The 17th Century A.D. - History Summary
	Summary of Events:
	Year Event 1600 British and Dutch East India companies founded 1600 William Gilbert writes on electricity and magnetism 1603 Accession of James VI of Scotland as James I of England 1603 Tokugawa shogunate begins in Japan (to 1868) 1605 Discovery of Gunpowder Plot in London 1607 Jamestown settlement in America 1608 Hans Lippershey invents the telescope 1608 French found Quebec 1610 Galileo Galilei records rings of Saturn and moons of Jupiter 1610 Arrival of tea in Europe from China 1611 Authorized Version of the Bible issued 1614 Publication of John Napier's book on logorithms 1615 Inigo Jones becomes surveyor-general in England 1616 Death of William Shakespeare 1616 Baffin explores Baffin Bay 1617 Ben Jonson made first poet laureate 1618 Thirty Years War begins (to 1648) 1620 Puritans reach New England in Mayflower 1622 Invention of the slide rule 1624 Armand Jean du Plesis Richelieu becomes First Minister in France 1625 Dutch found New Amsterdam 1627 Maratha kingdom founded in India 1628 William Harvey publishes treatise on circulation of the blood 1629 Giovanni Branca invents the steam turbine 1629 Capture of Quebec by English from French 1629 Colony of Massachusetts founded 1632 Shah Jahan begins building of Taj Mahal (to 1654) 1635 Death of Lope de Vega 1636 Foundation of Harvard University 1638 Scottish Covenant drawn up 1638 First printing press set up in America 1640 English Long Parliament assembles 1640 Stage-coaches introduced into England 1641 Grand Remonstrance passed against Charles I 1642 Abel Tasman sights Tasmania (Van Dieman's Land) 1642 Blaise Pascal invents the adding machine 1642 Beginning of English Civil War 1643 Death of Claudio Monteverdi 1643 Evangelista Torricelli invents barometer 1643 New England Confederation of colonies formed 1644 Qing dynasty founded in China 1645 Charles I defeated at Naseby 1645 Abel Tasman circumnavigates Australia 1647 Blaise Pascal constructs first calculating machine 1648 Peace of Westphalia ends The Thirty Years War 1648 Wars of the Frondes begin in France (to 1653) 1649 Execution of Charles I of England 1650 Otto von Guericke invents air pump 1652 First Anglo-Dutch War 1652 Dutch found Cape Colony 1653 Oliver Cromwell appointed Lord Protector in England 1660 Restoration of monarchy in England 1660 Royal Society founded in London 1660 Samuel Pepys begins his diary (1669) 1661 Louis XIV assumes absolute power in France 1661 Bank of Sweden issues world's first banknotes 1662 Robert Boyle states gas law 1662 Death of Blaise Pascal 1664 English rename New Amsterdam as New York 1665 Great Plague of London at its height 1666 Great Fire of London 1668 Isaac Newton invents the reflecting telescope 1669 Death of Rembrandt 1670 Hudson's Bay Trading Company given Royal Charter 1671 Gottfried WilhelmLeibniz invents the calculating machine 1673 Death of Moliere 1674 Death of John Milton 1675 Christopher Wren begins new St. Paul's Cathedral (finished 1710) 1678 Popish Plot in England 1679 Discovery of Niagara Falls 1681 William Penn granted patent for land in North America 1681 La Salle explores Mississippi 1681 First (oil) street lamps in London 1682 Edmond Halley observes 'his' comet 1687 Isaac Newton publishes his Principia 1688 William or Orange invited to England 1688 Lloyd's coffee-house in London begins to be used as an insurance centre 1689 Grand Alliance against Louis XIV 1690 James II defeated by William III at the Bayne 1690 Foundation of Calcutta 1694 Establishment of Bank of England 1696 Accession of Peter I (the Great) as sole Tsar of Russia 1698 Thomas Savery invents the steam pump 1699 Death of Jean Racine
	Source: D. Crystal, The Cambridge Factfinder (Cambridge University Press, 1998)