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SIMON WILLARD ?1605-1676
Fathers:RICHARD,SYMON,RICHARD
SIMON WILLARD ?1605-1676
Fathers:RICHARD,SYMON,RICHARD
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Search.........Person Gender.........male PAF-ID.........09001412 Age............71y 3m 23d Fam-Group......MOORE Fam-ID.........WILLARD Citizenship....US born Status.........deceased Last-Marital...married |
#Marriages.....3 #Divorces......0 #Sources.......12 #Events........1 #Images:.......3 #Comments......2 #Siblings......5 #Children......18 |
Person-Type....A Immigrant?.....no Immig-Known?...no Parent?........father Spouse?........husband Sibling?.......brother Child?.........son Twin...........no Adopted?....... |
Title(s)....... Ancestor.......ancestor RelatedToMe....8XGreat Gen-#..........11 Ahn-#..........00000001412 Religion.......Puritan PoliticParty... Ht/Wt/Eye/Hair. Burial......... |
Parents and Siblings
- Parent: RICHARD WILLARD, male, born:1572 Kent county England, died:1616-03 (44y 2m 0d) Kent county England, Anc:1, Dad:SYMON WILLARD, Mom:ELIZABETH WATERMAN, #M:3, #SrcDocs:5
- Parent: MARGERY HUMPHREY, female, born:1575 Kent county England, died:1608-12-12 (33y 11m 11d) ?Horsmonden (Kent) England, Anc:1, #M:1, #SrcDocs:1
- Sibling: George WILLARD, male, born:1595 Horsmonden (Kent) England, died:1638-1685 (43y 0m 0d) ?Massachusetts, Dad:RICHARD WILLARD, Mom:MARGERY HUMPHREY, #M:1, #SrcDocs:4
- Sibling: SIMON WILLARD
- Sibling: SIMON WILLARD
- Sibling: SIMON WILLARD
- Sibling: Catherine WILLARD, female, born:1607 Horsmonden (Kent) England, died:1607-1697 (0y 0m 0d) , Dad:RICHARD WILLARD, Mom:MARGERY HUMPHREY, #SrcDocs:1
Spouse(s) and Children
- Marriage: 1630 Horsmonden (Kent) England
- Spouse: MARY\JANE SHARPE, female, born:1614 ?Horsmonden (Kent) England, died:1655-1700 (41y 0m 0d) ?Concord (Middlesex) Massachusetts, Anc:1, Dad:HENRY SHARPE, Mom:JANE FIELD, #SrcDocs:6
- ..Child: SIMON WILLARD
- ..Child: Mary\Mercy WILLARD, female, born:1631 ?Horsmonden (Kent) England, died:1671-1721 (40y 0m 0d) ?Concord (Middlesex) Massachusetts, Dad:SIMON WILLARD, Mom:MARY\JANE SHARPE, #SrcDocs:5
- ..Child: Elizabeth WILLARD, female, born:1635 ?Massachusetts, died:1690-08-29 (55y 7m 28d) ?Concord (Middlesex) Massachusetts, Dad:SIMON WILLARD, Mom:MARY\JANE SHARPE, #SrcDocs:5
- ..Child: SIMON WILLARD
- ..Child: Josiah WILLARD, male, born:1638 ?Concord (Middlesex) Massachusetts, died:1638-1728 (0y 0m 0d) ?Massachusetts, Dad:SIMON WILLARD, Mom:MARY\JANE SHARPE, #SrcDocs:5
- ..Child: Samuel WILLARD, male, born:1640-01-31 Concord (Middlesex) Massachusetts, died:1640-1730 (0y 11m 1d) ?Massachusetts, Dad:SIMON WILLARD, Mom:MARY\JANE SHARPE, #SrcDocs:6
- ..Child: Sarah WILLARD, female, born:1642-06-27 Concord (Middlesex) Massachusetts, died:1671-1732 (28y 6m 5d) ?Massachusetts, Dad:SIMON WILLARD, Mom:MARY\JANE SHARPE, #SrcDocs:5
- ..Child: SIMON WILLARD
- ..Child: Simon WILLARD, male, born:1649-11-23 Concord (Middlesex) Massachusetts, died:1649-1739 (0y 1m 9d) ?Massachusetts, Dad:SIMON WILLARD, Mom:MARY\JANE SHARPE, #SrcDocs:5
- ..Child: Mary WILLARD, female, born:1653-07-07 Concord (Middlesex) Massachusetts, died:1683-1743 (29y 5m 25d) ?Lancaster (Worcester) Massachusetts, Dad:SIMON WILLARD, Mom:MARY\JANE SHARPE, #SrcDocs:4
- ..Child: HENRY WILLARD, male, born:1655-06-04 Concord (Middlesex) Massachusetts, died:1701 (45y 6m 28d) Lancaster (Worcester) Massachusetts, Anc:1, Dad:SIMON WILLARD, Mom:MARY\JANE SHARPE, #Cmnts:1, #SrcDocs:7
- ..Child: John WILLARD, male, born:1657-02-12 Concord (Middlesex) Massachusetts, died:1657-1747 (0y 10m 20d) ?Massachusetts, Dad:SIMON WILLARD, Mom:MARY\JANE SHARPE, #SrcDocs:5
- ..Child: Daniel WILLARD, male, born:1658-12-29 Concord (Middlesex) Massachusetts, died:1678-1748 (19y 0m 3d) ?Massachusetts, Dad:SIMON WILLARD, Mom:MARY\JANE SHARPE, #SrcDocs:4
- Marriage: 1652 ?Concord (Middlesex) Massachusetts
- Spouse: Elizabeth Dunster, female, born:1615 ?England, died:1635-1705 (20y 0m 0d) ?Concord (Middlesex) Massachusetts, #Cmnts:2, #SrcDocs:7
- Marriage: 1659 ?Concord (Middlesex) Massachusetts
- Spouse: Mary Dunster, female, born:1629 Bury Saint Edmunds (Suffolk) England, died:1715-12-28 (86y 11m 27d) Sudbury (Middlesex) Massachusetts, #Cmnts:2, #SrcDocs:8
- ..Child: Joseph WILLARD, male, born:1661-01-04 Lancaster (Worcester) Massachusetts, died:1661-1751 (0y 11m 28d) , Dad:SIMON WILLARD, Mom:Mary Dunster, #SrcDocs:5
- ..Child: Benjamin WILLARD, male, born:1665 Lancaster (Worcester) Massachusetts, died:1732-06-16 (67y 5m 15d) Grafton (Worcester) Massachusetts, Dad:SIMON WILLARD, Mom:Mary Dunster, #SrcDocs:6
- ..Child: Hannah WILLARD, female, born:1666-10-06 Lancaster (Worcester) Massachusetts, died:1686-1756 (19y 2m 26d) ?Massachusetts, Dad:SIMON WILLARD, Mom:Mary Dunster, #SrcDocs:5
- ..Child: Jonathan WILLARD, male, born:1669-12-14 Lancaster (Worcester) Massachusetts, died:1669-1759 (0y 0m 18d) ?Massachusetts, Dad:SIMON WILLARD, Mom:Mary Dunster, #SrcDocs:5
- ..Child: SIMON WILLARD
- ...Spouse's Other Marriage:
Events
Birth: ?1605 , Age:71y 3m 23d, Horsmonden, Kent county, England
Baptism: 1605-04-08, Age:71y 3m 23d, Role:baptised
Birth: ?1614 , Age:71y 3m 23d
Baptism: ?1614-12-04, Age:71y 3m 23d, Role:baptised
Married: ?1630 , Age:71y 3m 23d, Horsmonden, Kent county, England, Role:groom
Livedin: 1634 , Age:71y 3m 23d, Cambridge, Middlesex county, Massachusetts, owned property there via a grant
Immigrate: 1634-05 , Age:71y 3m 23d, England, Role:immigrant, with his wife and her sister and husband
Livedin: 1635 , Age:71y 3m 23d, Concord, Middlesex county, Massachusetts, was one of first settlers In the fall of 1635, Simon, along with Reverend Peter Bulkeley, led a movement that resulted in the settlement of Concord.
Pos-held: 1636-1654, Age:71y 3m 23d, Concord, Middlesex county, Massachusetts, Role:deputy, was the first representative of the town
Military: 1636 , Age:71y 3m 23d, Role:sergeant
Military: 1637 , Age:71y 3m 23d, Role:lieutenant
Military: 1646 , Age:71y 3m 23d, Role:captain
Married: ?1652 , Age:71y 3m 23d, ?Concord, Middlesex county, Massachusetts, Role:groom
Military: 1655 , Age:71y 3m 23d, Role:major, The rank of sergent-major was then the highest military rank then recognized. He commanded the Middlesex forces in Ninignet's and Philip's War. Simon was the commander of the Middlesex Regiment in King Philip's War. Simon died just after receiving his greatest triumphs at the close of King Philip's War.
Pos-held: 1657 , Age:71y 3m 23d, Lancaster, Worcester county, Massachusetts, Role:commissioner, was one of three selected
Married: c1659 , Age:71y 3m 23d, ?Concord, Middlesex county, Massachusetts, Role:groom
Livedin: 1672 , Age:71y 3m 23d, Groton, Middlesex county, Massachusetts, 500 acre Nonacoicus farm The farm later became a part of the town of Ayer.
Death: 1676-04-24, Age:71y 3m 23d
Burial: 1676-04-27, Age:71y 3m 23d, Massachusetts
Military: 1704 , Age:71y 3m 23d, Lancaster, Worcester county, Massachusetts, Role:garrison commander, Queen Anne's War, Assigned to his garrison house were: Benjamin Bellows, John Willard, Henry Willard, James Houghton and his family, Joseph Hutchins, Joseph Waters, Hezekiah Willard, and James Smith.
Church: ?, Age:71y 3m 23d, Puritan
Job: ?, Age:71y 3m 23d, Cambridge, Middlesex county, Massachusetts, merchant, became prosperous
Job: ?, Age:71y 3m 23d, Massachusetts, fur trader
Job: ?, Age:71y 3m 23d, Massachusetts, town clerk
Job: ?, Age:71y 3m 23d, Simon and his associates had a patent for trading with the Indians and collecting a tribute from them.
Land: ?, Age:71y 3m 23d, Massachusetts, Role:grantee, 1000 acres received from the government
Livedin: ?, Age:71y 3m 23d, Salem, Essex county, Massachusetts, moved there just before his death
Will-proven: ?, Age:71y 3m 23d, Role:writer, Simon's will was filed by his widow.
Birth: ?1605 , Age:71y 3m 23d, Horsmonden, Kent county, England
Baptism: 1605-04-08, Age:71y 3m 23d, Role:baptised
Birth: ?1614 , Age:71y 3m 23d
Baptism: ?1614-12-04, Age:71y 3m 23d, Role:baptised
Married: ?1630 , Age:71y 3m 23d, Horsmonden, Kent county, England, Role:groom
Livedin: 1634 , Age:71y 3m 23d, Cambridge, Middlesex county, Massachusetts, owned property there via a grant
Immigrate: 1634-05 , Age:71y 3m 23d, England, Role:immigrant, with his wife and her sister and husband
Livedin: 1635 , Age:71y 3m 23d, Concord, Middlesex county, Massachusetts, was one of first settlers In the fall of 1635, Simon, along with Reverend Peter Bulkeley, led a movement that resulted in the settlement of Concord.
Pos-held: 1636-1654, Age:71y 3m 23d, Concord, Middlesex county, Massachusetts, Role:deputy, was the first representative of the town
Military: 1636 , Age:71y 3m 23d, Role:sergeant
Military: 1637 , Age:71y 3m 23d, Role:lieutenant
Military: 1646 , Age:71y 3m 23d, Role:captain
Married: ?1652 , Age:71y 3m 23d, ?Concord, Middlesex county, Massachusetts, Role:groom
Military: 1655 , Age:71y 3m 23d, Role:major, The rank of sergent-major was then the highest military rank then recognized. He commanded the Middlesex forces in Ninignet's and Philip's War. Simon was the commander of the Middlesex Regiment in King Philip's War. Simon died just after receiving his greatest triumphs at the close of King Philip's War.
Pos-held: 1657 , Age:71y 3m 23d, Lancaster, Worcester county, Massachusetts, Role:commissioner, was one of three selected
Married: c1659 , Age:71y 3m 23d, ?Concord, Middlesex county, Massachusetts, Role:groom
Livedin: 1672 , Age:71y 3m 23d, Groton, Middlesex county, Massachusetts, 500 acre Nonacoicus farm The farm later became a part of the town of Ayer.
Death: 1676-04-24, Age:71y 3m 23d
Burial: 1676-04-27, Age:71y 3m 23d, Massachusetts
Military: 1704 , Age:71y 3m 23d, Lancaster, Worcester county, Massachusetts, Role:garrison commander, Queen Anne's War, Assigned to his garrison house were: Benjamin Bellows, John Willard, Henry Willard, James Houghton and his family, Joseph Hutchins, Joseph Waters, Hezekiah Willard, and James Smith.
Church: ?, Age:71y 3m 23d, Puritan
Job: ?, Age:71y 3m 23d, Cambridge, Middlesex county, Massachusetts, merchant, became prosperous
Job: ?, Age:71y 3m 23d, Massachusetts, fur trader
Job: ?, Age:71y 3m 23d, Massachusetts, town clerk
Job: ?, Age:71y 3m 23d, Simon and his associates had a patent for trading with the Indians and collecting a tribute from them.
Land: ?, Age:71y 3m 23d, Massachusetts, Role:grantee, 1000 acres received from the government
Livedin: ?, Age:71y 3m 23d, Salem, Essex county, Massachusetts, moved there just before his death
Will-proven: ?, Age:71y 3m 23d, Role:writer, Simon's will was filed by his widow.
Places In
Horsmonden (Kent) England
Salem (Essex) Massachusetts
Cambridge (Middlesex) Massachusetts
Concord (Middlesex) Massachusetts
Groton (Middlesex) Massachusetts
Lancaster (Worcester) Massachusetts
Horsmonden (Kent) England
Salem (Essex) Massachusetts
Cambridge (Middlesex) Massachusetts
Concord (Middlesex) Massachusetts
Groton (Middlesex) Massachusetts
Lancaster (Worcester) Massachusetts
General
He had a total of 17 or 18 children by three wives, unknown how many by each wife. However, Simon did not have any children by his second wife, Elizabeth.
Simon was one of the most conspicuous and honored men of his day. He was wealthy and a very large landholder, most of which he gave to his children late in his life.
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Z__0030 - Map of Counties of Massachusetts
Z__0048 - Map of Massachusetts Middlesex county
Sources
Book Pioneers of Massachusetts, C.H. Pope, 1965
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1605: England - Gunpowder Plot failed in England
1605: Turkey, Hungary - The fortresses of Veszprem en Visegrad in Hungary are retaken by the Ottomans
1606: Netherlands, Australia - Captain Willem Janszoon and his crew aboard the Dutch East India Company ship Duyfken becomes the first recorded Europeans to sight and make landfall in Australia
1606: Turkey, Austria - The Long War between the Ottoman Empire and Austria is ended with the Peace of Zsitvatorok
1607: Ireland - Flight of the Earls (the fleeing of most of the native Gaelic aristocracy) occurs from County Donegal in the west of Ulster in Ireland
1607: United States - Jamestown, Virginia, is settled as what would become the first permanent English colony in North America
1608: Canada - Quebec City founded by Samuel de Champlain in New France (present-day Canada)
1609: Germany - Maximilian of Bavaria establishes the Catholic League
1609: Netherlands, Spain - The Netherlands and Spain agree to a Twelve Years Truce in the Eighty Years War
1609: United States - Pedro de Peralta, a later governor of New Mexico, establishes the settlement of Santa Fe
1610: France - King Henry IV of France is assassinated and is succeeded by his nine year old son, King Louis XIII who rules until 1643
1610: Poland, Lithuania, Russia, Sweden - Battle of Klushino, the Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth army defeats combined Russian-Swedish forces and conquers Moscow
1612: England - King James version of the Bible is published
1613-1617: Poland, Lithuania - Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth is Invaded by the Tatars (or Tartars) dozens of times
1613: Russia - The Time of Troubles in Russia ends with the establishment of the House of Romanov which rules until 1917
1613: United States - Pochahontas marries John Rolfe
1616: England - William Shakespeare dies
1616: Spain - The last remaining Moriscos (Moors who had nominally converted to Christianity) in the Spain are expelled
1618-1638: Germany - The Bohemian Revolt precipitates the Thirty Years War which devastates Europe in the years 1618-1648
1618: China - The Manchus start Invading China, their conquest eventually topples the Ming Dynasty
1618: Romania - Bethlen Gabor, Prince of Transylvania, joins Protestant Rebels
1619: Austria, Romania - Bethlen Gabor is defeated outside Vienna
1620-1621: Poland, Turkey - Polish-Ottoman War over Moldavia
1620: Poland - Battle of White Mountain, Emperor Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor, defeats the Bohemian rebels
1620: Romania, Turkey - Bethlen Gabor allies with the Ottomans and an Invasion of Moldavia takes place, the Polish suffer a disaster at Cecora on the River Prut
1620: United States - The Puritan Pilgrims arrive in the Mayflower at Cape Cod
1621: Poland, Turkey - The Battle of Chocim Poles and Cossacks under Jan Karol Chodkiewicz defeat the Ottomans
1621: United States - The Pilgrims celebrate the first Thanksgiving with their Indian neighbors
1622: United States - Jamestown massacre Algonquian natives kill 347 English settlers outside Jamestown, Virginia (a third of the population of the colony) and burn the Henricus settlement
1623: Italy - Maffeo Barberini is elected Pope Urban VIII at the Papal conclave of 1623
1624-1642: France - As chief minister, Cardinal Richelieu centralises power in France
1625: United States - New Amsterdam founded by the Dutch West India Company in North America
1626: Italy - St. Peters Basilica in the Vatican completed
1626: United States - The Dutch buy Manhattan Island for $24, a presence is established but no large settlements made
1627: France - Cardinal Richelieu lays siege to Protestant La Rochelle which eventually capitulates
1629: France - Cardinal Richelieu allies with Swedish Protestant forces in the Thirty Years War to counter expansion by Ferdinand II
1631: Italy - Mount Vesuvius erupts near Naples
1632: germany - Battle of Lutzen (first of two), death of king of Sweden Gustav II Adolf
1633: Italy - Galileo Galilei arrives in Rome for his trial before the Inquisition
1633: United States - The city of Baltimore is settled
1634: Ethiopia - Emperor Fasilides expels the Catholic Patriarch Afonso Mendes and several Jesuit missionaries from Ethiopia
1634: Germany - Battle of Nordlingen (first of two), in Bavaria, results in Catholic victory
1636: Ethiopia - Emperor Fasilides founds the city of Gondar, which becomes the capital of Ethiopia for the next two centuries
1636: United States - Harvard University is founded in Cambridge, Massachusetts
1636: United States - Roger Williams is driven from Puritan Massachusetts and settles Rhode Island, a haven for religious freedom
1638: United States - Delaware is settled by Peter Minuet
1639-1651: England, Ireland, Scotland - Wars of the Three Kingdoms, civil wars throughout Scotland, Ireland, and England
1639: Italy - Disagreements between the Farnese and Barberini Pope Urban VIII escalate into the Wars of Castro and last until 1649
1639: Spain, England - Naval Battle of the Downs, Republic of the United Provinces fleet decisively defeats a Spanish fleet in English waters
1639: United States - John Wheelwright is banished from Boston and founds a colony in New Hampshire
1640-1668: Portugal - The Portuguese Restoration War led to the end of the Iberian Union
1640: England - Torture is outlawed in England
1640: Scotland - King Charles was compelled to summon Parliament due to the revolt of the Scots
1640: United States - The population of the American Colonies is estimated at 5,700. Starting in the 1990's, Charles Anderson of the New England Historic Genealogical Society begins books that provides information about all persons in New England by 1640.
1641: France - Rene Descartes publishes Meditationes de prima philosophia Meditations on First Philosophy
1641: Ireland - The Irish Rebellion
1641: Japan - The Tokugawa Shogunate Institutes Sakoku, foreigners are expelled and no one is allowed to enter or leave Japan
1642-1649: England - Civil War in England, Charles I is beheaded by Cromwell
1642: England - Isaac Newton is born
1642: Neatherlands, New Zealand - Dutch explorer Abel Janszoon Tasman achieves the first recorded European sighting of New Zealand
1644-1674: Mauritania - The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War
1644: China - The Manchu conquer China ending the Ming Dynasty, the subsequent Qing Dynasty rules until 1912
1644: Italy - Giovanni Battista Pamphili is elected Pope Innocent X at the Papal conclave of 1644
1645-1669: Turkey, Italy - Ottoman war with Venice, the Ottomans Invade Crete and capture Canea
1645: Japan - The death of Miyamoto Musashi, legendary Japanese Samurai warrior of natural causes
1647-1652: Spain - The Great Plague of Seville
1647: Turkey - Seven-year-old Mehmed IV becomes Ottoman sultan
1648-1653: France - Fronde civil war in France
1648-1667: Poland, Lithuania - The Deluge wars leave Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in ruins
1648-1669: Turkey, Italy - The Ottomans capture Crete from the Venetians after the Siege of Candia
1648: Spain, Italy - The Peace of Westphalia ends the Thirty Years War and the Eighty Years War and marks the ends of Spain and the Holy Roman Empire as major European powers
1649-1653: Ireland - The Cromwellian conquest of Ireland
1650: United States - An estimated 40,000 people are living in the American Colonies
1652: England, Netherlands - Anglo-Dutch Wars begin
1652: South Africa - Cape Town founded by the Dutch East India Company in South Africa
1654-1661: Turkey, Albania - Mehmed Koprulu is Grand Vizier
1655-1661: Sweden - The Northern Wars cement the rise of Sweden as a Great Power
1658: India - After his father Shah Jahan completes the Taj Mahal, his son Aurangzeb deposes him as ruler of the Mughal Empire
1660: England - Royal Society of London for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge founded
1660: England - The Commonwealth of England ends and the monarchy is brought back during the English Restoration
1661: China - The reign of the Kangxi Emperor of China begins
1661: India - Mehmed Koprulu dies and is succeeded by his son Ahmed
1662: France - Jacques Aymar-Vernay, who later reintroduced Dowsing into popular use in Europe, is born
1663: France - France takes full political and military control over Its colonial possessions in New France, microscope of Hooke discovers cells
1663: Turkey, Austria-Hungary - Ottoman war against Habsburg Hungary
1664: England - Forestry book by John Evelyn called Sylva is published in England
1664: Hungary, Turkey - Battle of St. Gotthard (first of two), count Raimondo Montecuccoli defeats the Ottomans, the Peace of Vasvar is Intended to keep the peace for twenty years
1664: United States - British troops capture New Amsterdam and rename It New York
1665: England - The Great Plague of London (aka. Bubonic Plague, Black Death) kills 70,000 people
1665: Portugal, Congo - Portugal defeats the Kongo Empire
1666: England - The Great Fire of London burns most of the city
1667-1668: France, Netherlands - The War of Devolutionm France Invades the Netherlands, the Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle (1668) brings this to a halt
1667-1699: Turkey - The Great Turkish War halts the expansion of the Ottoman Empire into Europe
1668: Spain, Portugal - Peace Treaty of Lisbon between Spain and Portugal recognizes Portugal as Independent country
1669: Turkey, Crete - The Ottomans capture Crete
1670: Canada - The Hudson Bay Company is founded in Canada
1672-1673: Turkey, Ukraine - Ottoman campaign to help the Ukrainian Cossacks, John Sobieski defeats the Ottomans at the second battle of Khotyn (1673)
1672-1676: Poland, Turkey - Polish-Ottoman War
1672-1678: France, Netherlands - Franco-Dutch War
1672: Belgium - Lynching of Johan de Witt and his brother Cornelis de Witt in the Hague, William III of Orange takes power
1672: Netherlands, France, England, Germany - Rampjaar in the Netherlands, combined attack by France, England and two German states on the Republic of the United Provinces
1674: England - The Treaty of Westminster ends the war between England and the Republic of the United Provinces
1674: India - Maratha Empire founded in India by Shivaji
1676-1681: Russia, Turkey - Russia and the Ottoman Empire fight the second (of ten) Russo-Turkish Wars, Turkish victory
1676: Poland, Turkey - The Treaty of Zurawno brings Polish-Ottoman hostilities to a halt
1676: Turkey - Kara Mustafa becomes Grand Vizier
1605: England - Gunpowder Plot failed in England
1605: Turkey, Hungary - The fortresses of Veszprem en Visegrad in Hungary are retaken by the Ottomans
1606: Netherlands, Australia - Captain Willem Janszoon and his crew aboard the Dutch East India Company ship Duyfken becomes the first recorded Europeans to sight and make landfall in Australia
1606: Turkey, Austria - The Long War between the Ottoman Empire and Austria is ended with the Peace of Zsitvatorok
1607: Ireland - Flight of the Earls (the fleeing of most of the native Gaelic aristocracy) occurs from County Donegal in the west of Ulster in Ireland
1607: United States - Jamestown, Virginia, is settled as what would become the first permanent English colony in North America
1608: Canada - Quebec City founded by Samuel de Champlain in New France (present-day Canada)
1609: Germany - Maximilian of Bavaria establishes the Catholic League
1609: Netherlands, Spain - The Netherlands and Spain agree to a Twelve Years Truce in the Eighty Years War
1609: United States - Pedro de Peralta, a later governor of New Mexico, establishes the settlement of Santa Fe
1610: France - King Henry IV of France is assassinated and is succeeded by his nine year old son, King Louis XIII who rules until 1643
1610: Poland, Lithuania, Russia, Sweden - Battle of Klushino, the Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth army defeats combined Russian-Swedish forces and conquers Moscow
1612: England - King James version of the Bible is published
1613-1617: Poland, Lithuania - Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth is Invaded by the Tatars (or Tartars) dozens of times
1613: Russia - The Time of Troubles in Russia ends with the establishment of the House of Romanov which rules until 1917
1613: United States - Pochahontas marries John Rolfe
1616: England - William Shakespeare dies
1616: Spain - The last remaining Moriscos (Moors who had nominally converted to Christianity) in the Spain are expelled
1618-1638: Germany - The Bohemian Revolt precipitates the Thirty Years War which devastates Europe in the years 1618-1648
1618: China - The Manchus start Invading China, their conquest eventually topples the Ming Dynasty
1618: Romania - Bethlen Gabor, Prince of Transylvania, joins Protestant Rebels
1619: Austria, Romania - Bethlen Gabor is defeated outside Vienna
1620-1621: Poland, Turkey - Polish-Ottoman War over Moldavia
1620: Poland - Battle of White Mountain, Emperor Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor, defeats the Bohemian rebels
1620: Romania, Turkey - Bethlen Gabor allies with the Ottomans and an Invasion of Moldavia takes place, the Polish suffer a disaster at Cecora on the River Prut
1620: United States - The Puritan Pilgrims arrive in the Mayflower at Cape Cod
1621: Poland, Turkey - The Battle of Chocim Poles and Cossacks under Jan Karol Chodkiewicz defeat the Ottomans
1621: United States - The Pilgrims celebrate the first Thanksgiving with their Indian neighbors
1622: United States - Jamestown massacre Algonquian natives kill 347 English settlers outside Jamestown, Virginia (a third of the population of the colony) and burn the Henricus settlement
1623: Italy - Maffeo Barberini is elected Pope Urban VIII at the Papal conclave of 1623
1624-1642: France - As chief minister, Cardinal Richelieu centralises power in France
1625: United States - New Amsterdam founded by the Dutch West India Company in North America
1626: Italy - St. Peters Basilica in the Vatican completed
1626: United States - The Dutch buy Manhattan Island for $24, a presence is established but no large settlements made
1627: France - Cardinal Richelieu lays siege to Protestant La Rochelle which eventually capitulates
1629: France - Cardinal Richelieu allies with Swedish Protestant forces in the Thirty Years War to counter expansion by Ferdinand II
1631: Italy - Mount Vesuvius erupts near Naples
1632: germany - Battle of Lutzen (first of two), death of king of Sweden Gustav II Adolf
1633: Italy - Galileo Galilei arrives in Rome for his trial before the Inquisition
1633: United States - The city of Baltimore is settled
1634: Ethiopia - Emperor Fasilides expels the Catholic Patriarch Afonso Mendes and several Jesuit missionaries from Ethiopia
1634: Germany - Battle of Nordlingen (first of two), in Bavaria, results in Catholic victory
1636: Ethiopia - Emperor Fasilides founds the city of Gondar, which becomes the capital of Ethiopia for the next two centuries
1636: United States - Harvard University is founded in Cambridge, Massachusetts
1636: United States - Roger Williams is driven from Puritan Massachusetts and settles Rhode Island, a haven for religious freedom
1638: United States - Delaware is settled by Peter Minuet
1639-1651: England, Ireland, Scotland - Wars of the Three Kingdoms, civil wars throughout Scotland, Ireland, and England
1639: Italy - Disagreements between the Farnese and Barberini Pope Urban VIII escalate into the Wars of Castro and last until 1649
1639: Spain, England - Naval Battle of the Downs, Republic of the United Provinces fleet decisively defeats a Spanish fleet in English waters
1639: United States - John Wheelwright is banished from Boston and founds a colony in New Hampshire
1640-1668: Portugal - The Portuguese Restoration War led to the end of the Iberian Union
1640: England - Torture is outlawed in England
1640: Scotland - King Charles was compelled to summon Parliament due to the revolt of the Scots
1640: United States - The population of the American Colonies is estimated at 5,700. Starting in the 1990's, Charles Anderson of the New England Historic Genealogical Society begins books that provides information about all persons in New England by 1640.
1641: France - Rene Descartes publishes Meditationes de prima philosophia Meditations on First Philosophy
1641: Ireland - The Irish Rebellion
1641: Japan - The Tokugawa Shogunate Institutes Sakoku, foreigners are expelled and no one is allowed to enter or leave Japan
1642-1649: England - Civil War in England, Charles I is beheaded by Cromwell
1642: England - Isaac Newton is born
1642: Neatherlands, New Zealand - Dutch explorer Abel Janszoon Tasman achieves the first recorded European sighting of New Zealand
1644-1674: Mauritania - The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War
1644: China - The Manchu conquer China ending the Ming Dynasty, the subsequent Qing Dynasty rules until 1912
1644: Italy - Giovanni Battista Pamphili is elected Pope Innocent X at the Papal conclave of 1644
1645-1669: Turkey, Italy - Ottoman war with Venice, the Ottomans Invade Crete and capture Canea
1645: Japan - The death of Miyamoto Musashi, legendary Japanese Samurai warrior of natural causes
1647-1652: Spain - The Great Plague of Seville
1647: Turkey - Seven-year-old Mehmed IV becomes Ottoman sultan
1648-1653: France - Fronde civil war in France
1648-1667: Poland, Lithuania - The Deluge wars leave Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in ruins
1648-1669: Turkey, Italy - The Ottomans capture Crete from the Venetians after the Siege of Candia
1648: Spain, Italy - The Peace of Westphalia ends the Thirty Years War and the Eighty Years War and marks the ends of Spain and the Holy Roman Empire as major European powers
1649-1653: Ireland - The Cromwellian conquest of Ireland
1650: United States - An estimated 40,000 people are living in the American Colonies
1652: England, Netherlands - Anglo-Dutch Wars begin
1652: South Africa - Cape Town founded by the Dutch East India Company in South Africa
1654-1661: Turkey, Albania - Mehmed Koprulu is Grand Vizier
1655-1661: Sweden - The Northern Wars cement the rise of Sweden as a Great Power
1658: India - After his father Shah Jahan completes the Taj Mahal, his son Aurangzeb deposes him as ruler of the Mughal Empire
1660: England - Royal Society of London for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge founded
1660: England - The Commonwealth of England ends and the monarchy is brought back during the English Restoration
1661: China - The reign of the Kangxi Emperor of China begins
1661: India - Mehmed Koprulu dies and is succeeded by his son Ahmed
1662: France - Jacques Aymar-Vernay, who later reintroduced Dowsing into popular use in Europe, is born
1663: France - France takes full political and military control over Its colonial possessions in New France, microscope of Hooke discovers cells
1663: Turkey, Austria-Hungary - Ottoman war against Habsburg Hungary
1664: England - Forestry book by John Evelyn called Sylva is published in England
1664: Hungary, Turkey - Battle of St. Gotthard (first of two), count Raimondo Montecuccoli defeats the Ottomans, the Peace of Vasvar is Intended to keep the peace for twenty years
1664: United States - British troops capture New Amsterdam and rename It New York
1665: England - The Great Plague of London (aka. Bubonic Plague, Black Death) kills 70,000 people
1665: Portugal, Congo - Portugal defeats the Kongo Empire
1666: England - The Great Fire of London burns most of the city
1667-1668: France, Netherlands - The War of Devolutionm France Invades the Netherlands, the Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle (1668) brings this to a halt
1667-1699: Turkey - The Great Turkish War halts the expansion of the Ottoman Empire into Europe
1668: Spain, Portugal - Peace Treaty of Lisbon between Spain and Portugal recognizes Portugal as Independent country
1669: Turkey, Crete - The Ottomans capture Crete
1670: Canada - The Hudson Bay Company is founded in Canada
1672-1673: Turkey, Ukraine - Ottoman campaign to help the Ukrainian Cossacks, John Sobieski defeats the Ottomans at the second battle of Khotyn (1673)
1672-1676: Poland, Turkey - Polish-Ottoman War
1672-1678: France, Netherlands - Franco-Dutch War
1672: Belgium - Lynching of Johan de Witt and his brother Cornelis de Witt in the Hague, William III of Orange takes power
1672: Netherlands, France, England, Germany - Rampjaar in the Netherlands, combined attack by France, England and two German states on the Republic of the United Provinces
1674: England - The Treaty of Westminster ends the war between England and the Republic of the United Provinces
1674: India - Maratha Empire founded in India by Shivaji
1676-1681: Russia, Turkey - Russia and the Ottoman Empire fight the second (of ten) Russo-Turkish Wars, Turkish victory
1676: Poland, Turkey - The Treaty of Zurawno brings Polish-Ottoman hostilities to a halt
1676: Turkey - Kara Mustafa becomes Grand Vizier