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A 17th-century map shows New England as a coastal enclave extending from Cape Cod to New France. On April 10, 1606, King James I of England issued a charter for the Virginia Company of Plymouth, (often referred to as the Plymouth Company).
17th; 18th; 19th; 20th; 21st; 22nd ... 17th-century maps and globes" The following 23 pages are in this category, out of 23 total. This list may not reflect recent ...
During the 1,900 years before the 20th century, it is likely that the next warmest period was from 950 to 1100, with peaks at different times in different regions. This has been called the Medieval Warm Period, and some evidence suggests widespread cooler conditions during a period around the 17th century known as the Little Ice Age.
The Ottoman LIA occurred from the early 14th century until the mid-19th century, with its most intense phase taking place between the 16th and 17th centuries. From the 14th to 15th century, the Ottoman Empire transformed from a small group of soldiers to a major world power. [ 131 ]
1817 – Alexander von Humboldt publishes a global map of average temperature, the first global climate analysis. 1819 – Pierre Louis Dulong and Alexis Thérèse Petit give the Dulong-Petit law for the specific heat capacity of a crystal. 1820 – Heinrich Wilhelm Brandes publishes the first synoptic weather maps.
Catastrophic eruption of Samalas in Indonesia, with climate effects comparable to that of the 1815 Tambora eruption. This contributed to the cooling seen in the Little Ice Age. end of the 13th century beginning of the Renaissance era in Italy, gradually spreads throughout Europe.
The Atlas Maior is the final version of Joan Blaeu's atlas, published in Amsterdam between 1662 and 1672, in Latin (11 volumes), French (12 volumes), Dutch (9 volumes), German (10 volumes) and Spanish (10 volumes), containing 594 maps and around 3,000 pages of text. [1] It was the largest and most expensive book published in the seventeenth ...
England, France, and the Netherlands made several attempts to colonize New England early in the 17th century, and those nations were often in contention over lands in the New World. French nobleman Pierre Dugua Sieur de Monts established a settlement on Saint Croix Island, Maine in June 1604 under the authority of the King of France.