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First successful English establishment in Virginia in North America. -
Galileo Galilei sees the moons of Jupiter through his telescope. They were thought to be distant stars. -
King James ordered his translators to publish a new version that included the beliefs on the Church of England in response to the problems that the puritans caused. -
The Thirty Years War officially started in 1611. It was a religious conflict among the Catholic and Protestant states. Ferdinand II’s first actions is what sparked the war since he was restricting religious freedom from citizens. -
The first African slaves are brought to Jamestown. -
Pilgrims from England arrive at Plymouth, Massachusetts, on the Mayflower. -
Muhammad built it as a tomb for his wife Mumtaz Mahal. -
He was crowned by the Covenanter Parliament of Scotland, he restored the monarchy in England in 1660. -
The plague was caused by the Yersinia pestis bacterium, about 100,000 people died. -
More than 200 people were accused of being witches mostly by young girls who were doing it for their own entertainment. -
Spanish King Charles II died and people were concerned about a French state becoming too powerful so they formed the Grand Alliance. -
Famine, political instability, and natural disasters had a very negative of the Qing dynasty in China. Emperor Qianlong started resembling China. -
The British imposed stricter taxes on colonist after the French and India war and the colonists did not like this so they began with protest such as the Boston Tea party. -
British soldiers fired into a mob which led to 5 deaths. John Adam sided with the British soldiers. -
Colonists dressed up as Native Indians and went onboard a British cargo ship, they dumped out all the tea. This was a protest against the British Tea Tax. -
Continental Congress approves the first official flag of the United States. -
Farmers from New Hampshire to South Carolina protest the high state taxes and the penalties for not being able to pay. -
France was suffering from poverty, inequality, and a collapsing economy.Louis XVI tried to switch things around and called for an assembly to try to calm everyone down. -
The first ten amendments in the Bill of Rights are ratified. -
Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin which increased the demand for slave labor immensely. -
Napoleon positioned himself as Emperor of the French Empire and he conquered a lot of Europe. He was finally defeated at the Battle of Waterloo. -
Thomas Jefferson purchased land that was double the size of what US was at the time. -
United States banned the international slave trade and even blocked slave ships. -
James Madison defeated Federalist candidate Charles Cotesworth Pinckney. -
For Native Americans it was a desperate struggle for freedom and independence. -
The modern fire extinguisher was invented by British Captain George William Manby. It was made up of copper vessel of 3 gallons of pearl ash contained within compressed air. -
Joseph Nicéphore Niépce used his heliography process to capture the first photograph. -
The wars were between two armed conflicts in China between the forces of Western countries and of the Qing dynasty. -
Japan’s isolation policy in 1639 banned anyone from entering and leaving the country but foreign countries wanted to trade with them so it did not last. -
The conflict began primarily as a result of the long-standing disagreement over the institution of slavery.