1600s

1607 -http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/6616037.stm - Jamestown founded

1609 - http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/galilei_galileo.shtml - Galileo discoveres Jupieter's four large moons

1610 - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00t4jx0 - Caravaggio dies

1610/1611 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tempest  - The Tempest is written

1611 - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00x3qy7 - King James Bible published

1616 - http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/shakespeare_william.shtml - Shakespeare dies - 'Some of his most famous tragedies were written in the early 1600s including 'Hamlet', 'Othello', 'King Lear' and 'Macbeth'. His late plays, often known as the Romances, date from 1608 onwards and include 'The Tempest''