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| 1 | 1558 | - 1558—1603: ROYAL: Queen Elizabeth I ascends the throne.Restores Protestantism, establishes state Church of England (Anglicanism). Renaissance will reach height in Englando Shakespeare, Marlowe, Spenser.
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| 2 | 1598 | - 1598—1598: NATIVE AMERICAN: Spain builds colony in New Mexico and starts enslaving Indians..
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| 3 | 1601 | - 1601—1601: NATIVE AMERICAN: Don Juan de Onate encounters Plains Apache at Canadian River while looking for the seven sities of gold (Cibola)..Don Juan de Onate encounters Plains Apache at Canadian River while looking for the seven sities of gold (Cibola).
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| 4 | 1602 | - 1602—1602: LITERATURE: William Shakespeare writes .Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, which we ascribe to heaven.(From All's Well that Ends Well, first performed in 1602.)
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| 5 | 1603 | - 1603—1603: ROYAL: .Elizabeth I. Ruler of England. House of Tudor - Daughter of Henry VIII, by Anne Boleyn.
- 1603—1625: ROYAL: .James I. Ruler of England. House of Stuart - Son of Mary, Queen of Scots, granddaughter of James IV and Margaret. First to call himself King of Great Britain. This became official with the Act of Union, 1707.
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| 6 | 1608 | - 1608—1608: HISTORY: .Hans Lippershey invents the first refracting telescope.
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| 7 | 1611 | - 1611—1611: HISTORY: Galileo exhibits the wonders of the telescope to the pontifical court. .He tries to produce scriptural confirmation of the view that the earth revolves around the sun, but he is rebuffed.
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| 8 | 1617 | - 1617—1617: HISTORY: Cigars & Cigarettes are born..Ships carrying 50,000 pounds of cured tobacco annually from Virginia to England. Smoking has become a fad in England, with King James describing it as loathsome
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| 9 | 1620 | - 1620—1620: HISTORY: .Earliest human-powered submarine invented.
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| 10 | 1624 | - 1624—1624: HISTORY: .William Oughtred invents a slide ruler.
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| 11 | 1625 | - 1625—1625: HISTORY: .Frenchmen, Jean-Baptiste Denys invents a method for blood transfusion.
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| 12 | 1629 | - 1629—1629: HISTORY: .Giovanni Branca invents a steam turbine.
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| 13 | 1634 | - 1634—1638: WAR: Pequot War .An armed conflict between the Pequot tribe against an alliance of the Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, and Saybrook colonies
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| 14 | 1636 | - 1636—1636: HISTORY: .W. Gascoigne invents the micrometer.
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| 15 | 1642 | - 1642—1642: HISTORY: .Frenchmen, Blaise Pascal invents an adding machine.
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| 16 | 1643 | - 1643—1643: HISTORY: .Evangelista Torricelli invents the barometer.
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| 17 | 1649 | - 1649—30 Jan 1649: ROYAL: .Charles I. Ruler of England. House of Stuart - Only surviving son of James I beheaded Jan 30, 1649.
- 1649—1658: ROYAL: .Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector. Ruler of England. Commonwealth & Protectorate.
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| 18 | 1650 | - 1650—1650: HISTORY: .Otto von Guericke invents a air pump.
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| 19 | 1656 | - 1656—1656: HISTORY: .Christian Huygens invents a pendulum clock.
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| 20 | 1657 | - 1657—1657: EPEDEMIC: Measles - Boston.
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| 21 | 1658 | - 1658—25 May 1659: ROYAL: .Richard Cromwell, Lord Protector. Ruler of England. Commonwealth & Proctorate - 3rd son of Oliver.
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| 22 | 1660 | - 1660—1660: HISTORY: Cuckoo clocks made in Furtwangen, Germany, in the Black Forest region..
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| 23 | 1661 | - 1661—1661: ROYAL: Charles II is crowned King of England.
- 1661—1661: ROYAL: Louis XIV begins personal rule as absolute monarch; starts to build Versailles.
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| 24 | 1663 | - 1663—1663: HISTORY: .James Gregory invents the first reflecting telescope.
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| 25 | 1667 | - 1667—1667: LITERATURE: Milton's Paradise Lost, widely considered the greatest epic poem in English..
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| 26 | 1668 | - 1668—1668: HISTORY: .Isaac Newton invents a reflecting telescope.
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| 27 | 1670 | - 1670—1670: HISTORY: .Dom Perignon invents Champagne.
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| 28 | 1671 | - 1671—1671: HISTORY: .Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz invents a calculating machine.
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| 29 | 1675 | - 1675—1675: HISTORY: Christian Huygens patents the pocket watch..
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| 30 | 1676 | - 1676—1676: HISTORY: .Robert Hooke invents the universal joint.
- 1676—1676: WAR: King Philip's War.New England colonies vs Wampanoag, Narragansett and Nipmuck Indians.
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| 31 | 1679 | - 1679—1679: HISTORY: .Denis Papin invents the pressure cooker.
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| 32 | 1680 | - 1680—1680: NATIVE AMERICAN: Puebloe Rebellion.Comanche obtain horses which changes their culture.
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| 33 | 1685 | - 1685—1685: ROYAL: .Charles II. Ruler of England. House of Stuart (restored) - Eldest son of Charles I, died without issue.
- 1685—1689: ROYAL: .James II. Ruler of England. House of Stuart (restored) - 2nd son of Charles I. Deposed 1688, interregnum Dec 11, 1688, to Feb 13, 1689.
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| 34 | 1687 | - 1687—1687: NATIVE AMERICAN: Sieur de La Salle Encounters Comanches near Trinity River..Comanches and Utes trade at Taos New Mexico.
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| 35 | 1689 | - 1689—1689: HISTORY: .Peter the Great becomes Czar of Russia attempts to westernize nation and build Russia as a military power. Defeats Charles XII of Sweden at Poltava (1709). Beginning of the French and Indian Wars (to 1763), campaigns in America linked to a series of wars between France and England for domination of Europe.
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| 36 | 1690 | - 1690—1690: EPEDEMIC: Yellow Fever.New York
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| 37 | 1692 | - 1692—1692: NATIVE AMERICAN: Picuris relocate with Plains Apache in West Kansas..
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| 38 | 1697 | - 1697—1697: WAR: King William's War.English Colonies vs France.
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| 39 | 1698 | - 1698—1698: HISTORY: .Englishman, Thomas Savery invents a steam pump.
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| 40 | 1700 | - 1700—1700: NATIVE AMERICAN: Comanche and Ute trade at Taos New Mexico..
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| 41 | 1701 | - 1701—1701: HISTORY: .Jethro Tull invents the seed drill.
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| 42 | 1702 | - 1702—1702: ROYAL: .William III and Mary II. Rulers of England. House of Stuart (restored) - Son of William, Prince of Orange, by Mary, daughter of Charles I. Mary eldest daughter of James II. She died 1694.
- 1702—1713: WAR: Queen Anne's War.English Colonies vs France.
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1595 - Yes, date unknown