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JOHN WHITCOMB c1588-1662
Fathers:JOHN
JOHN WHITCOMB c1588-1662
Fathers:JOHN
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Parents and Siblings
- Parent: JOHN WHITCOMB, male, born:1565 ?England, died:1648 (83y 0m 0d) Sherborne (Dorset) England, Anc:1, #M:1, #SrcDocs:1
- Parent: ANN HARPER, female, born:1570 ?England, died:1590-1660 (20y 0m 0d) ?England, Anc:1, #M:1, #SrcDocs:1
Spouse(s) and Children
- Marriage: 1623-11-26 Taunton (Somerset) England
- Spouse: FRANCES COGGAN, female, born:1605-02-24 , died:1671-05-17 (66y 2m 23d) , Anc:1, Dad:HENRY COGGAN, Mom:JOANE BORIDGE, #SrcDocs:14
- ..Child: Catherine\Mary WHITCOMB, female, born:1624 , died:1695-1714 (71y 0m 0d) Scituate (Plymouth) Massachusetts, Dad:JOHN WHITCOMB, Mom:FRANCES COGGAN, #Cmnts:2, #SrcDocs:5
- ..Child: John WHITCOMB, male, born:1626-08-06 Somerset county England, died:1683-04-07 (56y 8m 1d) Lancaster (Worcester) Massachusetts, Dad:JOHN WHITCOMB, Mom:FRANCES COGGAN, #SrcDocs:5
- ..Child: Jonathan WHITCOMB, male, born:1628 England, died:1690-02 (62y 1m 0d) Lancaster (Worcester) Massachusetts, Dad:JOHN WHITCOMB, Mom:FRANCES COGGAN, #SrcDocs:6
- ..Child: James\Jonathan WHITCOMB, male, born:1628-02 Taunton (Somerset) England, died:1686-11-23 (58y 9m 22d) Lancaster (Worcester) Massachusetts, Dad:JOHN WHITCOMB, Mom:FRANCES COGGAN, #SrcDocs:5
- ..Child: Robert\John WHITCOMB, male, born:1629 Taunton (Somerset) England, died:1649-1719 (20y 0m 0d) Lancaster (Worcester) Massachusetts, Dad:JOHN WHITCOMB, Mom:FRANCES COGGAN, #SrcDocs:5
- ..Child: Joane WHITCOMB, female, born:1634 Taunton (Somerset) England, died:1634-1724 (0y 0m 0d) , Dad:JOHN WHITCOMB, Mom:FRANCES COGGAN, #SrcDocs:3
- ..Child: Job WHITCOMB, male, born:1636 , died:1683 (47y 0m 0d) ?Massachusetts, Dad:JOHN WHITCOMB, Mom:FRANCES COGGAN, #SrcDocs:6
- ..Child: JOSIAH\JAMES WHITCOMB, male, born:1638 Dorchester (Suffolk) Massachusetts, died:1718-03-21 (80y 2m 20d) Lancaster (Worcester) Massachusetts, Anc:1, Dad:JOHN WHITCOMB, Mom:FRANCES COGGAN, #Cmnts:1, #SrcDocs:12
- ..Child: Abigail\Joane WHITCOMB, female, born:1640 , died:1690-02 (50y 1m 0d) , Dad:JOHN WHITCOMB, Mom:FRANCES COGGAN, #SrcDocs:5
- ..Child: Mary WHITCOMB, female, born:1643-08-13 , died:1643-1733 (0y 4m 19d) Lancaster (Worcester) Massachusetts, Dad:JOHN WHITCOMB, Mom:FRANCES COGGAN, #SrcDocs:5
Events
Birth: c1588 , Taunton, Somerset county, England
Birth: c1600 , Age:12
Married: 1623-11-26, Age:35y 10m 25d, Taunton, Somerset county, England, St. Mary Magdelan Church, Role:groom
Baptism: 1626-08-06, Age:38y 7m 5d, England, Role:baptised
Ship: c1634 , Age:46y 0m 0d, ?Taunton, Somerset county, England, Role:passenger, with his family
Ship: 1635 , Age:47y 0m 0d, ?Saint Mary's, Somerset county, England, Role:passenger
Livedin: c1635 , Age:47y 0m 0d, Dorchester, Suffolk county, Massachusetts, came from England
Church: 1638 , Age:50y 0m 0d, Dorchester, Suffolk county, Massachusetts, deacon
Land: 1646 , Age:58y 0m 0d, Scituate, Plymouth county, Massachusetts, Role:buyer, half of his property He was one of twenty seven men who formed the Conihasset Partners, buying three quarters of a tract of land that measured three square miles in Scituate. Among others in the group were General James Cudworth and Rhodolphus Ellms.
Freeman: 1652-06-03, Age:64y 5m 2d
Deed: 1654 , Age:66y 0m 0d, ?Scituate, Plymouth county, Massachusetts, Role:giver, Other Party, son @@@, Robert Whitcomb, half of his property
Land: 1654 , Age:66y 0m 0d, ?Scituate, Plymouth county, Massachusetts, Role:seller, half of his property
Livedin: 1654 , Age:66y 0m 0d, Lancaster, Worcester county, Massachusetts, considered to be a pioneer settler He lived on land he had bought there two years earlier. He was on lot number 33 in Lancaster and his son John was on lot number 34. John owned at least twenty acres in Lancaster in 1655. Also, the location of his property is given on a map of the Lancaster area from about 1675.
Death: 1662-07-24, Age:74y 6m 23d
Govt-court: 1662-10-07, Age:74y 9m 6d, Cambridge, Middlesex county, Massachusetts, Role:court
Job: ?, Scituate, Plymouth county, Massachusetts, constable, He was selected as one of the Conihassets partners in Scituate in 1646.
Land: ?, Role:buyer, John owned 108 acres near the mouth of the North River on the Marshfield side. John had purchased the land in Scituate prior to moving there.
Livedin: ?, Dorset county England, born there
Will-written: ?, Role:writer, John did not have a will when he died. His inventory in 1662 showed he had corn, flax and tobacco.
Death: ?, Lancaster, Worcester county, Massachusetts
Will-proven: ?, Role:writer, Since John did not have a will, his widow and six of his children filed a petition for the distribution of John's property. The petition was witnessed by "Thomas Wylder" and "Jacob Sawer" and was attested by Major Willard Simon.
Birth: c1588 , Taunton, Somerset county, England
Birth: c1600 , Age:12
Married: 1623-11-26, Age:35y 10m 25d, Taunton, Somerset county, England, St. Mary Magdelan Church, Role:groom
Baptism: 1626-08-06, Age:38y 7m 5d, England, Role:baptised
Ship: c1634 , Age:46y 0m 0d, ?Taunton, Somerset county, England, Role:passenger, with his family
Ship: 1635 , Age:47y 0m 0d, ?Saint Mary's, Somerset county, England, Role:passenger
Livedin: c1635 , Age:47y 0m 0d, Dorchester, Suffolk county, Massachusetts, came from England
Church: 1638 , Age:50y 0m 0d, Dorchester, Suffolk county, Massachusetts, deacon
Land: 1646 , Age:58y 0m 0d, Scituate, Plymouth county, Massachusetts, Role:buyer, half of his property He was one of twenty seven men who formed the Conihasset Partners, buying three quarters of a tract of land that measured three square miles in Scituate. Among others in the group were General James Cudworth and Rhodolphus Ellms.
Freeman: 1652-06-03, Age:64y 5m 2d
Deed: 1654 , Age:66y 0m 0d, ?Scituate, Plymouth county, Massachusetts, Role:giver, Other Party, son @@@, Robert Whitcomb, half of his property
Land: 1654 , Age:66y 0m 0d, ?Scituate, Plymouth county, Massachusetts, Role:seller, half of his property
Livedin: 1654 , Age:66y 0m 0d, Lancaster, Worcester county, Massachusetts, considered to be a pioneer settler He lived on land he had bought there two years earlier. He was on lot number 33 in Lancaster and his son John was on lot number 34. John owned at least twenty acres in Lancaster in 1655. Also, the location of his property is given on a map of the Lancaster area from about 1675.
Death: 1662-07-24, Age:74y 6m 23d
Govt-court: 1662-10-07, Age:74y 9m 6d, Cambridge, Middlesex county, Massachusetts, Role:court
Job: ?, Scituate, Plymouth county, Massachusetts, constable, He was selected as one of the Conihassets partners in Scituate in 1646.
Land: ?, Role:buyer, John owned 108 acres near the mouth of the North River on the Marshfield side. John had purchased the land in Scituate prior to moving there.
Livedin: ?, Dorset county England, born there
Will-written: ?, Role:writer, John did not have a will when he died. His inventory in 1662 showed he had corn, flax and tobacco.
Death: ?, Lancaster, Worcester county, Massachusetts
Will-proven: ?, Role:writer, Since John did not have a will, his widow and six of his children filed a petition for the distribution of John's property. The petition was witnessed by "Thomas Wylder" and "Jacob Sawer" and was attested by Major Willard Simon.
Places In
Saint Mary's (Somerset) England
Dorset county England
Taunton (Somerset) England
Cambridge (Middlesex) Massachusetts
Scituate (Plymouth) Massachusetts
Dorchester (Suffolk) Massachusetts
Lancaster (Worcester) Massachusetts
Saint Mary's (Somerset) England
Dorset county England
Taunton (Somerset) England
Cambridge (Middlesex) Massachusetts
Scituate (Plymouth) Massachusetts
Dorchester (Suffolk) Massachusetts
Lancaster (Worcester) Massachusetts
General
· The lineage of immigrant John Whitcomb is considered as follows: · Thomas Whitcombe married Edith Mavisyn daughter of Adam of Bewrick · Thomas Whitcomb · Thomas Whitcomb · William Whitcomb m.Blanche Sturry daughter of John and Anna (Corbitt) Blanche was the great granddaughter of Roger de Mortimer of Wigmore who was a grandson of William Longsword, DUC of Normandy (927-943) · Thomas Whitcomb b.1502 in Berwick, England and m. Elizabeth Best the daughter · of John of Best · William Whitcomb b.1528 in Berwick, England and m. Dorothy Tyler the daughter of Richard · John Whitcomb b.1560 m. Anne Harper daughter of John and Frances (Smyth). John Harper gave his son-in-law John Whitcomb a "share in Virginia" which in England in the 1600's meant the same as "America". John and Anne had at least seven children: Thomas, John, Frances, Anne, Elizabeth, Dorothy and Sarah.
John and his son John subscribed to the Orders at Lancaster in 1652 but probably did not move to Lancaster until 1654 when he sold part of his land in Scituate and gave part of it to his son Robert.
Research
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Some sources seem to believe that Symon Whitcomb, an original patentee of the old Massachusetts Bay Colony, was the father of John Whitcomb. However, as per the will of Symon's father, John Whitcomb of Sherbourne (Dorsetshire) England, that was probated in 1598, Symon was a minor at the time when the ancestor John Whitcomb was born around 1588. Symon may have been the brother of ancestor John Whitcomb as there was a John mentioned in the will of John of Sherbourne (whose wife was Anne Harper) as Symon's brother.
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Historical
1588: England, Spain - England (with help from the weather) defeats the Spanish Armada
1589: Spain, England - Spain repulses the English Armada
1590: United States - Roanoke, Virginia "disappears", becoming "The Lost Colony"
1591: Morocco, Mali - In Mali, Moroccan forces of the Sultan Ahmad al-Mansur led by Judar Pasha defeat the Songhai Empire at the Battle of Tondibi
1591: Poland, Russia - Gazi Giray leads a huge Tatar/Tartar expedition against Moscow
1592-1593: England - John Stow reports 10,675 plague deaths in London, a city of approximately 200,000 people
1592-1598: Korea, China, Japan - Korea, with the help of Ming Dynasty China, repels two Japanese Invasions
1593-1606: Austria, Turkey - The Long War between the Habsburg monarchy and the Ottoman Turks
1598-1613: Russia - Russia descends into anarchy during the Time of Troubles
1598: France - The Edict of Nantes (one of the coolest names ever!) ends the French Wars of Religion
1600: Italy - Giordano Bruno is burned at the stake for heresy in Rome
1600: Japan - Battle of Sekigahara in Japan, end of the Warring States period and beginning of the Edo period
1601-1603: Russia - The Russian famine of 1601-1603 kills perhaps a third of Russia
1601: Ireland - Battle of Kinsale, one of the most Important battles in Irish history, fought
1601: Romania, Austria - Michael the Brave (first unificator of Romania), voivode of Wallachia, Moldavia and Transylvania, is assassinated by the order of the Habsburg general Giorgio Basta at Campia TurzII
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
1588: England, Spain - England (with help from the weather) defeats the Spanish Armada
1589: Spain, England - Spain repulses the English Armada
1590: United States - Roanoke, Virginia "disappears", becoming "The Lost Colony"
1591: Morocco, Mali - In Mali, Moroccan forces of the Sultan Ahmad al-Mansur led by Judar Pasha defeat the Songhai Empire at the Battle of Tondibi
1591: Poland, Russia - Gazi Giray leads a huge Tatar/Tartar expedition against Moscow
1592-1593: England - John Stow reports 10,675 plague deaths in London, a city of approximately 200,000 people
1592-1598: Korea, China, Japan - Korea, with the help of Ming Dynasty China, repels two Japanese Invasions
1593-1606: Austria, Turkey - The Long War between the Habsburg monarchy and the Ottoman Turks
1598-1613: Russia - Russia descends into anarchy during the Time of Troubles
1598: France - The Edict of Nantes (one of the coolest names ever!) ends the French Wars of Religion
1600: Italy - Giordano Bruno is burned at the stake for heresy in Rome
1600: Japan - Battle of Sekigahara in Japan, end of the Warring States period and beginning of the Edo period
1601-1603: Russia - The Russian famine of 1601-1603 kills perhaps a third of Russia
1601: Ireland - Battle of Kinsale, one of the most Important battles in Irish history, fought
1601: Romania, Austria - Michael the Brave (first unificator of Romania), voivode of Wallachia, Moldavia and Transylvania, is assassinated by the order of the Habsburg general Giorgio Basta at Campia TurzII
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