1603 Queen Elizabeth I dies, James I assumes the English throne
1606 First sighting of Australia
1611 King James version of the Bible
1619_African_slaves_introduced_to_Virginia
1620 The Mayflower lands at Plymouth Rock
1622 James I dissolves British Parliament
1630_Puritans_found_Boston
1635 France enters Thirty Years' War
1636 Harvard founded in Cambridge, Massachussets
1641 Star Chamber abolished in England
1642 English Civil War
1644 End of Ming Dynasty in China
1648 End of the Thirty Years' War
1649 Charles 1st beheaded
1658 Cromwell dies
1660 Succession of Charles II to throne
1665 Great Plague in London
1666_The Great Fire of London
1680
1683 War of European powers against the Turks (to 1699)
1685 James II succeeds Charles II in England
1688 The Glorious Revolution James II flees
1690_Battle_of_the_Boyne
1692 The infamous Glencoe Massacre
1700 First piano
1701 War of the Spanish Succession begins
1707 United Kingdom of Great Britain formed
1712 Industrial Revolution begins.
1713 The Treaty of Utrecht
1714 George I of Hanover became King of England
1715 1st Jacobite uprising
1722 The Well-Tempered Clavier - J S Bach
1730
1746 "Bonnie Prince Charlie" defeated at Culloden Moor
1755 Lisbon earthquake
1770
Cook claims Australia for Britain
1776 American War of Independence
1788 Penal colony of Sydney founded
1789 The Storming of the Bastille
1793 "Reign of Terror" France in anarchy
1793-1804 The rise of Napoleon Bonaparte
1798 Battle of the Nile
1802 Flinders and Baudin meet at Encounter Bay
1804 Napoleon crowns himself Emperor of France
1805 Battle of Trafalgar
1806 Holy Roman Empire abolished
1813 Blaxland, Lawson and Wentworth cross the Blue Mountains.
1815 Battle of Waterloo, Napoleon defeated and exiled
1828 Charles Sturt charts the Darling River.
1829 Stephenson's Rocket
1832 Swan River Colony becomes Western Australia
1838 David Johns opens first store in Sydney
1841 New Zealand proclaimed as a separate colony.
1849 The Californian Gold Rush
1850 Australian Colonies Government Act
1851 The Victorian gold rush
1851 Act of Separation defines borders of NSW and Victoria
1856 John Brown leads the Pottawatomie Massacre
1859 Queensland declared a separate colony
1861 American Civil War starts
1863 The Battle of Gettysburg
1873 Uluru first sighted
1883 Silver is discovered at Broken Hill
1889 Australian rail network landmark
1894 Womens voting rights in South Australia
1901 Australian Federation
1950
1999