1. 1600s

2. 1602 Dutch East India Company Founded 1605 Don Quixote published (first modern novel) 1606 Jamestown colony established in Virginia 1610 Galileo sees moons of Jupiter through telescope King James version of bible published 1618 Start of the Thirty Years war 1619 First African slaves brought to Jamestown

3. 1620 Pilgrims arrive at Plymouth 1626 Dutch buy Manhattan from the Man-a-hat Indians 1630 Boston founded 1633 Galileo forced to recant by the Inquisition 1636 Harvard founded 1642 English Civil War-Roundheads vs. Charles 1 1649 Charles beheaded for Treason 1563 Oliver Cromwell defeats Royalists and named Lord Protectorate 1658 Cromwell dies

4. 1660 Parliament calls for Restoration of Monarchy Puritan gov’t collapes 1661 Charles II in crowned King of England 1661 Louis XIV begins personal rule and begins to build Versailles 1664 Newton experiments with gravity 1665 Great Plague in London kills 75,000 1699 French settle in Mississippi and Louisiana