The 17th Century (1601 - 1700)
Greenwich Royal Observatory & Greenwich
Hospital established.
1603: 24 March - Death of
Elizabeth I - James I became King of England
1605: 5 November - Gunpowder plot - Guy Fawkes attempts to
blow-up Parliament
1606: 12 April - Union Jack adopted
1607: Appearance of
Halley's
Comet
1611: Authorised version of Bible published
1613: Trinity Hospital founded in Greenwich.
1614: King James I gave Palace of Placenta at Greenwich to
his Queen (Anne of Denmark)
1617: Henry Briggs introduces decimal notation.
1618: Sir Walter Ralegh put to death
1619: Death of Queen Anne (Queen's House only partially
built)
1620: 6 September - Pilgrim Fathers set sail in Mayflower to
America from Southwark sail past Greenwich.
1622: First English newspaper
1625: 27 March - death of
James I
1625: Parliament gave
Charles I tonnage & poundage
for one year only
1629: King
Charles I (1600 - 1649) commissions
Queens House
to be completed by
Inigo
Jones for his Queen Henrietta Maria.
1634: Ship money demanded by Charles I without Parliament's
consent
1635: Queens House in Greenwich completed by Inigo Jones
(1573 - c1652).
1635: Connecticut first settled
1636: Hackney carriages in London
1642: English Civil War breaks out - Greenwich no longer
favoured royal residence.
1653: Body of Richard Deane lay in state at Greenwich.
1657: Body of Robert Blake at Greenwich.
1660: Charles II
welcomed on Blackheath on his return from exile.
1660: Composition of light discovered by Sir Isaac Newton
1661: Hand-struck postage-stamps first used.
1661-2 Bridge Rooms added to Queens House by King Charles
II.
1662: Royal Society of London receives Royal Charter
1665: Great Plague in London
1665-6: Samuel Pepys (1633 - 1703), famous diarist, lived in
Greenwich.
1666: 2 June: Samuel Pepy's records gun-fire heard at
Greenwich from English-Dutch naval conflict.
1666: 2-6 September - Great Fire of London
1675 - 22 June:
Greenwich
Royal Observatory created by Royal Warrant
1675: 10 August - Building of Royal Observatory commenced
1675: John Flamsteed appointed first Astronomer Royal.
1676: Royal Greenwich Observatory built by
Sir
Christopher Wren.
1676: Greenwich ferry starts operating across the River
Thames.
1680: Buccaneers' Raids. John Coxon defeated at Panama
1681: Oil street lights first used in London
1682: Appearance of
Halley's
Comet
1688: King
William III and Queen Mary II ascend the English throne.
1689: Queen Mary II (wife of William III) welcomed at
Greenwich on first arrival to England.
1694: October: Greenwich Hospital established by Queen
Mary's royal charter (now Royal Naval College).
1698: Peter the Great works in ship-yard in
Deptford.
1699:
Rangers House
built on edge of Greenwich Royal Park.
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