A windmill for sawing timber prohibited in England.
Leonard Calvert settles St. Mary's, Maryland.
The town on Manhattan Island is named New Amsterdam.
Connecticut settled by the English.
1635. Partition of New England territory, following the dissolution of the Council.
Under Richelieu France actively engages in a contest against Austria and Spain in Italy.
Richelieu takes a hand in the Thirty Years' War.
Foundation of the French Academy.
1636. France invaded by the Imperialists, Spaniards, and Charles of Lorraine.
Banishment of Roger Williams from Massachusetts; he makes a settlement at Providence.