| Joseph Blish (***) |
| Generation: | 0 |
| Born: | April 25th, 1594 |
| Died: | November 19th, 1665, aged about 71 years |
| Father: | ? Blish |
| Mother: | ? (?) Blish |
| Occupation(s): | --- |
| Marriages: | • Agnes (?) Blish At Somerset, , England |
| Children: | Abraham Blish, (***) |
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1231-1808 Papal Inquisition 1454-1611 The Renaissance 1478-1834 Torquemadas Spanish Inquisition 1558-1603 Reign of Queen Elizabeth I (Tudor) 1562-1598 Wars of religion in France 1603-1625 Reign of King James I (Stuart) 1603 Galileo invents Thermometer 1603 Heavy outbreak of plague in England 1605 Guy Fawkes attempts to blow up parliament 1605 Telescope 1606 Australia discovered by William Jansz 1606 Virginia Company Chartered 1607 Jamestown Colony Established 1608 Quebec founded 1609 Keplers laws of planetary motion 1611 King James Bible is published 1612 Tobacco planted in Virginia 1612 Last (recorded) burning of heretics in England 1614 Dutch trading post on manhatten island 1615 Galileo faces inquisition (1st time) 1618-1648 30 years war 1619 1st negro slaves arrive in Virginia 1620 First Submarine (Cornelius van Drebel, Dutch) 1620 Mayflower lands at Plymouth 1620 Scientific Method, via Sir Francis Bacon 1620 Sir Francis Bacon suggests heat may be movement 1625 English population in America hits 2000 1625-1649 Reign of King Charles I (Stuart) 1626 Manhatten island purchased from indians by Dutch 1629 Colony of Massachusetts founded 1630-1642 English aggressively settle Massachusetts 1633 Heads of households in New England reaches 950 1633 Colony of Connecticut founded 1634 1st settlement in Maryland 1635 Connecticut first settled 1639 1st printing press in America (Massachusetts) 1642-1649 English Civil War 1642 Pascal invents Calculator 1643 Barometer invented 1645 Rainbow, 1st American slave ship, sails for Africa 1649-1660 Oliver Cromwell rules (Stuart) 1650 World pop. est. at 500 million 1650 Chattel slavery officially recognized 1652-1654 Anglo-Dutch war 1652 Air Pump invented 1654 Theory of Probability - Pascal and Fermat 1655 Oliver Cromwell allows Jews back in England 1657 Pendulum Clock invented by Galileo 1657 First Stockings 1660-1685 Reign of King Charles II (Stuart) 1660 British Navigation Acts restrict commerce 1660 Light composition discovered by Isaac Newton 1661 Manometer 1664 English take New York from the Dutch, no shots fired 1664-1665 Great Plague in London kills 68,596 1665 Differential Calculus (Isaac Newton) |