A.D

PROGRESS OF SOCIETY, etc.

AMERICA.

PERIOD IX.-120 years.—

ENGLAND.

1602 English East India Company founded.

Exportation of Eng.ish wool 1601.- Acadia co

prohibited.

1601. Earl of Essex be-
headed.

1603.-James I.

Union of the
English and

Scotch
lonized by the
French.

1603 Conference at Hampton Court.
1604 New Translation of the Bi-
ble begun; (published 1611).
1606 Dr. Gilbert discovers the pow-
er of electricity, and of con-
ductors and non-conductors. 1607.-English

1606. - Discovery
of Hudson's Bay.

settlement at Jamestown, (1st permanent one in N. America.) 1608.Quebec founded.

crowns.

1605. The Gunpowder
Plot.

FRANCE.

1627 The Parian marbles brought 1627. Boston found- 1627. War with France, in support of

to England by the earl of
Arundel.

1630 Gazettes first published in

Venice.

ed.

the Hugue

nots.

Rochelle reduced by famine -ai

ter a siege of ten months

1598-1718.-Edict of Nantes to the death of Charles XII., of Sweden.

1604. Sweden: Charles IX.

1605. Revolt in 1605. India: -Jehangir, sulSyria and

Caramania,

under the

pasha of Aleppo. 1606. Commercial treaty with France and Holland.

Tobacco first brought

-Cosmo II.

to Turkey.

Leghorn, the emporium of the Levant trade.

1618. Conspi-
racy of Bed-
mar, the
Spanish en-
voy, to re-
duce Venice
under sub-
jection to
Spain.

1617.-Musta

pha L

1618. Osman

II.

Great Persian victory at Shibli. 1620. War with Poland, and

unsucces8

ful invasion
of Poland.

1621. Gregory
XV., pope.
Tuscany:
Ferdinand II.
1623. The fa- 1623.
mous library
of the Pala-
tine at Hei-

delberg, sent

to Rome.

IV.

Murad

restores tran

quillity.

1623. General 1625. Truce

Italian war]

tan.

1609. India :-Arrival of Haw.

kins, first English envoy from the East India Company.

Sweden: Gustavus Adolphus.

1611. Sweden: --War with Denmark.-Calmar and Risby lost.-Axel Oxenstiern, minister.-Russia devastated by Poles and Tartars. Russia--Michael Romanoff, czar.

1615. Denmark:-First standing army.

1616. India:-Sir Thomas Roe, ambassador from James I., of England.

Sweden predominates in the north.

1618. The Synod of DortArminius condemned.

Settlement of Tanquebar, in Coromandel.

1621. Dutch West India Com-
pany incorporated.
1622. Persia-Ormuz gained
from the Portuguese by the
help of the English.

1625. Netherlands: - Henry
Frederic.-Breda, taken by
Spinola.

1627. Persia:-Shah Soofi I. with the em-1629. Peace of Lubeck.

pire renew

on the death

1630 Peace

many. - Diet

ed.

Ratisbon. --Wal

lenstein dismissed,
succeeded by Til
ly.

of Mantua.

1650 Railroads with wooden rails, 1650. Settlement of 1650. Cromwell subdues

1655 About this time flourish Mo-1655. E. Winslow 1655. War with Spain.