 | 1509:- Henry VIII becomes King |
| 1519:- The Spaniard Hernan Cortes arrives in Tenochitlan
(now Mexico City) |
| 1519:- Magellan sets out with 5 ships and 568 men
to travel around the world |
| 1521:- Hernan Cortes invades the Aztecs (now Mexico) |
| 1521:- Magellan is killed in Philippines in the
middles of his voyage |
| 1522:- Only one ship and a few men returned to Spain
after the first voyage around the world |
| 1526:- Turks besiege Vienna |
| 1527:- Death of Niccolo Machiavelli |
| 1532:- Spanish invaders, lead by Francisco Pizarro.
arrive in Peru; by the 1570's the Incas become crushed by the Spaniards |
| 1533:- Birth of Elizabeth I |
| 1536:- England and Wales unite |
| 1543:- Birth of Francis Drake |
| 1547:- Death of Henry VIII and Edward VI becomes
King of England |
| 1553:- Lady Jane Gray becomes Queen of England for
9 days only |
| 1553:- Mary I becomes Queen of England |
| 1558:- Elizabeth I becomes Queen of England |
| 1564:- Birth of Galileo |
| 1564:- Birth of William Shakespeare in Stratford |
| 1565:- Spain founded the first permanent European
settlement in what is now the United States at Saint Augustine, Florida.
However, Native Americans had lived on the continent for thousands of years. |
| 1558:- Elizabeth I becomes Queen |
| 1588:- Spanish Armada |
| 1592:- Shakespeare becomes actor and writer |
| 1596:- Death of Sir Francis Drake |
| 1600:- Birth of Charles I in Scotland |
| 1601:- The Poor Law gives some help to poor, old,
ill and young people |
| 1603:- Death of Queen Elizabeth I |
| 1607:- The first permanent British settlement in
America was established at Jamestown, Virginia. |
| 1616:- Death of William Shakespeare |
| 1625:- Charles I becomes a King |
| 1627:- Aurochs becomes extinct |
| 1642:- English Civil War begins |
| 1642:- Death of Galileo |
| 1642:- Birth of Isaac Newton |
| 1644:- Battle of Marston Moor in the English Civil
War |
| 1649:- End of the English Revolution; King Charles
I is executed |
| 1653:- Oliver Cromwell becomes "Lord Cromwell" |
| 1661:- Beginning of the Great Plague in Britain |
| 1663:- End of the Great Plague |
| 1678:- Palace of Versailles built |
| 1681:- Dodo becomes extinct |
| 1690:- William III wins the Battle of Boyne and
invades Ireland |
| 1703:- St. Petersburg founded |
| 1707:- Act of Union between England and Scotland |
| 1720:- Invention of the steam engine |
| 1727:- Death of Sir Isaac Newton |
| 1737:- Birth of George Washington |
| 1756:- Britain defeats France in Canada and India |
| 1756:- Birth of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart |
| 1769:- Captain Cook discovers New Zealand and Australia |
| 1769:- Birth of Arthur Wellesley Wellington |
| 1770:- Birth of Ludwig van Beethoven in Germany |
| 1770:- Birth of William Wordsworth |
| 1775:- Birth of Joseph Mallord William Turner |
| 1776:- America becomes independent when the
Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence at Philadelphia. |
| 1779:- The world's first cast iron bridge is built
in Coalbrookdale in England |
| 1781:- Uranus, the first planet discovered by a
telescope, is discovered by William Herschel |
| 1781:- Birth of George Stephenson |
| 1783:- The Montgolfier brothers in France build
the first hot air balloon. |
| 1789:- French storm Bastille; start of the French
Revolution |
| 1789:- George Washington becomes President of America |
| 1791:- Birth of Michael Faraday |
| 1791:- Death of Mozart |
| 1793:- Britain declares war on France |
| 1799:- End of the French Revolution |
| 1799:- Death of George Washington. "First in war,
first in peace and first in the heart of his countrymen." |
