Progressive Smart Quiz

This is a timeline of German history comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in Germany and its predecessor statesTo read about the background to these events see History of GermanySee also the list of German monarchs and list of Chancellors of Germany and the list of years in Germany. Major changes in the fields of philosophy and science took place during the 17th century.

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Jamestown the first permanent English settlement in America is established by the London Company in southeast Virginia.

Important events in 1600s. 104 English men and boys built a settlement of cabins surrounded by a stockade fence near the James River at. Charles Is chief minister George Villiers Duke of Buckingham is assassinated Anxious to redeem his honour in the wake of the defeat by the French. May - The Petition of Right listing of parliamentarygrievances against the king.

English East India Company established. 1642 - The Massachusetts Act of 1642. An assembly of Protestants seized two Catholic councillors and threw them out of the palace window.

1627 The Duke of Buckinghams expedition to the Isle of Re nearLa Rochelle to support Huguenot forces ended in defeat. 1628 Buckingham assassinated while preparing another expeditionagainst the French. 1600 Giordano Bruno burned as a heretic.

Feb 4 Astronomers Tycho Brahe and Johannes Kepler meet for the first time near Prague. Johannes Kepler proposes last of three laws of planetary motion. Columbus dies in Spain.

First Permanent English Settlement The English established their first enduring American settlement Jamestown in Virginia for economic reasons. Click here for more information. 1605 Cervantess Don Quixote de la Mancha the first modern novel.

Read about major events in US. The 1600s saw major changes in philosophy and science. Feb 17 Philosopher Giordano Bruno is burned alive at Campo de Fiori in Rome charged with heresy by the Roman Inquisition.

1509 A Dutch humanist Desiderius Erasmuswrites In Praise of Folly. English parliament passes the Poor Relief Act in order to help impoverished citizens. What were the most important events of the 1600s.

1607 May 14 os. History from 16001799 including the Mayflower Compact Boston Massacre American Revolution and more. Denmark Sweden and France invade Germany in later phases of war.

General Audiences For Kids. 1626 Beginning of the Anglo-French war. Required all parents and masters of apprentices to teach their children how to read to assure that they knew the principals of.

1603 Ieyasu rules Japan moves capital to Edo Tokyo. Prior to the beginning of the 1600s scientific study and scientists in the field were not truly recognized. 1607 Jamestown Virginia establishedfirst permanent English colony on American mainland.

The earls of Tyrone and Tyrconnel sail from Ireland with their families in the event known as the Flight of the Earls Go to Flight of the Earls 1607 in The. Feb 8 Vatican convicts scholar Giordano Bruno to death. The duke of Alba introduces a reign of terror in the Spanish Netherlands by.

This private company hoped to profit from gold and other resources. This was effectively the worlds first welfare program. The Bohemian Revolt was one of four phases in the Thirty Years War.

1506 In the city of Lisbon on April 19 religiously empassioned Christians slaughter nearly 4000 Portuguese Jews. This event known as the Second Defenestration of Prague started the Bohemian Revolt. Start of the Thirty Years War - Protestants revolt against Catholic oppression.