1600-1700 and 1700-1800

  • colonists establish Jamestown

  • Start of Thirty Year's War

    Protestants vs Catholics
  • Pilgrims sail on Mayflower

  • John Winthrop finds Boston

  • end of Ming Dynasty in China

  • end of 30 Year's War

  • Puritan gov collapses

    Oliver Cromwell dies
  • Louis XIV begins monarch

  • Black Death

  • War of Spanish Succession

  • Seven Years War

  • British colonizes India

  • Industrial Revolution in England

  • James Watt invents steam engine

  • Boston Massacre

  • Boston Tea Party

  • Lexington and Concord

    sparks American Revolution
  • Declaration of Independence

  • Treaty of Paris

    Revolution ends
  • French Revolution begins

  • Bill of Rights established in US

  • Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette executed

  • Napoleon defeats Austria