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Events relating to athens
The Dutch painter Frans Hals displays exceptional brilliance in his group portraits, including several of the civic guards of Haarlem
The Mayflower settlers in Plymouth offer thanksgiving for their first harvest, eating turkeys in a celebration shared by local Indians
The Dutch West India Company is chartered to trade and found colonies anywhere along the entire American coast
A sudden attack by Powhatan Indians, led by their chieftain Opechancanough against the English colony at Jamestown, results in the death of more than 300 settlers
Tne English settlers in Virginia arrange a peace conference with the Powhatan Indians, using it as an opportunity to murder the Powhatan delegates
Peter Minuit purchases the island of Manhattan from local Indians and calls the place New Amsterdam
John Winthrop, appointed governor of the new Massachusetts Bay Company, sails from England with 700 settlers
Rhode Island is founded by Roger Williams as a colony based on the principle of religious tolerance
Charles I and his archbishop of Canterbury, William Laud, attempt to impose the full Anglican hierarchy on presbyterian Scotland
War between English colonists and Pequot Indians brings disaster to the Pequots but safeguards the settlement of Connecticut
Fermat writes in the margin of a book a mathematical theorem of which he says he has proof, which taunts mathematicians until finally proved in 1995
A National Covenant, first signed in an Edinburgh churchyard, commits the Covenanters to oppose Charles I's reforms of the Church of Scotland
Riots erupt in Edinburgh, in response to the attempt by Charles I and Laud to impose a hierarchy of Anglican bishops
The first book published in England's American colonies is Bay Psalm Book, a revised translation of the psalms
Abel Tasman reaches yet more islands previously unknown to Europeans – Tonga and Fiji
A Cossack rebellion leads to the eventual transfer of their territory from Poland to Russia
Iroquois raids drive the Huron west to the Great Lakes
James Ussher, archbishop of Armagh, calculates that creation began on Sunday, October 23, 4004 BC
Nikon becomes patriarch of all Russia and introduces reforms which cause the Old Believers to form a breakaway sect
The English admiral Robert Blake introduces a system of signalling at sea by means of flags
John Bunyan joins a Nonconformist church in Bedford and becomes one of their preachers
George Fox begins preaching in England, in a movement which develops into the Society of Friends - or Quakers
John Bunyan becomes an itinerant preacher, supporting himself by mending pots and pans
The berlin, developed in Berlin, becomes the most successful carriage of the seventeenth century
John Bunyan is convicted of unlicensed preaching and spends the next eleven years in Bedford Gaol
