Timeline: Apollonia Aeschlimann: Gerber Family of Langnau

1590 - 1611 (21 years)

	Date	Event(s)
1	1590	1590: England - Zacharias and Hans Janssen combined double convex lenses in a tube, producing the first telescope.
2	1592	1592: England - Plague in London and provincial towns
3	1593	1593: Italy - Galileo invents a water thermometer. 9 Aug 1593: England - Izaak Walton was born. He is mainly known for The Compleat Angler, or, the Contemplative Man's Recreation, which is one of the most frequently published books in English literature. It is a literary discourse on the pleasures of fishing.
4	1594	1594: Ireland - Ulster Rebellion, Philip of Spain sends 100 ships, 10,000 men in aid, decimated by gales
5	1596	1596: England - The work of Dutch cartographer Abraham Ortelius suggests the possibility of continental drift, which will be described more forcefully by Alfred Wegener centuries later. 28 Jan 1596: England - Sir Francis Drake dies on a march at Nombre de Dios
6	1597	1597: England - Cultivation of sweet potatoes was tried (probably unsuccessfully) by John Gerard of London 1597: Ireland - Rebellion under Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone (finally put down 1601)
7	1600	1600: England - 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: London, England - Population of London about 200,000 1600: Sicily - The blood orange is believed to have developed by natural mutation 1600: England - The British East India Company was incorporated by royal charter. It was created to compete in the East Indian spice trade.
8	1601	1601: England - Poor Law Act passed, prompted by three successive poor harvests resulting in demonstrations by starving peasants; codifies previous measures, differentiates between able-bodied and weak unemployed; town councils began to tax citizens to pay for alms 1601: England - Essex attempts rebellion, and is executed
9	1602	1602: England - Plague in London and provincial towns 1602: England - Founding of Dutch East India Company
10	1603	1603: England - Plague in London and provincial towns 1603: England - At end of Elizabeth I's reign, English population estimated at 4 million, 80% living in rural areas 1603: England - James I ruler of England to 1625. House of Stuart: Son of Mary, Queen of Scots. First to call himself King of Great Britain. This became official with the Act of Union in 1707. 24 Mar 1603: England - Death of Elizabeth I at Richmond, aged 70, after 45-year reign.
11	1604	1604: England - Robert Cawdrey's A Table Alphabeticall, first English dictionary, is published Jan 1604: England - Hampton Court Conference: no relaxation by the Church towards Puritans; James I bans Jesuits; England and Spain make peace
12	1605	1605: England - Gunpowder Plot; Guy Fawkes and other Roman Catholic conspirators fail in attempt to blow up Parliament and James I
13	1606	1606: America - Virginia colony subscribed in London, is thriving by 1620
14	1607	1607: England - Parliament rejects proposals for union between England and Scotland 1607: America - Henry Hudson begins voyage to eastern Greenland and Hudson River 1607: Alps, France - The Carthusian monks are supposedly given the secret formula for Chartreuse liqueur by the Marechal d'Estrees.
15	1608	1608: England - Hans Lippershey invents the first refracting telescope. 1608: England - John Tradescant was born. He succeeded his father as naturalist and gardener to Charles I.
16	1609	1609: Italy - 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: America - Henry Hudson explores present-day New York and Hudson River and claims them for the Dutch 15 Jan 1609: Germany - Avisa Relation oder Zeitung, the world's first regular newspaper, is published
17	1610	1610: Kracow, Poland - Community Regulations of stated that bagels were to be given as a gift to women in childbirth.
18	1611	1611: England - James I's authorized version of the Bible is completed; English and Scottish Protestant colonists settle in Ulster