Modern Church History
17th Century
- 1605
- Gunpowder plot
- 1607
- Founding of Jamestown
- 1608
- John Smyth baptizes self in Amsterdam
- 1611
- King James Bible
- 1618
- Synod of Dort
- 1618
- Thirty Year's War begins
- 1620
- Mayflower Covenant
- 1630
- Puritan migration to New World begins
- 1636
- Roger Williams founds Rhode Island
- 1637
- Descartes' Discourse on Method
- 1638
- Harvard College founded
- 1641
- Comenius driven from homeland
- 1642
- Civil War in England
- 1646
- Westminster Confession
- 1653
- Cromwell's Protectorate begins
- 1556
- Quakers persecuted in Massachusetts
- 1660
- First Quaker Peace Statement
- 1678
- Pilgrim's Progress first edition
- 1685
- Bach and Handel born
- 1685
- Revocation of Edict of Nantes
- 1689
- Tolerance in England
- 1690
- Locke's Essay
