| 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 | |
