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Great Britain
The British East India Company was founded. -
Great Britain
The crowns of England and Scotland were united under King James VI of Scotand. -
Great Britain
The Gunpowder Plot, to blow up the British Parliament, is aborted and Guy Fawkes executed. -
Spain
Don Quixote by Cervantes is published. -
Holland
Australia is spotted by Europeans for the first time by a Dutch East India Company crew. -
United States
The first permanent English colony in Northamerica is founded in Jamestown, Virginia. -
Italy
Caravaggio died. -
Russia
The Romanov start ruling the country. -
Spain, Great Britain
Both Miguel de Cervantes and William Shakespeare died. -
United States
The Massachussets Coast is reached by the Mayflower Pilgrims. -
France
Cardinal Richelieu centralizes the power in France. -
United States
The Dutch founded New Amsterdam, later taken and renamed as New York by the British. -
Italy
The Basilica of Saint Peter in Rome is finished. -
Poland
The last uro dissapears. -
Italy
Galileo Galilei is judged by the Inquistion. -
Great Britain
Charles I is beheaded by Cromwell, and the Civil War is over. -
Spain
Black Plague in Seville. -
Ireland
Ireland is conquered by the dictator Cromwell. -
Spain
'Las Meninas' was painted by Velazquez. -
Madagascar
The dodo is extinguished. -
United Kingdom
Black Death in London. -
United Kingdom
London was destroyed by the Great Fire. -
Portugal
By terms of the Peace of Lisbon, Portugal is reckoned independent from Spain. -
France
Moliere dies. -
Russia, Turkey
The Ottoman-Russian wars are started. -
Great Britain
The laws of motion and gravity are developed by Isaac Newton.
