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JOHN WHITE 1602-1683
Fathers:ROBERT,ROBERT,RICHARD\ROBERT,THOMAS
JOHN WHITE 1602-1683
Fathers:ROBERT,ROBERT,RICHARD\ROBERT,THOMAS
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Parents and Siblings
- Parent: ROBERT WHITE, male, born:1577 , died:1642-03-08 (65y 2m 7d) South Petherton (Somerset) England, Anc:1, Dad:ROBERT WHITE, Mom:ALICE RICH, #M:1, #SrcDocs:3
- Parent: JOAN\JEAN\BRIDGET WEST, female, born:1577 ?Bruton (Somerset) England, died:1631-09-13 (54y 8m 12d) South Petherton (Somerset) England, Anc:1, Dad:NICHOLAS WEST, Mom:ANN\PHILIPA BENEDICT, #M:1, #SrcDocs:2
- Sibling: Andrew WHITE, male, born:1598 South Petherton (Somerset) England, died:1598-1688 (0y 0m 0d) ?Somerset county England, Dad:ROBERT WHITE, Mom:JOAN\JEAN\BRIDGET WEST, #SrcDocs:1
- Sibling: Joan WHITE, female, born:1600 South Petherton (Somerset) England, died:1600-1690 (0y 0m 0d) , Dad:ROBERT WHITE, Mom:JOAN\JEAN\BRIDGET WEST, #SrcDocs:1
- Sibling: Robert WHITE, male, born:1604 South Petherton (Somerset) England, died:1624-1694 (20y 0m 0d) , Dad:ROBERT WHITE, Mom:JOAN\JEAN\BRIDGET WEST, #M:1, #SrcDocs:1
- Sibling: Jane WHITE, female, born:1606 South Petherton (Somerset) England, died:1606-1696 (0y 0m 0d) , Dad:ROBERT WHITE, Mom:JOAN\JEAN\BRIDGET WEST, #SrcDocs:1
- Sibling: Joan WHITE, female, born:1608 South Petherton (Somerset) England, died:1628-1698 (20y 0m 0d) , Dad:ROBERT WHITE, Mom:JOAN\JEAN\BRIDGET WEST, #M:1, #SrcDocs:1
- Sibling: Josiah WHITE, male, born:1610 South Petherton (Somerset) England, died:1611-1700 (1y 0m 0d) , Dad:ROBERT WHITE, Mom:JOAN\JEAN\BRIDGET WEST, #SrcDocs:1
- Sibling: Alice WHITE, female, born:1612 South Petherton (Somerset) England, died:1632-1702 (20y 0m 0d) ?Massachusetts, Dad:ROBERT WHITE, Mom:JOAN\JEAN\BRIDGET WEST, #M:1, #SrcDocs:1
- Sibling: Thomas WHITE, male, born:1614 South Petherton (Somerset) England, died:1614-1704 (0y 0m 0d) , Dad:ROBERT WHITE, Mom:JOAN\JEAN\BRIDGET WEST, #SrcDocs:1
Spouse(s) and Children
- Marriage: 1627-05-28 Drayton (Somerset) England
- Spouse: JOANE\JEAN WEST, female, born:1606-04 Drayton (Somerset) England, died:1654-03-18 (47y 11m 17d) , Anc:1, Dad:RICHARD WEST, Mom:MAUDLIN MAGDALINE STAPLE, #Cmnts:1, #SrcDocs:9
- ..Child: Joan\Joanna WHITE, female, born:1633 South Petherton (Somerset) England, died:1707 (74y 0m 0d) Wenham (Essex) Massachusetts, Dad:JOHN WHITE, Mom:JOANE\JEAN WEST, #SrcDocs:3
- ..Child: Elizabeth WHITE, female, born:1635 South Petherton (Somerset) England, died:1676-02-10 (41y 1m 9d) Lancaster (Worcester) Massachusetts, Dad:JOHN WHITE, Mom:JOANE\JEAN WEST, #SrcDocs:3
- ..Child: Mary WHITE, female, born:1638 South Petherton (Somerset) England, died:1669-1728 (31y 0m 0d) ?Wethersfield (Hartford) Connecticut, Dad:JOHN WHITE, Mom:JOANE\JEAN WEST, #Cmnts:1, #SrcDocs:3
- ..Child: Sarah WHITE, female, born:1640 Salem (Essex) Massachusetts, died:1663-1730 (23y 0m 0d) ?Massachusetts, Dad:JOHN WHITE, Mom:JOANE\JEAN WEST, #Cmnts:1, #SrcDocs:3
- ..Child: JOSIAH WHITE, male, born:1643-06 , died:1714-11-11 (71y 5m 10d) , Anc:1, Dad:JOHN WHITE, Mom:JOANE\JEAN WEST, #SrcDocs:8
- ..Child: Thomas\Josiah WHITE, male, born:1643-06-04 Salem (Essex) Massachusetts, died:1672-10-01 (29y 3m 27d) , Dad:JOHN WHITE, Mom:JOANE\JEAN WEST, #SrcDocs:3
- ..Child: Hannah WHITE, female, born:1643 Wenham (Essex) Massachusetts, died:1676-1733 (33y 0m 0d) ?Massachusetts, Dad:JOHN WHITE, Mom:JOANE\JEAN WEST, #SrcDocs:3
- ..Child: Ruth WHITE, female, born:1647 ?Wenham (Essex) Massachusetts, died:1647-1737 (0y 0m 0d) ?Massachusetts, Dad:JOHN WHITE, Mom:JOANE\JEAN WEST, #SrcDocs:1
- ..Child: John WHITE, male, born:1649 , died:1649-1739 (0y 0m 0d) , Dad:JOHN WHITE, Mom:JOANE\JEAN WEST, #SrcDocs:3
Events
Birth: c1595 y 10m 0d
Birth: 1602-03
Baptism: 1602-03-07y 0m 6d, South Petherton, Somerset county, England, 'Old Church', Role:baptised
Married: 1627-05-28, Age:25y 2m 27d, Drayton, Somerset county, England, Role:groom
Livedin: c1638 , Age:35y 10m 0d, Drayton, Somerset county, England, first two children baptised here
Livedin: 1638-1639, Age:35y 10m 0d, South Petherton, Somerset county, England, owned a home here
Land: c1639 , Age:36y 10m 0d, South Petherton, Somerset county, England, Role:seller, Other Party, brother, Robert White
Livedin: c1639 , Age:36y 10m 0d, Lynn, Essex county, Massachusetts, owned property in 1638/9
Land: 1639-08, Age:37y 5m 0d, South Petherton, Somerset county, England, Role:grantee, sixty acres near Mr. Smith's farm
Land: 1642 , Age:39y 10m 0d, Wenham, Essex county, Massachusetts, Role:grantee, 6 acres of meadow
Livedin: c1653-05, Age:51y 2m 0d, Lancaster, Worcester county, Massachusetts, 20 acres His house was burned by the Indians during the massacre of 1676. The location of his property is given on a map of the Lancaster area from about 1675. John was the wealthiest inhabitant in Lancaster and under the rules he drew the most land in apportionment.
Will-written: 1673-03-10, Age:71y 0m 9d, Role:writer, In his will, John mentions his daughters Joan, Elizabeth, Marie, Sarah and Hannah.
Death: 1683-1692, Age:80y 10m 0d, Lancaster, Worcester county, Massachusetts, 1683
Church: ?, John's name was not on the rolls of the church in Salem of which his wife and children were members of.
Job: ?, yeoman
Job: ?, Wenham, Essex county, Massachusetts, Role:operator, grist mill, was the first mill in the town
Job: ?, Wenham, Essex county, Massachusetts, Role:operator, saw mill, was the first mill in the town
Will-written: ?, Role:writer
Birth: c1595 y 10m 0d
Birth: 1602-03
Baptism: 1602-03-07y 0m 6d, South Petherton, Somerset county, England, 'Old Church', Role:baptised
Married: 1627-05-28, Age:25y 2m 27d, Drayton, Somerset county, England, Role:groom
Livedin: c1638 , Age:35y 10m 0d, Drayton, Somerset county, England, first two children baptised here
Livedin: 1638-1639, Age:35y 10m 0d, South Petherton, Somerset county, England, owned a home here
Land: c1639 , Age:36y 10m 0d, South Petherton, Somerset county, England, Role:seller, Other Party, brother, Robert White
Livedin: c1639 , Age:36y 10m 0d, Lynn, Essex county, Massachusetts, owned property in 1638/9
Land: 1639-08, Age:37y 5m 0d, South Petherton, Somerset county, England, Role:grantee, sixty acres near Mr. Smith's farm
Land: 1642 , Age:39y 10m 0d, Wenham, Essex county, Massachusetts, Role:grantee, 6 acres of meadow
Livedin: c1653-05, Age:51y 2m 0d, Lancaster, Worcester county, Massachusetts, 20 acres His house was burned by the Indians during the massacre of 1676. The location of his property is given on a map of the Lancaster area from about 1675. John was the wealthiest inhabitant in Lancaster and under the rules he drew the most land in apportionment.
Will-written: 1673-03-10, Age:71y 0m 9d, Role:writer, In his will, John mentions his daughters Joan, Elizabeth, Marie, Sarah and Hannah.
Death: 1683-1692, Age:80y 10m 0d, Lancaster, Worcester county, Massachusetts, 1683
Church: ?, John's name was not on the rolls of the church in Salem of which his wife and children were members of.
Job: ?, yeoman
Job: ?, Wenham, Essex county, Massachusetts, Role:operator, grist mill, was the first mill in the town
Job: ?, Wenham, Essex county, Massachusetts, Role:operator, saw mill, was the first mill in the town
Will-written: ?, Role:writer
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Drayton (Somerset) England
South Petherton (Somerset) England
Lynn (Essex) Massachusetts
Wenham (Essex) Massachusetts
Lancaster (Worcester) Massachusetts
Drayton (Somerset) England
South Petherton (Somerset) England
Lynn (Essex) Massachusetts
Wenham (Essex) Massachusetts
Lancaster (Worcester) Massachusetts
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John returned to England in late 1647 or early 1648 and went to "Stocke Abbots" in Dorsetshire. He later returned to Lancaster.
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1602: Netherlands - Dutch East India Company founded, Its success contributes to the Dutch Golden Age
1603-1623: Iran, Turkey, Portugal - After modernizing his army, Abbas I expands the Persian Empire by capturing territory from the Ottomans and the Portuguese
1603: England, Scotland - Elizabeth I of England dies and is succeeded by her cousin King James VI of Scotland, uniting the crowns of Scotland and England
1603: Japan - Tokugawa Ieyasu seizes control of Japan and establishes the Tokugawa Shogunate which rules the country until 1868
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
1678: Netherlands, France - The Treaty of Nijmegen ends the hostilities between the Netherlands and France
1680: United States, Spain - The Pueblo Revolt drives the Spanish out of New Mexico until 1692
1681: Hungary - The Pasha of Buda supports rebellion led by Imre Thokoly in Hungary
1682-1683: Turkey - The Ottomans make camp at Adrianople
1682: Russia - Peter the Great becomes joint ruler of Russia (sole tsar in 1696)
1682: Turkey - Sultan Mehmed IV, advised by Kara Mustafa, decides to disregard the existing peace treaty with Leopold I, due to expire in 1684
1682: United States - La Salle explores the length of the Mississippi River and claims Louisiana for France
1683: Austria - A Habsburg council of war is held in Vienna
1683: Austria - The Battle of Vienna finishes the hegemony of the Ottoman Empire in southeastern Europe
1683: China - China conquers the Kingdom of Tungning and annexes Taiwan
1602: Netherlands - Dutch East India Company founded, Its success contributes to the Dutch Golden Age
1603-1623: Iran, Turkey, Portugal - After modernizing his army, Abbas I expands the Persian Empire by capturing territory from the Ottomans and the Portuguese
1603: England, Scotland - Elizabeth I of England dies and is succeeded by her cousin King James VI of Scotland, uniting the crowns of Scotland and England
1603: Japan - Tokugawa Ieyasu seizes control of Japan and establishes the Tokugawa Shogunate which rules the country until 1868
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
1678: Netherlands, France - The Treaty of Nijmegen ends the hostilities between the Netherlands and France
1680: United States, Spain - The Pueblo Revolt drives the Spanish out of New Mexico until 1692
1681: Hungary - The Pasha of Buda supports rebellion led by Imre Thokoly in Hungary
1682-1683: Turkey - The Ottomans make camp at Adrianople
1682: Russia - Peter the Great becomes joint ruler of Russia (sole tsar in 1696)
1682: Turkey - Sultan Mehmed IV, advised by Kara Mustafa, decides to disregard the existing peace treaty with Leopold I, due to expire in 1684
1682: United States - La Salle explores the length of the Mississippi River and claims Louisiana for France
1683: Austria - A Habsburg council of war is held in Vienna
1683: Austria - The Battle of Vienna finishes the hegemony of the Ottoman Empire in southeastern Europe
1683: China - China conquers the Kingdom of Tungning and annexes Taiwan