Events and Index

EVENTS 1590-1619

1590 - invention of compound microscope
1590 - law of falling bodies postulated by Galileo
1600 - Bishop's Transcripts (copies of parish records) made mandatory
1600 - founding of the East India Company
1603 - end of reign of Elizabeth I of England
1603 - James VI of Scotland crowned James I of England
1603 - bubonic plague kills a quarter of London's population
1605 - Guido Fawkes and the plot to blow up Parliament
1608 - invention of the telescope
1611 - King James version of the Bible published
1611 - establishment by Letters Patent of Order of Baronets by King James I
1614 - discover of logarithms
1615 - invention of the clinical thermometer
1616 - death of William Shakespeare