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Marie-Guillemette Hébert
 1608 - 1684

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   Year  Event(s)
1 1609 
  • Johannes Kepler published his first two laws of planetary motion.
2 1610 
  • Galileo Galilei published in Sidereus nuncius the results of his telescopic observations, showing that the Copernican system in which the planets circle the sun was correct.
  • The Spanish government established Santa Fe as the capial of New Mexico in December 1610.
3 1616 
  • William Shakespeare died at his home at Stratford–upon– Avon.
4 1620 
  • One hundred and two individuals, most of whom were Puritans, received a grant of land on which to set up their own colony. They set sail from England on the Mayflower, arriving in Massachusetts in December. When they landed, the colonists called their home "New Plymouth". The colonists all signed the Mayflower Covenant before landing, promising to establish "just and equal laws".
5 1628 
  • The English Parliament passed the Petition of Rights. Under its terms the King could not levy any new taxes without the consent of Parliament. Furthermore, it forbade the billeting of soldiers in private homes, forbade imposing martial law in time of peace, and forbade imprisoning individuals without just cause.
6 1630 
  • On June 12, 1630, the flagship of the Massachusetts Bay Company arrived in Salem to officially found the new colony. The company was founded by English Puritans, most of whom were educated and wealthy. A fleet of eleven ships brought hundreds of settlers to Salem. John Winthrop became the first governor of the colony.
7 1634 
  • One hundred twenty-eight Catholic settlers arrived on the island of Saint Clements. Their settlement was called Maryland in honor of the English Queen Mary.
8 1635 
  • Roger Williams, a Puritan clergyman in Massachusetts, was threatened with banishment from the colony for disseminating "new and dangerous opinions." However, before he could be sent back to England, he escaped to Rhode Island and established his own colony where complete religious freedom was promised for all people.
9 1637 
  • On June 5th, the combined forces of the Massachusetts and Connecticut Militias killed 500 Indians (men, women, and children), thus ending the Pequot War.
10 1638 
  • Galileo published Discorsi e Demonstrazione Matematiche Intorno a Due Nuove Scienze. This worked presented the mathematical principals of falling bodies and projectile motion.
11 1640 
  • In November, Charles, King of England, called Parliament into session. This meeting which lasted four years became known as the Long Parliament. In the course of the meeting the Triennial Act was passed. It required a meeting of the Parliament once every three years. In addition the prerogative courts were abolished and the king was prevented from dissolving the Parliament without its agreement.
12 1642 
  • On December 13, 1642 Abel Janszoon Taman discovered New Zealand. He had sailed on commission of the Dutch East Indies Company.

    English Civil Wars begin
13 1649 
  • Oliver Cromwell army in Ireland
14 1651 
  • Charles II is defeated by Cromwell and flees to France.
15 1652 
  • Cape Town South Africa was founded by the surgeon of a Dutch ship- Jan van Reibeck. He goes ashore with 70 men.
16 1655 
  • With Poland engaged in a war with Russia to maintain control of the Ukraine, Charles X King of Sweden invaded Poland. He occupied Warsaw on October 8, 1655 and Krakow on October 19, 1655. Prussia first sided with Sweden then switched sides the next year.
17 1658 
  • During the Bogdan Chmielnicki uprising against the Poles in the Ukraine, the Jews of the Ukraine were made a special target. In the course of the uprising 100,000 Jews were killed throughout the Ukraine.
18 1660 
  • The Treaty of Copenhagen was signed in June 1660, bringing an end to the war between Sweden and Denmark. The agreement established the modern boundaries between Sweden, Norway and Denmark.
19 1664 
  • The British arrived in New Amsterdam with overwhleming firepower and were able to convince the Dutch to surrender without firing a single shot. They renamed the colony “New York.”
20 1667 
  • Hostilities escalated between the Indians around the Virginia colony and the colonists. Virginia governor William Berekely refused to empower settlers to go after the Indians. James Bacon, a recent immigrant, led a force against the Indians. He was declared a traitor by Berekely and jailed. After being freed, he raised an army of supporters who took control of Jamestown, forcing the governor to flee. The rebellion collapsed when Bacon died suddenly.
21 1669 
  • Isaac Newton published his basic theories to calculus.
22 1672 
  • London audiences paid admission to see several concerts, beginning the trend that would change the economic structure of the arts in Western culture. Up to this point, the creation and presentation of art, including music, was generally supported by the church or by private patrons of royal or noble birth. When the financing of the arts began to come from middle class audiences, composers and other creative artists became much more independent of patrons, and could sell their music and performances directly to the general public.
23 1674 
  • Between 1660 and 1674 Robert Boyle developed a pneumatic pump. His description of the relationship between pressure and volume is known as Boyles Law.
24 1675 
  • King Philip's War began
25 1679 
  • The British Parliament passed the Habeas Corpus Act . The act required judges to present a writ of Habeas Corpus that demanded a jailer to produce a prisoner and show cause why the prisoner was being held.
26 1681 
  • William Penn, who had embraced Quakerism as an adult, obtained a land grant from the King of England. Penn received the grant in lieu of money owed to his dead father. The land was called “Pennsylvania.” It became a center of religious and other liberties.
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