History Unit Four

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  • Giordano Bruno

    Giordano Bruno burned as a heretic. English East India Company established.

  • Virginia

    Jamestown, Virginia, established—first permanent English colony on American mainland. Pocahontas, daughter of Chief Powhatan, saves life of John Smith

  • Galileo

    Galileo sees the moons of Jupiter through his telescope.

  • Gustavus Adolphus

    Gustavus Adolphus elected King of Sweden. King James Version of the Bible published in England. Rubens paints his Descent from the Cross.

  • Thirty Years War

    1618
    Start of the Thirty Years' War > Protestants revolt against Catholic oppression; Denmark, Sweden, and France will invade Germany in later phases of war. Kepler proposes last of three laws of planetary motion.

  • Slaves to British North America

    A Dutch ship brings the first African slaves to British North America.

  • African slaves

    A Dutch ship brings the first African slaves to British North America.

  • Pilgrims

    Pilgrims, after three-month voyage in Mayflower, land at Plymouth Rock. Francis Bacon's Novum Organum.

  • Netherlands

    The Netherlands and England sign the Treaty of The Hague, a military peace treaty for providing economical aid to king Christian IV of Denmark during his military campaigns in Germany.

  • Bolivia

    In Bolivia the Potosi (San Ildefonso) dam collapsed. It was one of the major hydraulic disasters in the world with some 4,000 human lives lost.

  • Lord Baltimore

    Maryland founded by Lord Baltimore.

  • Civil War

    English Civil War. Cavaliers, supporters of Charles I, against Roundheads, parliamentary forces.

  • Thirty Years war

    End of the Thirty Years' War. German population about half of what it was in 1618 because of war and pestilence.

  • Massachusetts

    Massachusetts declared itself an independent commonwealth.

  • Cromwell

    Cromwell dies; son Richard resigns and Puritan government collapses.

  • English Parliament

    English Parliament calls for the restoration of the monarchy; invites Charles II to return from France.

  • Charles II

    Charles II is crowned King of England. Louis XIV begins personal rule as absolute monarch; starts to build Versailles.

  • British

    British take New Amsterdam from the Dutch. English limit “Nonconformity” with reestablished Anglican Church. Isaac Newton's experiments with gravity

  • Great Plague

    1665
    Great Plague in London kills 75,000.

  • Pennsylvania

    Pennsylvania founded by William Penn.