1620 the Mayflower ship lands at Cape Cod, Massachusetts, with 101 colonists
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1620 the Mayflower ship lands at Cape Cod, Massachusetts, with 101 colonists
1619
The birth of Cyrano de Bergerac
1618
Pluto reached, according to sophisticated mathematical calculations, its second most recent aphelion.
[Sadly, Pluto isn't a planet anymore.]
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
1616Quote:
Originally Posted by Whifflingpin
Pocahontas arrived in England
Death of William Shakespeare
1615
End of the Sengoku Period in Japan.
1614 - death of Francisco de San Jose
1613
Globe Theater is destroyed by fire
Pocahontas is taken to Jamestown
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
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?
1610
The Coronation of France's Louis XIII
1609
The greatest witch-hunt in history: Basque witch trials
1608
Dutch lens maker, Hans Lippershey, demonstrates the first telescope in the Dutch parliament
1607
Spain is effectively bankrupt.
1606
Rembrandt the Dutch painter is born
1605- czar dies in Russia; king of Siam Phra Naret dies same month and is succeeded by his brother.
1604
Peter Blundell founds Blundell's School in Tiverton, England.
1603
Queen Elizabeth I dies
1602
The Bodleian Library at Oxford University is opened to the public.
1601
Bad harvest occurs in Russia due to a rainy summer
1600
Scotland adopts January 1 as New Year's Day.
1599
April 23 - The Earl of Essex arrives in Dublin at the head of 16,000 troops, the largest army ever seen in Ireland.
1598
Parliament of England passes an act that allows transportation of convicts to colonies.
On October 6, 1597, Bohai earthquake with magnitude 7 occurred.
1596
Sir Francis Drake dies.
1595
Mehmed III succeeds Murad III as Sultan of the Ottoman Empire.
1594
Henry IV is crowned King of France at Chartres
1593
Ottoman Empire defeated in Battle of Sisak.
1592
Founding of Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland's oldest university
1591
Capture of Deventer by the Dutch under Maurice of Nassau.
1590
Anne of Denmark is crowned Queen of Scotland
1589
Job is elected as the first Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia.
1588
Poet Robert Crowley is born
1587
A severe famine breaks out in China during the Ming Dynasty.
1586
Composer Claudio Saracini is born
1585
Chocolate is introduced to Europe commercially.
1584
Sir Walter Raleigh establishes the second English Colony in "old" Virginia (North Carolina).
1583
Toyotomi Hideyoshi commences construction of Osaka Castle in Japan.
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
1581
The English Parliament outlaws Roman Cathlolicism