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1 | 1615 | - 1615: England - The first tea is imported to the west
- 1615: Japan- Furuta Oribe died. His original name was Furuta Shigenari. He was a Japanese master of the tea ceremony who studied under Sen Riky. His ideas influenced the tea ceremony, teahouse architecture, tea-garden landscaping and even flower arrangement.
- 1615: CA - French Roman Catholic missionaries arrive in Canada.
- 1615: CA/US - Champlain attacks Onondaga villages with the help of a Huron war party, this turning the Iroquois League against the French.
- 1615: ONL - p verzoek van Willem Lodewijk werd de Semslinie getrokken door Jans Sems. De grens tussen Groningen en Drenthe wordt een "feit".
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2 | 1616 | - 1616: Italy - Italian philosopher Lucilio Vanini suggests that humans descended from apes. For this heresy, he is burned alive three years later.
- 1616: US - for the next 4 years a Smallpox epidemic strikes New England tribes between Narragansett Bay and the Penobscot River.
- 23 Apr 1616: England - Death of William Shakespeare
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3 | 1617 | - 1617: England - The first one way streets were established in London. Seventeen one way streets were created to regulate 'disorder and rude behaviour of Carmen, Draymen, and others using Cartes'.
- 1617: CA - Louis Hebert, an apothecary who had stayed at Port Royal twice, brings his wife and children to Quebec, thus becoming the first true habitant (permanent settler supporting his family from the soil).
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4 | 1618 | |
5 | 1619 | - 1619: NL - Batavia wordt gesticht door Jan Pieterszoon Coen.
- 1619: NL - Op 13 mei wordt Oldenbarnevelt op het Binnenhof onthoofd.
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6 | 1620 | |
7 | 1621 | - 1621: CA - James I of England (VI of Scotland) grants Acadia to Sir William Alexander who renames it New Scotland (Nova Scotia)
- 1621: NL - Hugo de Groot ontsnapt uit Slot Loevestein in een boekenkist.
- 8 Sep 1621: France - Prince Louis II de Condé, known as the Great Condé, was born. He was a French general who loved to hunt and had a passion for rice. Several dishes have been named for him, including Consomme Condé and Creme Condé.
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8 | 1622 | - 1622: England - James I dissolves Parliament for asserting its right to debate foreign affairs
- 1622: England - Weekly News, first English newspaper, published.
- 1622: England - Commission to enquire into decline of woollen trade
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9 | 1623 | |
10 | 1624 | |
11 | 1625 | - 1625: England - Charles I, King of England to 1649; Charles I marries Henrietta Maria, sister of Louis XIII of France; dissolves Parliament which fails to vote him money
- 1625: France - Jean-Baptiste Denys invents a method for blood transfusion.
- 1625: CA - the Baronet of Nova Scotia is founded
- 1625: CA - The Franciscan friars are replaced by the heroic priests of the richer, better-organized Society of Jesus. Jesuits begin missionary work among the Indians in the Quebec area. Jean de Brébeuf founds missions in Huronia, near Georgian Bay.
- 1625: FR - French settlements in the West Indies begin, exporting sugar and tobacco, and emigration to Canada is encouraged among traders and fishermen.
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12 | 1626 | - 1626: England - Francis Bacon died. An English statesman, philosopher and author of Novum Organum, a work on scientific inquiry, he died after having stuffing a dressed chicken with snow to see how long the flesh could be preserved by the extreme cold. He caught cold and died from complications about a month later.
- 1626: England - A large Codfish, split open at a Cambridge market, is found to contain a copy of a book of religious treatises by John Frith.
- 1626: US - Peter Minuit, governor of New Netherland, buys Manhattan Island for 60 guilders worth of trade goods from the Canarsie Indians. (Dutch later have to pay Manhattan Indians, actual occupants of the island.) Dutch policy is land payments to Indians, neutrality in Indian conflicts relating to French-English struggle.
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13 | 1627 | - 1627: England - John Ray (Wray) was born. A leading 17th century English naturalist and botanist. He contributed to the advancement of taxonomy, and established the species as the basic unit of taxonomy.
- 1627: England - William Harvey was able to confirm his observation that the blood circulates throughout the body, which he inferred from the structure of the venal valves. The following year, in Exercitatio Anatomica, he published these conclusions as well as a description of the heart as a mechanical pump.
- 1627: Warsaw, Poland - The last known living ancestor of all modern domestic cattle (the aurochs) was killed by a poacher
- 1627: CA - Cardinal Richelieu, chief adviser to Louis XIII, organizes a joint-stock company, the Company of One Hundred Associates (also known as the Company of New France), to establish a French Empire in North America. It is given a fur monopoly and title to all lands claimed by New France (April 29). In exchange, they are to establish a French colony of 4000 by 1643, which they fail to do.
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14 | 1628 | |
15 | 1629 | |
16 | 1630 | |
17 | 1631 | - 1631: CA - Charles de la Tour builds Fort La Tour (also known as Fort Saint Marie) at the mouth of the Saint John River.
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18 | 1632 | - 1632: CA - British lose control of Acadia due to the Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye, which returns Quebec to France.
- 1632: FR - Isaac de Razilly sails from France with 300 people hoping to establish a permanent French settlement in Acadia.
- 1632: NL - Ernst Casimir sneuvelt bij Roermond. Hendrik Casimir I wordt de nieuwe Friese stadhouder.
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19 | 1633 | - 1633: America - Connecticut settled; Maryland founded by George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore
- 1633: England - Bananas were supposedly displayed in the shop window of merchant Thomas Johnson. This was the first time the banana had ever been seen in Great Britain. It would be more than 200 years before they were regularly imported. In 1999 remains of a banana were found at a Tudor archaeological site on the banks of the River Thames. This would seem to date it 150 years earlier than Thomas Johnson's banana. A classic food mystery!
- 1633: Rome, Italy - Galileo was forced by the Inquisition in Rome to renounce his theory that the Earth revolved around the Sun.
- 1633: CA - English and French settlers enlist mainland Indians, mostly Micmac to massacre Beothuk people of Newfoundland, who are now extinct. "Red" Indian apparently derives from these people, who painted their bodies with red ochre. Nancy Shawanahdit, the last Beothuk, died in 1829. Little is known of their customs, language, religion. Beothuk was not likely their tribal self-name.
- 1633: CA/US - over next 2 years new Smallpox outbreaks happen among Indians of New England, New France, and New Netherland.
- 1633: UK - David Kirke is knighted.
- 3 Nov 1633: Italy - Bernardino Ramazzini was born. A physician, he was the first to note the relationship between worker's illnesses and their work environment. Considered the founder of occupational medicine.
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20 | 1634 | - 1634: Boston, Massachusetts - Samuel Cole supposedly opened the first tavern in the U.S.A.
- 1634: CA - Marie de L'Incarnation founds an Ursuline convent in the settlement of Quebec
- 1634: CA/US - French against the English. Niantics, Narragansetts tribes later joined. Capt. John Mason burnt sleeping Pequot village at Mystic River, pinning the people inside the flames by gunfire, killing more than 600 people in a surprise attack. Mohawks behead fleeing Pequot leaders to prove they were not involved.
- 1634: CA/US - Over the next 6 years the Huron nation is reduced by half from European diseases (smallpox epidemic, 1639).
- 1634: FR - the first of the Filles du Roi, young French women who were recruited by religious communities and agents of the One Hundred Associates with the intent of marrying them to men in the colony of New France, arrive in New France.
- 1634: NL - Eerste Kollumer Oproer. Ofke Haijes riep zichzelf uit tot 'capitain' van Kollum en ging "nae het huijs van Harmen Lubbes, roeper van den voors. dorpe Collum, ende daeruijt tegens wille ende danck van den selven Harmen de tromme gehaelt, de sleve geslagen, ende uijtroepingen veel volck bijeen gekregen heeft, de selve aanritsende 's Landtschaps middelen met hem gevangene (Ofke Haijes) te helpen tegenstaan.
Dat oock de gevangene ten selven tijde gesterckt met Jan Harckes, Drieus Aebes ende andere al trommelende van 't Westeijnde der voors. dorpe gegaen is nae Fop Claessens ende aldaer tegens danck van des selves huijsvrou ende dogter een van de Vaendels uijt 't gerechthuijs gehaelt heeft, ende dat hij alsdoen so als Capitain vaendrich ende trommelende met de rapaille langs de gebuijrte uijt het rechthuijs is gegaen.
Dat de gevangene ten voors.dage tegens den avond met vliegende Vaendel, ende Trommelslagh mede was gemarcheert doorden gebuijrte naar de huijsinge van den Ontfanger Jacob Rosema, ende deselve hadt helpen insmiten, opbreecken ende 't huijsraedd vernielen en plunderen. Dat de gevangene cum socius den Dienstboden van Rosema voornoembt hadden gevraeght, waer hij Rosema was, met de bij voeginge, so sij hem hadden, wouden sij hem in riemen snijden
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21 | 1636 | - 1636: America - The Great and General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony established Harvard College (New College), the first college in the Americas.
- 1636: England - Tulip mania begins and ceases the following year in a precursor of the 2000 dot-com crash
- 1636: England - Mild outbreak of Black Death
- 1636: England - W. Gascoigne invents the micrometer.
- 1636: CA - French crown grants Gulf of Maine and Bay of Fundy to d'Aulnay; La Tour gets Nova Scotia peninsula.
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22 | 1637 | - 1637: Connecticut, USA - Pequot War 1637-1638
- 1637: England - Charles I quarrels with Scotland re religion. He tries to force the English Book of Common Prayer on Scots
- 1637: France - Supposedly, Cardinal Richelieu 'created' the table knife when he had the points rounded on all knives to be used at his table. Presumably so no one could stab him.
- 1637: CA - David Kirke is named first governor of Newfoundland.
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23 | 1638 | |
24 | 1639 | - 1639: England - First Bishops' War between Charles I and the Scottish Church; ends with Pacification of Dunse
- 1639: CA - The Jesuit mission of Sainte-Marie among the Hurons is established at Wendake.
- 1639: NL - Admiraal Maarten Harpertszoon Tromp verslaat de Spaanse vloot bij Duins.
- 1639: US - Dutch governor-general William Kieft adopts policy of exterminating the hostile Indians and taxing the rest. Dutch soldiers aid Mohawk allies to carry out Pavonia massacre, where Dutch soldiers played kickball with the heads of the women and children refugees they had killed.
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25 | 1640 | |
26 | 1641 | |
27 | 1642 | |
28 | 1643 | |
29 | 1644 | - 1644: Yorkshire, England - Battle of Marston Moor: Scots help rout Charles I and Oliver Cromwell gains fame as leader of cavalry
- 1644: CA - Jeanne Mance (Baptized Langres, France November 12, 1606 Died June 18, 1673) opens Hotel-Dieu, the first hospital in North America.
- 1644: US - Second Powhatan Confederacy uprising against Jamestown, Virginia; its leader, Opechancanough, dies in captivity.
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30 | 1645 | - 1645: England - Formation of Oliver Cromwell's New Model Army; Battle of Naseby; Charles I defeated by Parliamentary forces
- 1645: CA - For the next 18 years, under the proprietorship of Richelieu's company's colonial agent, the Community of Habitants, the new French colony takes shape along the St. Lawrence.
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31 | 1646 | - 1646: England - Charles I surrenders to the Scots
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32 | 1647 | - 1647: England - Parliament tries unsuccessfully until 1648 to treat with Charles I, who is trying to secure help from France, Scotland or Ireland; Parliamentarians try unsuccessfully to fulfill their agreement with Scots
- 1647: England - Scots surrender Charles I to Parliament; he escapes to the Isle of Wight; makes secret treaty with Scots
- 1647: NL - Overlijden Frederik Hendrik. Stadhouder Prins Willem II.
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33 | 1648 | |
34 | 1649 | - 1649: England - Long Parliament (Rump Parliament) confiscates land; House of Lords abolished; Charles II, meanwhile in exile on Continent, travels to Scotland, signs Covenant, Scots support him
- 1649: England - Nicholas Culpeper, Herbalist, wrote the pseudoscientific A Physicall Directory. It listed plants and their supposed healing properties based on the plants resemblance to the human body parts.
- 1649: England - Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector, ruler of England to 1658. Commonwealth & Protectorate.
- 1649: Ireland - Cromwell harshly suppresses Catholic rebellions
- 1649: London, England - The Commonwealth, in which England is governed as a republic, is established and lasts until 1660
- 1649: CA - For the next 15 years, the Beaver Wars: Encouraged by the English, and the need for more beaver for trade (their own area being hunted out), Haudenosee (Iroquois) make war on Hurons (1649), Tobaccos (1649), Neutrals (1650-51), Erie (1653-56), Ottawa (1660), Illinois and Miami (1680-84), and members of the Mahican confederation. English, pleased with this, agree to 2-Row Wampum Peace treaty, 1680.
- 1649: CA - The Jesuit father Jean de Brébeuf is martyred during Iroquois raids on the Hurons at St-Ignace (March 16).
- 1649: NL - Aanleg van Zuidwending.
- 30 Jan 1649: London, England - Execution of Charles I
- 16 Jun 1649: CA - The Jesuit missionaries at Sainte-Marie among the Hurons abandon the mission, burning it to the ground and taking refuge at Christian Island.
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35 | 1650 | |
36 | 1651 | - 1651: England - Navigation Act passes, forbids exportation of goods except in all-English ships, foreign merchants and goods prohibited in England and colonies, strengthened in 1660
- 1651: England - Thomas Hobbes, in Leviathan, argued from a mechanistic theory that man is a selfishly individualistic animal at constant war with others. In the state of nature, life is 'nasty, brutish, and short.'
- 3 Sep 1651: England - Charles II invades England and is defeated at Battle of Worcester; Charles escapes to France
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37 | 1652 | - 1652: England - First Anglo-Dutch War
- 1652: France - Cookbook Le Cuisinier francois by La Varenne is published.
- 1652: NL - Eerste Engelse oorlog.
- 1652: NL - Jan van Riebeeck sticht de Kaapkolonie.
- 1652: US - Massachusetts General Court licenses traders going from Massachusetts to Acadia.
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38 | 1653 | - 1653: England - England victorious in battles against Spain and aids France against Spain; England becomes leading naval power and important military power; restores legal rights to Jews
- 1653: England - Oliver Cromwell dissolves the 'Rump Parliament' and becomes Lord Protector
- 1653: CA - Marguerite Bourgeoys (Born Troyes, France April 17, 1620 Died January 12, 1700) the first school teacher in Montreal, arrives from France.
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39 | 1654 | - 1654: America - A bridge in Rowley, Massachusetts begins charging a toll for animals. People pass for free.
- 1654: Armagh, Ireland - James Ussher, Protestant archbishop of Armagh, determined by a close reading of scriptural genealogies that the events described on the first page of the Book of Genesis occurred in 4004 B.C.
- 1654: England - Treaty of Westminster between England and Dutch Republic
- 1654: CA - For the next 5 years, Pierre-Esprit Radisson, French Sieur de Groselliers, encounters a lot of tribes throughout New France, New England, and what is now the U.S. midwest. Adopted by a Mohawk family, who take him to Hudson Bay, there he changes sides and becomes English, participates in the formation of Hudson's Bay Company, and charter of Rupert's Land to it in 1670, deftly switching country allegiances several times France-England-France-England during the process. Ends up English. Today principally remembered by a hotel named after him in Minneapolis.
- 1654: CA - Port Royal seized by Robert Sedgwick. He would hold on to Acadia until 1670.
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40 | 1655 | |
41 | 1656 | - 1656: England - Christiaan Huygens built the first pendulum-regulated clock. Two years later, Huygens, in Horologium, claimed that his clock could establish longitude at sea which was not then possible and had led to many maritime disasters.
- 1656: England - Second Protectorate Parliament
- 1656: England - War with Spain (until 1659)
- 1656: NL - Rembrandt van Rijn wordt failliet verklaard.
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42 | 1657 | - 1657: France - Stockings are manufactured in France.
- 1657: FR - Sulpicians, a Catholic Society of Apostolic Life named for Eglise Saint-Sulpice, Paris, who run missions, come to North America.
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43 | 1658 | - 1658: CA - Marguerite Bourgeoys (Born Troyes, France April 17, 1620 Died January 12, 1700) established the Congregation of Notre Dame, the first uncloistered order of nuns in North America.
- 14 Jun 1658: England - Battle of the Dunes, Spanish defeated by Anglo- French army; acquisition of Dunkirk
- 3 Sep 1658: England - Oliver Cromwell dies; succeeded as Lord Protector by son Richard
- 3 Sep 1658: England - Richard Cromwell, Lord Protector. Ruler of England to 1659. Commonwealth & Proctorate: 3rd son of Oliver.
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44 | 1659 | - 1659: America - The celebration of Christmas was banned in Boston (until 1681). The pilgrims believed it to be a decadent celebration.
- 1659: London, England - First cheque drawn
- 1659: CA - A vicar apostolic, the Jesuit-trained Bishop Francois X. de Laval-Montmorency (1623-1708) arrives in Quebec in June as vicar general of the pope to take command of the missions and to found parishes.
- 2 Feb 1659: South Africa - Jan van Riebeeck, the first governor of the Cape of Good Hope made the first wine from grapes grown at the Cape.
- 25 May 1659: England - Richard Cromwell forced to resign by the army; 'Rump Parliament' restored
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45 | 1660 | - 1660: England - Charles II, ruler of England to 1685. House of Stuart (restored): Eldest son of Charles I, died without issue. De Jure King from 30 JAN 1649.
- 1660: England - Two houses of Parliament and Church of England restored, land returned to rightful owners; 'Dissenters' born (Quakers, Baptists, Congregationalists, etc.)
- 1660: Furtwangen, Germany - Cuckoo clocks made in the Black Forest region.
- 1660: New Amsterdan, America - Asser Levy from Portugal, applied for a license to sell kosher meat. He was the first kosher butcher in the city that was to become New York
- 1660: CA - Adam Dollard des Ormeaux and about sixty others withstand an attack by over 500 Iroquois at Long Sault (May). It is traditionally said that the small party fights so well that the Iroquois decide not to attack Montreal.
- 1660: US - Dutch governor-general Peter Stuyvesant decides to hold Indian children hostage for the behavior of increasingly angry tribespeople. Hostages sold into Caribbean plantation slavery.
- 29 May 1660: London, England - Charles II, aged 30, rides into London, people go mad with joy
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46 | 1661 | |
47 | 1662 | |
48 | 1663 | - 1663: England - James Gregory invents the first reflecting telescope.
- 1663: CA - Laval organizes the Seminaire du Quebec, a college of theology which eventually becomes Université Laval (1852).
- 1663: CA - New France has a population of about 2,000.
- 1663: CA - The French Crown takes personal control of Canada from a private company, which becomes a royal province. Louis XIV's brilliant minister J. B. Colbert reorganizes New France directly under royal authority. Administration is divided between a military governor and a more powerful intendant, both ruling from Quebec City but under orders from Paris. The fur trade is granted to a new monopoly, the Company of the West Indies.
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49 | 1664 | - 1664: New Amsterdan, America - England siezes New Amsterdam from the Dutch, changes name to New York
- 1664: CA - Hans Bernhardt is the first recorded German immigrant.
- 1664: NL - Hendrik Casimir II wordt stadhouder van Friesland.
- 1664: US - The British invade and conquer the Dutch at New Amsterdam, renaming it New York. England gains control of New Netherland from the Dutch and become allies and trade partners with the Iroquois.
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50 | 1665 | - 1665: Germany - Rudolph Jacob Camerarius was born. A botanist, he showed the existence of sexes in plants, and identified the stamen and pistil as the male and female organs.
- 1665: Netherlands - Great Plague kills 1/5 London population;
- 1665: CA - For the next 7 years, Jean Talon (c.1625-94), the first intendant of New France, sets out to establish New France as a prosperous, expanding colony rivaling the thriving English colonies to the south. He invites many new settlers, including young women. He also tries to diversify the economy beyond furs and to build trade with Acadia and the West Indies. Talon is recalled before he can carry out his policies, however.
- 1665: CA - The Carignan-Salières Regiment is sent from France to Quebec to deal with the Iroquois. Many of its members stay on as settlers.
- 1665: NL - Tweede Engelse oorlog.
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51 | 1665-1666 | - 1665-1666: NL - Tijdens de 1e oorlog met Barend van Galen, bisschop van Munster, trekken Munsterse soldaten stropend door Emmen. (over aantallen verschillen de meningen)
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52 | 1666 | - 1666: England - First European printed paper banknote issued
- 1666: London, England - The Great Fire of London began in the shop of the King's baker. After burning for four days, more than 13,000 buildings had been destroyed.
- 1666: CA - The Carignan-Salières Regiment destroys five Mohawk villages, eventually leading to peace between the Iroquois and the French.
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53 | 1667 | - 1667: Medway River, Kent - Dutch fleet defeats the English
- 1667: CA - First census of New France records 668 families, totalling 3,215 non-native inhabitants.
- 1667: NL - New York wordt in Breda verkwanseld aan de Britten.
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54 | 1668 | - 1668: England - Isaac Newton invents a reflecting telescope.
- 1668: Europe - Triple Alliance of England, Netherlands, and Sweden against France
- 1668: CA - Pierre-Esprit Radisson and Medard Chouart, sieur de Groseilliers, explore west of the St. Lawrence River as far as Lake Superior, plus the Hudson Bay region, for England.
- 1668: CA - The Carignan-Salieres regiment is recalled to France, but several hundred choose to remain behind, many in return for local seigneuries.
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55 | 1669 | - 1669: England - Isaac Newton circulated a manuscript, De analysi per aequationes numero terminorum infinitas, the first notice of his calculus.
- 1669: CA - HBC Ft. Charles, at foot of James Bay, becomes Ft. Rupert.
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56 | 1670 | - 1670: America - Hudson's Bay Company founded
- 1670: Cologne, Germany - At Cologne Cathedral, the choirmaster makes sugar sticks to give to the young singers in the choir, to keep them occupied during the Living Crèche ceremony: the first candy canes.
- 1670: England - Secret Treaty of Dover between Charles II of England and Louis XIV of France to restore Roman Catholicism to England
- 1670: England - Over a 20 year period 80,000 Huguenots come to England, majority are silk workers, by 1689 40,000 families make living by silk
- 1670: France - Dom Pérignon invents Champagne.
- 1670: CA - 1670: Charles II (England) charters Hudson's Bay Company in London. Underwritten by a group of English merchants, HBC is granted trade rights over Rupert's Land -- i.e., all territory draining into Hudson Bay (May 2). No treaties or compensation to the First Nations there (mostly Ojibwe, Cree peoples) until the late 19th and early 20th century; no treaties ever made on large expanse east of Bay.
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57 | 1671 | - 1671: England - Game Laws prevent majority of citizens from hunting, even on their own land
- 1671: Germany - Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz invents a calculating machine.
- 14 Jun 1671: CA - At Sault Ste. Marie, four Jesuit priests led by Father Claude-Jean Allouez representing the Roman Catholic Church, and Simon Francois Daumont, Sieur de St. Lusson held aloft a sword and a symbolic tuft of sod, and declared to the indigenous First Nations peoples that all of the Great Lakes country was henceforth a possession of King Louis XIV of France.
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58 | 1672 | - 1672: England - Third Anglo-Dutch war (until 1674)
- 1672: Netherlands - William of Orange becomes ruler
- 1672: CA - Comte de Frontenac becomes governor general of New France, later quarrelling frequently with the intendant and the bishop.
- 1672: NL - Rampjaar. Moord op de gebroeders De Witt. Het land is radeloos, reddeloos en redeloos.
- 1672: NL - Winschoterzijl door den bisschop van Munster bezet.
- 1672: US - Colonial postal officials employ Aboriginal couriers to carry mail between New York City and Albany; winter weather is too severe for white couriers.
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59 | 1673 | |
60 | 1674 | |
61 | 1675 | - 1675: America - King Philip's War: New England colonies vs Wampanoag, Narragansett and Nipmuck Indians 1675-1676.
- 1675: Netherlands - Christiaan Huygens patents the pocket watch.
- 1675: CA - The population of New France is almost 8,000.
- 1675: CA/US - Metacom's (King Phillip's) War against the New England Confederation of colonies - Wampanoag, later joined by Abenaki, Nipmucs and Narragansetts. Mohawks stay neutral; Mohegans, Pequots, Niantics, and Massachusetts tribes back the English. Metacom loses. English government executes Metacom in 1676, nails body parts to town hall, sells wife, children, followers to plantation slavery.
- 1675: NL - Het tabaksrooken komt in gebruik.
- 1675: US - Bacon's Rebellion -- Third major war between Virginia settlers and Virigina and Maryland Native Americans. Bacon's army kills and enslaves Susquehannock, Occaneechi, Appomatuck, Manakin, members of Powhattan Confederacy. Bacon leads brief rebellion against English Crown authority when his English military murderer commission is rescinded because of excessive brutalities.
- 23 Dec 1675: England - Charles II issued a proclamation suppressing Coffee Houses. The public response was so negative that he revoked it on January 8, 1676.
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62 | 1676 | - 1676: England - Robert Hooke invents the universal joint.
- 1676: Paris, France - Compagnie de Limonadiers vendors sold lemonade from tanks they carried on their backs - these were the first soft drinks.
- 1676: NL - De Ruyter sneuvelt bij Sicilië in de Middellandse zee.
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63 | 1677 | |
64 | 1678 | - 1678: England - John Bunyan (1628-1688) publishes Pilgrim's Progress
- 1678: England - Popish Plot in England; Titus Oates falsely alleges a Catholic plot to murder Charles II
- 1678: CA - Daniel Greysolon Duluth of France explores Great Lakes and negotiates treaties between the warring Ojibwa and Sioux.
- 1678: CA - Louis Hennepin is the first European to see Niagara Falls
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65 | 1679 | |
66 | 1680 | - 1680: America - Pennsylvania founded by William Penn for oppressed Quakers
- 1680: England - Moves to remove Charles II's brother James from succession persist through into 1681 (because he married an Italian and converted to Catholicism) and replace with Charles's illegitimate son, also Charles;civil war between Tories and Whigs narrowly averted
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67 | 1681 | |
68 | 1682 | - 1682: CA - Robert Cavelier, sieur de la Salle reaches the mouth of the Mississippi River and claims the entire Mississippi Valley for France, naming the area Louisiana.
- 1682: US - William Penn's treaty with the Delaware begins a period of friendly relations between the Quakers and Indians.
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69 | 1683 | - 1683: CA - After the death of Louis XIV's brilliant minister, J. B. Colbert, France's interest in the colonies wanes.
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70 | 1685 | |
71 | 1686 | - 1686: England - James II disregards Test Act; Roman Catholics appointed to public office
- 1686: CA - De Troyes and D'Iberville capture three English posts on James Bay (June-July).
- 1686: CA - King James II and Louis XIV sign neutrality pact handing forts of St. John's and Port Royal back to the French.
- 1686: NL - De Sint Maartensvloed kost in de provincie Groningen 1558 mensenlevens.
- 1686: NL - Groote watervloed : alleen in 't Oldambt zouden 482 menschen verdronken zijn.
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72 | 1687 | |
73 | 1688 | |
74 | 1689 | - 1689: England - Convention Parliament issues Bill of Rights; establishes a constitutional monarchy in Britain; bars Roman Catholics from the throne; Toleration Act grants freedom of worship to dissenters in England; Grand Alliance of the League of Augsburg, England, and the Netherlands
- 1689: England - King William's War: English Colonies vs France 1689-1697.
- 1689: Londonderry, Ireland - Catholic forces loyal to James II land from France and lay siege
- 1689: CA - For the next 8 years, King William's War (American counterpart of the War of the Grand Alliance in Europe) -- Abenakis, Penobscot, other New England tribes, attacked by English and their Iroquois allies. This is the first of the French-English wars for control of North America, continuing to 1763. During these wars, the Iroquois League generally sides with the English, and the Algonquian tribes with the French.
- 1689: CA - Nicolas Perrot formally claims upper Mississippi region for France.
- 1689: CA - The Iroquois kill many French settlers at Lachine.
- 1689: NL - Willem III wordt koning van Engeland.
- 13 Feb 1689: England - William III and Mary II, rulers of England to 1702. House of Stuart (restored): Son of William, Prince of Orange, by
Mary, daughter of Charles I. Mary eldest daughter of James II. She died 1694.
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75 | 1690 | - 1690: England - John Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding
- 1690: India - The English found Calcutta
- 1690: Ireland - Battle of the Boyne: James II defeated, flees into exile
- 1690: Salem, Massachusetts - The first shipment of bananas arrived in the colonies
- 1690: CA - Sent by Massachusetts, Sir William Phips captures Port Royal (11 May). Frontenac repels Phips' attack on Quebec (October). These events are part of what is sometimes called King William's War.
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76 | 1691 | - 3 Oct 1691: Limerick, Ireland - The Treaty of Limerick allows Catholics in Ireland to exercise their religion freely, but severe penal laws soon follow. The French War begins
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77 | 1692 | - 1692: England - Retribution against Catholics who helped James II until 1710, lands confiscated, given to Protestants; harsh laws passed against Catholic religion and trade
- 1692: NL - De jenever wordt volksdrank.
- 13 Feb 1692: Glencoe, Scotland - The Glencoe Massacre occurs
- 3 Aug 1692: England - Battle of Steinkirk and Battle of Lande (against France), both defeats for England, through into 1693
- 22 Oct 1692: CA - Marie Madelaine Jarret de Vercheres defends the family fort with a handful of seniors and children against the Iroquois, a true youthful hero of New France.
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78 | 1693 | - 1693: England - Richest counties: Middlesex (with London), Surrey, Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Berkshire, Oxfordshire, Northamptonshire; Poorest Counties: Cheshire, Derbyshire, Yorkshire, Lancashire, Northumberland, Durham, Cumberland
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79 | 1694 | |
80 | 1695 | |
81 | 1696 | - 1696: CA - European fur market collapses as fashion temporarily changes, leading to an increase in colonist settlers wanting permanent land to clear and farm.
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82 | 1697 | - 1697: England - Blasphemy Act in England
- 1697: England - Civil List Act votes funds for the maintenance of the Royal Household
- 1697: England - Peace of Ryswick between the allied powers of the League of Augsburg and France ends the French War
- 1697: After almost a decade of guerrilla warfare, the Peace of Ryswick merely confirms the status quo, even returning Acadia, captured by the English, to the French. England and France make temporary peace in 1697 (Treaty of Ryswick).
- 10 Nov 1697: England - Birth of William Hogarth (died 1764), bitter satirical artist of great genius, chronicling social evils of the times
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83 | 1698 | - 1698: England - Thomas Savery patented an engine which produced a vacuum by condensing steam. It was employed for raising water from a mine and supplying water to several country houses.
- 1698: Russia - Tsar Peter the Great begins taxing men with beards
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84 | 1699 | - 23 May 1699: America - John Bartram was born. A naturalist and explorer, considered 'father of American botany'; established a world renowned botanical garden in Philadelphia in 1728.
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85 | 1700 | - 1700: England - Population of England and Wales estimated at 5.5 million
- 1700: England - Population of English colonies in America, 200,000
- 1700: CA - Population of Acadia is 1,400. Clear that New France is not going to be self-sufficient.
- 1700: NL - Invoering van de Gregoriaanse kalender in Friesland. Op 31-12-1700 volgde 12-01-1701.
- 26 Jan 1700: CA - The Cascadia Earthquake, one of the largest earthquakes on record, ruptures the Cascadia Subduction Zone offshore from Vancouver Island to northern California, creating a tsunami that wiped out the winter village of Pachena Bay leaving no survivors.
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86 | 1701 | - 1701: England - Jethro Tull invents the seed drill.
- 1701: England - Death of James II in exile, King Louis of France recognises James's son as King James III
- 1701: England - The Act of Settlement settles the Royal Succession on the Protestant descendants of Sophia of Hanover. William III forms a grand alliance between England, Holland and Austria to prevent the union of the Spanish and French crowns. The War of the Spanish Succession breaks out in Europe over the vacant throne
- 1701: CA - Detroit, Michigan founded as Fort Pontchartrain du détroit by Antoine de Lamothe Cadillac.
- 1701: CA - War of the Spanish Succession begins in Europe; spreads to North America (Queen Anne's War) in 1702.
- 1701: CA- Peace treaty signed between the Iroquois Confederacy and the French and English.
- 1701: NL - Lodewijk XIV bezet de Zuidelijke Nederlanden.
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87 | 1702 | - 1702: England - Queen Anne, ruler of England to 1714. House of Stuart (restored): 2nd daughter of James II. Died with no living heirs.
- 1702: England - England tries to prevent grandson of Louis of France from taking Spanish throne; John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough, instrumental in uniting England, Holland, Austria and Germany against France (period to 1713)
- 1702: England - Queen Anne's War: England declares war on France as part of the War of the Spanish Succession. English Colonies vs France 1702-1713.
- 1702: England - Death of King William III in a riding accident. He is succeeded by his sister-in-law.
- 1702: England - Freehold yeomen represent one eigth of population of England. Substantial tenant farmers represent a little less; coffee houses become popular
- 1702: CA - For the next 11 years, The short-lived Peace of Ryswick collapses with the outbreak of the War of the Spanish Succession, which erupts in the colonies as Queen Anne's War. It ends with France losing North American territory to Britain.
- 1702: NL - Willem III van Oranje-Nassau overlijdt aan de gevolgen van een val van zijn paard op Hampton Court.
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88 | 1703 | - 1703: Epworth, Lincolnshire, England - Birth of John Wesley. By 1784, 356 Methodist chapels built in places lacking church
- 1703: CA - Philippe de Rigaud Vaudreuil becomes Governor of New France.
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89 | 1704 | - 1704: England - Johann Sebastian Bach began composing music
- 1704: Gibraltar - British capture Gibraltar from Spain
- 1704: CA - French destroy the English settlement at Bonavista, Newfoundland.
- 13 Aug 1704: England - British, Dutch, German and Austrian troops, under the Duke of Marlborough, defeat the French and Bavarians at the Battle of Blenheim
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90 | 1706 | - 1706: London, England - The Evening Post, first evening newspaper issued
- 23 May 1706: Netherlands - British, Bavarian and Austrian troops under Marlborough defeat the French at the Battle of Ramillies, and expel the French from the Netherlands
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91 | 1707 | - 1707: Great Britain - The Act of Union unites the kingdoms of England and Scotland and transfers the seat of Scottish Government to London
- 1707: CA - Port Royal is attacked twice by the English from Massachusetts.
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92 | 1708 | - 1708: NL - Strenge winter : vorst van 24 December tot in Mei.
- 11 Jul 1708: England - The Duke of Marlborough defeats the French at the Battle of Oudenarde. The French incur heavy losses. Queen Anne vetoes a parliamentary bill to recognise the Scottish militia. This is the last time a bill is vetoed by the sovereign
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93 | 1709 | |
94 | 1710 | - 1710: Great Britain - Wooden panelling replaces tapestry as wall covering
- 1710: Great Britain - A Tory ministry is formed, under Harley, with the impeachment of Dr. Sacheverell and the fall of the Whig government
- 1710: CA - Francis Nicholson captures Port Royal for England.
- 1710: CA - The English recapture Acadia, this time permanently, and rename it Nova Scotia.
- 1710: CA - The English take Port Royal and name it Annapolis Royal.
- 1710: CA - The Mandan Indians west of the Great Lakes begin to trade in horses descended from those brought to Texas by the Spanish. Itinerant Assiniboine Indians bring them from Mandan settlements to their own territories southwest of Lake Winnipeg.
- 1710: UK - Three Mohawk chiefs and one Mahican are received in Queen Anne's court in England as the Four Kings of the New World.
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95 | 1711 | - 1711: Great Britain - Englishman John Shore invents the tuning fork.
- 1711: NL - Johan Willem Friso, erfstadhouder van Friesland, verdrinkt in het Hollands Diep.
- 1711: US - Tuscarora War on North Carolina frontier fought between British settlers and Tuscarora Indians. Remnants of this Iroquoian tribe migrate north.
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96 | 1712 | |
97 | 1713 | - 1713: Europe - The Treaty of Utrecht is signed by Britain and France, thus concluding the War of the Spanish Succession
- 1713: CA - After loss of lands to England in the Treaty of Utrecht, France starts building Fortress Louisbourg near the eastern tip of l'Ile-Royale.
- 1713: CA - At the conclusion of Queen Anne's War - Maine Abenakis and Iroquois from Quebec (Caughnawaga) attack the English colonists on behalf of the French, but lose. The European nations negotiate their settlement at the Treaty of Utrecht (1713); Louis XIV cedes Hudson Bay, Acadia (Nova Scotia) and Newfoundland (but not Cape Breton Island or St. John's Island) to Great Britain.
- 1713: NL - Via Azië en Rusland bereikt de (1e) veepest epidemie ons land.
- 1713: US - Turcarora War (North Carolina) -- Under the English Col. John Barnwell, then Col. James Moore, the Tuscarora Nation was repeatedly attacked, its chiefs tortured, its people sold (10 pounds sterling each) into slavery. The survivors fled northward and settled among the Haudenosee (Iroquois) 5 Nations.
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98 | 1714 | - 1714: Great Britain - George I,ruler of England to 1727. House of Hanover: Son of Elector of Hanover, by Sophia, grand-daughter of James I. Proclaimed King under Act of Settlement.
- 1714: Great Britain - Quaker John Belles urges founding of hospitals as training grounds for medical students; Board of Longitude created, £20,000 competition for accurate maritime charts and maps
- 1714: Great Britain - Death of Queen Anne at Kensington Palace. A new parliament is elected with a strong Whig majority, led by Charles Townshend and Robert Walpole
- 1714: Great Britain - During period to 1742 there are no big increases from population of about 5.5 million but the distribution changes: East Anglia loses; West Country, South and East Midlands, East Riding and North (except Tyneside) fairly static; West Riding and South Lancashire increase; West Midlands, Surrey and Middlesex grow rapidly with London (London 500,000, Bristol 50,000; Manchester, Liverpool, Sheffield, Leeds, Halifax, Birmingham and Coventry, no longer sprawling villages, but still under 50,000); cause is immigration from cities and (in NW) from Ireland
- 1714: Great Britain - Rioting by Tory and Jacobite mobs commonplace in London (unemployed soldiers, craftsmen), passage of Riot Act, giving increased power to Justices of the Peace through to 1715
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99 | 1715 | |
100 | 1716 | - 1716: Italy - John Lombe steals plans for silk manufacture, returning to England he and brother Thomas build vast factory on island at Derby
- 1716: Scotland - James Lind was born. Lind was a Scottish physician who recommended that fresh citrus fruit and lemon juice be included in the seamen's diet to eliminate scurvy. The Dutch had been doing this for almost two hundred years.
- 1716: CA - Jacques Talbot came to Montreal as a schoolmaster.
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101 | 1717 | - 1717: Europe - England allies with French and Dutch against Spanish, Spanish brought to heel in 1718
- 1717: Great Britain - Edmond Halley invents the diving bell.
- 1717: Great Britain - John Lombe in England invents a machine for 'throwing' silk which produces a strong twisted thread
- 1717: Great Britain - Townshend is dismissed from government by George I, causing Walpole to resign. The Whig party is split. Convocation is suspended
- 1717: CA - Fort Kaministiquia was founded by French merchants to be the first in a series of forts reaching westward to expand trade and seek a route to the western sea. (Daniel Greysolon Dulhut had built a fort, (Fort Caministigoyan), at the same location on the Kaministiquia River in 1679.)
- 1717: NL - Bij een stormvloed tijdens de kerstmis komen in Groningen en Friesland 5000 mensen om.
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102 | 1719 | |
103 | 1720 | - 1720: Great Britain - Hospitals founded in London: Guy's, St. George's, London & Middlesex in period to 1745
- 1720: Great Britain - Dr. Richard Mead publishes Short Discourse Concerning Pestilential Contagion, advocates quarantine, proposes establishment of government Council of Health; inoculation against smallpox introduced from Constantinople by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
- 1720: Meiringen, Switzerland - Invention of meringue is attributed to an Italian pastry chef named Gasparini.
- 1720: UK - Lord Baltimore sponsors expedition to bring settlers to Newfoundland.
- 1720: US - French forts along the Mississippi River spread northward from New Orleans.
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104 | 1721 | |
105 | 1722 | |
106 | 1723 | - 1723: Great Britain - Excise Act, restrictions removed on exports, duty removed on imports of raw materials; London builds bonded warhouse for tea, coffee and chocolate
- 1723: Great Britain - Legislation allowing parishes to create 'unions' or workhouses, to prevent escape of children they could be manacled
- 1723: New England, USA - Dummer's War 1723-1726.
- 1723: NL - Grens tusschen Onstwedde en Pekela geregeld.
- 16 Jul 1723: Devon, Great Britain - Birth of Sir Joshua Reynolds (died 1792), arguably finest English landscape and portrait painter, career 1750-1780
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107 | 1724 | |
108 | 1725 | - 1725: CA - Claude-Thomas Dupuy was appointed intendant of New France.
- 1725: CA - Peter the Great sends Vitus Bering to explore the North Pacific.
- 30 Apr 1725: Great Britain - Treaty of Vienna: Austria and Spain resolve differences
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