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1600-1700
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Founding of Jamestown
The first permanent English settlement in the New World, set in Virginia. -
Johannes Kepler's Discoveries on Planets
German astronomer, Johannes Kepler, discovered first two major laws of planetary motion that described the movement of planets around the sun. The third one was discovered 1618. -
Galileo Galilei's Discoveries
Galileo witnessed through his telescope Jupiter's three moons, proving other planets had moons. At the same time he was able to prove the Copernican system of which the planets revolve around the sun. -
Publication of King James' Version of the Bible
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Thirty Years' War
A religious conflict fought in central Europe within the Holy Roman Empire between Roman Catholics and Protestants. ignited over an attempt by the king of Bohemia to impose Catholicism throughout his domains. -
Introduction of slavery in the Americas
African Slaves were imported into Jamestown. -
The Mayflower arrives on America
The Mayflower brought the pilgrims to Massachusetts during the Great Puritan Migration. They were some of the first settlers to America after they established the Plymouth colony. -
Building of Taj Mahal
A giant mausoleum built in Agra by order of the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan in memory of his favourite wife. -
The English Civil War
Fighting between Parliamentarians and Royalists caused mainly over the manner of England's governance and issues of religious freedom. -
End of Thirty Years' War
The Roman Catholics and Protestants in Germany finally ended the war with the Peace of Westphalia in 1648. -
The Great Plague
London's last big outbreak, killed 75,000 people -
Isaac Newton published his Theory of Gravity
Isaac Newton published his theory and was the first to create a theory that applied to all objects, large and small, using mathematics. He published in his book, Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica by Isaac Newton, a work expounding his laws of motion and his law of universal gravitation.