1622 AD to 1666 AD

 1622 AD to 1666 AD: History timeline

 

1622 AD: to 1673 AD, France: Moliere (Jean Batiste Poquelin), French Playwright.

1623 AD to 1662 AD, France: Pascal, Blaise, French mathematician and Philosopher.

1626 AD: North America: Manhattan island  "purchased" from Indians.

~ American Indians: Native Americans sell Manhattan Island for $24.00 worth of buttons and cloth(?).

~ North America: Dutch founded New Amsterdam, which later became New York.
 
 
1627 AD: The Golden Horn and the Bosporus froze, strongly affecting commerce, communication, and travel.

1630 AD to 1652 AD, India: Taj Mahal built in Agra.

~ to 1,700 AD, USA: Flooding and lake in area of Salton Sea, California.
 
 1632 AD to 1638 AD: Compilation of the Annals of the Four Masters in Ireland.

1633 AD to 1695 AD, Brazil: Escaped Negro slaves form the Confederacy of Palmares in the forests of Pernambuco. Ruled by its own king, the kingdom swelled to about 20,000 members and is destroyed by Portuguese armed forces.

1634 AD: French explorer Jean Nicolet lead an expedition ashore near what is now Green Bay, wisconsin.

1635 AD, North America: In August an enormous hurricane passed close to New England.

~ (?) Spanish missionaries arrived near present day Del Rio (?) Texas on St. Phillips Day and named the area San Felipe del Rio. the name survived until 1883.

1637 AD to 1674 AD: Is the probable life span of the Englishman Robert Fludd. He probably used the pen-name Robertus Fluctus. The work, "Philosophia Moysaica" published after his death was probably his.1574 to 1637.

~ Galileo published a  dialog Concerning Two Word Systems(?)

1638 AD to 1686 AD, Nicholas Steno: Did he read Arabic? He pronounced  principles underlying geologic time scales. He argued that rock layers were laid down in succession, and that each layer represented a slice of time. He also proclaimed the law of superposition, which states that any give stratum is probably older than those above it and younger than those below it. Our geology follows his conceptions. 
 
 
1641 AD to 1653 AD: The Irish Eleven Year War, called the Confederate Wars by some and a rebellion by some English, occurred during this time. Its cause may have included lack of self governance in Ireland and a sharp Irish awareness of that lack provoked by English fear and greed.
~ Ireland: The policies of Charles I caused Insurrection in Ulster and civil war in England.

~ Japan: Only Dutch retained a trading post on an island in Nagasaki harbour. Japan is virtually cut off from the world until 1854!

~ Ireland: Revolt of Irish Catholics -- 30,000 Protestants massacred.

1642 AD, Ireland: Confederation of Kilkenny met.

~ to 1650 AD, England: English Civil War.

1643 AD: China: Fall of China's Ming Dynasty.

1644 AD: "Areopagitica" for the freedom of the press by John Milton.

1645 AD, England: Ashmole founded the Invisible College in London.

1647 AD: Alliance between lords of Pale and native Irishmen came to an end.

1648 AD, Boston: Shoemakers formed first workers guild!

1649 AD: Cromwell invaded Ireland.

~ Ireland: English soldier and statesman, Oliver Cromwell landed in Ireland at Dublin. His troops killed 2,000 men. a great part of lands in Munster, Lwinster, and Ulster(Drogheda and Wexford) was confiscated and divided among English Soldiers.

1650 AD to 1715 AD: Maunder Minimum, a period of extremely low solar activity.`

~ Catholic landowners exiled to Connaught.

1651 AD: Publication of Leviathan by Thomas Hobbs.

1652 AD: In the English colonies of the future US the "Pine Tree" shilling was minted.

1653 AD: Under the  act of Settlement, James II fled to Ireland where he was defeated at the Battle of the Boyn. Under the Act of Settlement, Cromwell's opponents are stripped of their land.

~ Large earthquake

1656 AD: Over 60,000 Irish Catholics had ben sent as slaves to Barbados and other islands in the Caribbean.

1657 AD: In Florence: Some students of Galileo founded the Accademia del Cimento (Cimentoin), an Academy of experiment focused on physics and astronomy where the Galileo thermometer was invented. The meetings of Cimentoin lasted until 1667.

1658 AD, Ireland: The population of Ireland, estimated at 1,500,000, before Cromwell, was reduced by 2/3, to 500,000 !?!. at Cromwell's death i1658.

1660 AD: Restoration of the English Monarchy.

~ England: Accession of Charles II.

1661 AD: Charles I (d. 1665) crowned king of England.

~ to 1668 AD The Duke of Ormond ruled Ireland as Viceroy.

~ England: Robert Boyle defined chemical elements.

1662 AD, Colombia: A great comet was witnessed in Cartagena and much of the world and has been called a ''luminary event" so was probably very bright.

1663 AD, North America: The Hudson River valley was shaken by an earthquake followed river flooding. This was followed by a smallpox epidemic and then by an ''Indian massacre at Esopres." The flooding of the Hudson just above New Amsterdam was called an overflow.







1665 AD: The Great Plague of London. The Bubonic Plague lead to the death of 20% of the population of London.`Fleas on rats?

~ England:  Issac Newton revealed the law of gravity.

1666 AD: The  great fire of London.

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1578 AD to 1622 AD

1578 AD to 1622 AD   History Timeline

1579 AD: Sir Francis Drake landed at what is now Point Reyes,  north of  San Francisco, California. Drake landed in Central California.

1580 AD to 1654 AD: Lifespan of Saint Peter Claver born in Catalonia. He entered the Jesuit order at 21. In 1610 he left Spain to serve in Cartagena, Colombia. In 1615 on starting to work in Colombia he was shocked by the misery of the slave trade. He should have checked out the slaves themselves.

1586 AD to 1617 AD, Peru: Life of Saint Rose of Lima.

1587 AD to 1691 AD, U. S:  Second English colony on Roanoke island in what is now Virginia. 

~ The Pope calls for a Catholic crusade for the invasion of England. 

 1588 AD: The Spanish Armada sent sent by Philip of Spain to conquer England.

~ British navy defeated the Spanish Armada.

 1590 AD: Before this date a French painter was observing Indian activity in Florida. A caption on one of his paintings translated to "Sometimes the deceased king of this province is buried with great solemnity and with his cup from which he was accustomed to drink is placed on a tumulus with many arrows set about." A painters cultural in interpretations may be faulty, but his eye is often good. We can learn from many.

~ North America: Iroquois nation established a Confederacy of Five Nations to stop warfare.

~ Holland/Netherlands: Zacharias Jansen "invents" the microscope... .............

1591 AD, England: This is a reminder that this item needs much redoing.

Saint Witham Wells, on of the fort markys of England and Wales, was hung in Gray's Inn Fields near his home. He was born in the town of Bainbridge in Hashire. He worked as a  school master before he retired to London with his wife.

 

1592 AD: In China about this time Tu Lung wrote Ch'aching, a treatise on tea and the appreciation of it. 

1593 AD to 1649 AD, Canada: Life of Saint Jean de Brebeuf, Jesuit missionary among the Huron. tortured to death by Iroquois.

1594 AD: Ireland: August: Hugh O'Neill defeated a small English force at the ford of Biscuits near Enniskillen.

 

1595 AD: In Ireland was the failed uprising of Hugh O'Neill.

~ Ireland: Rebellion of Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone.

~ Ireland: O'Neill's great victory at Yellow Ford at Ulster.

1596 AD to 1650 AD: Life of Rene Descartes.

1597 AD: The Herball or Historie of Plants Was published by John Gisard, a physician to the Tudor family.

1598 AD, USA: Don Juan Onate party moved into the Rio Grande valley of what is now New Mexico.

1599 AD, England: Globe Theater was built outside London.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    

 

ca. 1600s to 1700s AD: My sister has documented progenitors of ours in Norway. She is thankful to the present people of Norway for their thoughtful kindness and to earlier Norwegians for their useful laws and rules. This is going back 13 generations for her and for me.

1600 AD: Tord Grasmo is in my paternal grandmother's direct line. He was born about this date in Norway at an unknown place and died in Norway before 1680 at a date I don't know. My sister provided this information which I do not understand: Tor Gudmunsen resided between1640 and 1650 Vestun Grasmo, Matrand, Eidskog, Vingar, Hedmark. Ah yes, it seems that Tord Grasmo was Gudmunsen. Gudmunsen was the son Gumund Grasmo. Between 1611 and 1635 this Gudmund resided at Vestun, Nordre Grasmo, Matrand, Eidskog and Inger. Gudmund married Guri/Gunne Gulbrandsdtr in about 1620 in Eidskog, Hedmark, Norway.

~ Guri/Gunne Gulbrandsdtr was born about 1600 in Norway and later died there, perhaps after 1685. She resided at Vestun pa Abogen i Eidskog.

~ to ca the end of 1700 AD: For this period my sister, Gerry Hook, has documented evidence of our "common progenitors" of ours thanks to the rules, laws, and good people of Norway.

~ British obtained a monopoly 0n opium and traded China fo tea, silk, and silver.

~ Spain: Pedro Calderon de Barca was spain's greatest dramatic author.

1601 AD: Ireland: Defeat of O'Neill, O'Donnell, and Spaniards by Mountjoy at Battle of Kinsale. 

~ Ireland: System of counties instituted in this year.

1602 AD: Sabastian Vizcaino explored the California shores for Spain. Vizcaino arrived at the bay of Monterey, California.

 

 

1603 AD, England: Accession of James I.

~ Ireland: Surrender of Hugh O'Neil.

~ Ireland: Enforcement of English law.

1604 AD: A Supernova occurred in the constellation Taurus and formed the Crab Nebula. 

1606 AD: Settlement of Scots in Ards Peninsula.

~ Ireland: Land in six counties of Ulster confiscated by English.

~ The Dutch discovered Australia.

1607 AD: Flight from Ireland. Flight of O'Neil, of Earl of Tyrone and  of O'Donnell of Tyconnnell. the "Flight of the Earls" to Spain. Leading families go into voluntary exile. Leading Ulster families go into voluntary exile. Leading families of Ulster run for it.

~ Founding of Jamestown, Virginia.

~ North America: The English founded their Virginia colony.

~ to 1646 AD: Life of Saint Isaac Jogues. He was born in orleans, France and entered the Society Of Jesus a 17 and taught literature in Ruen, France. In 1636 he was sent to Canada as a missionary to Native Americans under John de Bribeuf.(Brebeuf?)

1608 AD: Plantation of Derry and other confiscated counties of Ireland.

~ Samuel de Champlain founded Quebec at this time.

~ Hans Lipperskey invented a telescope around this time

1609 AD to 1611 AD, North America: The starving time in Virginia.

1611 AD to 1632 AD, Sweden: Gustavus Adolphus. the Lion of the North, king of Sweden. One of the great warriors of the age.

1612 AD, US: An earthquake and aftershocks were felt in California that were strong enough for the priests at the Buenaventura and Capistrano missions to call "dreadful. The weather at the time was hot.

1613 AD to 1680 AD, France: La Rochefoucauld, du Francois, French moralist.

1616 AD: Shakespeare and Cervantes died!

~ to 1664 AD, Germany: Andreas Gryphius, German baroque poet and playwright.

~ Royal Society founded by members of  "Invisible College and produced Masons."

~  to 1654 AD: Nicholas Culpeper published The English Physician, a Peoples Herbal and an English translation of the Latin Pharmacopeia.

1618 AD to 1648 AD: The Thirty Years War in Europe.

1620 AD, Norway: Arne-Grasmo Tordsen was born about this time to Tord Grasmo and Guri/Gunne Gulbrandsdtr(I Think). I believe the birth took place at Hedmark Eidskog before 1690 in Hedmark Eidskog. He married Marthe Grasmo before 1643 in Norway. 

~ Landing of Pilgrims at Plymouth.

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1490 AD to 1534 AD

1490 AD to 1534 AD:  History timeline including: England, Spain, plague, South America, peace, Ireland, comets, and more each month.

1491 AD to 1556 AD: Life of St. Ignatius Loyola.

1492 AD to 1506 AD: Voyages of Christopher Columbus.

~ to 1496 AD: Jews were expelled from Spain and Portugal. Many immigrated to the "Holy Land."

~ 1492 AD: Intensification of the Spanish Inquisition.

~ Johann Reuchlin. German humanist. began to study Hebrew.

~ to 1496 AD: Jews expelled from Spain and Portugal. Many immigrated to the Holy Land, others went to Turkey.

~ 1506 AD: Voyages to the "New World" of Christopher Columbus.

1492 AD: Intensification of the Spanish Inquisition.

~ Johann Reuchlin. German humanist. began to study Hebrew.

~ to 1496 AD: Jews expelled from Spain and Portugal. Many immigrated to the Holy Land, others went to Turkey.

~ 1506 AD: Voyages to the "New World" of Christopher Columbus.

~1492 AD: Columbus sailed the ocean blue.

~ The Spanish arrived in the Caribbean bring smallpox, measles, and bubonic plague to the indigenous peoples, killing 90% of the indigenous population of North and south America. So much death may have caused  significant  changes in atmospheric co2 levels.

~ Intensification of the Spanish Inquisition.

~ Johann Reuchlin, German humanist, began to study Hebrew.

~ to 1496 AD: Jews expelled from Spain and Portugal. Many immigrated to the "Holy Land," others went to Turkey, others began to investigate the "New World."

~ to 1506 AD: Voyages to the "New World" by Christopher Columbus.

 1492 AD to 1506 AD: Voyages of Christopher Columbus.

~ to 1496 AD: Jews were expelled from Spain and Portugal. Many immigrated to the "Holy Land"

1493 AD: The first Bundschuh, a peasant revolt in Alsace and southwest Germany. Perhaps better called the first manifestation of a movement lasting until 1517 and perhaps until 1525. One might say that the Reformation clarified questions of human rights.

~ Nuremberg Chronicle, published.

1494 AD Henry the VII of England sends Edward Poynings to Ireland to end support for Perkins Warbeck. Poynings laws make Ireland dependent on England

~ Henry the VII of England sends Edward Poynings to end support for Perkins Warbeck. Poynings Laws make Ireland dependent on England. 

~ Treaty of Tordesillas.

1495 AD: Sir William Stanley, Lord Chamberlain of Henry the VII, executed for complicity in Warbeck's conspiracy. 

~ The Imperial Diet open at Worms, proclaims Perpetual Peace, sets up an Imperial Chamber and Court of appeal, imposes common penny as general tax.

1496 AD: Line of "the Pale" at Clongowes. This was a small enclave around 

1491 AD: to 1556 AD: Life of Saint Ignatius Loyola.

91 AD to 1556: The lifespan of St. Ignatius Loyola.

1492 AD to 1506 AD: Voyages of Christopher Columbus.

~ to 1496 AD: Jews were expelled from Spain and Portugal. Many immigrated to the "Holy Land."

~ 1492 AD: Intensification of the Spanish Inquisition.

~ Johann Reuchlin. German humanist. began to study Hebrew.

~ to 1496 AD: Jews expelled from Spain and Portugal. Many immigrated to the Holy Land, others went to Turkey.

~ 1506 AD: Voyages to the "New World" of Christopher Columbus.

1492 AD: Intensification of the Spanish Inquisition.

~ Johann Reuchlin. German humanist. began to study Hebrew.

~ to 1496 AD: Jews expelled from Spain and Portugal. Many immigrated to the Holy Land, others went to Turkey.

~ 1506 AD: Voyages to the "New World" of Christopher Columbus.

~1492 AD: Columbus sailed the ocean blue.

~ The Spanish arrived in the Caribbean bring smallpox, measles, and bubonic plague to the indigenous peoples, killing 90% of the indigenous population of North and south America. So much death may have caused  significant  changes in atmospheric co2 levels.

~ Intensification of the Spanish Inquisition.

~ Johann Reuchlin, German humanist, began to study Hebrew.

~ to 1496 AD: Jews expelled from Spain and Portugal. Many immigrated to the "Holy Land," others went to Turkey, others began to investigate the "New World."

~ to 1506 AD: Voyages to the "New World" by Christopher Columbus.

 

1492 AD: Columbus sailed the ocean blue.

~ The Spanish arrived in the Caribbean bring smallpox, measles, and bubonic plague to the indigenous peoples, killing 90% of the indigenous population of North and south America. So much death may have caused  significant  changes in atmospheric co2 levels.

~ Intensification of the Spanish Inquisition.

~ Johann Reuchlin, German humanist, began to study Hebrew.

~ to 1496 AD: Jews expelled from Spain and Portugal. Many immigrated to the "Holy Land," others went to Turkey, others began to investigate the "New World."

~ to 1506 AD: Voyages to the "New World" by Christopher Columbus.

 

1493 AD: The first Bundschuh, a peasant revolt in Alsace and southwest Germany. Perhaps better called the first manifestation of a movement lasting until 1517 and perhaps until 1525. One might say that the Reformation clarified questions of human rights.

~ Nuremberg Chronicle, published.

1494 AD Henry the VII of England sends Edward Poynings to Ireland to end support for Perkins Warbeck. Poynings laws make Ireland dependent on England.

~ Treaty of Tordesillas. European division of New World.

1494 AD: Henry the VII of England sends Edward Poynings to end support for Perkins Warbeck. Poynings Laws make Ireland dependent on England. 

Treaty of Tordesillas.

1495 AD: Sir William Stanley, Lord Chamberlain of Henry the VII, executed for complicity in Warbeck's conspiracy. 

~ The Imperial Diet open at Worms, proclaims Perpetual Peace, sets up an Imperial Chamber and Court of appeal, imposes common penny as general tax.

1494 AD Henry the VII of England sends Edward Poynings to Ireland to end support for Perkins Warbeck. Poynings laws make Ireland dependent on England.

~ Treaty of Tordesillas. European division of New World.

1495 AD: Sir William Stanley, Lord Chamberlain of Henry the VII, executed for complicity in Warbeck's conspiracy. 

~ The Imperial Diet open at Worms, proclaims Perpetual Peace, sets up an Imperial Chamber and Court of appeal, imposes common penny as general tax.

1496 AD: Line of "the Pale" at Clongowes. This was a small enclave 

1494 AD Henry the VII of England sends Edward Poynings to Ireland to end support for Perkins Warbeck. Poynings laws make Ireland dependent on England.

~ Treaty of Tordesillas. European division of Ne

1495 AD: Sir William Stanley, Lord Chamberlain of Henry the VII, executed for complicity in Warbeck's conspiracy. 

~ The Imperial Diet open at Worms, proclaims Perpetual Peace, sets up an Imperial Chamber and Court of appeal, imposes common penny as general tax.

1496 AD: Line of "the Pale" at Clongowes. This was a small enclave around Dublin, which became the area of English rule.

 1496 AD: Ireland: Line of "the Pale" at Clongowes. This was a small enclave around Dublin which became the area of English rule.

1497 AD: John Cabot discovered the the Eastern coast of  North America.

1499 AD: comets noted because they were notable.

1,500 AD: Pedro Alvares Cabral, an explore ostensible on his way to India, lands in Brazil and claims it for the Portuguese crown.

~ US: Lake Cahuilla, Salton Sea, Large inflow of water from the Colorado River fill the lake to a body of water 26 times the volume of the current(2,000 AD) Salton Sea.

~ Physician Paracelsus compounded tincture of opium for medical use.

~ US: End of the "last stand" of Lake Cahuilla.

1501 AD t0 1526 AD, Morocco: Rule of the Portuguese, Mohammed. 

1503 AD: Christopher Columbus discovered the Cayman Islands and named them Las Tortugas.

1504 AD: Michelangelo's sculpture of David completed.

1506 AD: Life of Saint Francis Xavier. Born in a Castile in Navarre, spain. A i8 at collage in Paris he met Ignatius Loyola and joined his new order, the Society of Jesus. He subsequently went to the the Eat Indies as a missionary.

1507 AD: accession of Henry VIII.

1508 AD: Michelangelo painted the Sistine Chapel. 

1510 AD to 1572 AD: Life of St. Francis of Borgia. Born to an imperial family, the great grandson of Pope Alexander VI and         King Ferdinand of Aragon. Was the Marquis of Lombardy and duke of Gandris. Became Superior General of the order of Jesus. Sometimes called the 2nd founder.

1511 AD, Mexico: End of the Toltec empire.

1513 AD: Balboa sighted the Pacific Ocean.

1515 AD: Anarchy in Ireland.

~ Juan Ponce de Leon landed on the Florida peninsula.

~ to 1582 AD: Life of Saint Teresa of Avila.

1517 AD to 1560 AD: Martin Luther begins the Protestant Reformation at Wittenberg, Germany. Reformation Movement flourishes.

1519 AD to 1521 AD: Magellan's crew sailed around the world.

~ Mexico: Cortez invaded Aztecs.

~ Mexico: Hernando Cortez sized center of the land from Aztec emperor Montezuma.

1520 AD: Narvaez surrendered to Cortez at Cempoalla in Vera Cruz. Legend says that Narvaez mistook lights from Aicujo(?)kettles(?) for musket matches.

~ Mexico:Montezuma killed.

1521 AD: The first voyage around the world by Magellan (How many others had that first voyage.

1524 AD: Verrazano sailed the Atlantic coast of much of North America.

1526 AD: Spaniards arrived in Zuni villages.

1529 AD to 1936 AD: Henry VIII made his great breach with Rome, and set himself up as head of the Church in England.

 

 

1530 AD, Russia: Life span of Ivan the Terrible.

1531 AD: Pizarro marched on the Incas.

~ England: King Henry VIII was recognized as the Supreme Head of the Church of England.

1532 AD: Machiavelli's The Prince is published.

~ Brazil: Under the leadership of Martin Alfonso de Souza, settlers founded Brazil's first permanent colony, Sao Vicente, nnear Santos. Sugar cane became a basis of Brazil's early economy.

1533 AD to 1592 AD, France: Montaigne, Michel de; French essayist and moralist.

~ Mexico: Discovery of Baja California.

1534 AD: Ireland: Kildare rebellion.

~ 1540 AD: Ireland: There was a failed insurrection by Lord Offaly (O'faly).

~ Church of england is established.

~ St. Ignatius Loyola founded the Jesuit Order.

~ George Hohermuth, Nicolaus Federman, and Philip Von Hutten search for gold and crosse the Colombian and Venezuela llan0s. I believe that Federman was born in 1505  and died in 1542.

~ to 1540 AD, Ireland: A failed insurrection by  Lord Offaly.

~ The Anabaptists form a communist state 'under' John Leiden

 

 1541 AD: Henry the VII of England was proclaimed king (rather than Feudal lord) of Ireland.