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England in the 1600s. “ when all history happened”. A famous ghost. End of the Elizabethan era. 1601Shakespeare’s Hamlet 1603Elizabeth I dies; James I of England and VI of Scotland takes the throne 1605Gunpowder Plot (Guy Fawkes): failed - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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“ when all history happened”
ENGLAND IN THE 1600S
A FAMOUS GHOST
1601 Shakespeare’s Hamlet
1603 Elizabeth I dies; James I of England and VI
of Scotland takes the throne
1605 Gunpowder Plot (Guy Fawkes): failed
1607 Jamestown, first permanent English colony
in North America, is settled in Virginia
1616 Death of Shakespeare
Throughout the first decades of the 17th century:
expansion of the Dutch East India and West India
Companies. Access to Markets in Asia and the New World,
political involvement, privateering, settling.
END OF THE ELIZABETHAN ERA
CROSSING THE BRIDGE
1619 Dutch East India Company, English East India Company, and
Sultanate of Banten fight over Jayakarta.
1620 The Dutch and the English begin a 3-year period of cooperation
over the spice trade; Pilgrims at Plymouth Rock, Mass.
1622 Jamestown Massacre in Virginia; James I dissolves Parliament
1625 Charles I takes the throne; married to a French Catholic princess
1630 Boston founded by Puritans
1636 Harvard University is founded
1642 English Civil War; Charles II against the armies of the English and
Scottish parliaments
1649 Charles I executed; beginning of the Interregnum
1652 First coffee house in London
1653 Cromwell becomes Lord Protector; dissolves Parliament in 1655
1656 Diarist Samuel Pepys describes a new drink: “a Cupp of Tee, a China drink”
1658 Death of Cromwell; The Sultan’s Head, a coffee house, advertises the sale of
tea
TIMELINE: HIGHLIGHTS
1660 End of the Commonwealth of England, beginning of the Restoration
1661 Charles II takes the throne
1665-67 Second Anglo-Dutch War; New Amsterdam gained by the English, and
renamed to New York
1665 Great Plague of London: 100 000 dead, almost 15% of the population
1666 Isaac Newton discovers gravity; Great Fire of London
1667 John Milton, Paradise Lost
1671 Morgan sacks Panama
1681 William Penn and the Charter for Pennsylvania
1685 James II, last Catholic king, takes the throne; Monmouth’s Rebellion
1688 William III of Orange and Mary II of England assume English throne
1692 Salem witch trials; William and Mary College founded in Virginia
1694 Bank of England established
MORE OF THE CENTURY
Christopher Wren, Jan Vermeer, John Locke (b. 1632)
Louis XIV (b. 1638)
Galileo (d. 1642)
Isaac Newton (b. 1642)
Rene Descartes (d. 1650)
Daniel Defoe (b. 1661)
Rembrandt (d. 1669)
Rob Roy (b. 1671)
Composers Bach and Handel (b. 1685)
Descartes
IMPORTANT BIRTHS AND DEATHS OF THE CENTURY
Locke