“ when all history happened”

ENGLAND IN THE 1600S

A FAMOUS GHOST

1601 Shakespeare’s Hamlet

1603 Elizabeth I dies; James I of England and VI

of Scotland takes the throne

1605 Gunpowder Plot (Guy Fawkes): failed

1607 Jamestown, first permanent English colony

in North America, is settled in Virginia

1616 Death of Shakespeare

Throughout the first decades of the 17th century:

expansion of the Dutch East India and West India

Companies. Access to Markets in Asia and the New World,

political involvement, privateering, settling.

END OF THE ELIZABETHAN ERA

CROSSING THE BRIDGE

1619 Dutch East India Company, English East India Company, and

Sultanate of Banten fight over Jayakarta.

1620 The Dutch and the English begin a 3-year period of cooperation

over the spice trade; Pilgrims at Plymouth Rock, Mass.

1622 Jamestown Massacre in Virginia; James I dissolves Parliament

1625 Charles I takes the throne; married to a French Catholic princess

1630 Boston founded by Puritans

1636 Harvard University is founded

1642 English Civil War; Charles II against the armies of the English and

Scottish parliaments

1649 Charles I executed; beginning of the Interregnum

1652 First coffee house in London

1653 Cromwell becomes Lord Protector; dissolves Parliament in 1655

1656 Diarist Samuel Pepys describes a new drink: “a Cupp of Tee, a China drink”

1658 Death of Cromwell; The Sultan’s Head, a coffee house, advertises the sale of

tea

TIMELINE: HIGHLIGHTS

1660 End of the Commonwealth of England, beginning of the Restoration

1661 Charles II takes the throne

1665-67 Second Anglo-Dutch War; New Amsterdam gained by the English, and

renamed to New York

1665 Great Plague of London: 100 000 dead, almost 15% of the population

1666 Isaac Newton discovers gravity; Great Fire of London

1667 John Milton, Paradise Lost

1671 Morgan sacks Panama

1681 William Penn and the Charter for Pennsylvania

1685 James II, last Catholic king, takes the throne; Monmouth’s Rebellion

1688 William III of Orange and Mary II of England assume English throne

1692 Salem witch trials; William and Mary College founded in Virginia

1694 Bank of England established

MORE OF THE CENTURY

Christopher Wren, Jan Vermeer, John Locke (b. 1632)

Louis XIV (b. 1638)

Galileo (d. 1642)

Isaac Newton (b. 1642)

Rene Descartes (d. 1650)

Daniel Defoe (b. 1661)

Rembrandt (d. 1669)

Rob Roy (b. 1671)

Composers Bach and Handel (b. 1685)

Descartes

IMPORTANT BIRTHS AND DEATHS OF THE CENTURY

Locke