Timeline: HAWKSHURST, Samson: Byrne and Asimov Genealogy and Family Histories

1571 - 1627 (56 years)

	Date	Event(s)
1	1577	1577: Alliance between England and Netherlands; Francis Drake sails around the world (to 1580) 1577: Sir Francis Drake sets sail from England. He circumnavigates the globe
2	1583	1583: Cesalpino, in 'De Plantis', classified plants with seeds according to the number, position, and shape of the parts of their fruit. 1583: Galileo Galilei discovered by experiment that the oscillations of a swinging pendulum took the same amount of time regardless of their amplitude.
3	1584	1584: William of Orange is murdered and England sends aid to the Netherlands; 1586 Expedition of Sir Francis Drake to the West Indies; Conspiracy against Elizabeth I involving Mary Queen of Scots
4	1587	1587: Sprouts were believed to have been cultivated in Italy in Roman times, and possibly as early as the 1200s in Belgium but the modern Brussels sprout that we are familiar with was first cultivated in large quantities in Belgium (hence the name) 1587: Execution of Mary Queen of Scots; England at war with Spain; Drake destroys Spanish fleet at Cadiz
5	1588	1588: The Spanish Armada is defeated by the English fleet under Lord Howard of Effingham, Sir Francis Drake, and Sir John Hawkins: war between Spain and England continues until 1603
6	1590	1590: Zacharias and Hans Janssen combined double convex lenses in a tube, producing the first telescope.
7	1596	1596: The work of Dutch cartographer Abraham Ortelius suggests the possibility of continental drift, which will be described more forcefully by Alfred Wegener centuries later.
8	1597	1597: Cultivation of sweet potatoes was tried (probably unsuccessfully) by John Gerarde of London 1597: Irish rebellion under Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone (finally put down 1601)
9	1600	1600: William Gilbert, in 'De Magnete', held that the earth behaves like a giant magnet with its poles near the geographic poles. He coined the word 'electrica' (from the Greek word for amber, elektron), and distinguished electricity from magnetism. 1600: Elizabeth I grants charter to East India Company
10	1601	1601: Elizabethan Poor Law charges the parishes with providing for the needy; Essex attempts rebellion, and is executed
11	1603	1603: Elizabeth dies; James VI of Scotland becomes James I of England
12	1604	1604: Hampton Court Conference: no relaxation by the Church towards Puritans; James bans Jesuits; England and Spain make peace 1604: Cawdrey's A Table Alphabeticall, first English dictionary, is published
13	1605	1605: Gunpowder Plot; Guy Fawkes and other Roman Catholic conspirators fail in attempt to blow up Parliament and James I
14	1607	1607: Parliament rejects proposals for union between England and Scotland; colony of Virginia is founded at Jamestown by John Smith; Henry Hudson begins voyage to eastern Greenland and Hudson River
15	1609	1609: Galileo built a telescope with which he discovered the mountains on the moon, that the Milky Way consisted of innumerable stars, the four largest satellites of Jupiter, the phases of Venus, and sunspots. 1609: Henry Hudson explores present-day New York and Hudson River and claims them for the Dutch 1609: Avisa Relation oder Zeitung', world's first regular newspaper is published
16	1610	1610: Hudson Bay discovered
17	1611	1611: James I's authorized version (King James Version) of the Bible is completed; English and Scottish Protestant colonists settle in Ulster
18	1614	1614: James I dissolves the "Addled Parliament" which has failed to pass any legislation
19	1616	1616: Italian philosopher Lucilio Vanini suggests that humans descended from apes. For this heresy, he is burned alive three years later.
20	1618	1618: Thirty Years' War begins, lasts until 1648
21	1620	1620: Pilgrims land at Plymouth Rock on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, in the "Mayflower"; found New Plymouth
22	1622	1622: James I dissolves Parliament for asserting its right to debate foreign affairs 1622: Weekly News, first English newspaper, published.
23	1623	1623: Wilhelm Schickard built a six digit calculator, driven directly by gears, which could add, subtract, and indicate overflow by ringing a bell.
24	1624	1624: Alliance between James I and France; Parliament votes for war against Spain; Virginia becomes crown colony
25	1625	1625: Charles I, King of England (to 1649); Charles I marries Henrietta Maria, sister of Louis XIII of France; dissolves Parliament which fails to vote him money
26	1627	1627: William Harvey was able to confirm his observation that the blood circulates throughout the body, which he inferred from the structure of the venal valves. The following year, in Exercitatio Anatomica, he published these conclusions as well as a description of the heart as a mechanical pump.

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