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Events of the 1600s: when did it happen?

The years of 19 famous events of the 1600s, from 1607 to 1694, sorted oldest to newest, each with a short fact.

• When was Jamestown, the first lasting English colony in America, founded?1607
• When did Galileo first turn a telescope to the sky?1609
• When did Santa Fe become the capital of Spanish New Mexico?1610
• When was the King James Bible published?1611
• When did the first enslaved Africans arrive in English Virginia?1619
• When did the Mayflower land in America?1620
• When did the Pilgrims hold the first Thanksgiving?1621
• When did the Dutch buy Manhattan and found New Amsterdam?1626
• When did the Puritans found Boston?1630
• When did construction of the Taj Mahal begin?1632
• When was Harvard founded?1636
• When was King Charles I of England executed?1649
• When did the English take New Amsterdam and rename it New York?1664
• When was the Great Fire of London?1666
• When was William Penn granted the charter for Pennsylvania?1681
• When was Johann Sebastian Bach born?1685
• When did Isaac Newton publish his laws of motion?1687
• When were the Salem witch trials?1692
• When was the Bank of England founded?1694