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England in the 1600s

England in the 1600s. “ when all history happened”. A famous ghost. End of the Elizabethan era. 1601 Shakespeare’s Hamlet 1603 Elizabeth I dies; James I of England and VI of Scotland takes the throne 1605 Gunpowder Plot (Guy Fawkes): failed

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England in the 1600s

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  1. England in the 1600s “ when all history happened”

  2. A famous ghost

  3. End of the Elizabethan era • 1601 Shakespeare’s Hamlet • 1603 Elizabeth I dies; James I of England and VI • of Scotland takes the throne • 1605 Gunpowder Plot (Guy Fawkes): failed • 1607 Jamestown, first permanent English colony • in North America, is settled in Virginia • 1616 Death of Shakespeare • Throughout the first decades of the 17th century: • expansion of the Dutch East India and West India • Companies. Access to Markets in Asia and the New World, • political involvement, privateering, settling.

  4. Crossing the bridge

  5. Timeline: Highlights • 1619 Dutch East India Company, English East India Company, and • Sultanate of Bantenfight over Jayakarta. • 1620 The Dutch and the English begin a 3-year period of cooperation • over the spice trade; Pilgrims at Plymouth Rock, Mass. • 1622 Jamestown Massacre in Virginia; James I dissolves Parliament • 1625 Charles I takes the throne; married to a French Catholic princess • 1630 Boston founded by Puritans • 1636 Harvard University is founded • 1642 English Civil War; Charles II against the armies of the English and • Scottish parliaments • 1649 Charles I executed; beginning of the Interregnum • 1652 First coffee house in London • 1653 Cromwell becomes Lord Protector; dissolves Parliament in 1655 • 1656 Diarist Samuel Pepys describes a new drink: “a Cupp of Tee, a China drink” • 1658 Death of Cromwell; The Sultan’s Head, a coffee house, advertises the sale of • tea

  6. More of the century • 1660 End of the Commonwealth of England, beginning of the Restoration • 1661 Charles II takes the throne • 1665-67 Second Anglo-Dutch War; New Amsterdam gained by the English, and • renamed to New York • 1665 Great Plague of London: 100 000 dead, almost 15% of the population • 1666 Isaac Newton discovers gravity; Great Fire of London • 1667 John Milton, Paradise Lost • 1671 Morgan sacks Panama • 1681 William Penn and the Charter for Pennsylvania • 1685 James II, last Catholic king, takes the throne; Monmouth’s Rebellion • 1688 William III of Orange and Mary II of England assume English throne • 1692 Salem witch trials; William and Mary College founded in Virginia • 1694 Bank of England established

  7. Important births and deaths of the century Locke • Christopher Wren, Jan Vermeer, John Locke (b. 1632) • Louis XIV (b. 1638) • Galileo (d. 1642) • Isaac Newton (b. 1642) • Rene Descartes (d. 1650) • Daniel Defoe (b. 1661) • Rembrandt (d. 1669) • Rob Roy (b. 1671) • Composers Bach and Handel (b. 1685) • Descartes

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