| 1602 | | The Bodleian Library at Oxford University is opened to the public. Shakespeare wrrites "The Merry Wives of Windsor"
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1603 |  | Queen Elizabeth I dies..... James I succeeds to the throne. Start of Stuart dynasty. Walter Raleigh tried and found guilty of treason. Imprisoned in the Tower... executed 1618 |
| 1604 | | William Morgan, Welsh Bible translator dies (b.1545) The Sikh Holy Scripture Guru Granth Sahib is compiled and edited by Guru Arjan Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus is officially published |
| 1605 |  | The Gunpowder Plot foiled... Parliament saved... Guy Fawkes hung, drawn and quartered for his role as ringleader. |
1606 |  | The Union Flag adopted as the British national flag |
| 1607 | 
Captain John Smith | First settlers land in America and found Jamestown in Virginia. Captain Smith captured by Indians and meets Pohontas |
| 1608 | 
Stradling Arms 
St. Donats Castle | John Milton (poet) born. Author of Paradise Lost (1674) Samuel de Champlain founds city of Quebec. Sir Edward & Sir John Stradling of St. Donats found "the Free School" in Cowbridge
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| 1609 |  | Henry Hudson discoveres the beach at Coney Island, Manhattan |
| 1610 |  
| German astronomer Simon Marius discovers the moons of Jupiter, but does not officially report it. Galileo does on July 1st 1610 and gets the credit
William Shakespeare stages "The Tempest". Based on the accounts of a storm that wrecked, on Bermuda, ships carrying colonists to Virginia |
| 1611 |  | Henry Hudson and son set adrift in Hudson Bay by mutineers on his ship Discovery and never seen again
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