1660 Restoration of monarchy, Britain 1665 Great plague of London 1666 Great Fire of London 1696 Peter the Great becomes Czar 1700 Britain's american colonies prosper

1613 Romanov dynasty begins in Russia 1618 Beginning of 30 Years War 1628 English curtail King's powers 1640 Portugal gains independence/Spain 1642 Civil war England/Scotland/Ireland

1558 Elizabeth I is England's queen 1580 Drake completes voyage around world 1582 New Gregorian calendar introduced 1588 English defeat the Spanish Armada 1611 Authorized English Bible published

			Pauwels Lenaertsen de Backer  b.           d.
							Jacob Jansen van der Rijt  b.1559  d.
				Hendrick Jacobsen van der Reijt  b.1602  d.          Kruisland-V, Netherlands			Maeyken Cornelissen Nouts  b.1576  d.
			Maria Hendrikse van der Riet  c.1651 Kruisland-V, Netherlands  d.1720				Cornelius Cornelissen Vruecht  b.           d.
				Catharina Cornelissen Vreugde  c.1610 Roosendaal, Netherlands  d.			Cornelia Cornelissen  b.           d.

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