Events and Index

EVENTS 1620-1649

1620 - Mayflower arrives in America. Founding of the Plymouth Colony.
1625 - bubonic plague ravages London's population
1625 - Charles I King of England and Scotland
1632 - invention of the slide rule
1639 - production of first commercial steam engine
1641 - impressing crews for the Royal Navy made illegal
1641 - first clashes between Roundheads and Cavaliers
1642 - start of English Civil War
1645 - Book of Common Prayer abolished
1647 - George Fox founds the Society of Friends (Quakers)
1649 - Charles I beheaded
1649 - Charles II King of England and Scotland