| 1231-1808: |  | | | Papal Inquisition from before birth until after line end |
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| 1478-1834: | |
| 1618-1648: | | | | 30 years war from before birth until age 4 |
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| 1625-1649: | | | | Reign of King Charles I (Stuart) from before birth until age 5 |
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| 1642-1649: | | | | English Civil War from before birth until age 5 |
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| 1645: | | | | Rainbow, 1st American slave ship, sails for Africa at age 1 |
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| 1649-1660: | | | | Oliver Cromwell rules (Stuart) from age 5 to age 16 |
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| 1650: | | | | World pop. est. at 500 million at age 6 |
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| 1650: | | | | Chattel slavery officially recognized at age 6 |
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| 1652-1654: | | | | Anglo-Dutch war from age 8 to age 10 |
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| 1652: | | | | Air Pump invented at age 8 |
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| 1654: | | | | Theory of Probability - Pascal and Fermat at age 10 |
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| 1655: | | | | Oliver Cromwell allows Jews back in England at age 11 |
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| 1657: | | | | First Stockings at age 13 |
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| 1657: | | | | Pendulum Clock invented by Galileo at age 13 |
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| 1660: | | | | British Navigation Acts restrict commerce at age 16 |
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| 1660-1685: | | | | Reign of King Charles II (Stuart) from age 16 to age 41 |
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| 1660: | | | | Light composition discovered by Isaac Newton at age 16 |
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| 1661: | |
| 1664-1665: | | | | Great Plague in London kills 68,596 from age 20 to age 21 |
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| 1664: | | | | English take New York from the Dutch, no shots fired at age 20 |
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| 1665: | | | | Differential Calculus (Isaac Newton) at age 21 |
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| 1666: | | | | 1st Armenian Bible printed at age 22 |
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| 1666: | | | | Great fire of London - 9/2 to 9/9. 14,000+ buildings burned at age 22 |
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| 1668: | | | | Isaac Newton makes first reflecting telescope at age 24 |
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| 1675-1676: | | | | King Phillip's War from age 31 to age 32 |
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| 1678: | | | | Polarization of light discovered (Huygens) at age 34 |
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| 1679: | | | | Habeas Corpus passed in England - trial before imprisonment at age 35 |
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| 1680: | | | | Dodo becomes extinct at age 36 |
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| 1681: | | | | Pennsylvania founded at age 37 |
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| 1682: | | | | Appearance of Halley's Comet at age 38 |
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| 1683: | | | | Newton explains tides via theory of gravitation at age 39 |
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| 1684: | | | | Street lighting introduced in London at age 40 |
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| 1687: | | | | Newton publishes his Laws of Motion at age 43 |
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| 1688: | | | | Plate glass cast for 1st time at age 44 |
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| 1689-1702: | | | | Reign of King William III and Queen Mary II (Stuart) from age 45 to age 58 |
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| 1692: | | | | The Puritans murder 20 alleged witches in Salem, MA at age 48 |
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| 1700-1721: | | | | Great Northern War from age 56 until after line end |
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| 1701-1713: | | | | War of Spanish Succession from age 57 to age 69 |
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| 1701: | | | | Captain William Kidd hung for piracy at age 57 |
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| 1702-1714: | | | | Reign of Queen Anne (Stuart) from age 58 to age 70 |
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| 1707: | | | | Mount Fujiyama erupts at age 63 |
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| 1712: | | | | Last execution for witchcraft in England at age 68 |
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| 1712: | | | | Slave revolts in New York at age 68 |
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| 1714: | | | | Witch trials abolished in Prussia at age 70 |
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| 1714-1727: | | | | Reign of King George I (Hanover) from age 70 until after line end |
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| 1714: | | | | Farenheit invents mercury thermometer at age 70 |
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| 1716: | | | | Christian teaching forbidden in China at age 72 |
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| 1718: | | | | Spain seizes Sicily (from Savoy) at age 74 |
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| 1718: | | | | Peter the Great has son and heir murdered at age 74 |
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| 1718: | | | | New Orleans founded at age 74 |
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