Child: Christian Habegger

Vincenz Habegger (1566 - )

Born (Vincenz Habegger)

England - First Bishops' War between Charles I and the Scottish Church; ends with Pacification of Dunse

Scotland - Covenant signed in Scotland, signers bound to preserve Presbyterianism

England - Charles I quarrels with Scotland re religion. He tries to force the English Book of Common Prayer on Scots

Connecticut, USA - Pequot War 1637-1638

France - Supposedly, Cardinal Richelieu 'created' the table knife when he had the points rounded on all knives to be used at his table. Presumably so no one could stab him.

England - Tulip mania begins and ceases the following year in a precursor of the 2000 dot-com crash

England - Mild outbreak of Black Death

England - W. Gascoigne invents the micrometer.

America - The Great and General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony established Harvard College (New College), the first college in the Americas.

Boston, Massachusetts - Samuel Cole supposedly opened the first tavern in the U.S.A.

Italy - Bernardino Ramazzini was born. A physician, he was the first to note the relationship between worker's illnesses and their work environment. Considered the founder of occupational medicine.

America - Connecticut settled; Maryland founded by George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore

England - Bananas were supposedly displayed in the shop window of merchant Thomas Johnson. This was the first time the banana had ever been seen in Great Britain. It would be more than 200 years before they were regularly imported. In 1999 remains of a banana were found at a Tudor archaeological site on the banks of the River Thames. This would seem to date it 150 years earlier than Thomas Johnson's banana. A classic food mystery!

Rome, Italy - Galileo was forced by the Inquisition in Rome to renounce his theory that the Earth revolved around the Sun.

Europe - England makes peace with France and Spain

America - Boston founded

America - Massachusetts Bay Colony governor John Winthrop supposedly introduced the fork to American dining.

America - Supposedly, Quadequina, an American Indian, introduced English colonists to popcorn. He had brought some to their first Thanksgiving dinner.

England - Charles I dissolves Parliament and rules personally until 1640

America - Colony of Massachusetts Bay founded

Italy - Giovanni Branca invents a steam turbine.

America - The first horses were imported to the American colonies by the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

England - Petition of Right; Charles I forced to accept Parliament's statement of civil rights in return for finances

England - William Harvey (1578-1657) publishes Exercitatio Anatomica de Motu Cordis et Sanguinis in Animalibus, explaining the circulation of blood in animals

England - 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.

Warsaw, Poland - The last known living ancestor of all modern domestic cattle (the aurochs) was killed by a poacher

England - John Ray (Wray) was born. A leading 17th century English naturalist and botanist. He contributed to the advancement of taxonomy, and established the species as the basic unit of taxonomy.

England - Francis Bacon died. An English statesman, philosopher and author of Novum Organum, a work on scientific inquiry, he died after having stuffing a dressed chicken with snow to see how long the flesh could be preserved by the extreme cold. He caught cold and died from complications about a month later.

England - A large Codfish, split open at a Cambridge market, is found to contain a copy of a book of religious treatises by John Frith.

England - 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

France - Jean-Baptiste Denys invents a method for blood transfusion.

England - Alliance between James I and France; Parliament votes for war against Spain; Virginia becomes crown colony

England - William Oughtred invents a slide rule.

England - Wilhelm Schickard built a six digit calculator, driven directly by gears, which could add, subtract, and indicate overflow by ringing a bell.

England - Dutch massacre English Company servants, Massacre of Amboyna

England - James I dissolves Parliament for asserting its right to debate foreign affairs

England - Weekly News, first English newspaper, published.

England - Commission to enquire into decline of woollen trade

France - Prince Louis II de Condé, known as the Great Condé, was born. He was a French general who loved to hunt and had a passion for rice. Several dishes have been named for him, including Consomme Condé and Creme Condé.

America - Pilgrims land at Plymouth Rock on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, in the Mayflower; found New Plymouth

India - Madras settled

England - The earliest human-powered submarine invented.

America - The first Maize was discovered by some Pilgrims led by Myles Standish, while exploring the area near Provincetown, Massachusetts. They named the spot Corn Hill.

Germany - Thirty Years War in Germany (until 1648), Catholics vs. Protestants; James I refuses to send troops, English men volunteer and fight for Protestant cause

England - Francis Bacon became Lord Chancellor of England.

England - The first one way streets were established in London. Seventeen one way streets were created to regulate 'disorder and rude behaviour of Carmen, Draymen, and others using Cartes'.

England - Death of William Shakespeare

Italy - Italian philosopher Lucilio Vanini suggests that humans descended from apes. For this heresy, he is burned alive three years later.

England - The first tea is imported to the west

Japan- Furuta Oribe died. His original name was Furuta Shigenari. He was a Japanese master of the tea ceremony who studied under Sen Riky. His ideas influenced the tea ceremony, teahouse architecture, tea-garden landscaping and even flower arrangement.

England - James I dissolves the 'Addled Parliament' which has failed to pass any legislation

England - English factory built at Surat (India); deforestation of England for charcoal to make iron already a problem, substitutes sought

England - Fighting with Dutch over Spice Islands (again in 1615)

England - James I's authorized version of the Bible is completed; English and Scottish Protestant colonists settle in Ulster

Kracow, Poland - Community Regulations of stated that bagels were to be given as a gift to women in childbirth.

Germany - Avisa Relation oder Zeitung, the world's first regular newspaper, is published

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.

America - Henry Hudson explores present-day New York and Hudson River and claims them for the Dutch

England - Hans Lippershey invents the first refracting telescope.

England - John Tradescant was born. He succeeded his father as naturalist and gardener to Charles I.

England - Parliament rejects proposals for union between England and Scotland

America - Henry Hudson begins voyage to eastern Greenland and Hudson River

Alps, France - The Carthusian monks are supposedly given the secret formula for Chartreuse liqueur by the Marechal d'Estrees.

America - Virginia colony subscribed in London, is thriving by 1620

England - Gunpowder Plot; Guy Fawkes and other Roman Catholic conspirators fail in attempt to blow up Parliament and James I

England - Robert Cawdrey's A Table Alphabeticall, first English dictionary, is published

England - Hampton Court Conference: no relaxation by the Church towards Puritans; James I bans Jesuits; England and Spain make peace

England - Death of Elizabeth I at Richmond, aged 70, after 45-year reign.

England - Plague in London and provincial towns

England - At end of Elizabeth I's reign, English population estimated at 4 million, 80% living in rural areas

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.