Dutch East India Company founded (first modern public company)
ST :
Galileo investigates laws of gravitation and oscillation
DL :
Paris Charité founded
M :
Thomas Morley dies in October
1603
LT :
Ben Jonson: Sejanus, His Fall
M :
John Dowland : Ayres
Vol.III
PH :
Queen Elizabeth I of England dies; suceeded by her cousin James VI of Scotland as James I of England and Ireland
PH :
Amnesty in Ireland
PH :
Mohammed III, Sultan of Turkey, dies; succeeded by Ahmad I
PH :
Revolts in Transylvania against Emperor Rudolf II
PH :
Tokugawa family obtains shogunate in Japan and keeps it
LT :
Samuel Daniel: A Defence of Rhyme, in reply to Campion's Observations in the Art of English Poesie
ED :
The Standard Grammer by Nudozersky leads to development of modern Czech language
RP :
Johannes Althusias: Politica methodice digesta a grammar of politics
RP :
Richard Knolles: General Historie of the Turkes
M :
Jean-Baptiste Besard: Thesaurus harmonicus collection of lute music
M :
Thomas Robinson: School of Musicke
ST :
Founding of Accademia dei Lincei, Rome
ST :
Benedito de Goes, a lay Jesuit, sets out for India in search of Cathay
ST :
Fabricio di Acquapendente discovers the valves in vein
DL :
Heavy outbreak of plague in England
LT :
Elizabeth I dies 24 March
1604
LT :
William Shakespeare: Measure for Measure, Othello
M :
Orlande de Lassus : Magnum opus musicum
Volume of 516 motets that his sons published after his death
M :
John Dowland : Lachrimae
(Seaven Teares Figured in Seven Passionate Pavans for lutes, viols, or violins in five parts)
PH :
"False Dmitri", claimant to Russ. throne, defeated by Czar Boris Godunov
PH :
Sigismund III of Sweden finally deposed, his uncle Charles IX assuming title of king
PH :
Peace between England and Spain
PH :
England and France sign commercial treaty
RP :
Richard Bancroft, Bishop of London, elected Archbishop of Canterbury
RP :
Robert Cawdrey: A Table Alphabetical
ED :
University of Oxford and University of Cambridge granted privilege of Parliamentary representation (withdrawn 1948)
VA :
Karel van Mander: Het Schilderboek, history of art
M :
Company of Musicians incorporated in London
M :
Negri: Inventioni di balli, on dance technique
ST :
Voyages of Engl. East India Company to Java, the Moluccas, and Agra
ST :
King James I: Counterblast to Tobacco
ST :
Johann Kepler: Optics
DL :
Tomsk founded by Russ. Cossacks
1605
LT :
William Shakespeare: King Lear
LT :
Ben Jonson: Masque of Blacknesse
LT :
Ben Jonson: Volpone, or The Fox
M :
William Byrd : Gradualia
Vol.I
PH :
Czar Boris Godunov dies; succeeded by his son Fyodor II; on entry of "False Dmitri" into Moscow Fyodor is assassinated, Dmitri being crowned Czar of Russia
PH :
Akbar, Mogul Emperor of India dies; succeeded by his son Jahangir
PH :
Guy Fawkes arrested in cellars of Parliament, accused of trying to blow up House of Lords during James I's state opening of Parliament (The Gunpowder Plot)
PH :
Ieyasu retires; his son Hidetada succeeds him as ruler of Japan
LT :
First permanent Ger. theatre in Cassel
RP :
Sir Francis Bacon: The Advancement of Learning
RP :
Pope Clement VIII dies; Alessandro de'Medici elected Pope Leo XI
RP :
Pope Leo XI dies; Camillo Borghese elected Pope Paul V
RP :
Justus Lipsius: Monita et exemplá politica, on organization of the state
ST :
Gaspard Bauhin: Theatrum anatomicum, modern anatomy
DL :
Eng. government farms all customs revenue to a London consortium of merchants for an annual rent
DL :
Newspaper Nieuwe Tijdenghen issued in Antwerp
DL :
Bibliotteca Anglica, first public library in Rome, founded
1606
LT :
William Shakespeare: Macbeth, Antony and Cleopatra
LT :
Michael Drayton: Poems Lyric and Pastoral
PH :
King James I's proclamation for a national flag
PH :
"False Dmitri" assassinated by the boyar Vasili Shuisky; Shhisky is elected Czar
PH :
Peace treaty between Turks and Austrians signed at Zsitva-Torok
RP :
Johann Arndt: Wahres Christentum
RP :
Joseph Justus Scaliger:Thesaurus temporum, chronology of ancient times
M :
First open-air opera in Rome
ST :
Galileo Galilei invents proportional compass
ST :
Founding of Society of Apothecaries and Grocers, and of Fruiterer's Company in London
VA :
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn born
1607
LT :
William Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Timon of Athens, Pericles
LT :
John Donne: Divine Poems
M :
William Byrd : Gradualia
Vol.II
M :
John Dowland : Ayres
Vol.IV
M :
Claudio Monteverdi : Opera, La Favola d'Orfeo
('The Fable of Orpheus')
PH :
Charles IX crowned King of Sweden
PH :
Union of England and Scotland rejected by Eng. Parliament
RP :
Joseph Calasanza organises in Rome the Brotherhood of Piarists
ED :
John Cowell: The Interpreter, a law dictionary
ST :
Founding of Jamestown, Virginia, first Engl. settlement on American mainland
ST :
John Norden, Eng. topographer: The Surveyors' Dialogue, manual of surveying
DL :
Bank of Genoa fails after announcement of national bankruptcy in Spain
1608
LT :
Ben Jonson: Masque of Beauty
M :
Girolamo Frescobaldi :
Set of open-score fantasias
M :
Girolamo Frescobaldi : Book of madrigals
PH :
Protestant States of Rhineland form Protestant Union under Christian of Anhalt and Frederick IV of the Palatinate
PH :
Jesuit State of Paraguay established
RP :
St.Francis de Sales: Introduction à la vie dévote
ED :
Edward Grimestone: A General History of the Netherlands
RP :
William Perkins: A Discourse of the Damned Art of Witchecraft (posth.)
ST :
Dutch scientist Johann Lippershey invents the telescope
ST :
Samuel de Champlain founds a Fr. settlement at Quebec
ST :
Galileo constructs astronomical telescope
DL :
First checks "cash letters" in use in Netherlands
DL :
Royal Blackheath Golf Club, London, founded
1609
LT :
William Shakespeare: Cymbeline; unauthorized publication of Sonnets
LT :
Ben Jonson: Masque of Queens and Epicoene: or, The Silent Woman
M :
Orlande de Lassus : Jubilus B. Mariae Virginis
100 settings of the Magnificat, published by his sons after his death
PH :
Twelve years truce between Spain and Holland
RP :
Bacon: De sapienta veterum
RP :
Catholic League of Ger. princes formed at Munich against Protestant Union of May 1608
ED :
Garcilaso de la Vaga: History of the Conquest of Peru
RP :
Congregation of Female Jesuits founded (dissolved by Pope Urban VIII)
RP :
Hugo Grotius: Mare Librum , advocating freedom of the sea
RP :
The Emperor Rudolf II permits freedom of religion in Bohemia
M :
Orlando Gibbons: Fantazies of Three Parts., first example of engraved music in England
ST :
Charles Butler: De fiminine monarchie, or a Treatise concerning Bees
ST :
Henry Hudson explores Delaware Bay and Hudson River
ST :
Johann Kepler: De motibus stellae Maris
DL :
Founding of Bank of Amsterdam
DL :
Founding of Charterhouse public school
DL :
Tea from China shipped for first time to Europe by Dutch East India Company
DL :
Tin-enameled ware made at Delft
1610
LT :
William Shakespeare: The Winter's Tale
LT :
Ben Jonson: The Alchemist
LT :
John Donne: Pseudo-Martyr and A Funerall Elegie
M :
Claudio Monteverdi : Vespers
PH :
Henry IV of France assassinated; succeeded by his son Louis XIII (age 9), with Maria de'Medici as Regent
PH :
Prince Henry, eldest son of King James I, created Prince of Wales
PH :
Czar Vasili Shisky deposed; Russ throne offered to Vladislva, son of Sigismund III of Poland
PH :
Elector Palatine Frederick IV dies; succeeded by his son Frederick V
LT :
Academy of Poetry founded at Padua
RP :
John Cowell's Interpreter burned by the common hangman for enhancing authority of the crown
RP :
St. Francis de Sales founds, with Mme. de Chantal, Order of the Visitation nuns
ED :
Nicholas and Dorothy Wadham found Wadham College, Oxford
ST :
Jean Beguin: Tyrocinium chymicum, first textbook on chemistry
ST :
Galileo observes Jupiter's satellites, naming them "sideria Medicea"
ST :
Thomas Harriott discovers sunspots
ST :
Nicolas Pieresc discovers Orion nebula
ST :
John Speed: Theatrum of Great Britain, collection of maps
DL :
Dutch East India Company introduces the term "share"
ED :
The Stationers' Company begins to send a copy of every book printed in England to Bodleian Library, Oxford
VA :
Michelangelo Merisi (Caravaggio) dies
1611
LT :
William Shakespeare: The Tempest
LT :
John Donne: An Anatomy of the World and Ignatius his Conclave
M :
William Byrd : Psalmes, Songs & Sonnets
PH :
Dissolution of Parliament by James I
PH :
War of Calmar declared by Denmark on Sweden
PH :
Archduke Matthias crowned King of Bohemia; the Emperor Rudolf II resigns Bohemian crown
PH :
Charles IX of Sweden dies , Gustavus II elected King
LT :
George Chapman completes his translation of Homer's Iliad
RP :
Authorized version of the Holy Bible "King James Bible" published
RP :
Etienne Pasquier: Les Recherches de la France
ED :
John Speed: A History of Great Britain
ED :
University of Rome founded
ST :
Marco de Dominis published scientific explanation of rainbow
DL :
Dutch merchants permitted to trade in Japan
DL :
James I institutes the baronetage as a means of raising money
1612
LT :
Anne Bradstreet born
LT :
William Shakespeare: Henry VIII
LT :
George Herbert publishes first verses (two memorial poems in Latin on the death of Prince Henry, the heir apparent)
LT :
Michael Drayton: Poly-Olbion
LT :
John Donne: Of the Progress of the Soul
PH :
The Emperor Rudolf II dies; succeeded by Matthias, King of Bohemia
PH :
Treaty between the Dutch and the King of Kandy in Ceylon
ED :
Accademia della Crusca publishes the Ital. Vocabolario
RP :
Jakob Böhme: Aurora, oder Morgenröte im Aufgant, mystical philosophy
RP :
Last recorded burning of heretics in England
RP :
Sir John Davies: Discoverie of the True Causes Why Ireland Was Not Entirely Subdued
RP :
Roger Fenton: Treatie of Usurie
ST :
Simon Marius rediscovers Andromeda nebula
ST :
Antonio Neri: L'Arte vetraria, manual on glassmaking
ST :
Bartholomew Pitiscus, Ger. Mathematician, uses decimal point in his trigonometrical tables
ST :
John Smith: A Map of Virginia
ST :
Earliest colonisation of the Bermudas from Virginia
DL :
Tobacco planted in Virginia
1613
PH :
Peace of Knärod ends Dan.-Swed. War of Calmar
PH :
Protestant Union of Germany signs treaty of alliance with Holland
PH :
Eng. colonists in Virginia destroy Fr. settlement at Port Royal, Nova Scotia; prevent Fr. colonisation of Maryland
PH :
Michael Romanov, son of the patriarch of Moscow, elected Czar of Russia, founding the House of Romanov
PH :
Turks invade Hungary
LT :
Fire destroys Globe Theatre, London
RP :
Oliver de Serra: The Causes of Wealth
RP :
Francisco Suarez: Defensio catholicae fidei contra anglicanae sectae errores
M :
Pietro Cerone: El Malopeo y maestro, musical history and theory
ST :
Samuel de Champlain explores Ottawa River to Alumette Island
DL :
Amsterdam Exchange built
DL :
Belfast granted charter of incorporation
DL :
Copper coins come into use
DL :
John Dennys: The Secrets of Angling
1614
LT :
Ben Jonson: Bartholomew Fair
M :
Claudio Monteverdi : Book VI of Madrigals
(including 'Arianna's Lament')
PH :
James I's second Parliament - "The Addled Parliament" - meets and refuses to discuss finance; dissolved
PH :
Maria, Queen Regent of France, summons the States General of France to counteract power of nobility
PH :
Treaty of Xanten: Jülich-Cleves divided between Brandenburg and Neuburg
PH :
Virginian colonists prevent Fr. settlements in Maine and Nova Scotia
ED :
Sir Walter Raleigh: The History of the World
DL :
Danish East India Company founded
ED :
University of Groningen, Holland, founded
RP :
John Napier: Mirifici logarithmorum canonis descriptio
ST :
Santorio Santorio: De medicina statica, study of metabolism and perspiration
DL :
Founders' Company, London, incorporated
DL :
The North American Pocahontas, an Indian princess, marries John Rolfe; from their son descend many celebrated persons
1615
M :
Girolamo Frescobaldi : First Book of Toccatas
M :
Girolamo Frescobaldi : Book of ricercari
PH :
Peace of Tyrnau: the Emperor Matthias recognises Bethlen Gabor as Prince of Transylvania; confirms treaty with Turks
LT :
George Chapman completes his translation of Homer's Odyssey
RP :
William Camden: Annales rerum Anglicarum, of the reign of Elizabeth I
ED :
Theodore Agrippa d'Aubigné's Histoire Universelle, a Huguenot-inspired survey from 1553 to 1602, officially burnt in Paris
RP :
Jesuits count 13,112 members in 32 provinces
RP :
Antoine de Montchrétien: Traité de l'économie politique, mercantilistic tendencies
ST :
Galileo Galilei faces the inquisition for the first time
DL :
Frankfurter Oberpostamts-Zeitung founded by Egenolph Emmel
DL :
Merchant Adventurers granted monopoly for export of Eng. cloth
1616
LT :
Ben Jonson: The Devil is an Ass and Works, in folio
PH :
Sir Walter Raleigh released from Tower to lead expedition to Guiana in search of El Dorado
PH :
Ieyasu of Japan dies; succeeded by Hidetada, a militant enemy of Christianity
PH :
James I begins to sell peerages to improve serious financial position
PH :
War between Venice and Austria
RP :
Johann Valentin Andrea: Chymische Hochzeit Christiani Rosenkreutz, beginning of formation of the Rosicrucians
RP :
Paulus Bolduanus: Bibliotheca philosophica
RP :
Catholic oppression intensified in Bohemia
RP :
St.Francis de Sales: Traité de l'amour de Dieu
RP :
Notre Dame Cathedral, Antwerp, finished
M :
Collegium Musicum founded at Prague
ST :
William Baffin discovers Baffin Bay while searching for a Northwest Passage
ST :
First rounding of Cape Horn by Willem Schouter and Jacob Lemaire
ST :
Galileo prohibited by Catholic Church from further scientific work
Dutch astronomer and mathematician Willebrord Snellius discovers the law of refraction
DL :
Gustavus Selenus: Chess, or the Game of Kings
LT :
William Shakespeare dies 23 April
1617
PH :
Peace of Stolbovo ends war between Russia and Sweden; Gustavus Adolphus recognises Czar Michael, returns to Novgorod, and obtains Karelia
LT :
James I makes Ben Jonson poet laureate
ED :
Duytsche Academie founded in Amsterdam
RP :
Papal bull of Leo X: Epistolae obscurorum virorum
M :
J.H.Schein: Banchetto musicale, first dance suite
ST :
Willebrord Snellius established technique of trigonometrical triangulation for cartography
DL :
"Stuart collars" become a fashion for men and women
VA :
Gerard Ter Borch born
1618
LT :
John Donne: Holy Sonnets
PH :
Peace of Madrid ratified, ending war between Venice and Austria
PH :
Prince Philip William of Orange dies; succeeded by his brother Maurice of Nassau
PH :
Count Matthias von Thurn leads Bohemians to revolt against Catholic policy of the Regents in Prague
PH :
Defenestration in Prague, when the Regents Jaroslav von Martinitz and William Slawata are thrown down from windows in Hradcany Palace by the rebels; beginning of Thirty Years' War
PH :
Ferdinand of Styria crowned King of Hungary
PH :
Duke Alber of Prussia dies; his possessions pass to the Electorate of Brandenburg
PH :
Sir Walter Raleigh returns to England and is executed
PH :
Poland signs two-year truce with Sweden, 14-years truce with Turkey
LT :
Marquise de Rambouillet starts her literary salon in Paris
LT :
Teatro Farnese opened at Parma
RP :
Robert Balfour: Commentarii in organum logicum Aristotelis
RP :
John Stow and E.Howes: Summarie of Englyshe Chronicles
ST :
Martin Böhme: Ein neu Buch von bewehrten Rosz-Arzteneyen, veterinary science
DL :
Founding of Dutch West African Company
ST :
Kepler: Harmonices mundi, stating the third law of planetary motion
ST :
Royal College of Physicians, London, issues Pharmacopoia Londinensis
ST :
Johann Jakob Scheuchzer: Natural History of the Swiss Landscape
DL :
James I: Book of Sports, the Puritans object to playing of popular sports
LT :
Sir Walter Raleigh dies 29 October
LT :
Richard Lovelace born 6 December
1619
M :
Heinrich Schütz : Psalmen Davids
PH :
Maria de'Medici challenges power of her son Louis XIII of France; Treaty of Angoulém ends conflict
PH :
The Emperor Matthias dies; Archduke Ferdinand, who assumes crown of Bohemia, is elected Holy Roman Emperor
PH :
Bohemian Diet deposes Ferdinand, and elects Frederick V, Elector Palatine, son-in-law of James I of England, King of Bohemia; Frederick, "The Winter King", crowned in Prague
PH :
First representative colonial assembly in America held at Jamestown, VA
RP :
Johann Valentin Andreae: Chritianopolis
RP :
Jakob Böhmne: On the Principles of Christianity
RP :
Hugo Grotius: De veritate religionis Christianae
RP :
Pietro Sarpi: Istoria del Concilio Tridentino published in London
RP :
Luciló Vanini, Ital. Catholic philosopher, burned as a heretic
ED :
Dulwich College, London, founded
ST :
John Bainbridge: An Astronomical Description of the Late Comet
ST :
Jan Pieters Coen, Dutch explorer founds Batavia
ST :
William Harvey announces his discovery of the circulation of the blood
DL :
Giro-Bank, Hamburg, founded to improve "desolate state of currency"
DL :
A Dutch ship brings the first permanent African settlers to Jamestown
1620
M :
Samuel Scheidt : Cantiones sacrae
PH :
Revolt of Fr. nobles against Louis XIII; Richelieu makes peace
PH :
War between Sweden and Poland
PH :
Massacre of Protestants in the Valtelline
PH :
Agreement of Ulm between Ger. Catholic League and Protestant Union
PH :
Pilgrim Fathers, leave Plymouth, England, in "Mayflower" and found Plymouth Colony in Mass. GO !
RP :
Battle of the White Mountain near Prague: Protestant clergy expelled
RP :
Johan Heinrich Alsted: Encyclopaedia septem tomis distincta
RP :
Francis Bacon: Instauratio magna: novum organum scientiarum
M :
Michael Praetorius: Syntagma musicum, musical encyclopedia
ST :
Edmund Gunter: Canon triangulorum, treatise on logarithms
ED :
Uppsala University Library founded
ST :
J.P. Bonet: The Art to Teach Dumb People to Speak, Span. manual
DL :
Oliver Cromwell denounced because he participates in the "disreputable game of cricket"
VA :
Aelbert Cuyp born
1621
PH :
Frederick V, Elector Palatine, placed under the ban of the Holy Roman Empire; war moves from Bohemia to the Palatinate
PH :
Francis Bacon, charged in Parliament with corruption, is fined £40,000, imprisoned, and declared incapable of holding office; pardoned by the King
PH :
Philip III of Spain dies; succeeded by his son Philip IV
PH :
Huguenot rebellion against Louis XIII
PH :
Twelve years truce between Holland and Spain ends; war resumed
LT :
Fortune Theatre, London, burnt down
RP :
Robert Burton: The Anatomy of Melancholy
RP :
Pope Paul V dies; Alexander Ludovisi becomes Pope Gregory XV
ST :
English attempt to colonise Newfoundland and Nova Scotia
ST :
Dutch West India Company chartered
ST :
Johann Kepler: The Epitome of the Copernican Astronomer banned by the Roman Catholic Church
ED :
University of Strasbourg opened
DL :
Corante, or newes from Italy, Germany, Hungarie, Spaine, and France, first periodical published with news issued in London
DL :
Potatoes planted in Germany for first time
LT :
Andrew Marvell born 31 March
LT :
Henry Vaughan born 17 April
M :
Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck dies 16 October
1622
PH :
Ferdinand II and Bethlen Gabor sign peace treaty
PH :
Treaty of Montpellier ends rebellion of the Huguenots
PH :
James I dissolves Eng. Parliament
ED :
Francis Bacon: History of the Regin of Henry VII
RP :
Jaboc Böhme: De signatura rerum
RP :
Pope Gregory XV canonises Philip Neri and grants Piarists a constitution
RP :
Bacon: Historia naturalis et experiementalis
ED :
Benedictine University of Salzburg founded
RP :
Camillio Baldo: Treatise of How to Perceive from a Letter the Nature and Character of the Person Who Wrote It
DL :
Papal chancellery adopts 1 January as beginning of the year - up to then, 25 March
DL :
Weekeley Newes issued in London for the first time
1623
PH :
Commercial treaty between Holland and Persia
PH :
Gustavus Adolphus reforms central administration of Sweden
LT :
Maciej Sarbiewski, the "Polish Horace", crowned laureate in Rome by the Pope
RP :
William Drummond: A Cypresse Grove philosophical thoughts on death
RP :
Pope Gregor XV dies; Maffeo Barberini becomes Pope Urban VIII
ED :
Bibliotheca Palatina removed from Heidelberg to Rome
ST :
New Netherlands in America formally organised as a province
ST :
First Eng. settlement in New Hampshire
DL :
Patents law in England, to protect inventors
M :
William Byrd dies 4 July
1624
M :
Girolamo Frescobaldi : Book of caprices
M :
Samuel Scheidt : Tabulatura Nova
PH :
James I's last Parliament; monopolies declared illegal
PH :
England declares war on Spain
PH :
Virginia Company charter annulled; Virginia becomes crown colony
PH :
Cardinal Richelieu made first minister of France
LT :
Saruwaka Kanzaburo opens first Jap. theatre in Yedo
RP :
Lord Herbert of Cherbury: De veritate, foundation of theory of Eng. deism
RP :
John Donne: Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions
ST :
Henry Briggs: Arithmetica logarithmica
RP :
Antonio de Andrade leaves Jesuit mission at Agra to explore the Himalayas and Tibet
ED :
Pembroke College, Oxford, founded
ED :
Captain John Smith: A General Historie of Virginia, New England and the Summer Isles
ST :
Dutch settle in New Amsterdam
ST :
First Eng. settlement in eastern India
ST :
Johannes Baptista van Helmont, Belg. scientist, coins the name "gas" for compressible fluid
1625
LT :
Ben Jonson: The Staple of News
M :
Heinrich Schütz : Cantiones sacrae
PH :
James I of England (James VI of Scotland) dies; succeeded by Charles I of England and Scotland
DL :
Plague in London
LT :
Martin Opitz crowned poet laureate in Vienna
RP :
Francis Bacon: Of Masques and Triumphs
ED :
Hugo Grotius: De jure belli et pacis, on international law
RP :
Order of Sisters of Mercy founded in Paris
ST :
Johann Rudolf Glauber discovers Glauber's salt
DL :
First Eng. settlement on Barbados, under Sir William Courteen
DL :
First fire engines in England
DL :
Hackney coaches appear in streets of London
DL :
Introduction of full-bottomed wigs in Europe
VA :
Jan Brueghel the Elder dies
1626
M :
Heinrich Schütz : Der Psalter nach Cornelius Becker
PH :
Knighthoods for all Englishmen with property over £40 year, to help king's revenue
PH :
Peace of La Rochelle between Huguenots and Fr. crown
PH :
Treaty of Monzon between France and Spain confirms independence of the Grisons
PH :
Duchy of Urbino bequeathed to the Pope by last of the Della Rovere family
RP :
John Donne: Five Sermons
RP :
Joseph Hall: Contemplations
ED :
Irish College in Rome founded
RP :
Sir Henry Spelman: Glossarium archeologicum
M :
Professorship of music founded at Oxford University
ST :
Fr. "Company for the Islands of America" incorporated
ST :
Jardin des Plantes established in Paris
ST :
Salem, Mass settled
ST :
Santorio Santorio, Ital. physician, measures human temperature with the thermometer for the first time
DL :
A royal edict condemns anyone to death who kills his adversary in a duel in France
PH :
Peter Minuit, director-general of Dutch West India Company's settlement in N. America, buys the entire Island of Manhattan from native Indian chiefs
PH :
Dutch colony of New Amsterdam founded on Hudson river
M :
John Dowland dies 21 January
1627
LT :
Michael Drayton: The Battle of Agincourt, The Miseries of Queen Margaret, and Nymphidia, the Court of Faëry
M :
Girolamo Frescobaldi : Second Book of Toccatas
M :
Heinrich Schütz : Opera, Dafne
PH :
Huguenots rise again
PH :
Vincent II, Duke of Mantua, last of the Gonzagas, dies; Charles, Duke of Nevers, claims succession
PH :
Korea becomes a tributary state of China
PH :
Richelieu signs treaty with Spain
PH :
Shah Jahan, succeeding his father Jahangir, becomes the Great Mogul of India
LT :
Lope de Vega made theological doctor by the Pope
ED :
Collegium de Propaganda Fide founded
RP :
Gabriel Naude: Avis pour dresser une bibliothèque, on librarianship
RP :
Alessandro Tassoni: Manifesto, attacks the House of Savoy
M :
Heinrich Schütz: Dafne, first Ger. opera, libretto by Martin Opitz, given at Torgau
VA :
Francis Bacon: New Atlantis, plans for a national museum of science and art (posth.)
ST :
Charles I grants charter to the Guiana Company
ST :
Johann Kepler compiles the Rudophine Tables, giving places of 1,002 fixed stars
DL :
"Company of New France", Canada, incorporated by Richelieu
DL :
Swedish South Sea Company founded
1628
M :
Girolamo Frescobaldi : Book of instrumental canzoni
(revised in 1634)
PH :
Third Parliament of Charles I meets; Oliver Cromwell enters it as Member for Huntingdon
PH :
Swed-Dan. treaty for defence of Stralsund; Gustavus Adolphus enters Thirty Years' War
RP :
The Alexandrian Codex presented to Charles I by patriarch of Constantinople
ED :
Johann Amos Comenius: Informatorium der Mutterschul, on primary education
RP :
René Descartes: Règles pour la direction de l'esprit
RP :
Ignatius Loyola canonised by Pope Gregory XV
ED :
Henry Spelman: Glossary of Law Terms
ST :
First harbour with sluices being constructed at Le Havre
1629
LT :
Ben Jonson: The New Inn
M :
Heinrich Schütz : Symphoniae sacrae
I
PH :
Charles I dissolves Parliament; it does not meet again until 1640
PH :
Edict of restitution of church property in Germany, secularised since Peace of Augsburg in 1555
PH :
Peace of Susa ends war between England and France
PH :
Peace of Lübeck: Christian IV undertakes not to intervene in imperial affairs
PH :
Peace of Alais ends Huguenot revolt
PH :
Truce of Altmark signed between Sweden and Poland
PH :
Commercial treaty signed between Russia and France
RP :
Lancelot Andrewes: XCVI Sermons
RP :
Thomas Hobbes translates The Peloponnesian War by Thucydides
ST :
Dutch mathematician Albert Gerard uses brackets and other abbreviations in mathematics
ST :
John Parkinson: Paradisi in sole Paradisus terrestris, on flowers
DL :
Royal charter granted to Guild of Spectacle Makers, London
DL :
Colony of Massachusetts founded
1630
M :
Girolamo Frescobaldi : Arie Musicali
Two books of songs
PH :
John Winthrop, Engl. Puritan leader, sails with Plymouth Company's expedition, founds Boston - the "Great Migration"
PH :
Treaty of Madrid ends Anglo-Fr. war
PH :
"Day of Dupes" in France; Richelieu overthrow conspiracy of Maria de'Medici, the Queen Mother
LT :
Andres Christensen Arrabo initiates modern Dan. literature with his religious poem Hexaëmeron
RP :
Congregation of the Engl. Ladies founded in Munich
VA :
Beginning of the High Baroque period in Italy
ST :
Franic Higginson: New England's Plantation, on living conditions in America
DL :
Pirates of all nationalities, called "buccaneers", settle in Tortuga
DL :
Eng. poet Sir John Suckling invents the card game cribbage
DL :
Fr. Philanthropist Théophraste Renaudot founds the Bureau d'adresse, a labor-exchange charity organisation
1631
LT :
Michael Drayton dies
PH :
Ger. Protestant princes hold a convention at Neu Brandenburg, and decide to form alliance with Gustavus Adolphus
PH :
Pope Urban VIII annexes Urbino
PH :
Maria de'Medici exile to Brussels
RP :
Friedrich Spee von Lagenfeld: Cautio criminalis, against witch-hunting
ST :
Dutch West India Company founds settlement at the Delaware River
ST :
Eng. mathematician William Oughtred proposes symbol "X" for multiplication
DL :
T. Renaudot founds the Gazette in Paris
DL :
Eng. settlement of Leeward Islands begins at St. Kitts
DL :
Earthquake in Naples; eruption of Vesuvius
LT :
John Donne dies 31 March
LT :
John Dryden born 9 August
1632
PH :
Queen Christina ascends throne of Sweden (five regents, headed by Chancellor Axel Oxenstierna, govern country)
PH :
Sigismund III, King of Poland, dies; succeeded by Vladislav IV
ST :
Antonio Bosio: Roma sotterranea, report on excavation of catacombs in Rome
ED :
John Davies: Welsh Dictionary
RP :
John Selden: Mare Clausum, on England's sovereignty of the sea
RP :
Johann Angelus Werdenhagen: Introductio universalis in omnes republicas, on comparative politics
M :
Monteverdi takes holy orders
ST :
Galileo: Dialogho sopra i due massimi sistemi del mondo published, on terrestrial double motion
ST :
Leiden University Observatory founded
DL :
First coffee shop opens in London
DL :
Eng. settlers in Antigua and Montserrat
DL :
Russian fur trade centre established in Yakutsk, Siberia
VA :
Johannes Vermeer born
M :
Jean-Baptiste Lully born 28 November
1633
LT :
Ben Jonson: A Tale of a Tub
LT :
Robert Herrick: A Priest to the Temple
PH :
Charles I crowned King of Scotland in Edinburgh
PH :
Charles I revives forest eyre to raise money by fines
RP :
Outbreak of plague in Bavaria leads to passion play vow in Oberammergau
ST :
Galileo forced by the Inquisition to abjure the theories of Copernicus
RP :
First Baptist church formed at Southwark, London
RP :
Edmund Spenser: A View of the Present State of Ireland (posth.)
RP :
John Cotton becomes a religious leader in Boston
ST :
Eng. trading post established in Bengal
PH :
Dutch settle in Connecticut
RP :
Trial of the Lancashire witches
DL :
The Royal Scots, oldest regular regiment in Brit. Army, established
DL :
Wind sawmill erected near the Strand, London
LT :
George Herbert dies 1 March
1634
M :
Marc-Antoine Charpentier born
PH :
Treaty of Polianovsky: King Vladislav of Poland renounces claim to Russia
RP :
The Oberammergau Passion Play given for first time; re-enacted every 10 years
RP :
Méric Casubon: The Meditations of the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius
RP :
Anne Hutchinson, religious controversialist, migrates to Massachusetts
ST :
Jean Nicolet lands on Green Bay; explores Wisconsin
ED :
Founding of University of Utrecht
DL :
Covent Garden market, London, opened
1635
LT :
Richard Lovelace: The Scholars
M :
Girolamo Frescobaldi : Fiori musicale
PH :
Franco-Swed. treaty of alliance signed by Richelieu and Oxtenstierna
PH :
Peace of Prague signed between the Emperor Ferdinand II and the Elector John George of Saxony; Thirty Years' War is now a conflict between France and Sweden against the House of Hapsburg
PH :
Treaty of Stuhmsdorf: 20 year truce between Sweden and Poland
PH :
Treaty of St. Germain-en-Layes agrees on regular Fr. subsidies to the army of Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar
PH :
Dutch occupy Formosa, English Virgin Islands, French Martinique
RP :
Giulio Alenio, Ital. Jesuit, published first life of Christ in Chinese
RP :
Cornelius Jansen: Mars gallus, against Richelieu
ED :
Académie Française founded by Richelieu
ED :
Budapest University established
ED :
Eng. High and Latin Schook, Boston, Mass., oldest secondary school in N. America, founded
DL :
Speed limit on hackney coaches in London: 3 m.p.h.
DL :
First inland postal service in Britain between London and Edinburgh
DL :
Sale of tobacco in France restricted to apothecaries, only on doctors' prescriptions
1636
LT :
Thomas Traherne born
M :
Heinrich Schütz : Kleine geistliche Concerte
Book I
PH :
The Emperor Ferdinand II has his son, Archduke Ferdinand, elected Ferdinand III, King of the Romans
PH :
Manchus proclaim the Ch'ing Dynasty at Muken
PH :
Dutch settle in Ceylon
LT :
Italian Fedeli Company performs Commedia dell'art at the Fr. court
RP :
Welsh Puritan Roger Williams banished from Mass; established Providence, R.I.; proclaims complete religious freedom
RP :
Peter Heylyn: The History of the Sabbath
RP :
George Sandys: A Paraphrase Upon the Psalmes
M :
Fr. theorist Marin Mersenne publishes his most important work, Harmonie Universelle, with full descriptions of all contemporary musical instruments
Ferdinand II dies; succeeded as Holy Roman Emperor by his son Ferdinand III
PH :
Bogislav XIV, last Duke of Pomerania dies
PH :
William Prynne, Puritan parliamentarian condemned, with Henry Burton and John Bastwick, for seditious writing, to be pilloried and mutilated
PH :
Extermination of Christianity in Japan; prohibition of foreign books; European contacts prohibited
RP :
Thomas Hobbes: A Briefe of the Art of Rhetorique, based on Aristotle
RP :
Introduction of new liturgy into Scotland causes riots
LT :
Teatro San Cassiano, first public opera house, opens in Venice
ST :
René Descartes: Géométrie
PH :
Eng. emigration to America restricted by royal proclamation
DL :
Eng. traders established in Canton
ST :
Fr. traders settle at St. Louis, at mouth of the Senegal River
DL :
Commercial collapse of Dutch tulip trade
LT :
Ben Jonson dies 6 August
1638
M :
Claudio Monteverdi : Book VIII of Madrigals, Madrigali guerrieri e amorosi
('Madrigals of War and Love') including 'The Combat Between Tancredi and Clorinda')
PH :
Elector of Brandenburg moves his capital to Königsberg
PH :
Franco-Swed. alliance renewed for three years
LT :
Schouwburg Theatre opens in Amsterdam
RP :
William Chillingworth: The Religion of Protestants a Safe Way to Salvation
RP :
Scot. Covenant drawn up and signed; Charles I abandons liturgy and canons in Scotland
ST :
Galileo : Discorsi e Dimonstrazioni Matematiche
RP :
Anne Hutchinson, leader of the New England Antinomians, is banished from Boston, Mass, and sets up a community in Rhode Island
DL :
New Haven, Conn, founded
DL :
Soldier-student becomes a common type in Germany
DL :
Torture abolished in England
PH :
21 September - The Treaty of Hartford ends Pequot War: Surviving Pequot are divided as slaves among Indian allies and English, Pequot forbidden to inhabit former Pequot territory, and
the name Pequot is to be expunged
1639
M :
Heinrich Schütz : Kleine geistliche Concerte
Book II
PH :
First Bishops' War in Scotland; episcopacy abolished in Scotland
LT :
Drury Lane Theatre, London, receives its first patent
ED :
Académie Française compiles dictionary of the Fr. language
M :
Marco Marazzoli and Vergilio Mazzochi: Chi soffre, speri, first comic opera
ST :
Gérard Désargues published his book on modern geometry
ST :
William Gascoigne invents micrometer
ST :
Jeremiah Horrocks observes the transit of Venus, which he had predicted
ST :
Quinine increasingly used for medicinal purposes
DL :
English settle at Madras
DL :
First printing press in N. America at Cambridge, Mass
1640
M :
Claudio Monteverdi : Opera, Il Ritorno d'Ulisse in Patria
('The Return of Ulysses to his Homeland')
PH :
Short Parliament (April-May) and Long Parliament (November-1653) in England
PH :
Second Bishops' War
PH :
Portugal becomes independent under John IV of Braganza
PH :
Elector George William of Brandenburg dies; succeeded by the "Great Elector" Frederick William
PH :
Sultan Murad IV of Turkey dies; succeeded by Sultan Ibrahim
RP :
John Donne: Eighty Sermons (posth.)
RP :
John Eliot: Bay Psalm Book, oldest surviving book printed in America
RP :
Cornelius Jansen: Augustinus, treatise against Jesuit doctrines (posth.)
RP :
John Milton: Of Reformation Touching Church discipline in England
ED :
Abo University, Finland, founded
ST :
Coke made from coal for first time
ST :
James Howell: Dondona's Grove, or The Vocall Forrest, manual of dendrology
ST :
John Parkinson: Theatrum botanicum, a herbal
DL :
Eng. settlers found Fort St. George in Bengal
DL :
First European café opens in Venice
DL :
Eight postal lines running in England
VA :
Peter Paul Rubens dies
1641
PH :
Massacre of the Ulster Protestants; Catholic rebellion in Ireland
RP :
René Descartes: Méditations métaphysiques
ED :
William Habington: Observations Upon Historie
PH :
General Court of Massachusetts Bay Company codifies 100 laws
RP :
George Wither: Hallelujah, or Britain's Second Remembrances, collection of hymns
ST :
Arsenic prescribed for medicinal purposes for first time
ST :
Cotton goods begin to be manufactured in Manchester
DL :
Diurnal Occurrences, a weekly periodical issued in London
PH :
French settle in Michigan
DL :
Théophraste Renaudot publishes his plan for free medical treatment of needy in Paris; three years later faculty of medicine forbids him to practice
VA :
Sir Anthony van Dyck dies
1642
M :
Claudio Monteverdi : Opera, L'Incoronazione di Poppea
('The Coronation of Poppea')
PH :
Charles I marches to Westminster to arrest five members of the Commons; attempt fails; he flees with his family to Hampton Court
PH :
Eng. Civil War begins
DL :
Inflation in Spain
LT :
All theatres in England closed by order of the Puritans
RP :
Johann Amos Comenius: A Reformation of Schooles, trans by Samuel Hartlib
RP :
Thomas Fuller: The Holy State and the Profane State
RP :
Thomas Hobbes: De cive
ED :
James Howell: Instruction for Foreign Travel
RP :
Thomas Lechford: Plain Dealing, or Newes from New England, political survey
RP :
Pope Urban VIII issues bull Universa per Orbem, reducing annual feast days to 32
ST :
Abel Tasman discovers Tasmania and New Zealand
ED :
University of Ancona founded
DL :
Income and property tax introduced in England
DL :
Loire-Seine canal finished
DL :
Montreal, Canada, founded
1643
PH :
Unsuccessful peace talks between the Cavaliers and Roundheads at Oxford
PH :
Louis XIII of France dies; succeeded by his five-year-old son Louis XIV with Mazarin as principal minister
PH :
Anne of Austria, the Queen Mother, invested with supreme power
