Name Info
ISAAC ALLERTON
c1586 EN to 1659 CT
son of EDWARD ALLERTON and ROSE DAVIS
ISAAC ALLERTON
c1586 EN to 1659 CT
son of EDWARD ALLERTON and ROSE DAVIS
Search.........Person PAF-ID.........09021742 Gender.........male Status.........deceased Age............73y 1m 11d Last-Marital...married Fam-Group......DOUGLASS Fam-ID.........ALLERTON Citizenship....immigrant |
#Marriages.....3 #Divorces......0 #Sources.......19 #Events........1 #Images:.......12 #Comments......2 #Siblings......0 #Children......1 |
Person-Type....A Immigrant?.....immigrant Immig-Known?...immigrant Parent?........father Spouse?........husband Sibling?.......brother Child?.........son Twin...........no Adopted?....... |
Title(s)....... Ancestor.......double ancestor RelatedToMe.... Gen-#..........15 Ahn-#.......... Religion....... PoliticParty... Ht/Wt/Eye/Hair. Burial.........Center Church on the Green Churchyard |
Parents and Siblings
- Parent: EDWARD ALLERTON, male, born:1555 London, Middlesex county, England, died:1590 (35y 0m 0d) London, Middlesex county, England, Anc:1, #M:1, #Cmnts:1
- Parent: ROSE DAVIS, female, born:1559 London, Middlesex county, England, died:1596-06 (37y 5m 0d) London, Middlesex county, England, Anc:1, #M:1
Spouse(s) and Children
- Marriage: 1611-11-04 Leiden, South Holland county, Netherlands
- Spouse: MARY NORRIS, female, born:1586 ?England, died:1621 (35y 0m 0d) Plymouth, Plymouth county, Massachusetts, Anc:1
- ..Child: REMEMBER ALLERTON, female, born:1614 Leiden, South Holland county, Netherlands, died:1655-09-12 (41y 8m 11d) ?Salem, Essex county, Massachusetts, Anc:1, Dad:ISAAC ALLERTON, Mom:MARY NORRIS, #Cmnts:1
- Marriage: 1626 ?Plymouth, Plymouth county, Massachusetts
- Spouse: Fear Brewster, female, born:1590 ?England, died:1634 (44y 0m 0d) ?Plymouth county, Massachusetts, Dad:William Brewster, Mom:? ?
- Marriage: 1634-1644 ?Marblehill, Essex county, Massachusetts
- Spouse: Joanna Swinnerton, female, born:1600 ?England, died:1682 (82y 0m 0d) ?New Haven, New Haven county, Connecticut
Events
Birth: 1586 y0m0d
Birth: 1586 y0m0d, St. Andrews Under Shaft
Married: 1611-11-04, Age:25y10m3d, Role:groom
Ship: 1620, Age:34y8m5d, Mayflower, Role:passenger, along with his family Isaac was the fifth signer of the Mayflower Compact. along with his family Isaac was the fifth signer of the Mayflower Compact.
Livedin: 1620 , Age:34y0m0d, one of the first Pilgrims one of the first Pilgrims
Livedin: 1620 , Age:34y0m0d, one of the first Pilgrims one of the first Pilgrims
Pos-held: 1621 , Age:35y0m0d, Role:assistant, governor William Bradford governor William Bradford
Land: 1623 , Age:37y0m0d, seven acres, Role:buyer
Married: 1626 , Age:40y0m0d, Role:groom
Freeman: 1633 , Age:47y0m0d
Married: 1634-1644, Age:48y0m0d, Role:groom
Livedin: 1636-1639, Age:50y0m0d, [New Amsterdam] in 1636/9 [New Amsterdam] in 1636/9
Livedin: 1643 , Age:57y0m0d, He was one of the eight men of New Netherland. He was one of the eight men of New Netherland.
Church: 1647-03-10, Age:61y2m9d, New Haven Meeting House, assigned pews assigned pews
Land: 1647 , Age:61y0m0d, Role:buyer, a tract of land and built a warehouse a tract of land and built a warehouse
Death: 1659-02-12, Age:73y1m11d
Inventory: 1659-02-12, Age:73y1m11d, Role:inventory, 118 pounds mostly real estate 118 pounds mostly real estate
Will-proven: 1659-10-19, Age:73y9m18d, Role:writer, Mostly a list of debts owing to him. He ordered "my son Isaac Allerton and my wife, as trustees to receive in my debts, & to pay what I owe, as far as it will go & what is over plus I leave to my wife and my son Isaac, as far as they receive the debts to pay what I owe". Mostly a list of debts owing to him. He ordered "my son Isaac Allerton and my wife, as trustees to receive in my debts, & to pay what I owe, as far as it will go & what is over plus I leave to my wife and my son Isaac, as far as they receive the debts to pay what I owe".
Will-written: 1659 , Age:73y0m0d, Role:writer, text given in rootsweb page text given in rootsweb page
Burial: 1659 , Age:73y0m0d, Center Church on the Green Churchyard
Church: Salem Church
Birth: 1586 y0m0d
Birth: 1586 y0m0d, St. Andrews Under Shaft
Married: 1611-11-04, Age:25y10m3d, Role:groom
Ship: 1620, Age:34y8m5d, Mayflower, Role:passenger, along with his family Isaac was the fifth signer of the Mayflower Compact. along with his family Isaac was the fifth signer of the Mayflower Compact.
Livedin: 1620 , Age:34y0m0d, one of the first Pilgrims one of the first Pilgrims
Livedin: 1620 , Age:34y0m0d, one of the first Pilgrims one of the first Pilgrims
Pos-held: 1621 , Age:35y0m0d, Role:assistant, governor William Bradford governor William Bradford
Land: 1623 , Age:37y0m0d, seven acres, Role:buyer
Married: 1626 , Age:40y0m0d, Role:groom
Freeman: 1633 , Age:47y0m0d
Married: 1634-1644, Age:48y0m0d, Role:groom
Livedin: 1636-1639, Age:50y0m0d, [New Amsterdam] in 1636/9 [New Amsterdam] in 1636/9
Livedin: 1643 , Age:57y0m0d, He was one of the eight men of New Netherland. He was one of the eight men of New Netherland.
Church: 1647-03-10, Age:61y2m9d, New Haven Meeting House, assigned pews assigned pews
Land: 1647 , Age:61y0m0d, Role:buyer, a tract of land and built a warehouse a tract of land and built a warehouse
Death: 1659-02-12, Age:73y1m11d
Inventory: 1659-02-12, Age:73y1m11d, Role:inventory, 118 pounds mostly real estate 118 pounds mostly real estate
Will-proven: 1659-10-19, Age:73y9m18d, Role:writer, Mostly a list of debts owing to him. He ordered "my son Isaac Allerton and my wife, as trustees to receive in my debts, & to pay what I owe, as far as it will go & what is over plus I leave to my wife and my son Isaac, as far as they receive the debts to pay what I owe". Mostly a list of debts owing to him. He ordered "my son Isaac Allerton and my wife, as trustees to receive in my debts, & to pay what I owe, as far as it will go & what is over plus I leave to my wife and my son Isaac, as far as they receive the debts to pay what I owe".
Will-written: 1659 , Age:73y0m0d, Role:writer, text given in rootsweb page text given in rootsweb page
Burial: 1659 , Age:73y0m0d, Center Church on the Green Churchyard
Church: Salem Church
Image(s)
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O__1252 - Torrey's Marriages Book with Isaac Allerton and Mary Norris
O__1253 - Torrey's Marriages Book with Isaac Allerton and wives Fear and Joanna
O__1306 - Book 'Allerton Family 1585 to 1885', 1900, Walter Allerton
Z__0001 - Map of Counties of England
Z__0030 - Map of Counties of Massachusetts
Z__0031 - Map of Counties of Connecticut
Z__0032 - Map of Counties of New York
O__0176 - Family Information of Isaac Allerton
O__0433 - Family Information of Isaac Allerton
O__0675 - Family Information of Isaac Allerton
O__0957 - Family Information of Isaac Allerton
O__1184 - Family information of Isaac Allerton
O__1252 - Torrey's Marriages Book with Isaac Allerton and Mary Norris
O__1253 - Torrey's Marriages Book with Isaac Allerton and wives Fear and Joanna
O__1306 - Book 'Allerton Family 1585 to 1885', 1900, Walter Allerton
Z__0001 - Map of Counties of England
Z__0030 - Map of Counties of Massachusetts
Z__0031 - Map of Counties of Connecticut
Z__0032 - Map of Counties of New York
General
Sources
American Ancestors website of Mayflower passengers, Isaac Allerton family
Book Directory of New England Ancestral Heads, F.R. Holmes, 1964
Book Genealogical Dictionary of The First New England Settlers, J. Savage, 1969
Book Genealogical Register of The First New England Settlers, J.Farmer, 1964
Book Genealogies of the Early Settlers of America (three volumes), H. Whittemore, 1898, 1967
Book Great Migration Begins: Immigrants 1620-1633, R.C. Anderson, 1995
Book Immigrant Ancestors Before 1750, F.A. Virkus, 1980 (unreliable source)
Book New England Historic Genealogical Register volume 173 (2019)
Book New England Marriages Prior to 1700 Supplement III, Sanborn, 2003 (1991, 1995)
Book New England Marriages Prior to 1700, Torrey, 1985
Book Pioneers of Massachusetts, C.H. Pope, 1965
Letters from Wilfred Vasile, LeRoy NY, 1995
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O__1253__ image
O__1306__ image
RootsWeb website at https://wc.rootsweb.com or http://worldconnect.genealogy
Ship Passenger Lists found on ISTG.RootsWeb website
Website findagrave.com
Website http://werelate.org
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homepages.rootsweb.com:::family, three marriageshomepages.rootsweb.com:::
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our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com:::family, parents, two marriages, only daughter Mary and son Isaacour-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com:::
sites.rootsweb.com:::family, parents, three marriages, willsites.rootsweb.com:::
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geni.com:::family, three marriagesgeni.com:::
myheritage.com:::family, parents, two marriagesmyheritage.com:::
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themayflowersociety.org:::family, three marriagesthemayflowersociety.org:::
werelate.org:::family, parents, three marriageswerelate.org:::
wikitree.com:::family, parents, three marriageswikitree.com:::
American Ancestors website of Mayflower passengers, Isaac Allerton family
Book Directory of New England Ancestral Heads, F.R. Holmes, 1964
Book Genealogical Dictionary of The First New England Settlers, J. Savage, 1969
Book Genealogical Register of The First New England Settlers, J.Farmer, 1964
Book Genealogies of the Early Settlers of America (three volumes), H. Whittemore, 1898, 1967
Book Great Migration Begins: Immigrants 1620-1633, R.C. Anderson, 1995
Book Immigrant Ancestors Before 1750, F.A. Virkus, 1980 (unreliable source)
Book New England Historic Genealogical Register volume 173 (2019)
Book New England Marriages Prior to 1700 Supplement III, Sanborn, 2003 (1991, 1995)
Book New England Marriages Prior to 1700, Torrey, 1985
Book Pioneers of Massachusetts, C.H. Pope, 1965
Letters from Wilfred Vasile, LeRoy NY, 1995
O__1252__ image
O__1253__ image
O__1306__ image
RootsWeb website at https://wc.rootsweb.com or http://worldconnect.genealogy
Ship Passenger Lists found on ISTG.RootsWeb website
Website findagrave.com
Website http://werelate.org
fabpedigree.com:::family treefabpedigree.com:::
mayflowerhistory.com:::family, three marriagesmayflowerhistory.com:::
oakbaydesigns.com:::family, three marriages, NO LONGER AVAILABLEoakbaydesigns.com:::
en.wikipedia.org:::family, three marriages, much personal infoen.wikipedia.org:::
familypedia.wikia.org:::family, parents, three marriagesfamilypedia.wikia.org:::
gw.geneanet.org:::family, parents, two marriagesgw.geneanet.org:::
gw.geneanet.org:::family, parents, two marriagesgw.geneanet.org:::
homepages.rootsweb.com:::family, three marriageshomepages.rootsweb.com:::
mayflower.americanancestors.org:::family, three marriages. mich personal infomayflower.americanancestors.org:::
our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com:::family, parents, two marriages, only daughter Mary and son Isaacour-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com:::
sites.rootsweb.com:::family, parents, three marriages, willsites.rootsweb.com:::
familysearch.org:::family, parentsfamilysearch.org:::
findagrave.com:::family, three marriagesfindagrave.com:::
geni.com:::family, three marriagesgeni.com:::
myheritage.com:::family, parents, two marriagesmyheritage.com:::
ourfamtree.org:::family, parentsourfamtree.org:::
plimoth.org:::family, much personal info, NO LONGER AVAILABLEplimoth.org:::
themayflowersociety.org:::family, three marriagesthemayflowersociety.org:::
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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
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