Warm Up 4/30/2013

• Describe the three estates in France

• Why was France having financial problems prior to the onset of the French Revolution?

• What ended the French Revolution?

European History: 1600 AD to 1650 AD

Wars, Wars and more wars plus some science stuff

Key Terms

• Royal Charter• Don Quixote• Colony• Galileo Galilei• Johannes Kepler• Henry Hudson• Charles I of England• Peace of Westphalia

1600 AD

• December 31 – East India Company granted a Royal Charter in Kingdom of England.

1603 AD

• March 24 – Queen Elizabeth I of England dies at Richmond Palace and is succeeded by her cousin's grandson, King James VI of Scotland, uniting the crowns of Scotland and England.

1605 AD

• November 5 – Gunpowder Plot: A plot to blow up the English Houses of Parliament is foiled when Guy Fawkes is found in a cellar below the Parliament building with barrels of gunpowder.

• The first half of Miguel de Cervantes's landmark novel Don Quixote is published

1607 AD

• April 26 – English colonists make landfall at Cape Henry, Virginia, later moving up the James River to found Jamestown, Virginia, the first permanent English settlement in what is now the United States.

1609 AD

• August 25 – Galileo Galilei demonstrates his first telescope to Venetian officials.

• Johannes Kepler publishes his first two laws of planetary motion in Astronomia nova.

1610 AD

• January 7 – Galileo Galilei first observes the four Galilean moons of Jupiter.

• August 2 – Henry Hudson sails into what it is now known as Hudson Bay, thinking he has made it through the Northwest Passage and reached the Pacific Ocean.

1625 AD

• March 27 – Charles Stuart (Charles I of England, Scotland and Ireland) succeeds James I of England.

1626 AD

• June 15 – King Charles I of England dissolves the English Parliament.

1633 AD

• June 22 – The Roman Catholic church forces Galileo Galilei to recant his heliocentric view of the solar system.

1642 AD

• August 22 – King Charles I raises the royal battle standard over Nottingham Castle, so declaring war on his own Parliament.

1646 AD

• May 5 – King Charles I surrenders his forces to a Scottish army at Southwell, Nottinghamshire.

1648 AD

• January 30 – The Dutch and the Spanish sign the Peace of Münster, ending the Eighty Years' War. The Spanish Empire recognizes the Dutch Republic of United Netherlands as a sovereign state.

1648 AD Continued

• October 24 – Signing of the Treaties of Münster and Osnabrück conclude the Peace of Westphalia, ending the Thirty Years' War. Rulers of the Imperial States have powers to decide their state religion.

1649 AD

• 1649 - January 27 – King Charles I of England, Scotland and Ireland is found guilty of treason in a public session. He is beheaded three days later, outside the Banqueting Hall in the Palace of Whitehall, London.