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   Date  Event(s)
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".
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
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).
4 1618 
5 1619 
  • 1619: NL - Op 13 mei wordt Oldenbarnevelt op het Binnenhof onthoofd.
  • 1619: NL - Batavia wordt gesticht door Jan Pieterszoon Coen.
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.
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
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: FR - French settlements in the West Indies begin, exporting sugar and tobacco, and emigration to Canada is encouraged among traders and fishermen.
  • 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.
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.
13 1627 
  • 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: 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: 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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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.
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.
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.
20 1634 
  • 1634: Boston, Massachusetts - Samuel Cole supposedly opened the first tavern in the U.S.A.
  • 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: CA/US - Over the next 6 years the Huron nation is reduced by half from European diseases (smallpox epidemic, 1639).
  • 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: 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
21 1636 
  • 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: America - The Great and General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony established Harvard College (New College), the first college in the Americas.
  • 1636: CA - French crown grants Gulf of Maine and Bay of Fundy to d'Aulnay; La Tour gets Nova Scotia peninsula.
22 1637 
  • 1637: England - Charles I quarrels with Scotland re religion. He tries to force the English Book of Common Prayer on Scots
  • 1637: Connecticut, USA - Pequot War 1637-1638
  • 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.
23 1638 
24 1639 
  • 1639: England - First Bishops' War between Charles I and the Scottish Church; ends with Pacification of Dunse
  • 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.
  • 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.
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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: US - Second Powhatan Confederacy uprising against Jamestown, Virginia; its leader, Opechancanough, dies in captivity.
  • 1644: CA - Jeanne Mance (Baptized Langres, France November 12, 1606 Died June 18, 1673) opens Hotel-Dieu, the first hospital in North America.
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.
31 1646 
  • 1646: England - Charles I surrenders to the Scots
32 1647 
  • 1647: England - Scots surrender Charles I to Parliament; he escapes to the Isle of Wight; makes secret treaty with Scots
  • 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: NL - Overlijden Frederik Hendrik. Stadhouder Prins Willem II.
33 1648 
34 1649 
  • 1649: London, England - The Commonwealth, in which England is governed as a republic, is established and lasts until 1660
  • 1649: Ireland - Cromwell harshly suppresses Catholic rebellions
  • 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 - Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector, ruler of England to 1658. Commonwealth & Protectorate.
  • 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: 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.
35 1650 
36 1651 
  • 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.'
  • 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
  • 3 Sep 1651: England - Charles II invades England and is defeated at Battle of Worcester; Charles escapes to France
37 1652 
  • 1652: England - First Anglo-Dutch War
  • 1652: France - Cookbook Le Cuisinier francois by La Varenne is published.
  • 1652: US - Massachusetts General Court licenses traders going from Massachusetts to Acadia.
  • 1652: NL - Jan van Riebeeck sticht de Kaapkolonie.
  • 1652: NL - Eerste Engelse oorlog.
38 1653 
  • 1653: England - Oliver Cromwell dissolves the 'Rump Parliament' and becomes Lord Protector
  • 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: CA - Marguerite Bourgeoys (Born Troyes, France April 17, 1620 Died January 12, 1700) the first school teacher in Montreal, arrives from France.
39 1654 
  • 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: America - A bridge in Rowley, Massachusetts begins charging a toll for animals. People pass for free.
  • 1654: CA - Port Royal seized by Robert Sedgwick. He would hold on to Acadia until 1670.
  • 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.
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 - War with Spain (until 1659)
  • 1656: England - Second Protectorate Parliament
  • 1656: NL - Rembrandt van Rijn wordt failliet verklaard.
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.
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.
44 1659 
  • 1659: London, England - First cheque drawn
  • 1659: America - The celebration of Christmas was banned in Boston (until 1681). The pilgrims believed it to be a decadent celebration.
  • 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
45 1660 
  • 1660: Furtwangen, Germany - Cuckoo clocks made in the Black Forest region.
  • 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: 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: 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.
  • 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.
  • 29 May 1660: London, England - Charles II, aged 30, rides into London, people go mad with joy
46 1661 
47 1662 
48 1663 
  • 1663: England - James Gregory invents the first reflecting telescope.
  • 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.
  • 1663: CA - New France has a population of about 2,000.
  • 1663: CA - Laval organizes the Seminaire du Quebec, a college of theology which eventually becomes Université Laval (1852).
49 1664 
  • 1664: New Amsterdan, America - England siezes New Amsterdam from the Dutch, changes name to New York
  • 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.
  • 1664: CA - Hans Bernhardt is the first recorded German immigrant.
  • 1664: NL - Hendrik Casimir II wordt stadhouder van Friesland.
50 1665 
  • 1665: Netherlands - Great Plague kills 1/5 London population;
  • 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: 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.
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)
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.
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.
54 1668 
  • 1668: Europe - Triple Alliance of England, Netherlands, and Sweden against France
  • 1668: England - Isaac Newton invents a reflecting telescope.
  • 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.
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.
56 1670 
  • 1670: England - Secret Treaty of Dover between Charles II of England and Louis XIV of France to restore Roman Catholicism to England
  • 1670: America - Hudson's Bay Company founded
  • 1670: France - Dom Pérignon invents Champagne.
  • 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: 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: 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.
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.
58 1672 
  • 1672: England - Third Anglo-Dutch war (until 1674)
  • 1672: Netherlands - William of Orange becomes ruler
  • 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.
  • 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.
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: 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.
  • 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: CA - The population of New France is almost 8,000.
  • 1675: NL - Het tabaksrooken komt in gebruik.
  • 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.
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.
63 1677 
64 1678 
  • 1678: England - Popish Plot in England; Titus Oates falsely alleges a Catholic plot to murder Charles II
  • 1678: England - John Bunyan (1628-1688) publishes Pilgrim's Progress
  • 1678: CA - Louis Hennepin is the first European to see Niagara Falls
  • 1678: CA - Daniel Greysolon Duluth of France explores Great Lakes and negotiates treaties between the warring Ojibwa and Sioux.
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
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.
69 1683 
  • 1683: CA - After the death of Louis XIV's brilliant minister, J. B. Colbert, France's interest in the colonies wanes.
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.
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: Londonderry, Ireland - Catholic forces loyal to James II land from France and lay siege
  • 1689: England - King William's War: English Colonies vs France 1689-1697.
  • 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.
75 1690 
  • 1690: Ireland - Battle of the Boyne: James II defeated, flees into exile
  • 1690: India - The English found Calcutta
  • 1690: England - John Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding
  • 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.
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
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.
78 1693 
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.
82 1697 
  • 1697: England - Peace of Ryswick between the allied powers of the League of Augsburg and France ends the French War
  • 1697: England - Civil List Act votes funds for the maintenance of the Royal Household
  • 1697: England - Blasphemy Act in England
  • 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
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
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.
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.
86 1701 
  • 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: England - Death of James II in exile, King Louis of France recognises James's son as King James III
  • 1701: England - Jethro Tull invents the seed drill.
  • 1701: CA- Peace treaty signed between the Iroquois Confederacy and the French and English.
  • 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: NL - Lodewijk XIV bezet de Zuidelijke Nederlanden.
87 1702 
  • 1702: England - Death of King William III in a riding accident. He is succeeded by his sister-in-law.
  • 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 - 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 - 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 - 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.
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.
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
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
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.
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
93 1709 
94 1710 
  • 1710: Great Britain - A Tory ministry is formed, under Harley, with the impeachment of Dr. Sacheverell and the fall of the Whig government
  • 1710: Great Britain - Wooden panelling replaces tapestry as wall covering
  • 1710: CA - The English recapture Acadia, this time permanently, and rename it Nova Scotia.
  • 1710: CA - Francis Nicholson captures Port Royal for England.
  • 1710: CA - The English take Port Royal and name it Annapolis Royal.
  • 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.
  • 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.
95 1711 
  • 1711: Great Britain - Englishman John Shore invents the tuning fork.
  • 1711: US - Tuscarora War on North Carolina frontier fought between British settlers and Tuscarora Indians. Remnants of this Iroquoian tribe migrate north.
  • 1711: NL - Johan Willem Friso, erfstadhouder van Friesland, verdrinkt in het Hollands Diep.
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 - 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: 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.
  • 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: NL - Via Azië en Rusland bereikt de (1e) veepest epidemie ons land.
98 1714 
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.
101 1717 
  • 1717: Great Britain - Townshend is dismissed from government by George I, causing Walpole to resign. The Whig party is split. Convocation is suspended
  • 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: 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.
102 1719 
103 1720 
  • 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: Great Britain - Hospitals founded in London: Guy's, St. George's, London & Middlesex in period to 1745
  • 1720: Meiringen, Switzerland - Invention of meringue is attributed to an Italian pastry chef named Gasparini.
  • 1720: US - French forts along the Mississippi River spread northward from New Orleans.
  • 1720: UK - Lord Baltimore sponsors expedition to bring settlers to Newfoundland.
104 1721 
105 1722 
106 1723 
  • 1723: Great Britain - Legislation allowing parishes to create 'unions' or workhouses, to prevent escape of children they could be manacled
  • 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: 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
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
109 1726 
  • 1726: Scotland - First circulating library in Britain opens in Edinburgh. Jonathan Swift publishes his Gulliver's Travels
  • 1726: Great Britain - English peers number 179, about 130 of whom are active
  • 1726: CA - Charles de la Boische, Marquis de Beauharnois was appointed as Governor of New France.
  • 1726: CA - Thomas-Jacques Taschereau arrived in New France (Canada) as a private secretary to the Intendant of New France, Claude-Thomas Dupuy.
110 1727 
111 1728 
  • 1728: France - Pierre Fauchard, in The Surgeon Dentist, described preventive measures to keep teeth healthy as well as inventing the word dentist.
  • 1728: CA - Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de La Vérendrye was appointed commandant of the French posts on the north shore of Lake Superior and stationed at Fort Kaministiquia
  • 1728: CA - Vitus Bering sails through the Bering Strait.
112 1729 
  • 1729: Great Britain - Alexander Pope publishes his Dunciad
  • 1729: US - Natchez attacked French Fort Rosalie and French settlements nearby after the French commander of the fort, Sieur Chepart, ordered them to abandon their village of White Apple. The Natchez wiped out the entire settlement and captured Fort Rosalie. In 1730 and 1731 the French, aided by the Choctaw, launched two counterattacks out of New Orleans, capturing and selling into plantation slavery most of the tribe and its smaller allies. A few bands found refuge among the Chickasaw, Creek, and Cherokee.
  • 1729: NL - De Dokkumer Nieuwe Zijlen aangelegd.
  • 1729: NL - Willem IV stadhouder in de gewesten Friesland, Groningen, Drenthe en Gelderland.
113 1730 
  • 1730: Great Britain - A split occurs between Walpole and Townshend
  • 1730: Ireland - Famine strikes
  • 1730: Great Britain - In early part of 1700s, death rate had surpassed birth rate; begins to reverse; after 1780 death-rate plummets - due to replacement of gin-drinking with beer-drinking after taxes increased and retail sales curtailed on former in 1750; medical care improves, as does agriculture, more food available
  • 1730: Great Britain - Georg Brandt, a Swedish chemist, discovered the element cobalt. Cobalt is used in steel making, and is an essential part of vitamin B12.
  • 1730: UK - Seven Cherokee chiefs visit London and form an alliance, The Articles of Agreement, with King George II.
  • 1730: CA - The Mississauga drive the Seneca Iroquois south of Lake Erie.
  • 1730: NL - De aardappel wordt in ons land geintroduceerd, een Zuid-Amerikaans product.
114 1731 
  • 1731: Europe - Second Treaty of Vienna, Austria and Spain smooth out remaining differences
  • 1731: CA - Fort St. Pierre on Rainy Lake established by Christopher Dufrost de La Jemeraye and Jean Baptiste de La Vérendrye. This was the first fort in La Verendrye's expansion of the "Posts of the West".
  • 1731: CA - For the next 12 years, the La Verendrye family organize expeditions beyond Lake Winnipeg and direct fur trade toward the east.
  • 1731: NL - De paalworm teistert ons land, de worm vreet de palen in onze dijken op.
115 1732 
  • 1732: British North America - A royal charter is granted for the founding of Georgia in America
  • 1732: Great Britain - The English banned American made hats to protect domestic haberdashers.
  • 1732: CA - Fort St. Charles, on Lake of the Woods was constructed by La Vérendrye's nephew, Christopher Dufrost de La Jemeraye and his eldest son Jean Baptiste de La Vérendrye.
116 1733 
  • 1733: Great Britain - The Excise Crisis occurs and Walpole is forced to abandon his plans to reorganise the customs and excise
  • 1733: Europe - Further cementing of relations between Austria and Spain
  • 1733: Great Britain - John Kay invents the flying shuttle.
  • 1733: CA/US - Vitus Bering's second expedition, with George Wilhelm Steller aboard, the first naturalist to visit Alaska.
117 1734 
  • 1734: Great Britain - Walpole returned to power with smaller majority, power weakened
  • 1734: CA - Jean Baptiste de La Vérendrye establishes Fort Maurepas (Canada) on the Red River about five leagues south of Lake Winnipeg, third of the main La Vérendrye posts. (St. Pierre on Rainy River; reactivated; Fort St. Charles on Lake of the Woods.)
  • 1734: CA - A Montreal slave named Marie-Joseph Angelique learns that she is to be sold to someone else. In an attempt to escape, she sets a fire in her mistress's house. The fire can not be contained, causing damage to half of Montreal. She is caught, tortured and hanged, bringing attention to the conditions of the slaves.
118 1735 
  • 1735: CA - Father Jean-Pierre Aulneau came to Fort St. Charles with La Vérendrye to carry out his duties as a missionary.
  • 1735: NL - Jan Klatter, schuitvaarder van Pekela op Groningen.
119 1736 
  • 1736: Great Britain - John Harrison finished building and tested at sea what proved to be the first accurate chronometer for timing longitude
  • 1736: Great Britain - Duke of Newcastle now controls clerical (religious) patronage
  • 8 Jun 1736: CA - Father Jean-Pierre Aulneau, Jean Baptiste de La Vérendrye and 19 French voyageurs were headed from Fort St. Charles to Montreal via Fort St. Pierre. On their first night out they were massacred by Sioux warriors on a nearby island in Lake of the Woods.
120 1737 
  • 1737: Scotland - Porteous Riots
  • 1737: America - Spain begins to attack British trade
  • 1737: CA - Marguerite d'Youville (Born Varennes, France October 15, 1701 Died December 28, 1771) and some friends in Montreal, begin taking in the poor and educating abandoned children.
  • 20 Nov 1737: Great Britain - Death of King George II's wife, Queen Caroline
121 1738 
  • 1738: Great Britain - John and Charles Wesley start the Methodist movement in Britain
  • 1738: Europe - Third Treaty of Vienna settles Polish question, gives Lorraine to France
  • 1738: CA/US - Smallpox strikes the Cherokee in the Southeast, killing almost half the population. Smallpox also reaches tribes in western Canada.
  • 1738: CA - Ester Bradeau, in the guise of a cabin boy, is the first known Jewish woman to arrive in Canada. Eventually she is deported to France for failing to embrace the Roman Catholic religion
  • 1738: CA - Fort Rouge (the fort), built on the Assiniboine River near the Forks.
  • 1738: CA - Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de La Vérendrye travelled southwest from Fort La Reine to the area of the Missouri River in what is now North Dakota.
122 1739 
  • 1739: Europe - Britain goes to war with Spain in the War of Jenkins' Ear. The cause: Captain Jenkins' ear was claimed to have been cut off during a Naval Skirmish
  • 1739: Great Britain - First 'Lying-in hospital' for women
  • 1739: Europe - War with Spain, War with France; Britain uses German and Dutch mercenaries
  • 1739: NL - De vroeg ingevallen strenge winter zorgt voor hongersnood.
123 1740 
124 1741 
  • 1741: Ireland - Further famine, population about 4 million
  • 1741: CA - First Fort Dauphin, was built near Winnipegosis, Manitoba.
  • 1741: CA - Vitus Bering, in service of Russia, reaches Alaska; Russians soon trade with natives for sea otter pelts.
  • 1741: CA - Fort Bourbon established near present day Grand Rapids, Manitoba.
  • 1741: CA - François-Josué de la Corne Dubreuil appointed commandant at Fort Kaministiquia.
125 1742 
  

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