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JOHN PRESCOTT
c1604 EN to 1681 MA
JOHN PRESCOTT
c1604 EN to 1681 MA
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Search.........Person PAF-ID.........09002822 Gender.........male Status.........deceased Age............77y 11m 0d Last-Marital...widowed Fam-Group......MOORE Fam-ID.........PRESCOTT Citizenship....immigrant |
#Marriages.....1 #Divorces......0 #Sources.......12 #Events........1 #Images:.......7 #Comments......1 #Siblings......0 #Children......9 |
Person-Type....A Immigrant?.....immigrant Immig-Known?...immigrant Parent?........father Spouse?........husband Sibling?.......brother Child?......... Twin...........no Adopted?....... |
Title(s)....... Ancestor.......double ancestor RelatedToMe.... Gen-#..........12 Ahn-#.......... Religion....... PoliticParty... Ht/Wt/Eye/Hair. Burial.........Old Settler's Burial Field |
Spouse(s) and Children
- Marriage: 1629-04-11 Yorkshire county, England
- Spouse: MARY PLATTS, female, born:1606 Yorkshire county, England, died:1674 (68y 0m 0d) ?Lancaster, Worcester county, Massachusetts, Anc:2
- ..Child: MARY PRESCOTT, female, born:1630 Sowerby, Yorkshire county, England, died:1716-04 (86y 3m 0d) ?Lancaster, Worcester county, Massachusetts, Anc:1, Dad:JOHN PRESCOTT, Mom:MARY PLATTS
- ..Child: Martha PRESCOTT, female, born:1632 Sowerby, Yorkshire county, England, died:1656-01-24 (24y 0m 23d) Lancaster, Worcester county, Massachusetts, Dad:JOHN PRESCOTT, Mom:MARY PLATTS
- ..Child: John PRESCOTT, male, born:1635 Sowerby, Yorkshire county, England, died:1682-1725 (47y 0m 0d) ?Massachusetts, Dad:JOHN PRESCOTT, Mom:MARY PLATTS
- ..Child: Sarah PRESCOTT, female, born:1637 ?Sowerby, Yorkshire county, England, died:1671-1727 (34y 0m 0d) ?Massachusetts, Dad:JOHN PRESCOTT, Mom:MARY PLATTS
- ..Child: Hannah PRESCOTT, female, born:1639 ?Barbados, died:1697-09-11 (58y 8m 10d) Lancaster, Worcester county, Massachusetts, Dad:JOHN PRESCOTT, Mom:MARY PLATTS
- ..Child: LYDIA PRESCOTT, female, born:1641-08-15 Waterton, Middlesex county, Massachusetts, died:1723-12-31 (82y 4m 16d) ?Massachusetts, Anc:1, Dad:JOHN PRESCOTT, Mom:MARY PLATTS, #Cmnts:1
- ..Child: Jonathan PRESCOTT, male, born:1646 Lancaster, Worcester county, Massachusetts, died:1721-12-05 (75y 11m 4d) ?Concord, Middlesex county, Massachusetts, Dad:JOHN PRESCOTT, Mom:MARY PLATTS
- ..Child: Joseph PRESCOTT, male, born:1647 Lancaster, Worcester county, Massachusetts, died:1647-1737 (0y 0m 0d) ?Massachusetts, Dad:JOHN PRESCOTT, Mom:MARY PLATTS
- ..Child: Jonas PRESCOTT, male, born:1648-06 Lancaster, Worcester county, Massachusetts, died:1668-1738 (19y 7m 0d) , Dad:JOHN PRESCOTT, Mom:MARY PLATTS
Events
Birth: 1604 y0m0d, Standish parish
Married: 1629-04-11, Age:25y3m10d, Halifax parish, Wigan, Role:groom
Livedin: 1629 , Age:25y0m0d, five children born here five children born here
Livedin: 1638-1640, Age:34y0m0d, Barbados">Barbados, owned ten acres owned ten acres
Livedin: 1640-1645, Age:36y0m0d, owned 126 acres owned 126 acres
Livedin: 1645 , Age:41y0m0d, a leading settler In 1643 John and Thomas King purchased from Sholam of the Nashaway tribe land to layout the Nashaway Plantation which later became the town of Lancaster. The town of Lancaster was named after the place in England that supposedly was John's birthplace, Lancashire county. This was a common practice in early New England. a leading settler In 1643 John and Thomas King purchased from Sholam of the Nashaway tribe land to layout the Nashaway Plantation which later became the town of Lancaster. The town of Lancaster was named after the place in England that supposedly was John's birthplace, Lancashire county. This was a common practice in early New England.
Oath: 1652 , Age:48y0m0d, Massachusetts">Massachusetts, Role:allegiance
Freeman: 1669 , Age:65y0m0d
Death: 1681-12, Age:77y11m0d
Death: 1683 , Age:79y0m0d
Baptism: Standish parish, Role:baptised, His birth record is not available since there is a gap in the records from 1602 to 1610. His birth record is not available since there is a gap in the records from 1602 to 1610.
Will-written: Role:writer, In his will, John requested that "the worn out mortal part of him should be committed to the common burying place in Lancaster". In his will, John requested that "the worn out mortal part of him should be committed to the common burying place in Lancaster".
Burial: Old Settler's Burial Field, John's tombstone reads: Here, with his children about him, lies John Prescott, founder of Lancaster and first settler of Worcester county, born at Standish (Lancashire) England. Died at Lancaster, Massachusetts, Dec. 1681. Inspired by the love of liberty and the fear of God, this stout-hearted pioneer, forsaking the pleasant vales of England, took up his abode in the unbroken forest and encountered wild beast and savage to secure freedom for himself and his posterity. His faith and virtues have been inherited by many descendants who in every generation have well served the state in war, in literature, at the bar, in the pulpit, in public life and in christian homes. John's tombstone reads: Here, with his children about him, lies John Prescott, founder of Lancaster and first settler of Worcester county, born at Standish (Lancashire) England. Died at Lancaster, Massachusetts, Dec. 1681. Inspired by the love of liberty and the fear of God, this stout-hearted pioneer, forsaking the pleasant vales of England, took up his abode in the unbroken forest and encountered wild beast and savage to secure freedom for himself and his posterity. His faith and virtues have been inherited by many descendants who in every generation have well served the state in war, in literature, at the bar, in the pulpit, in public life and in christian homes.
Birth: 1604 y0m0d, Standish parish
Married: 1629-04-11, Age:25y3m10d, Halifax parish, Wigan, Role:groom
Livedin: 1629 , Age:25y0m0d, five children born here five children born here
Livedin: 1638-1640, Age:34y0m0d, Barbados">Barbados, owned ten acres owned ten acres
Livedin: 1640-1645, Age:36y0m0d, owned 126 acres owned 126 acres
Livedin: 1645 , Age:41y0m0d, a leading settler In 1643 John and Thomas King purchased from Sholam of the Nashaway tribe land to layout the Nashaway Plantation which later became the town of Lancaster. The town of Lancaster was named after the place in England that supposedly was John's birthplace, Lancashire county. This was a common practice in early New England. a leading settler In 1643 John and Thomas King purchased from Sholam of the Nashaway tribe land to layout the Nashaway Plantation which later became the town of Lancaster. The town of Lancaster was named after the place in England that supposedly was John's birthplace, Lancashire county. This was a common practice in early New England.
Oath: 1652 , Age:48y0m0d, Massachusetts">Massachusetts, Role:allegiance
Freeman: 1669 , Age:65y0m0d
Death: 1681-12, Age:77y11m0d
Death: 1683 , Age:79y0m0d
Baptism: Standish parish, Role:baptised, His birth record is not available since there is a gap in the records from 1602 to 1610. His birth record is not available since there is a gap in the records from 1602 to 1610.
Will-written: Role:writer, In his will, John requested that "the worn out mortal part of him should be committed to the common burying place in Lancaster". In his will, John requested that "the worn out mortal part of him should be committed to the common burying place in Lancaster".
Burial: Old Settler's Burial Field, John's tombstone reads: Here, with his children about him, lies John Prescott, founder of Lancaster and first settler of Worcester county, born at Standish (Lancashire) England. Died at Lancaster, Massachusetts, Dec. 1681. Inspired by the love of liberty and the fear of God, this stout-hearted pioneer, forsaking the pleasant vales of England, took up his abode in the unbroken forest and encountered wild beast and savage to secure freedom for himself and his posterity. His faith and virtues have been inherited by many descendants who in every generation have well served the state in war, in literature, at the bar, in the pulpit, in public life and in christian homes. John's tombstone reads: Here, with his children about him, lies John Prescott, founder of Lancaster and first settler of Worcester county, born at Standish (Lancashire) England. Died at Lancaster, Massachusetts, Dec. 1681. Inspired by the love of liberty and the fear of God, this stout-hearted pioneer, forsaking the pleasant vales of England, took up his abode in the unbroken forest and encountered wild beast and savage to secure freedom for himself and his posterity. His faith and virtues have been inherited by many descendants who in every generation have well served the state in war, in literature, at the bar, in the pulpit, in public life and in christian homes.
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John's tombstone reads: Here, with his children about him, lies John Prescott, founder of Lancaster and first settler of Worcester county, born at Standish (Lancashire) England. Died at Lancaster, Massachusetts, Dec. 1681. Inspired by the love of liberty and the fear of God, this stout-hearted pioneer, forsaking the pleasant vales of England, took up his abode in the unbroken forest and encountered wild beast and savage to secure freedom for himself and his posterity. His faith and virtues have been inherited by many descendants who in every generation have well served the state in war, in literature, at the bar, in the pulpit, in public life and in christian homes.
John's tombstone reads: Here, with his children about him, lies John Prescott, founder of Lancaster and first settler of Worcester county, born at Standish (Lancashire) England. Died at Lancaster, Massachusetts, Dec. 1681. Inspired by the love of liberty and the fear of God, this stout-hearted pioneer, forsaking the pleasant vales of England, took up his abode in the unbroken forest and encountered wild beast and savage to secure freedom for himself and his posterity. His faith and virtues have been inherited by many descendants who in every generation have well served the state in war, in literature, at the bar, in the pulpit, in public life and in christian homes.
Sources
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Book Ancestors and Descendants of Charles W Roberts, Ellen Mckee, 1988
Book Colonial Families of USA, G.N. Mackenzie, 1966
Book Compendium of American Genealogy (6 volumes), F.A. Virkus, 1942
Book Early Records of Lancaster Massachusetts 1643-1725, Nourse, 1884
Book Founders of Early American Families, M.B. Colket, 1985, 2002
Book Genealogies of the Early Settlers of America (three volumes), H. Whittemore, 1898, 1967
Book History of Concord (Middlesex) Massachusetts, Shattuck, 1835
Book Immigrant Ancestors Before 1750, F.A. Virkus, 1980 (unreliable source)
Book White Family Quarterly, Almira L. White, 1903
Letter from Frederick G. Rolfe, Scituate Massachusetts, 1995
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Book Early Records of Lancaster Massachusetts 1643-1725, Nourse, 1884
Book Founders of Early American Families, M.B. Colket, 1985, 2002
Book Genealogies of the Early Settlers of America (three volumes), H. Whittemore, 1898, 1967
Book History of Concord (Middlesex) Massachusetts, Shattuck, 1835
Book Immigrant Ancestors Before 1750, F.A. Virkus, 1980 (unreliable source)
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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
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