1600 to 1609

1600

x - Johannes Kepler becomes the assistant of , the imperial mathematician and court astronomer of Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor.
x - Giordano Bruno is burned at the stake in Rome.
x - Elizabeth I grants charter to East India Company.

1601

x - dies.
x - Kepler a.30 becomes imperial mathematician and court astronomer to Rudolf II, Holy Roman emperor.
x - || Essex rebellion against Elizabeth I fails.
x - || Battle of Kinsale - Forces of O'Neill and O'Donnell heavily defeated by Lord Deputy Mountjoy.
x - 's [b.d.] and

1602

x - Shakespeare's [b.d.] ,

1603

mar - James I (King James VI of Scotland), first of Stuart line, proclaimed King of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, following the death of Elizabeth I.
x - Hugh O'Neill led the Irish chieftains in an unsuccessful attack against the English. [from 1597]
mar - |IRELAND| Treaty of Mellifont. O'Neill submits to Mountjoy and pledges loyalty to the Crown.
x - Iyeyasu, a warrior and the chief deputy of the previous Japanese Emperor names himself shogun.
x - Shakespeare's [b.d.]
x - begins employing an amanuensis to copy manuscript treatises which he sells to his private students.

1604

x - James I of England restores Recussancy Acts, with more persecution and the expulsion of priests.
x - requests that English Catholics refrain from rebellion. A peace treaty with Catholic Spain is signed.
x - Shakespeare's [b.d.] ,
x - Galileo for the first time experiments with uniformly accelerated motion on a gently sloping inclined plane.

1605

x - || The Gunpowder plot in England is uncovered. Guy Fawkes and other Roman Catholic conspirators fail in attempt to blow up Parliament
x - Shakespeare's [b.d.] and
apr 01 - Leo XI + becomes pope ?+ [u.apr 27] [re.List of Popes]
may 16 - Paul V + becomes pope [u.1621]

1606

x - King James I of England charters the London and Plymouth companies.
x - Rembrant, a Dutch baroque artist is born.
x - 's [b.d.] King Lear *

1607

apr - Balthasar Capra publishes The use and construction of the proportional compass in Padua, This is a plagiarism of an earlier book by Galileo. Galileo institutes a legal process that ends with the expulsion of Capra from the university and the confiscation of all unsold copies of the book.
sum - Galileo first investigates hydrostatics and the strength of materials.
x - Colony of Virginia is founded at Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in America, by John Smith
x - Havana is officially named the capital of Cuba.
x - 'Flight of Earls'. Earls of Tyrone and Tirconnell leave Ireland, sailing from Lough Swilly. Their lands are forfeited to the Crown of England.
x - Shakespeare's [b.d.]
x - Parliament rejects proposals for union between England and Scotland.
x - Henry Hudson begins voyage to eastern Greenland and Hudson River (Hudson Bay discovered 1610)

1608

oct - In The Hague, Hans Lipperhey requests a patent on a spyglass.
x - Samuel de Champlain founds the village of Quebec.
x - Cahir O'Doherty, the last Irish chieftain in rebellion, sacks Derry. Killed in Donegal, the rebellion collapses and O'Doherty's lands are forfeited to the Crown.
x - Shakespeare's [b.d.] , , and

1609

x - Johannes Kepler publishes his New Astronomy, containing his first two laws of planetary motion.
may - hears about the invention of the telescope in the Netherlands.
jun - Galileo duplicates/makes a three-powered telescope.
aug - Thomas Harriot, observing near London, makes a drawing of the Moon as seen through a 6- powered telescope.
x - Galileo presents an eight-powered telescope to the Venetian Senate.
fal - Galileo Continues his improvement of the telescope and begins to make celestial observations with it.
dec - Makes a series of observations of the Moon
x - First regularly published newspaper appears in Germany.
x - |IRELAND| Beginning of the plantation of Ulster in counties Donegal, Derry, Tyrone, Armagh, Cavan and Fermanagh.
x - Cosimo II de' Medici becomes Grand Duke of Tuscany
x - Shakespeare's [b.d.]