| 1600 July 2 | Event | Battle of Nieuport (Dunes) | Spanish defeated by Maurice of Nassau. |
| 1600 October 14 | Death | Luis de Molina | Theologian. |
| 1601 September 27 | Birth | Louis XIII | King of France |
| 1602 April 2 | Death | Arthur, elder brother of Henry VIII dies. | |
| 1602 November 20 | Event | The invention of the air pump | Created by Otto von Guericke |
| 1603 April 3 | Event | King James VI bans Clan MacGregor | |
| 1604 November 1 | Event | First presentation of Othelo | penned by William Shakespeare |
| 1604 October 24 | Event | England and Scotland Unified. | |
| 1604 September 27 | Event | Battle of Kircholm | Polish defeat Charles IX of Sweden. |
| 1605 April 6 | Death | John Stow | English Historian |
| 1605 April 8 | Birth | King Phillip IV | King of Spain |
| 1605 May 16 | Event | Pope Paul V (Camillo Borchese) Elected. | |
| 1605 November 5 | Event | Gunpowder plot to blow up Houses of Parliament. | All parties are arrested and later the leader, Guy Fawkes, is executed. This day is celebrated in England with many firework displays. |
| 1605 November 6 | Event | Gunpowder Plot's appointed day for execution | and blowing up of Parliament. |
| 1605 October 17 | Death | Akbar | Moghul Emperor. |
| 1606 April 12 | Event | England adopts Union Flag | Now sometimes called Union Jack although this is only the Naval term for the flag. |
| 1606 July 15 | Birth | Rembrandt van Rijn | Dutch Painter. |
| 1608 October 15 | Birth | Evangelista Torricelli | Inventor of the Barometer. |
| 1609 April 17 | Event | Pope Leo XI | Coronation. |
| 1609 April 9 | Event | Truce of The Hague | 12 Years Truce |
| 1610 April 22 | Birth | Pope Alexander VIII (1689-91) | |
| 1610 June 10 | Event | Dutch settlers arrive | on Manhattan Island. |
| 1610 May 14 | Death | King Henry IV | First Bourbon King of France. |
| 1611 January | Event | Publication of the King James version of the Bible | |
| 1611 October 16 | Death | Charles IX | King of Sweden. |
| 1611 October 30 | Death | Charles IX | King of Sweden. |
| 1612 June 13 | Event | Matthias II crowned | as Holy Roman Emperor |
| 1613 October 29 | Death | Walter Raleigh | bu execution. |
| 1613 October 3 | Birth | Marion Delorme in Paris | a celebrated French Courtesan. |
| 1614 April 6 | Event | Pocahontas, Indian Princess marries John Rolfe | |
| 1614 April 8 | Death | Domenikos Theotokopoulos | Painter. Known as El Greco |
| 1615 November 4 | Birth | Ibrahin, Ottoman Sultan | (1640-48) |
| 1616 April 23 | Death | William Shakespeare Author | Dies on his 52nd Birthday. |
| 1616 July 3 | Death | Saint Bernardine Realino | |
| 1617 October 30 | Death | Saint Alphonsus Rodriguez | |
| 1619 August 28 | Event | Ferdinand II | Elected as Holy Roman Emperor. |
| 1619 August 29 | Event | Ferdinand II | Elected as Holy Roman Emperor. |
| 1620 August 5 | Event | "Mayflower" and "Speedwell" | sail from England |
| 1620 September 16 | Event | Mayflower departs from Plymouth | with 102 pilgrims. |
| 1620 September 20 | Event | Battle of Jassy | Turks defeated by the Poles. |
| 1621 April 5 | Event | Mayflower sails from Plymouth | Due on a return journey back to England! |
| 1621 September 17 | Death | Saint Robert Bellarmine | Theologian. |
| 1622 June 20 | Event | Battle of Hochst | Christian of Brunswick defeated by Tilly and Cordoba. |
| 1622 November 8 | Birth | Charles X | King of Sweden. |
| 1623 August 6 | Death | Anne Shakespeare | nee Hathaway. |
| 1623 August 6 | Death | Gregory XV | Pope. |
| 1623 August 6 | Event | Battle of Stadlohn | Christian of Brunswick defeated by Tully. |
| 1623 July 4 | Death | William Byrd | Composer. |
| 1623 July 8 | Death | Pope Gregory XV | |
| 1625 June 18 | Event | Charles I opens first Parliament | as King of England. |
| 1626 April 24 | Event | Start of the Anglo-French War | Ends 1630. |
| 1626 April 9 | Death | Francis Bacon Philosopher and statesman | caught a chill and died after trying to stuff a chicken with snow as a method of preservation. |
| 1626 May 24 | Event | Peter Minuet buys Manhattan from Indians | bartered with Trinkets worth about $24 |
| 1626 November 18 | Event | Saint Peters Basilica consecrated | at the Vatican. |
| 1626 October 4 | Birth | Richard Cromwell | Lord Protector of England. |
| 1627 August 19 | Event | End of the siege of Grolle | The surrender of the Spaniards in Grolle to Prince Frederik Hendrik. |
| 1627 July 20 | Event | Start of the siege of Grolle | The army of Prince Frederik Hendrik arrives on the evening of this day near the town of Grolle. |
| 1628 June 7 | Event | 2nd Parliament of King James I dissolves | after passing no legislation. |
| 1628 June 7 | Event | Petition of Rights | accepted by King Charles of England. |
| 1628 September 2 | Event | Battle of Wolgast | Christians of Denmark defeated by Wallenstein. |
| 1630 May 29 | Birth | King Charles II of England | (1660-85) |
| 1631 September 17 | Event | Battle of Breitenfeld | Catholics defeated by Sweden in the thirty years war. |
| 1632 August 29 | Birth | John Lock | |
| 1632 July 5 | Event | Anthony Van Dyck is Knighted. | |
| 1632 October 18 | Birth | Luca Giordano | Napolitan Painter. |
| 1632 October 24 | Birth | Anthony van Leeuwenhoek | Dutch Naturalist. |
| 1632 October 31 | Birth | Jan Vermeer | Dutch painter. |
| 1633 August 5 | Death | George Abbot | Archbishop of Canterbury. |
| 1633 November 22 | Event | The first Maryland settlers set sail | from England on their journey. |
| 1633 October 14 | Birth | James II | King of England. |
| 1636 October 18 | Event | Anglican Churches ordered to use the new Book of Canons. | for services. |
| 1636 October 29 | Death | Henry Welby | The Grub Saint Hermit. |
| 1636 October 4 | Event | Battle of Wittstock | Imperials/Saxons are defeated by the Swedish. |
| 1638 June 27 | Event | Cyril Lucar Executed. | Patriarch of Istanbul. |
| 1638 September 10 | Birth | Marie Therese | Queen-Consort of France. |
| 1638 September 10 | Birth | Marie-Therese | |
| 1638 September 16 | Birth | Louis XIV | King of France |
| 1639 October 21 | Event | Battle of the Downs | Spaniards defeat the Dutch. |
| 1640 July 22 | Event | Battle of Cadiz | Spanish fleet defeated by a French one |
| 1640 June 9 | Birth | Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor | (1658-1705). |
| 1641 October 21 | Event | Ulster "Massacre" | |
| 1642 October 7 | Event | Battle of Lereda | Lleganez defeated by Spanish Insurgents. |
| 1643 May 19 | Event | Battle of Rocroi/Allersheim | French Army destroys Spanish Army. |
| 1644 July 2 | Event | Battle of Marsden Moor | Royalist defeated by Parliamentarians. |
| 1644 July 29 | Death | Pope Urban VIII | |
| 1644 October 14 | Birth | William Penn | |
| 1644 September 25 | Birth | Olaus Roemer | Who proved that te speed of light was finite. |
| 1645 August 14 | Event | Battle of Kilsyth | Covenanters defeated by Montrose. |
| 1645 August 29 | Death | Grotius | |
| 1645 July 2 | Event | Battle of Alford. | |
| 1646 August 19 | Birth | John Flamsteed | First Astronomer Royal in England. |
| 1646 July 1 | Birth | Gottfried W Leibnitz | Mathematician. |
| 1646 June 14 | Event | Battle of Orbetello | Spanish defeated by French. |
| 1647 July 22 | Birth | Saint Marguerite Marie Alacoque. | |
| 1648 August 20 | Event | Battle of Preston | English defeat the Scots. |
| 1648 August 26 | Event | Day of the Barricades | Which started the Fronde Uprising. |
| 1648 August 5 | Event | Battle of Lens | French defeat the Spanish and so ends the Thirty Years War. |
| 1648 October 24 | Event | Peace of Westphalia | ends the Thirty Years War (also called the Peace of Exhaustion) |
| 1649 August 22 | Death | Richard Crashaw | English Poet. |
| 1649 July 23 | Birth | Pope Clement XI | |
| 1650 July 22 | Event | Cromwell invades Scotland | |
| 1650 June 24 | Birth | John Churchill | Duke of Marlborough and an English General |
| 1650 November 4 | Birth | William III | King of England and Ruler of Holland. |
| 1650 November 6 | Death | William II of Orange | Died of Smallpox |
| 1650 September 3 | Event | Battle of Dunbar | The Scots are defeated by Parliament. Noted as the first battle where Campaign Medals were issued. |
| 1651 October 17 | Event | Charles II, King of England, escapes | to France. |
| 1653 October 10 | Event | Complete Angler published | Issac Walton. |
| 1654 April 12 | Event | Union of England, Scotland and Ireland | under Cromwell. |
| 1654 June 7 | Event | Louis XIV crowned | King of France. |
| 1656 November 8 | Birth | Edmund Halley | English Astronomer who had the comet named after him! |
| 1656 October 29 | Birth | Edmund Halley | Astronomer. |
| 1658 September 3 | Death | Oliver Cromwell | |
| 1659 May 31 | Event | Treaty of The Hague | Signed by Nederlands, England and France. |
| 1660 May 23 | Event | King Charles II of England returns from exile | and sails from Scheveningen to England. |
| 1660 May 28 | Birth | King George I of England | (1714-27) |
| 1661 April 23 | Event | King Charles II crowned | In London. |
| 1661 June 4 | Event | Isaac Newton starts as Student | at Trinity College Cambridge. |
| 1663 April 6 | Event | King Charles II signes Carolina Charter | |
| 1665 June 6 | Event | Battle of Monte Carlo | English and Portuguese beat Spanish. |
| 1666 August 26 | Death | Frans Hals | Dutch Painter. |
| 1666 September 02 | Event | Start of the Great Fire of London | in a Bakers shop. |
| 1666 September 4 | Event | Saint Pauls' Cathedral is burnt down | by the great fire of London. |
| 1667 May 22 | Death | Pope Alexander VII | (Fabio Chigi) |
| 1669 October 4 | Death | Rembrandt | Painter. |
| 1671 May 9 | Event | Attempt to steal crown jewels | by Col. Thomas Blood is foiled. |
| 1672 April 6 | Event | France declares war on Nederlands | |
| 1672 May 30 | Birth | Peter the Great | Tzar of Russia (1682-1725) |
| 1674 May 7 | Birth | Innocent X, 236th Pope | Giambattista Pamfili. |
| 1674 September 27 | Death | Thomas Traherne | English mystical writer and poet. |
| 1677 April 11 | Event | Battle of Montcassel | French troops defeat Prince William III. |
| 1678 May 31 | Event | Lady Godiva rides naked through Coventry | in a protest against Taxation. |
| 1682 September 5 | Event | Execution of three witches in England | The last time this happen. |
| 1685 June 11 | Event | Rebellion of James Scott, Duke of Monmouth | against Catholic King James II |
| 1685 October 1 | Birth | Charles VI | Holy Roman Emperor (1711-40) |
| 1686 May 14 | Birth | Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit | Prussian inventor (Thermometer) |
| 1688 February 12 | Event | End of the Glorious Revolution | King James II of England fled to France and William of Orange and Mary were declared King and Queen of England in his place. |
| 1688 June 10 | Birth | James III Edward, the Old Pretender | Regonnised as King of England by the Pope. |
| 1688 May 21 | Birth | Alexander Pope | English Poet. |
| 1689 April 11 | Event | William and Mary crowned | as joint monarchs of England. |
| 1689 April 18 | Death | Judge Jeffreys | In the Tower in London. He sentenced more than 300 to death at his "bloody assizes". |
| 1689 April 21 | Event | William III and Mary | proclaimed King and Queen of England. |
| 1689 May 11 | Event | Battle of Bantry Bay | French and English Naval Battle. |
| 1689 May 11 | Event | Battle of Plattsburgh | Americans defeat British. |
| 1689 May 12 | Event | League of Augsburg | between England and Nederlands. |
| 1690 May 20 | Event | Act of Grace passed | English forgive followers of James II |
| 1691 June 12 | Event | Pope Innocent XII | Elected. |
| 1692 May 29 | Event | Battle at La Hogue | English and Dutch defeat French. |
| 1694 November 21 | Birth | Voltaire | Birth of this great thinnker. |
| 1699 November 1 | Birth | Martin Luther | Church reformer. |
| 1701 May 23 | Death | William Kidd | Scots Pirate hanged in London at the Executioners Dock. |
| 1703 June 17 | Birth | John Wesley | Co-founder of the Methodist movement. |
| 1703 May 26 | Death | Samuel Pepys | Diarist |
| 1703 May 27 | Event | St Petersburg founded | by Peter the Great (Leningrad) |
| 1704 July 24 | Event | Great Britain takes Gibralta from the Spanish. | |
| 1706 May 23 | Event | Battle of Ramillies | Marlborough defeats the French. |
| 1707 May 1 | Event | England Scotland and Wales form up to create | The United Kingdom. |
| 1709 September 18 | Birth | Samuel Johnson | Boswell's tour guide. |
| 1712 June 28 | Birth | Jean Jacques Rousseau | Socialist. |
| 1713 April 11 | Event | Treaty of Utrecht | Cedes Gibraltar and Newfoundland to the English from the French. |
| 1713 September 23 | Birth | Ferdinand VI | King of Spain (1746-59) |
| 1715 May 3 | Event | Edmund Halley observes total elipse phenomenon | of "Bailey's Beads" for the first time. |
| 1717 September 24 | Birth | Horace Walpole | Author |
| 1718 June 5 | Birth | Thomas Chippendale | Cabinet Maker. |
| 1720 June 9 | Event | treaty of Stockholm | between Sweden and Denmark. |
| 1721 May 8 | Event | Pope Innocent XIII elected | Formerly Michelangiolo dei Conti |
| 1722 September 27 | Birth | Samuel Adams | Rebel Rouser and creator of beers. |
| 1723 July 16 | Birth | Joshua Reynolds (Sir) | English Painter |
| 1725 April 6 | Birth | Casonova | A Ladies man! |
| 1728 April 23 | Birth | Samuel Wallis | Explorer - Wallis Island. |
| 1729 May 2 | Birth | Catherine II "The Great" | of Russia. |
| 1730 June 26 | Birth | Charles Messier | Cataloguer of Stars. |
| 1731 April 24 | Death | Daniel Defoe | Novelist, Robinson Crusoe. |
| 1731 October 10 | Birth | Henry Cavendish | Physicist and chemist. |
| 1735 September 5 | Birth | Johann Christian Bach | Composer |
| 1737 April 27 | Birth | Edward Gibbon | Author - The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. |
| 1737 May 8 | Birth | Edward Gibbon - Author | Deline and Fall of the Roman Empire. |
| 1738 May 24 | Birth | King George III of England | (1760-1820) |
| 1739 April 7 | Death | Dick Turpin - Highwayman | Hanged in York for the murder of an Innkeeper |
| 1740 October 29 | Birth | James Boswell | Biographer of Samual Johnson. |
| 1741 April 12 | Event | Royal Military Acadamy created | at Woolwich, England |
| 1746 April 16 | Event | Battle of Culloden | Bonnie Prince Charlie (Charles Stuart) is routed in Cumberland. |
| 1749 August 28 | Birth | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Philosopher. |
| 1752 June 10 | Event | Lightning strikes Benjamin Franklin | well his kite anyway! |
| 1752 May 10 | Event | Benjamin Franklin first tests the lightening rod. | |
| 1752 September 02 | Event | Gregorian Calendar adopted in England | |
| 1753 April 5 | Event | British Museum formed | But finally opens in 1759 |
| 1756 June 19 | Event | Black Hole of Calcutta | 146 English people are imprisoned. |
| 1756 March 17 | Event | St Patricks Day is first celebrated | in New York City at the Crown & Thistle Tavern |
| 1756 May 17 | Event | Start of the french and Indian War (7 Years War) | Britain declares war on France. |
| 1757 April 6 | Event | King George II fires William Pitt the Senior | |
| 1758 May 3 | Death | Pope Benedict XIV | Formerly Prospero L Lambertini. |
| 1758 October 16 | Birth | Noah Webster | Lexicographer and Dictionary man! |
| 1759 May 28 | Birth | William Pitt the Younger | English PM 1783-1801 and 1804-06 |
| 1761 June 3 | Birth | Henry Scrapnel | English Inventor (Shrapnel steel) |
| 1762 April 5 | Event | British forces take Grenada from the French | Grenada is in the West Indies |
| 1769 August 15 | Birth | Napoleon Bonaparte | French General? |
| 1769 May 6 | Birth | Ferdinand III | Archduke of Austria/ruler of Toscane |
| 1770 April 20 | Event | Captain Cook arrives in New South Wales, Australia | |
| 1770 April 9 | Event | Captain James Cook discovers Botany Bay | Australia. |
| 1770 June 11 | Event | Discovery of the Great Barrier Reef | by Captain James Cook off Australia (Well it had not really been lost but...) |
| 1771 April 13 | Birth | Richard Trevithick | Inventor (?) of the Steam Engine. |
| 1772 April 6 | Event | Peter the Great ends tax on men with beards. | |
| 1772 October 21 | Birth | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Poet. |
| 1775 June 7 | Event | United Colonies change name to | United States. |
| 1776 June 11 | Birth | John Constable | English Landscape Painter |
| 1776 June 11 | Birth | John Constable | English Painter. |
| 1777 June 14 | Event | Stars and Stripes adopted | as US flag replacing the Grand Union Flag. |
| 1777 October 18 | Birth | Heinrich von Kleist | German dramatist and poet. |
| 1777 October 7 | Event | Battle of Saratoga | Americans defeat the English. |
| 1778 June 7 | Birth | George Bryan "Beau" Brummel | An English Dandy. |
| 1778 June 7 | Birth | Beau Brummel | a man of fashion! |
| 1780 June 7 | Event | Anti Catholic riots take place in London | and hundreds are killed. |
| 1780 May 4 | Event | 1st Epsom Derby run | Won by Charles Bunbury on Diomed. |
| 1781 June 9 | Birth | George Stevenson | Inventor (Steam locomotion) |
| 1781 September 5 | Event | Battle of Virginia Capes | British rescue fleet defeated by the French, Cornwallis is trapped at Yorktown. |
| 1783 August 7 | Birth | John Heathcoat | Invented lace-making machinery. |
| 1783 June 4 | Event | First un-manned hot air ballon launched | by Montgolfier Brothers. |
| 1783 November 21 | Event | Man's First Free Flight | Occured when a hot air ballon created by the Montgolfier brothers was polited by Jean de Rosier and the Marquis d'Arlandes over Paris. They rose to 400 feet and landed about twenty five minutes later a few miles south of their departure point. |
| 1783 November 21 | Event | North Carolina | Joins the United States of America by becoming the 12th state of the Union. |
| 1783 September 3 | Event | Treaty of Paris | which ends the Revolutionary War. |
| 1785 May 9 | Event | English Beer Punmp Handle patented | by Joseph Bramah |
| 1787 November 21 | Birth | Sir Samuel Cunard | Founder of the great Atlantic shipping line. |
| 1787 September 17 | Event | Adoption of the Constitution of the United States | |
| 1789 April 28 | Event | Fletcher Christian leads Mutiny | on HMS Bounty. |
| 1789 April 30 | Event | George Wassington Inaugurated | First president of the United States of America. |
| 1789 November 18 | Birth | Louis Daguerre | Creator of the Daguerre photographic method. |
| 1789 September 17 | Event | Mimas, Satellite of Saturn discovered | by William Herschel. |
| 1791 April 27 | Birth | Samuel Morse | Inventor of Morse Code. |
| 1791 June 20 | Event | King Louis XVI tries to escape French Revolution | and is caught. |
| 1792 April 14 | Event | France declares war on Austria | and starts the French Revolutionary Wars. |
| 1792 April 25 | Event | The Guillotin is first used in Paris | to Execute a Highwayman. |
| 1792 May 12 | Event | First Patent on a toilet | that flushes itself at regular intervals! |
| 1793 June 10 | Event | 1st Public Zoo opens | in Paris, France. |
| 1793 November 8 | Event | Opening of the Louvre in Paris | to the Public for the first time. |
| 1795 October 31 | Birth | John Keats | Poet. |
| 1796 May 10 | Event | Battle of Lodi Bridge | Napoleon defeats Austria |
| 1797 August 30 | Birth | Mary Shelley | Author of Frankenstein |
| 1797 February 26 | Event | First £1 Bank Note issued | By the Bank of England. |
| 1799 June 18 | Birth | William Lassell | discovered Uranus and Neptune. |
| 1802 February 26 | Birth | Victor (Marie) Hugo | French Novelist and poet. |
| 1815 February 26 | Event | Napoleon Bonaparte escapes | from the Island of Elba |
| 1819 December 14 | Event | Alabama admitted to the Union in America | and became the 22nd State of the USA. |
| 1846 February 26 | Birth | William Cody | "Buffalo Bill" the cowboy. |
| 1852 February 26 | Birth | John Harvey Kellogg | of Cornflakes fame. |
