional

    Constitutional

    The U.S Constitution is approved.
  • The Bastille

    The Bastille

    The Bastille, a French Prison, was stormed and this even incited the French Revolution.
  • The U. S. capital is moved from Philadelphia to Washington, D.C.

    The U. S. capital is moved from Philadelphia to Washington, D.C.