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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