Name Info
SIMON STONE 1585-1665
Fathers:DAVID,SIMON,DAVID,SIMON,JOHN
SIMON STONE 1585-1665
Fathers:DAVID,SIMON,DAVID,SIMON,JOHN
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Search.........Person PAF-ID.........09011882 Gender.........male Age............80y 8m 21d Fam-Group......MILLER Fam-ID.........STONE Citizenship....immigrant Status.........deceased Last-Marital...widowed |
#Marriages.....2 #Divorces......0 #Sources.......12 #Events........1 #Images:.......3 #Comments......1 #Siblings......3 #Children......7 |
Person-Type....A Immigrant?.....immigrant Immig-Known?...immigrant Parent?........father Spouse?........husband Sibling?.......brother Child?.........son Twin...........no Adopted?....... |
Title(s)....... Ancestor.......ancestor RelatedToMe....11XGreat Gen-#..........14 Ahn-#..........00000011882 Religion....... PoliticParty... Ht/Wt/Eye/Hair. Burial.........Old Watertown Cemetery |
Parents and Siblings
- Parent: DAVID TIMOTHY STONE, male, born:1540 Great Bromley (Essex) England, died:1590-1630 (50y 0m 0d) ?Great Bromley (Essex) England, Anc:1, Dad:SIMON STONE, Mom:AGNES CLARKE, #M:2, #SrcDocs:5
- Parent: Mrs. URSULA STONE, female, born:1550 Great Bromley (Essex) England, died:1585-1640 (35y 0m 0d) , Anc:1, #M:1, #SrcDocs:3
- Sibling: Ursula STONE, female, born:1588 Great Bromley (Essex) England, died:1608-1678 (20y 0m 0d) , Dad:DAVID TIMOTHY STONE, Mom:URSULA STONE, #M:1, #SrcDocs:1
- Sibling: Mary STONE, female, born:1590 Great Bromley (Essex) England, died:1610-1680 (20y 0m 0d) , Dad:DAVID TIMOTHY STONE, Mom:URSULA STONE, #M:1, #SrcDocs:1
- Sibling: Gregory STONE, male, born:1590 Great Bromley (Essex) England, died:1672-11-30 (82y 10m 29d) ?Cambridge (Middlesex) Massachusetts, Dad:DAVID TIMOTHY STONE, Mom:URSULA STONE, #M:2, #SrcDocs:1
Spouse(s) and Children
- Marriage: 1616-08-05 Great Bromley (Essex) England
- Spouse: JOAN\JANE CLARK, female, born:1597 ?England, died:1653 (56y 0m 0d) Waterton (Middlesex) Massachusetts, Anc:1, Dad:WILLIAM CLARK, Mom:SARAH STRONG, #SrcDocs:3
- ..Child: Frances STONE, female, born:1618-01-20 Great Bromley (Essex) England, died:1641-1708 (22y 11m 12d) ?Massachusetts, Dad:SIMON STONE, Mom:JOAN\JANE CLARK, #SrcDocs:4
- ..Child: Mary STONE, female, born:1620-10-01 Great Bromley (Essex) England, died:1620-1710 (0y 3m 0d) ?England, Dad:SIMON STONE, Mom:JOAN\JANE CLARK, #SrcDocs:2
- ..Child: ANNE\ANNA STONE, female, born:1623 Boxted (Essex) England, died:1680-05-01 (57y 4m 0d) Waterton (Middlesex) Massachusetts, Anc:1, Dad:SIMON STONE, Mom:JOAN\JANE CLARK, #SrcDocs:10
- ..Child: Simon STONE, male, born:1630 Boxted (Essex) England, died:1707-02-27 (77y 1m 26d) Waterton (Middlesex) Massachusetts, Dad:SIMON STONE, Mom:JOAN\JANE CLARK, #SrcDocs:4
- ..Child: Mary\Marie STONE, female, born:1632 Boxted (Essex) England, died:1691-06-25 (59y 5m 24d) ?Waterton (Middlesex) Massachusetts, Dad:SIMON STONE, Mom:JOAN\JANE CLARK, #SrcDocs:3
- ..Child: John STONE, male, born:1635-03-11 Great Bromley (Essex) England, died:1691-03-26 (56y 0m 15d) ?Waterton (Middlesex) Massachusetts, Dad:SIMON STONE, Mom:JOAN\JANE CLARK, #SrcDocs:5
- ..Child: Elizabeth STONE, female, born:1639-04-05 Waterton (Middlesex) Massachusetts, died:1639-1729 (0y 8m 27d) Waterton (Middlesex) Massachusetts, Dad:SIMON STONE, Mom:JOAN\JANE CLARK, #SrcDocs:3
- ...Spouse's Other Marriage: Richard Lumpkin
- Marriage: 1654 Waterton (Middlesex) Massachusetts
- Spouse: Sarah Baker, female, born:1585 ?Essex county England, died:1663-07 (78y 6m 0d) ?Waterton (Middlesex) Massachusetts, #Cmnts:1, #SrcDocs:6
Events
Birth: 1585 , Great Bromley, Essex county, England
Baptism: 1586-02-09, Age:1y 1m 8d, Great Bromley, Essex county, England, Role:baptised
Married: 1616-08-05, Age:31y 7m 4d, Great Bromley, Essex county, England, Role:groom
Livedin: 1622-1635, Age:37y 0m 0d, Boxted, Essex county, England, moved with his family The parish was six miles north of Great Bromley.
Tax: 1630 , Age:45y 0m 0d, Boxted, Essex county, England, Role:payee, taxed for land on the Subsidy Rolls
Livedin: 1635 , Age:50y 0m 0d, Waterton, Middlesex county, Massachusetts, Simon had seventy one acres and build a large frame house on this property. His descendants lived in this house until it burned in 1844. By then the property had increased to 150 acres and was owned by Capt. Moses Stone. After the death of Moses, the property was divided. Part of it became the Cambridge cemetery. Another part of it became the southern portion of Mt. Auburn Cemetery. This Catholic cemetery is well known cemetery. It is very ornate with statues, sculptures, flower gardens and more.
Ship: 1635-04-15, Age:50y 3m 14d, London, Middlesex county, England, Role:passenger, with his family Simon Stone age 50, his wife Joan age 38, children Frances age 16, Ann age 11, Simon age 4, and John age 5 weeks. Also on board was Simon's younger brother Gregory who later settled at Cambridge (Middlesex) Massachusetts and his brother John who settled in Guilford, Connecticut. This type of voyage in those days took about eleven weeks and were usually on 200 ton ships. There were 117 passengers on the "Increase".
Freeman: 1636-05-25, Age:51y 4m 24d
Pos-held: 1637-1656, Age:52y 0m 0d, Waterton, Middlesex county, Massachusetts, Role:selectman, for seven years in this period
Married: c1654 , Age:69y 0m 0d, Waterton, Middlesex county, Massachusetts, Role:groom
Will-written: 1665-09-07, Age:80y 8m 6d, Role:writer, In his will, Simon mentions his sons Simon and John, his daughter Mary, his brother Haywood, his daughter Frances Green and his grandchildren Joanna and Nathaniel Green. He does not mention daughters Ann and Elizabeth. He also mentions his son-in-law, Thomas Green, kinsman John and Daniel Warner, and Thomas Wells. His will was presented by his brother Gregory and by Stephen Day.
Death: 1665-09-22, Age:80y 8m 21d, Waterton, Middlesex county, Massachusetts
Church: ?, deacon
Immigrate: ?, Role:immigrant, In 1635 Simon and his family joined a large Puritan emigration of persons from Essex and Suffolk counties in England going to New England. His family settled in Watertown where there were already several families from Essex and Suffolk counties in England.
Job: ?, Massachusetts
Job: ?, Waterton, Middlesex county, Massachusetts, town officer
Burial: ?, Waterton, Middlesex county, Massachusetts, Old Watertown Cemetery, This cemetery is located at the corner of Mt. Auburn and Arlington Streets.
Birth: 1585 , Great Bromley, Essex county, England
Baptism: 1586-02-09, Age:1y 1m 8d, Great Bromley, Essex county, England, Role:baptised
Married: 1616-08-05, Age:31y 7m 4d, Great Bromley, Essex county, England, Role:groom
Livedin: 1622-1635, Age:37y 0m 0d, Boxted, Essex county, England, moved with his family The parish was six miles north of Great Bromley.
Tax: 1630 , Age:45y 0m 0d, Boxted, Essex county, England, Role:payee, taxed for land on the Subsidy Rolls
Livedin: 1635 , Age:50y 0m 0d, Waterton, Middlesex county, Massachusetts, Simon had seventy one acres and build a large frame house on this property. His descendants lived in this house until it burned in 1844. By then the property had increased to 150 acres and was owned by Capt. Moses Stone. After the death of Moses, the property was divided. Part of it became the Cambridge cemetery. Another part of it became the southern portion of Mt. Auburn Cemetery. This Catholic cemetery is well known cemetery. It is very ornate with statues, sculptures, flower gardens and more.
Ship: 1635-04-15, Age:50y 3m 14d, London, Middlesex county, England, Role:passenger, with his family Simon Stone age 50, his wife Joan age 38, children Frances age 16, Ann age 11, Simon age 4, and John age 5 weeks. Also on board was Simon's younger brother Gregory who later settled at Cambridge (Middlesex) Massachusetts and his brother John who settled in Guilford, Connecticut. This type of voyage in those days took about eleven weeks and were usually on 200 ton ships. There were 117 passengers on the "Increase".
Freeman: 1636-05-25, Age:51y 4m 24d
Pos-held: 1637-1656, Age:52y 0m 0d, Waterton, Middlesex county, Massachusetts, Role:selectman, for seven years in this period
Married: c1654 , Age:69y 0m 0d, Waterton, Middlesex county, Massachusetts, Role:groom
Will-written: 1665-09-07, Age:80y 8m 6d, Role:writer, In his will, Simon mentions his sons Simon and John, his daughter Mary, his brother Haywood, his daughter Frances Green and his grandchildren Joanna and Nathaniel Green. He does not mention daughters Ann and Elizabeth. He also mentions his son-in-law, Thomas Green, kinsman John and Daniel Warner, and Thomas Wells. His will was presented by his brother Gregory and by Stephen Day.
Death: 1665-09-22, Age:80y 8m 21d, Waterton, Middlesex county, Massachusetts
Church: ?, deacon
Immigrate: ?, Role:immigrant, In 1635 Simon and his family joined a large Puritan emigration of persons from Essex and Suffolk counties in England going to New England. His family settled in Watertown where there were already several families from Essex and Suffolk counties in England.
Job: ?, Massachusetts
Job: ?, Waterton, Middlesex county, Massachusetts, town officer
Burial: ?, Waterton, Middlesex county, Massachusetts, Old Watertown Cemetery, This cemetery is located at the corner of Mt. Auburn and Arlington Streets.
Places In
Boxted (Essex) England
Great Bromley (Essex) England
London (Middlesex) England
Waterton (Middlesex) Massachusetts
Boxted (Essex) England
Great Bromley (Essex) England
London (Middlesex) England
Waterton (Middlesex) Massachusetts
General
In 1868 Miss Caroline Orne (1818-1908), a granddaughter of Captain Moses Stone [referenced above], wrote an extended account of the ancestral Stone mansion from statements made by her mother Anne (Stone) Orne (1792-1872) who was born in the Stone house. Caroline later gave the information to Miss Josephine M. Stone, an artist, who made a painting of the house.
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Book Simon Stone Genealogy, J. Gardner Bartlett, 1926
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Historical
1585-1604: Spain, New World - The Anglo-Spanish War is fought on both sides of the Atlantic
1585: United States - in Roanoke, Virginia, the first English colony in America, is born the first white baby, Virginia Dare
1587: England - Queen Elizabeth authorizes the execution of Mary, Queen of Scots, for allegedly plotting against her
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
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
1585-1604: Spain, New World - The Anglo-Spanish War is fought on both sides of the Atlantic
1585: United States - in Roanoke, Virginia, the first English colony in America, is born the first white baby, Virginia Dare
1587: England - Queen Elizabeth authorizes the execution of Mary, Queen of Scots, for allegedly plotting against her
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
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