Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Early modern period – The chronological limits of this period are open to debate. It emerges from the Late Middle Ages (c. 1500), demarcated by historians as beginning with the fall of Constantinople in 1453, in forms such as the Italian Renaissance in the West, the Ming dynasty in the East, and the rise of the Aztecs in the New World.
The 1600s (pronounced "sixteen-hundreds") was a decade of the Gregorian calendar that began on 1 January 1600, and ended on 31 December 1609. The term "sixteen-hundreds" could also mean the entire century from 1 January 1600 to 31 December 1699. The decade was a period of significant political, scientific, and artistic advancement.
Freedom of religion became a basic American principle, and numerous new movements emerged, many of which became established denominations in their own right. [118] The Puritans of New England kept in close touch with non-conformists in England, [ 119 ] as did the Quakers [ 120 ] and the Methodists.
1600s may refer to: The century from 1600 to 1699, ... (1601–1700). 1600s (decade), the period from 1600 to 1609 This page was last edited ...
The first documented settlement of Europeans in the Americas was established by Norse people around 1000 AD in what is now Newfoundland, called Vinland by the Norse. Later European exploration of North America resumed with Christopher Columbus's 1492 expedition sponsored by Spain. English settlement began almost a century later.
1582–1600. Richard Hakluyt wrote and published his book, The principal navigations, voyages, traffiques and discoveries of the English nation. [4] Hakluyt was a graduate of University of Oxford, where he later lectured on geography. He was a scholar, a collector and a fervent advocate of colonial expansion.
1600: Battle of Sekigahara in Japan. End of the Warring States period and beginning of the Edo period. 1600: The Portuguese win a major naval battle in the bay of Ambon. [19] Later in the year, the Dutch join forces with the local Hituese in an anti-Portuguese alliance, in return for which the Dutch would have the sole right to purchase spices ...
1615 was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar, the 1615th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 615th year of the 2nd millennium, the 15th year of the 17th century, and the 6th year of the 1610s decade.