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Jamestown Founded
https://www.nps.gov/jame/learn/historyculture/a-short-history-of-jamestown.htm
"In 1607, 104 English men and boys arrived in North America to start a settlement. On May 13 they picked Jamestown, Virginia for their settlement, which was named after their King, James I. The settlement became the first permanent English settlement in North America." -
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Epidemic wipes out Native Americans
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2957993/
"Smallpox epidemic wipes out 90% of the Native Americans in the Massachusetts Bay area. Classic explanations have included yellow fever, smallpox, and plague. Chickenpox and trichinosis are among more recent proposals." -
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The Thirty Years' War
"https://www.history.com/topics/reformation/thirty-years-war"
The Thirty Years’ War was a 17th-century religious conflict fought primarily in central Europe. It remains one of the longest and most brutal wars in human history, with more than 8 million casualties resulting from military battles as well as from the famine and disease caused by the conflict. -
Mayflower Compact Signed
https://www.history.com/topics/colonial-america/mayflower-compact
"On November 11, 1620, 41 adult male colonists, including two indentured servants, signed the Mayflower Compact. The Mayflower Compact was a set of rules for self-governance established by the English settlers who traveled to the New World on the Mayflower." -
Slide Rule invented by William Oughtred
http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/5922/Slide-Rule-invented-by-William-Oughtred
"After John Napier invented logarithms, it was Oughtred who first used two such scales sliding by one another to perform direct multiplication and division; and he is credited as the inventor of the slide rule. Oughtred also introduced the "×" symbol for multiplication as well as the abbreviations "sin" and "cos" for the sine and cosine functions." -
Roger Williams Founded Rhode Island
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Roger-Williams-American-religious-leader
"In January 1636 Williams set out for Narragansett Bay, and in the spring, on land purchased from the Narragansett Indians, he founded the town of Providence and the colony of Rhode Island. Providence became a haven for Anabaptists, Quakers, and others whose beliefs were denied public expression." -
Harvard College is Founded
https://handbook.fas.harvard.edu/book/brief-history-harvard-college
"Harvard was founded in 1636 by vote of the Great and General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and named for its first donor, the Reverend John Harvard, who left his personal library and half his estate to the new institution. " -
Pequot massacres Begins
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/pequot-massacres-begin
"During the Pequot War, an allied Puritan and Mohegan force under English Captain John Mason attacks a Pequot village in Connecticut, burning or massacring some 500 Indian women, men, and children." -
Robert Hooke Discovers Cells
https://www.famousscientists.org/robert-hooke/
"Hooke looked at the bark of a cork tree and observed its microscopic structure. In doing so, he discovered and named the cell – the building block of life. He thought the objects he had discovered looked like the individual rooms in a monastery, which were known as cells. Hooke did not discover the true biological function of cells." -
The English Bill of Rights were signed
https://www.history.com/topics/british-history/english-bill-of-rights
"The English Bill of Rights was an act signed into law in 1689 by William III and Mary II, who became co-rulers in England after the overthrow of King James II. The bill outlined specific constitutional and civil rights and ultimately gave Parliament power over the monarchy. It’s also credited as being an inspiration for the U.S. Bill of Rights."