Count backwards from the present year

[Whifflingpin]

1769
May 1, Arthur Wellesley (Duke of Wellington) born
June 3, Transit of Venus observed by various astronomers, included Capt Cook on Tahiti
July 16, the Spanish founded the first mission in California
Aug 15 - Napoleon Bonaparte was born
Aug 23 - birth of Georges Cuvier, French comparative anatomist who is considered the founder of functional anatomy
Oct The Endeavour arrived in New Zealand the first time that Europeans had set foot in New Zealand.

Overthrow of the Newar rulers by the Gurkhas and the establishment of a Hindu kingdom in Nepal.

[AmericanEagle]

1768
James Cook sets sail on his first voyage

[Whifflingpin]

1767

Jan 1 - Maria Edgeworth born
Jun 22 - Wilhelm von Humboldt born.
September 4th: Charles Townshend unexpectedly dies - no doubt weighed down by the curses of the Americans on whom he imposed unwelcome taxes.

Charles III, King of Spain, ordered that "the Jesuits be expelled from all my dominions of Spain, the Indies, and Philippine Islands, and other adjacent regions"

Burmese invasion reaches the Thai capital.

Daniel Boone reaches Kentucky

[AmericanEagle]

1766 - May 30
Robert Darwin, doctor and father of Charles Darwin, is born

[Poetess]

1765 - March 22 - The British Parliament passes the Stamp Act which is the first direct tax levied from England on the American colonies.

September 21 - Antoine de Beauterne announced he had killed the Beast of Gévaudan.

[AmericanEagle]

1764 - February 15
The American city of St. Louis is established

[ClaesGefvenberg]

1763

January 6 - Jean Baptiste Bernadotte, later to be Karl XIV Johan king of Sweden and Norway 1818-1844, is born. That's right: We ran out of kings, and had to import one from France...

February 10 - French and Indian War: The 1763 Treaty of Paris ends the war and France cedes Canada to Great Britain.

August 5 - Pontiac's War - Battle of Bushy Run - British forces led by Henry Bouquet defeat Chief Pontiac's Indians at Bushy Run in the Pennsylvania backcountry.

Sweden and Britain reestablish trade connections after 15 years of hostility.

Investments in tar, Finlands biggest export merchandise declines due to fears of a russian invasion.

[AmericanEagle]

1762 - January 4
Britain declares war on Spain and Naples

[Whifflingpin]

1761

Jan 13th - Battle of Panipat, Ahmad Shah Durrani and his forces defeated ShadaSiva Bhao and the Maratha armies.
May 14th - Thomas Simpson, mathematician, died.
June 3rd - Henry Shrapnel, inventor of er.. shrapnel, born
July 4th - Samuel Richardson, author of 'Pamela' etc., died

[AmericanEagle]

1760 - October 9
Russian troops enter Berlin, but soon withdraw

[ClaesGefvenberg]

1759

January 15 - The British Museum opens.

January 25 - The Birth Date of the Scottish national poet, Robert Burns.

July 25 - Seven Years' War (French and Indian War): In Canada, British forces capture Fort Niagara from French, who subsequently abandon Fort Rouillé.

September 10 -The swedish navy defeats its prussian counterpart in the battle of Das Frisches Haff.

September 13 - Quebec is stormed and taken by brittish troops. As a result, Canada comes under british rule.

[Whifflingpin]

1758

Horatio Nelson born
Noah Webster born
Allan Ramsay died


Battle of Louisburg

great fire of Llanfair Caereinion.

[ClaesGefvenberg]

1757

January 2 - Britain captures Calcutta, India.

June 23 - Battle of Plassey: 3000 British troops under Robert Clive defeat a 50,000 strong Indian army under Siraj-ud-Dawlah at Plassey.

September 13 - The Swedish army invades Prussia without a declaration of war.

September 22 - Sweden and France agree that Sweden shall keep 20.000 troops in Germany.

Swedens last witch trial is held in Dalarna. The eight accused women are saved by Katarina Charlotta De la Gardie.

[Themis]

1756

Jan, 27th - W. A. Mozart (Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart) is born.

[Whifflingpin]

1755

Lisbon earthquake.
Eruption of Etna

William Russell Birch born

Johnson's "Dictionary of the English Language" published

[AmericanEagle]

1754
Beginning of the French and Indian War in North America

[ClaesGefvenberg]

1753


Sweden adopts Gregorian calendar
British parliament extends citizenship to Jews
Publication of Species Plantarum by Linnaeus on 1st May, adopted by the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature as the formal start date of the scientific classification of plants
James Lind writes A Treatise of the Scurvy

[dramasnot6]

1752
Ben Franklin conducts his electricity in lightning experiment by flying a kite in a thunderstorm

[Whifflingpin]

1751
Aug 31: Clive captures Arcot

Albinoni died.

Sheridan born
Gray's "Elegy in a country Churchyard" published

[AmericanEagle]

1750
The death of Johann Sebastian Bach

[dramasnot6]

1749
Oct 26, The Georgia Colony reversed itself and ruled slavery to be legal.

[Whifflingpin]

Jeremy Bentham born

[vheissu]

1747

James Lind discovers that citrus fruits prevent scurvy

Samuel Johnson begins work on "A Dictionary of the English Language"

[AmericanEagle]

1746 - June
Samuel Johnson is contracted to write his A Dictionary of the English Language

[Whifflingpin]

1745

The 1745 - Bonnie Prince Charlie and all that stuff. They lost, so no more Stuarts on the throne of England, hooray!

[AmericanEagle]

1744
Meriwether Lewis is born

[Whifflingpin]

1743
Austrians capture Munich.
French defeated by English at Dettingen.

[ClaesGefvenberg]

1742

february 28 - The armistice between Sweden and Russia expires.

April 13 - The first performance of George Friderich Händel's oratorio The Messiah, in Dublin, Ireland.

May 17 - Frederick the Great's army defeats Austrians in Chotusitz; later Austria cedes Silesia to Prussia

June - The russian army crosses the swedish border. They proceed to occupy all of Finland.

August 9 - The swedish army gets surrounded in Helsinki and capitulates. Many soldiers go awol.

The astronomer Anders Celsius designs the Celsius termometer, but sets the freezing point at 100C and the boling point at 0C. This is later inverted to the form the centergrade scale we know today.

[AmericanEagle]

1741 - March 17
French poet Jean-Baptiste Rousseau dies

[vheissu]

1740

December 16: Friedrich II of Prussia invades the Habsburg possession of Silesia, starting the War of the Austrian Succession.

[AmericanEagle]

1739 - January 1
Bouvet Island is discovered by French explorer Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier

[khalakh_the_3rd]

1738
Franz Ketterer invents the cuckoo clock.

[ClaesGefvenberg]

1737

May 28 - The planet Venus passed in front of Mercury. The event is witnessed during the evening hours by the amateur astronomer John Bevis at the Royal Greenwich Observatory. As of 2006, it is still the only such planet/planet occultation that has been directly observed.

October 16 An earthquake with a Richter scale magnitude of 9.3 explodes off the Kamchatka peninsula in Russia, causing a major tsunami in the Pacific ocean.

Carolus Linnaeus's Genera plantorum explains his method of systematic botany and classifies 18,000 species of plants.

Euler proves that the number e, known as the base for the natural logarithms, and its square are both irrational; that is, they cannot be represented by finite or repeating decimals.

[AmericanEagle]

1736 - May 10
English literary critic George Steevens is born

[khalakh_the_3rd]

1735
July 11 - July 11 - Mathematical calculations suggest it was on this day that Pluto moved closer to the Sun than Neptune for the last time before 1979.

[Whifflingpin]

1734
Siege of Danzig.
French capture Treves

[AmericanEagle]

1733 - July 30
First Freemasons lodge opened in the United States of America

[vheissu]

1732

Cobalt is discovered and isolated by Georg Brandt

[AmericanEagle]

1731 - February
English poet Charles Churchill is born

[vin1391]

1730 - Anna Ivanova (Anna I of Russia) became czarina.

[vheissu]

Vin, did you mean 1730?
If yes then:

1729

The worst Indian massacre to take place on Mississippi soil occurs when Natchez Indians kill 138 Frenchmen, 35 French women, and 56 children at Fort Rosalie

[AmericanEagle]

1728 - January 9
English poet Thomas Warton is born

[khalakh_the_3rd]

1727 Last execution for witchcraft in Scotland.

[AmericanEagle]

1726
Jonathan Swift publishes Gulliver's Travels

[Shalot]

1725 - Giacomo Casanova was born

[AmericanEagle]

1724 - April 22
German philosopher Immanuel Kant is born

[vheissu]

1723
Treaty of St. Petersbourg

[AmericanEagle]

1722 - April 11
English poet Christopher Smart is born

[Whifflingpin]

1721

Nistadt Peace Treaty marks end of the Great Northern War.

Grinling Gibbons dies

Watteau dies

[Logos]

Calico Jack Rackham "Calico Jack" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calico_Jack) died.

Giovanni Battista Piranesi (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Battista_Piranesi) was born.

[ClaesGefvenberg]

1719

In 1719 miners in the Falun copper mine of Sweden found a dead body in a tunnel that had been closed for a long time due to a cave-in. The body was so well preserved that the victim was first believed to to have died recently, but when they brought the body to the surface they soon learned the true story: They had found Fet-Mats Israelsson who had disappeared 42 years previously. His former fiancée, Margaret Olsdotter, now an elderly woman recognized him, and burst into tears. At the time of his disapperance people had assumed that Mr Israelsson had left Falun to avoid the marriage with her.

In the open air the body dried up and turned hard as a rock. People gave it the nickname "The petrified miner". Fet-Mats Israelsson was put on display at Stora Kopparberget.

When the naturalist Carolus Linnaeus visited, he noticed that Fet-Mats was not petrified but just covered with vitriol. He stated that as soon as the vitriol would evaporate, the body would begin to decay.

That proved to be correct. Fet-Mats Israelsson was finally put to rest December 21, 1749.

Sad tale, isn't it?

[Nightshade]

1718
Blackbeard gave up life as a pirate only to be killed "in action" barley 6 months later.

[dramasnot6]

1717
Edmond Halley invents the diving bell.

[ClaesGefvenberg]

1716

Februari 25 - Swedish king Karl XII:s attacks Norway for the first time. Kristiania is taken.
April 8 - Wismar, Swedens last site in current Germany capitulates.
September 6 - Karl XII sets up his HQ in Lund, to avoid being to far from his opponents on the continent (He needn't have worried).
September - Csar Peter arrives in Copenhagen. A russo-danish landing in the south of Sweden is planned.

[AmericanEagle]

1715 - May 3
Total solar eclipse across southern England, Sweden, and Finland

[cuppajoe_9]

August 1, 1714 - George I crowned King of Great Britain. The world's first mixed-gender school is founded in Croyden.

[*Classic*Charm*]

1713, treaty of Utrecht was signed in March and April

[AdoreroDio]

1712
* Treaty of Aargau signed between Catholic and Protestants. Introduced Protestant faith in Switzerland.

* Thomas Newcomen builds the first piston-operated steam engine at Tipton, Staffordshire, UK.

* After many years of settlement, the "Town on Queen Anne's Creek" is established as a courthouse for Chowan County, North Carolina. The town is renamed Edenton in 1720 and incorporated in 1722.

* Great Northern War (1700-1721)
* War of the Spanish Succession (1702-1713)
* Tuscarora War (1711 - 1715)

[AmericanEagle]

1711 - May 7
Scottish philosopher David Hume is born

[cuppajoe_9]

1710: the world's first copyright legislation is passed in Britain. Estonia is annexed by Russia.

[Redzeppelin]

1709: British sailor Alexander Selkirk is rescued after being marooned on a desert island for 5 years, his story inspires "Robinson Crusoe."

[cuppajoe_9]

1708 - Queen Anne kills the Scottish Millitia bill, the last time to date a British monarch has vetoed legislation. J.S. Bach is appointed court-organist at Weimar. Jules Mansart, one of the architechts of the Palace of Versailles, dies.

[toni]

1707

January 16 - The Treaty (or Act) of Union of the two Kingdoms of Scotland and England is ratified by the Scottish Parliament

May 1 - The Acts of Union becomes law, uniting the Parliaments of the Kingdom of England and Kingdom of Scotland to form the Parliament of a united Kingdom of Great Britain.

[cuppajoe_9]

1706:

Ben Franklin is born.

[Shalot]

1705 --- people used horses to get from here to there

[Adolescent09]

1704--February 28 Elias Neau, a Frenchman, opens a school for blacks in New York City
February 28 Indians attack Deerfield, Massachusetts, kill 40, kidnap 100
February 29 French and Indians attack Deerfield, Massachusetts, kill 50, abduct 100
April 17 1st successful U.S. newspaper; published in Boston by John Campbell
April 24 "Boston News-Letter," 1st successful newspaper in U.S., forms
May 1 Boston Newsletter publishes 1st newspaper ad
May 20 Elias Neau forms school for slaves in New York
July 12 Stanislaw Leszcynski becomes king of part of Poland

[ClaesGefvenberg]

1703

February 4 - In Japan, the 47 samurai (47 Ronin) commit seppuku.

May 27 - Founding of St Petersburg in Russia.

July 29-31 - Daniel Defoe is placed in a pillory then imprisoned 4 months for the crime of seditious libel, after publishing a politically satirical pamphlet (his release is granted mid-November).

November 24 to December 2 - the Great Storm of 1703, an Atlantic hurricane, ravaged southern England and the English Channel, killing nearly 8000, mostly at sea. It reached 120-mph (193-km/h) winds, while barometric readings as low as 973 millibars were recorded and is the most severe storm ever recorded in the British Isles.

[cuppajoe_9]

1702:

The first English-language begins publication.

William III of Orange alias William III of England alias William II of Scotland alias King Billy bites the dust.

[ClaesGefvenberg]

1701

May 23 - After being convicted of murdering William Moore and for piracy, Captain William Kidd is hanged in London.

July 24 - Detroit, Michigan is founded.

[cuppajoe_9]

1700

Woo! New century!

Russia, Germany, Denmark, Norway and Sweden all adopt new calendars (Julian, Georgian, Georgian, Georgain and Swedish, respectively). The first pianoforte is documented in a Medici family inventory. Pope Innocent XII dies.

[The Bookinator]

1699- January 14 - Massachusetts holds a day of fasting for having wrongly persecuted witches.

[cuppajoe_9]

1698

Peter the Great becomes Czar of Russia. Dutch undertakers revolt after funeral reforms in Amsterdam (I swear I am not making this historical event up). William III leaves Holland.

[dramasnot6]

A revolt of undertakers? Do they throw soil and vandalize epitaphs?

1697
The Royal African Company loses its monopoly on the slave trade.The Manchu Empire conquers western Mongolia.

[ClaesGefvenberg]

1696

A pioneer English statistician calculates that England's population will reach a high of 22 million in 3500 A.D. "in case the world should last so long."

A famine wipes out almost a third of the population of Finland.

Seeds from the Polynesian pomelo tree (Citrus grandis) introduced into Barbados by an English sea captain named Shaddock. A sweeter and thinner mutation of the fruit, or a botanist's development of the "shaddock," will later be called grapefruit.

Sir Isaac Newton appointed to the post of warden of the Royal Mint:

December 24 - The Inquisition burns a number of Marrano Jews in Evora, Portugal.

[dramasnot6]

1695
The Bank of Scotland is founded
A window tax is imposed in England causing many shopkeepers to brick up their windows to avoid the tax.
Russia declares war on Turkey.
£2 fine for swearing in England.
Change of emperor of the Ottoman Empire from Ahmed II to Mustafa II

[ClaesGefvenberg]

1694

November 21 - Birth of François-Marie Arouet, better known by the pen name Voltaire.

[cuppajoe_9]

1693

Mt. Etna goes kablooie. The Amish christian sect is formed.

[AmericanEagle]

1692 - February 29
English poet John Byrom is born

[srpbritlit]

1691
French poet Isaac de Benserade died October 10,1691

[cuppajoe_9]

1690

The first paper money is issued in America. Puritans attack Quebec city. Uranus is discovered by John Flamsteed, who mislabels it a star. Charles le Brun, a French artist whose name translates as 'Charlie Brown', dies.

[Whifflingpin]

1689

Aphra Benn died

Mary Wortley Montague born

[cuppajoe_9]

1688

A collection of English nobels invite William of Orange to inved their own country and drive out the Catholic King James II. William accepts and lands at Brixton later in the year. Louis XIV of France, in response, declares war on the Netherlands. By the end of the year, James has fled England for France.

In literature, John Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Aphra Behn's Oroonoko and John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress are all published for the first time. Paradise Lost goes into its fourth edition, complete with illustrations.

[HannibalBarca]

we are actually 5 years ahead because of some so-called mathematician's mistake in math (one mistake is he forgot the year 0)

[cuppajoe_9]

There never was a Year 0 (I can understand that to some, God seems like a needless complication to life but because He has saved me I know otherwise.), by our present calendar. The number of years since the birth of Jesus is quite open to debate, however.

[Nick Rubashov]

1687

Isaac Newton's Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica is published.

[ClaesGefvenberg]

1686

August 18 - Cassini reports seeing a satellite orbiting Venus.

France annexes Madagascar.

The state of Cayor on Africa's west coast loses its Baol tributary, but troops of the Wolof empire will soon invade Cayor, many of whose tribespeople will flee to Baol. Rulers of Baol will successfully resist European efforts to conquer them until the French occupy their territory in the middle of the 19th century.

[vheissu]

1685

October 18-19 - Louis XIV declares the Edict of Fontainebleau, which revokes the Edict of Nantes and declares Protestantism illegal

March 21 - Johann Sebastian Bach is born

[ClaesGefvenberg]

1684

July 24 - René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle sails from France, again, with a large expedition designed to establish a French colony on the Gulf of Mexico, at the mouth of the Mississippi River.

December 10 - Isaac Newton's derivation of Kepler's laws from his theory of gravity, contained in the paper De motu corporum in gyrum, is read to the Royal Society by Edmund Halley.

The British East India Company receives Chinese permission to build a trading station at Canton. Tea sells in Europe for less than a shilling a pound, but the import duty of 5 shillings makes it too expensive for most English people to afford.

England has its coldest winter in living memory; the River Thames and the sea as far as 2 miles out from land freezes over.

[AmericanEagle]

1683 - December 15
English writer Izaak Walton dies

[cuppajoe_9]

1682

Robert de la Salle claims Louisiana for France. Louis XIV moves his court to Versailles. Halley's comet appears and is observed by the man for whom it is named.

[Hyacinth42]

1681

March 4 - Charles II of England grants a land charter to William Penn for the area that will later become Pennsylvania.

The last dodo bird is killed.

[Shalot]

1680

On November 17th, the Whigs organize a pope burning procession in London: also The Black Death strikes Dresden in epidemic proportions. (according to the Internet)

[ClaesGefvenberg]

1679

French explorer Daniel Greysolon, 40, sieur Duluth (or Du Lhut), reaches the great inland sea that will be called Lake Superior and claims the region for Louis XIV.

The Black Death claims at least 76,000 lives at Vienna.

Tuscany's Arno River is brought under control by Italian engineer Vincenzo Viviani, who uses a modification of a plan devised by Leonardo da Vinci in 1495. The Arno will nevertheless continue to flood periodically, inundating Florence.

Giovanni Cassini prepares Carte de la lune ("chart of the Moon") for the Académie des Sciences, the best map of the Moon available to astronomers until the advent of photography.

Denis Papin demonstrates his "steam digester," a pressure cooker with a safety valve used for cooking bones.

Leibniz introduces binary arithmetic by showing that every number can be represented by the symbols 0 and 1 only.

[Whifflingpin]

1678
Habeus Corpus act passed in England.

[AmericanEagle]

1677 - February 8
French astronomer Jacques Cassini is born

[littlewing53]

1676 - Nathaniel Bacon, convinced that Sir William Berkeley, the royal governor of Virginia, is providing colonists insufficient protection against Indians, leads a rebellion and burns Jamestown. The rebellion ends when Bacon becomes sick and dies.

[ClaesGefvenberg]

1675

London watchmaker Thomas Tompion, 36, improves on the design of watches; following a design by experimental physicist Robert Hooke, he produces one of the first English watches to be regulated by a balance spring.

Philosopher Gottfried W. Leibniz establishes the foundations of both integral and differential calculus.

Microscopist Antonie van Leeuwenhoek at Delft gives the first accurate description of red corpuscles.

The Black Death kills 11,000 in Malta.

Giovanni Cassini discovers that the rings of Saturn are not a single flat disk surrounding the planet. The break in the rings he discovers is still known as the Cassini Division or Cassini Gap.

Greenwich Observatory is founded by King Charles II. On March 4 he appoints John Flamsteed as the first Astronomer Royal.

Ole Christensen Römer [b. Århus, Denmark, September 25, 1644, d. Copenhagen, Denmark, September 19, 1710] measures the speed of light by measuring time differences of the eclipses of satellites of Jupiter.

[vheissu]

1674

On February 19th England and the Netherlands sign the Treaty of Westminster. A provision of the agreement transfers the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam to England, which renamed it New York

John Sobieski is elected as King of Poland on 21st May

4th December: Father Jacques Marquette founds a mission on the shores of Lake Michigan to minister to the Illinois Indians. The mission would later grow into the city of Chicago.

[AmericanEagle]

1673 - February 17
French writer Moliere dies

[vheissu]

1672

The Synod of Jerusalem brought together bishops and representatives from the whole of Eastern Orthodox Christendom, to discuss Orthodox dogma against the challenge of Protestantism.

[ClaesGefvenberg]

1671

The buccaneer Henry Morgan captures Panama City in violation of the previous year's Anglo-Spanish treaty. Morgan stands trial, but Charles II forgives him, knights him, and proceeds to make him lieutenant-governor of Jamaica in 1674, charging him with the task of putting an end to piracy.

A small English party penetrates the Ohio River watershed beyond the Blue Ridge mountains.

Newton writes De methodis serierum et fluxionum ("on the method of infinite series and fluxions"), a description of his version of the calculus, but does not publish it.

Thomas Blood attempts to steal the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London. He is immediately caught because he is too drunk to run with the loot. He will later be condemned to death and then mysteriously pardoned and exiled by King Charles II.

Giovanni Cassini calculates the distance from Earth to Mars, which enables him to determine the distance of all the planets from the Sun. His calculation is in near agreement with modern measurements.

Measure de la terre ("measure of the Earth") by Jean Picard includes his determination of the length of a meridian of latitude, the most accurate figure since the ancient Greeks and very close to today's accepted values.

[Neo_Sephiroth]

14-02-1670

Roman Catholic emperor Leopold I chases Jews out of Vienna

[Whifflingpin]

1669
"The first dated mezzotint in Britain was made in 1669 by William Sherwin of King Charles II."

4th October Rembrandt died in Amsterdam.

Ainu revolt in Japan

[ClaesGefvenberg]

1668

Italian physician-naturalist Francesco Redi disproves the notion of spontaneous generation. He shows that no maggots will develop in meat, no matter how putrefied it may be, if it is covered with a thin cloth to protect it from flies that will lay eggs, but most people will continue for centuries to believe that maggots are products of spontaneous generation rather than of fly larva.

The Black Death reaches Austria, having traveled from Flanders to Westphalia and into Normandy and Switzerland.

Giovanni Cassini's Ephemerides bononienses Mediceorum siderum ("timetable of the Medicean stars") contains his computation of the movements and eclipses of the four satellites of Jupiter.

John Wallis is the first to suggest the law of conservation of momentum (the product of the mass and velocity of interacting objects is the same after the interaction as before).

Spanish conquistadors in the Pacific rename the Islas de los Ladrones found by Magellan in 1521. They call them Las Marianas to honor Maria Anna of Austria, widow of Spain's Felipe (Philip) IV.

[vheissu]

1667

The blind and impoverished John Milton sells the copyright of Paradise Lost for £10.

June 15 - The first human blood transfusion is administered by Dr. Jean-Baptiste Denys. He transfuses the blood of a sheep to a 15-year old boy. (Though this operation is a success, a later patient dies from the procedure and Denys is accused of murder).

[Whifflingpin]

1666
Death toll from Black Death in London reaches nearly 100,000.

80% of the buildings in London destroyed by fire, between 2nd & 5th September

[AmericanEagle]

1665 - March 4
Start of the Second Anglo-Dutch War

[vheissu]

1664

Kronenbourg is first produced.

August ~ The Ottoman Empire is defeated in the Battle of Saint Gotthard by an Austrian army led by Raimondo Montecuccoli, resulting in the Peace of Vasvár.

[ClaesGefvenberg]

1663

An epidemic of the Black Death at Amsterdam kills 10,000 of the city's 200,000 people

Optica promota by James Gregory gives the first description of a reflecting telescope; that is, a telescope that focuses light with a mirror rather than a lens.

[vheissu]

1662

Short-timed experiment of the first public buses in Paris. Only holding 8 passengers per carriage

May 9 - Samuel Pepys witnessed a Punch and Judy show in London; the first on record

October 27 - Charles II of England sells Dunkirk to France for £400,000

[Whifflingpin]

1661:

Koxinga (Zhjeng Sen) lands in Taiwan, to wrest it from the Dutch.

Cardinal Mazarin died.

Takanoshi family invented soy sauce

[Rosencrantz]

1660 - Charles II crowned in england

[AmericanEagle]

1659 - December 26
The Long Parliament reforms occur in Westminster

[vheissu]

1658

Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of Scotland, Ireland and England, dies and is succeded by his son Richard.

Portuguese traders are expelled from Ceylon by Dutch invaders

[AmericanEagle]

1657 - March 1
Swiss theologian Samuel Werenfels is born

[Whifflingpin]

1656
Warsaw surrendered to the Poles.

Blake captures a Spanish treasure fleet off Cadiz.

[vheissu]

1655

Titan, Saturn's largest moon, is discovered by Christian Huygens

Egnlish troops land on Jamaica on 10th of May

[AmericanEagle]

1654 - June 3
Louis XIV of France crowned at Rheims

[Whifflingpin]

1653

Blake defeats Van Tromp.

Swiss peasants were revolting.

Pascal published "Treatise on the Equilibrium of Liquids"

[vheissu]

1652

Dutch sailor Jan van Riebeeck establishes a resupply camp for the Dutch East India Company at the Cape of Good Hope, and founded Cape Town

[AmericanEagle]

1651
Fronde civil war in France

[Nightshade]

1650

English Civil War, and the infamous Nell Gwynne dies.

[Whifflingpin]

1650: "the infamous Nell Gwynne dies."??? That sounds unlikely - Aha - pretty, witty Nell was born in 1650, died 1687

1649 Jan 30: Execution of Charles I of England etc

[vheissu]

1648

The Dutch and the Spanish sign the Treaty of Munster on January 39th, ending the Eighty Years' War.

[ElissaDido]

1647

Charles I

Charles I fled to Scotland following his defeat in 1645. In January, the Scots handed Charles I over to Parliament at Newcastle in exchange for monies owed. Charles I was held prisoner at Holmby House in Northamptonshire. In June, the army revolted and seized the King but Charles I escaped to the Isle of Wight.

On August 6, Cromwell led the New Model Army into London and took control of Parliament.

[vheissu]

1646

Roger Scott was tried in Massachusetts for sleeping in church.

May 30: Spain and the Netherlands sign a temporary cease fire in the war.

[ElissaDido]

1645
Battle of Inverlochy. Montrose ravages Argyll. Town of Dundee sacked by
Montrose's army.

[ClaesGefvenberg]

1644

Swedish forces invade Denmark early in the year under the command of Count Gustav Horn, breaking a peace that has held since 1613.

June 6 - The invading Manchu army, with the help of Ming general Wu Sangui, captures Beijing, China. This marks the beginning of the Qing Dynasty (also known as the Manchu Dynasty), the last imperial dynasty of China.

July 2 - Battle of Marston Moor, a crushing victory for the Parliamentary side of the English Civil War, ended Charles I's hold on the north of England.

[ElissaDido]

1643
Dutch explorer, Abel Tasman discovered the islands but did not attempt to land because of reports of cannibalism that was rampant in the islands.

[vheissu]

1642


On 2nd of September Parliament orders the theatres of London closed, effectively ending the era of English Renaissance theatre.


Abel Tasman becomes the first European to discover the island Van Diemen's Land (later renamed Tasmania)

[Whifflingpin]

1641
Uprising in Ireland

Lord Strafford executed,

[vheissu]

1640

December 1: Portugal regains its independence from Spain and João IV of Portugal becomes king. Spain does not recognize Portugal's independence until 1668.

The first known European coffee house opens in Venice

[Domer121]

1639

September 25: 1st printing press in America

November 24: 1st observation of transit of Venus occured (only 2 recorded)

[AmericanEagle]

1638 - March 5
The Treaty of Hamburg is signed by France and Sweden

[Brigitte]

1637: First opera house, Teatro San Cassiona, opens in Venice.

[Shalot]

Dec 3, 1636 - founding of the United States National Guard

[Whifflingpin]

1635
July - Robert Hooke born
August - Hurricane sweeps coast from Virginia to Connecticut
Lope de Vega died

[Whifflingpin]

1634 Dorothe Engelbretsdotter born

[AmericanEagle]

1633 - English poet George Herbert dies

[Whifflingpin]

1631
Magdeburg falls to Tilly
Tilly defeated at Leipsic

[vheissu]

What happened to 1632?

1630

Native American Quadequine introduces popcorn to English colonists

[Whifflingpin]

1629
Charles I dissolves his third parliament.

Christiaan Huygens born

[vheissu]

1628

William Harvey publishes his findings about blood circulation

[Gadget Girl]

1627

Muslim raids on Iceland (The Turkish abductions).

[Alexei]

1626 - King Charles I of England is crowned

[vheissu]

1626.

Gosh! Did nothing happen in 1626?!

1625

The English Parliament refuses to vote Charles I the right to collect customs duties for his entire reign, restricting him to one year instead

[Alexei]

1624 - Martin Luther's German translation of the Bible is publicly burned by order of the Pope.

Sorry, for the previous post. See the edit there

[vheissu]

And I thought there was some historical glitch and someone had forgotten to catalog a whole year! ;)

1623

The first breach-of-promise lawsuit: Rev. Gerville Pooley, in Virginia, files against Cicely Jordan, but he lose (what a shame)

[Gadget Girl]

1622

King James I of England disbands the English Parliament.

[You know, this game is fun, isn't it? We can learn some new things.]

[mosimo]

1621
War resumes between Holland & Spain after a 12 year truce

[mosimo]

1620 the Mayflower ship lands at Cape Cod, Massachusetts, with 101 colonists

[LadyWentworth]

1619

The birth of Cyrano de Bergerac

[Gadget Girl]

1618

Pluto reached, according to sophisticated mathematical calculations, its second most recent aphelion.

[Sadly, Pluto isn't a planet anymore.]

[Whifflingpin]

1617
April 14 - Naval battle (2nd of 3) of Playa Honda between Spanish & Dutch
November 17 - Naval battle between Venetians & Sicilians

Pocahontas died
John Napier, the mathematician, died

[LadyWentworth]

1617 Pocahontas died

1616
Pocahontas arrived in England

Death of William Shakespeare

[Gadget Girl]

1615

End of the Sengoku Period in Japan.

[RoCKiTcZa]

1614 - death of Francisco de San Jose

[LadyWentworth]

1613

Globe Theater is destroyed by fire

Pocahontas is taken to Jamestown

[vheissu]

1612

Thomas Shelton's English translation of the first half of Don Quixote is published. It is the first translation of the Spanish novel into any language

[Gadget Girl]

1611

Denmark attacks Sweden.

What will happen if we reach the very end? Start from the present year over again? Or it will be the end of the game?

[LadyWentworth]

1610

The Coronation of France's Louis XIII

[Gadget Girl]

1609

The greatest witch-hunt in history: Basque witch trials

[vheissu]

1608

Dutch lens maker, Hans Lippershey, demonstrates the first telescope in the Dutch parliament

[Gadget Girl]

1607

Spain is effectively bankrupt.

[HoOkEdOnReAdInG]

1606

Rembrandt the Dutch painter is born

[NikolaiI]

1605- czar dies in Russia; king of Siam Phra Naret dies same month and is succeeded by his brother.

[Gadget Girl]

1604

Peter Blundell founds Blundell's School in Tiverton, England.

[LadyWentworth]

1603

Queen Elizabeth I dies

[Gadget Girl]

1602

The Bodleian Library at Oxford University is opened to the public.

[vheissu]

1601

Bad harvest occurs in Russia due to a rainy summer

[Gadget Girl]

1600

Scotland adopts January 1 as New Year's Day.

[_JadeRain_]

1599

April 23 - The Earl of Essex arrives in Dublin at the head of 16,000 troops, the largest army ever seen in Ireland.

[Gadget Girl]

1598

Parliament of England passes an act that allows transportation of convicts to colonies.

[_JadeRain_]

On October 6, 1597, Bohai earthquake with magnitude 7 occurred.

[LadyWentworth]

1596

Sir Francis Drake dies.

[Gadget Girl]

1595

Mehmed III succeeds Murad III as Sultan of the Ottoman Empire.

[vheissu]

1594

Henry IV is crowned King of France at Chartres

[Gadget Girl]

1593

Ottoman Empire defeated in Battle of Sisak.

[vheissu]

1592

Founding of Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland's oldest university

[Gadget Girl]

1591

Capture of Deventer by the Dutch under Maurice of Nassau.

[LadyWentworth]

1590

Anne of Denmark is crowned Queen of Scotland

[Gadget Girl]

1589

Job is elected as the first Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia.

[LadyWentworth]

1588

Poet Robert Crowley is born

[Gadget Girl]

1587

A severe famine breaks out in China during the Ming Dynasty.

[LadyWentworth]

1586

Composer Claudio Saracini is born

[Gadget Girl]

1585

Chocolate is introduced to Europe commercially.

[LadyWentworth]

1584

Sir Walter Raleigh establishes the second English Colony in "old" Virginia (North Carolina).

[Gadget Girl]

1583

Toyotomi Hideyoshi commences construction of Osaka Castle in Japan.

[vheissu]

1582

In Stratford-upon-Avon, 18 year-old William Shakespeare and 26 year-old Anne Hathaway pay a 40-pound bond for their marriage license

[LadyWentworth]

1581

The English Parliament outlaws Roman Cathlolicism

[Dori]

1580

July 12 - The Ostrog Bible, the first complete printed Bible in a Slavic language, is published.

[Gadget Girl]

1579

The Union of Atrecht unites the southern Netherlands under the Duke of Parma, governor in the name of king Philip II of Spain.

[vheissu]

1578

Sonam Gyrso receives the title of "Talaï" from prince Atlan Khan and becomes the third Dalai Lama

[LadyWentworth]

1577

Sir Francis Drake begins his round-the-world voyage.

[Gadget Girl]

1576

English navigator Martin Frobisher, on his search for the Northwest Passage, enters the bay now named after him.

[vheissu]

1575

The bubonic plague decimates Venice


Funny how I'm reading a book on the plague!

[Gadget Girl]

1574

Manila gains cityhood.

[ClaesGefvenberg]

1573

August 27 - Oda Nobunaga drives the 15th Ashikaga shogun Ashikaga Yoshiaki out of Kyoto, effectively destroying the Ashikaga shogunate and historically ending the Muromachi period. The Azuchi-Momoyama period of Japan begins.

[Gadget Girl]

1572

End of the Muromachi period in Japan.

[vheissu]

1571

Moscow is burnt by the Crimean army under Devlet I Giray.

[crazefest456]

1570 Ivan the Terrible starts the massacre of Novgorod

[toni]

1569


January 11-May 6 - First recorded lottery in England performed nonstop at the west door of the St. Paul's Cathedral. Each share costs 10 shillings and proceeds are used to repair the harbors and for other public works

April 10 - Emilia of Nassau, daughter of William the Silent (died 1629)

[Whifflingpin]

1568

Henry Wotton born

Roger Ascham died

[vheissu]

1567

The Rugby School, one of the oldest public schools in England, is founded.

[Gadget Girl]

1566

Pope Pius V succeeds Pope Pius IV as the 225th pope.

[Whifflingpin]

1565

The Great Siege of Malta

Miles Coverdale died (possibly)

[vheissu]

1564


Naples bans kissing in public under the penalty of death.

[Whifflingpin]

(I think that rule still applies in Bristol, Pa)

1563

Martynas Mazvydas dies

Jodocus Hondius born

[Dori]

1562

January - June
* January 6 - Earl of Tyrone ends his first rebellion by surrendering to Queen Elizabeth I of England
* January 17 - Huguenots were recognized under the Edict of Saint-Germain
* March 1 - Over 1,000 Huguenots are massacred by the ultra-Catholic Francis, Duke of Guise in Wassy-sur-Blaise marking the start of the First War of Religion in France. Protestant forces led by Louis I de Bourbon, Prince de Condé and Gaspard de Coligny quickly seize control of Orleans, Rouen, and other cities throughout France.
* May 1 Jean Ribault, French navigator, lands in Florida and later establishes a Huguenot colony at Charlesfort
* May 26 - Earl of Tyrone leads a second rebellion in Ireland

July - December
* September 20 - English forces under Ambrose Dudley, 3rd Earl of Warwick, land in Newhaven (Le Havre) to aid the Huguenots.
* September 22 - Maximilian, son of the Emperor Ferdinand I, succeeds as King of Bohemia.
* October 26 - Rouen is captured by Royalist forces under Antoine de Bourbon, King of Navarre, who is mortally wounded.
* November 5 - In Scotland, the rebellion of George Gordon, Earl of Huntly is crushed by James Stewart, Earl of Moray at Corrichie.
* November 20 - Maximilian of Bohemia is elected King of the Romans.
* December 19 - Battle of Dreux. An indecisive battle between Huguenots forces under Condé and Coligny, and Catholic forces under Anne de Montmorency and Guise. The official leaders of both armies (Condé and Montmorency) are captured in the battle.

Undated
* Earliest English slave-trading expedition under John Hawkins. The expedition goes between Guinea and the West Indies.
* French Huguenots establish a colony of Charlesfort on Parris Island of the coast of South Carolina.
* Gresham's School granted a Royal Charter.

[vheissu]

(I think that rule still applies in Bristol, Pa)

You're dead if you kiss someone in public??? Oh dear...

1561

Madrid is declared the capital of Spain by Philip II


Michelangelo Buonarroti finishes Santa Maria degli Angeli e dei Martiri in Rome

[Whifflingpin]

1560

July 6 - Treaty of Edinburgh between England, France and Scotland.

Elizabeth Bathory born

Philip Melanchthon dies

[vheissu]

1559


Elizabeth I of England is crowned in Westminster Abbey.


Elizabeth I establishes the Church of England, with the Act of Uniformity 1559 and the Act of Supremacy 1559.

[LadyWentworth]

1558


England's Queen Mary I dies and Elizabeth I succeeds her

[Gadget Girl]

1557

Mary I of England joins her husband Philip II of Spain in his war against France.

[vheissu]

1556

The Shaanxi Earthquake, the deadliest earthquake in history, occurs with its epicenter in Shaanxi province, China: 830,000 people may have been killed.

[Whifflingpin]

1555

Feb 4 - John Rogers burnt at the stake - first protestant to be martyred in reign of Mary I of England.

Georg Bauer (Georgius Agricola) - geologist - dies.

Thomas Cavendish - circumnavigator - born

[_JadeRain_]

1554

Marriage of Felipe II to Mary Tudor of England

[ntropyincarnate]

1553

July 10-Lady Jane Grey is proclaimed Queen of England - for the next 9 days

[dramasnot6]

1552
In Italy, Bartolomeo Eustachi makes important discoveries on the structure of the ear and heart.

[bouquin]

1551 :

The National University of Saint Mark is founded in Lima, Peru. It is the oldest officially established university in the Americas, and as such, one of the oldest universities in the world.

[dramasnot6]

1550
Iceland becomes fully Protestant
Emilio de' Cavalieri, Italian composer born

[_JadeRain_]

1549

King names Tomé de Sousa first governor general of Brazil (1549-53). De Sousa establishes his capital at São Salvador da Bahia.

[Gadget Girl]

1548

At the Battle of Uedahara, firearms are used for the first time on the battlefield in Japan and Takeda Shingen is defeated by Murakami Yoshikiyo.

[Cailin]

1547

Great fire in Moscow

[LadyWentworth]

1546

Peace between France and England

[Gadget Girl]

1545

The Mary Rose sinks during the Battle of the Solent.

[Whifflingpin]

1544 -

University of Konigsberg (Albertina University) founded.

Tasso born

[Gadget Girl]

1543

Nicolaus Copernicus publishes De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium in Nuremberg.

[_JadeRain_]

1542- Battle of Jarte

[djy78usa]

1541- Hernando de Soto reaches the Mississippi River, names it Río de Espíritu Santo.

[Whifflingpin]

1540

Henry VIII of England marries Anne of Cleves.
Henry VIII of England divorces Anne of Cleves
Henry VIII of England marries Katherine Howard
Elizabeth Blount, mistress of Henry VIII of England, dies
Thomas Cromwell, chief minister to Henry VIII of England executed.

[bej6s]

1539

John III, Duke of Cleves dies
George, Duke of Saxony dies
Outbreak of the plague estimated to have begun during this year.

[ClaesGefvenberg]

1538

Michelangelo starts work on the Piazza del Campidoglio

[Whifflingpin]

1537

Instruction in Faith - John Calvin - published

[AmericanEagle]

1536 - January 7
Death of Catherine of Aragon, Queen of England

[djy78usa]

1535

- Henry VII has, quite possibly, his biggest ego trip as he announces himself head of the Church of England, and executes two future saints.

- Lima, Peru founded by Francisco Pizzaro

- Construction begins on Belvedere, Queen Anne's summer palace at Prague Castle

[ClaesGefvenberg]

1534

The English Parliament passes the Act of Supremacy, making King Henry VIII head of the English church - a role formerly held by the Pope.

[AmericanEagle]

1533 - January 25
Henry VIII marries Anne Boleyn

[ClaesGefvenberg]

1532

Pizarro captures the Incan emperor Atahualpa.

[AmericanEagle]

1531 - Halley's Comet appears

[Nyu001]

1530 - St. Felix's Flood destroys the city of Reimerswaal in the Netherlands.

[AmericanEagle]

1529 - Death of La Malinche

[Whifflingpin]

1528 - Death of Albrecht Durer

[Poetess]

1527 - Birth of Hermann Finck, German composer and music theorist

[K. Skywalker]

1526

The Transit of Venus occurs, the last one before optical filters allowed astronomers to observe them.

[mickitaz]

1525.

[Poetess]

1524 - A French army invading Italy under King Francis besieges Pavia.

[AmericanEagle]

1523.

[Whifflingpin]

1522 Knights of St John driven out of Rhodes

[Niamh]

1521- Pope Leo X excommunicates Martin Luther in the papal bull Decet Romanum Pontificem.