1600-1900

By kelseygreen

  • Jamestown

    The first permanent English colony.

  • Samual de Champlain

    Champlain established French colony of Quebec.

  • Galileo Galiei

    Galileo sees the moons of Jupiter through his telescope.

  • Gustavus Adolphus

    Gustavus Adolphus was elected King of Sweden.

  • John Napier

    John Napier discovers logarithms.

  • Thirty years war

    Start of the Thirty Years' War > Protestants revolt against Catholic oppression; Denmark, Sweden, and France will invade Germany in later phases of war. Kepler proposes last of three laws of planetary motion.

  • separitists

    Pilgrims, after three-month voyage in Mayflower, land at Plymouth Rock.

  • Galileo Galilei

    Inquisition forces Galileo (astronomer) to recant his belief in Copernican theory

  • shah jahan

    Taj Mahal completed.

  • english civil war

    English Civil War. Cavaliers, supporters of Charles I, against Roundheads, parliamentary forces. Oliver Cromwell defeats Royalists

  • end of thirty years war

    End of the Thirty Years' War. German population about half of what it was in 1618 because of war and pestilence

  • cromwell dies

    Cromwell dies; son Richard resigns and Puritan government collapses.

  • glorious revolution

    Protestants fear restoration of Catholicism and demand “Glorious Revolution.”

  • 9 years war

    The beginning of the Nine Years War

  • Peter the Great

    Peter the Great becomes Czar of Russia—attempts to westernize nation and build Russia as a military power.

  • Nine years war

    End of the Nine years war

  • Peter the Great

    Sweden Emperor fleed to Ottoman after defeated by Peter the Great of Russia

  • Frederick William

    Frederick crowned King of Prussia

  • Peter thr Great

    Death of Peter the Great of Russia

  • Isaac Newton

    Death of Sir Isaac Newton (scientist)

  • Bill of Rights

    U.S. Bill of Rights ratified

  • Louis XIV

    Louis XIV and Marie Antoinette beheaded