17th Century

1600 AD

The previous versions of Fry, Bender and the Professor watch (Alternate Second) (in one reality) the pilgrims arrive in America and get taken over by the British.

1607 AD

April 26 – June 22 – Mission to Virginia European Pilgrims stole America from the Native Americans.
April 26 – English colonists make landfall at Cape Henry, Virginia, later moving up the James River.
May 14 – Jamestown, Virginia, is established as the first permanent English settlement in North America, beginning the American frontier.
May 15 – From Jamestown, Christopher Newport, George Percy, Gabriel Archer, and others travel six days exploring along the James River up to the falls and Powhatan‘s village.
May 26 – At Jamestown, the president of the governing council, Edward Wingfield, directs the fort to be strengthened and armed against the many attacks of the natives: “Hereupon the President was contented the Fort should be pallisadoed, the ordinance mounted, his men armed and exercised, for many were the assaults and Ambuscadoes of the Savages …” [John Smith, Proceedings (Barbour 1964)]; 200 armed Indians attack the Jamestown settlement, killing two people and wounding 10.
May 28 – A wooden defensive wall (palisade) is built by settlers around the Fort at Jamestown. Gabriel Archer writes in his journal, “we laboured, pallozadoing our fort”.
June 10 – In Jamestown, Captain John Smith is released from arrest and sworn in as a member of the colony Council.
June 15 – At Jamestown, the triangular fort is completed and armed: “The fifteenth of June we had built and finished our Fort, which was triangle wise, having three Bulwarkes, at every corner, like a halfe Moone, and foure or five pieces of Artillerie mounted in them. We had made our selves sufficiently strong for these Savages. We had also sowne most of our Corne on two Mountaines.” [George Percy (Tyler 1952:19)] The colony reportedly bears extreme toil in strengthening the fort [from John Smith, Proceedings (Barbour 1964:210)].
June 22 – Christopher Newport sails back to England.

1609 AD

May – Anglo-Powhatan Wars The previous versions of Fry, Bender and the Professor watch (Alternate Second)

1610 AD

April 20 – William Shakespeare‘s play, The Tragedie of Macbeth, is given its first performance, staged at the Globe Theatre in London.
May 23 – Jamestown, Virginia: Acting as temporary Governor, Thomas Gates, along with John Rolfe, Captain Ralph Hamor, Sir George Somers, and other survivors from the Sea Venture (wrecked at Bermuda) arrive at Jamestown; they find that 60 have survived the “starving time” (winter), the fort palisades and gates have been torn down, and empty houses have been used for firewood, in fear of attacks by natives outside the fort area.
May 24 – Jamestown, Virginia: The temporary Governor, Thomas Gates, issues The Divine, Moral, and Martial Laws.
June 7 – Jamestown: Temporary Governor Gates decides to abandon Jamestown.
June 8 – Jamestown: Temporary Governor Gates’ convoy meets the ships of Governor Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr (Delaware) at Mulberry Island.
June 10 – Jamestown: The convoy of temporary Governor Gates, and the ships of Governor Lord De La Warr, land at Jamestown.
June 24 – Henri Membertou, Grand Chief of Mi’kmaq nation, becomes the first North American aboriginal person to accept baptism into the Christian faith and signs the Concordat of 1610, an agreement with the Roman Catholic Church recognizing the Mi’kmaq as an independent nation
August 9 – Anglo-Powhatan Wars: The English launch a major attack on the Paspahegh village, capturing and executing the native queen and her children, burning houses and chopping down the corn fields; the subsequent use of the term “Paspahegh” in documents refers to their former territory.
November 6 – After the Parliament of England gives King James only £ 100,000 of an agreed to £ 600,000 of debt relief promised in February under the Great Contract, the King demands the rest of the funds. Parliament is outraged and declares the Contract abandoned on November 9.

1624 AD

December 31 – Skirmish on Venice (Thirty Years’ War Alternate First)

1625 AD

January 17 – Led by the Duke of Soubise, the Huguenots launch a second rebellion against King Louis XIII, with a surprise naval assault on a French fleet being prepared in Blavet.
February 3 – Francesca Caccini‘s opera La liberazione di Ruggiero has its premiere, stated in Florence in Italy. The opera will continue to be staged almost 400 years later, as late as the year 2018.
February 6 – Bogislaw XIV becomes the final Duke of Pomerania, an office that becomes extinct after his death in 1637.
February 8 – Hafız Ahmed Pasha is designated as the new grand vizier of the Ottoman Empire by Sultan Murad IV, 11 days after the death of Çerkes Mehmed Pasha.
February 11 – Dutch–Portuguese War: One of the largest naval battles ever fought in the Persian Gulf takes place in the Straits of Hormuz as fleets of the Dutch East India Company and the English East India Company defend Persia against an attack by ships from the colony of Portuguese India.
February – Huguenot forces under the Duke of Soubise capture the Island of Ré.
March 21 – James Ussher is appointed Archbishop of Armagh (Church of Ireland) and Primate of All Ireland.
March 1-3 – Mission to France: Gascony (Thirty Years’ War Alternate First)
March 4 – Mission to France: Meung-sur-Loire/Paris (Thirty Years’ War Alternate First)
March 5 – Mission to France: Calais/Return to Paris and Attack on Tower of London (Thirty Years’ War Alternate First)
March 28–April 24 – First Savoine War – Relief of Genoa: The Spanish fleet aids the Republic of Genoa, by overcoming the Franco-Savoyard occupation of the city of Genoa.
March 25 – Battle of Martqopi: The Safavids are defeated in Georgia.
March 27 – Charles I of England, Scotland and Ireland succeeds to the throne on the death of his father, King James VI and I.