Event | 1(7)th or 1(8)th |
Isaac Newton invented reflecting telescope | |
Saint Petersburg founded by Peter the Great | |
World's first copyright legislation | |
First shipment of coffee from Java to Amsterdam | |
Earliest human-powered submarine invented | |
James Cook expedition to New Zealand | |
Gunpowder Plot failed in England | |
George Washington became the US President | |
American Revolutionary War started | |
Descartes wrote 'Meditations on First Philosophy' | |
'La Marseillaise' became French national anthem | |
King James Version of the Bible authorized | |
John Campbell invented the sextant | |
James Watt invented an improved steam engine | |
Dutch East India Company established | |
French Revolution began | |
William Shakespeare published 'Hamlet' | |
Boston Tea Party | |
Edo period began in Japan | |
New Amsterdam founded by the Dutch | |
Oliver Cromwell died | |
New Orleans founded by the French | |
St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican City completed | |
Daniel Defoe published 'Robinson Crusoe' | |
Taj Mahal completed | |
Adam Smith published 'The Wealth of Nations' | |
Galileo Galilei saw the moons of Jupiter | |
First permanent European settlement in Australia | |
Cervantes published 'Don Quixote Part I' | |
Evangelista Torricelli invented the barometer | |
Isaac Newton invented reflecting telescope | |
Saint Petersburg founded by Peter the Great | |
World's first copyright legislation | |
First shipment of coffee from Java to Amsterdam | |
Earliest human-powered submarine invented | |
James Cook expedition to New Zealand | |
Gunpowder Plot failed in England | |
George Washington became the US President | |
American Revolutionary War started | |
Descartes wrote 'Meditations on First Philosophy' | |
'La Marseillaise' became French national anthem | |
King James Version of the Bible authorized | |
John Campbell invented the sextant | |
James Watt invented an improved steam engine | |
Dutch East India Company established | |