1600 East India Company granted a
charter by the Queen of England.
1601 Jesuits establish mission in
Beijing, China, to provide contacts for the Portuguese and Dutch for
access to native drug trafficking routes in the East. The Dutch
negotiate an opium monopoly for northern India.
1603 Heavy outbreak of plague in England.
1606 London Company
chartered to establish the Virginia Plantation on a communistic
basis, and the Plymouth Company, whose descendants would control the
New England business world.
1607 Announcement of national bankruptcy in Spain.
1608 Telescope
discovered.
1612 Tobacco planted in Virginia in American colonies.
1622 Under James I, the East India Company becomes a joint stock
company.
1627 Francis Bacon writes The New Atlantis, which espouses
the paradigm of a world university that
scans the world for talented children in order to enrich the power
of the state, because the state will know everything and be
invincible. The book is widely read by Germans mystics.
1632 First coffee shop opens in London.
1635 Tobacco sale in France
restricted to apothecaries by doctor's prescription only.
1638
Torture abolished in England. 1642 Income and Property Tax
introduced in England.
1650 World population estimated 500 million.
1650 Extermination of North American Indian people begins.
1657
Chocolate drinking introduced in London.
1658 First bank note
introduced in Sweden.
1660 Dutch (Boers) settle in South Africa.
1660 British find sugar pushing so profitable it becomes a matter of
national security. British pass the
Navigation Act of 1660 to prevent transport of sugar, tobacco, or
any product of the American Colonies
to any port outside England, Ireland and British possessions.
1661
Charles II in England, in an attempt to retain his throne, grants
the East India Company the power to make war.
1662 Britain importing 16 million pounds of sugar per year.
1664 Descartes advances the concept that activities of organisms
(including man) are because of a reaction to external stimuli. One
of the initial premises of future mind control paradigms.
1665
London swept by Bubonic plague. It was noticed that people who lived
without sugar escaped
harm. Over 68,000 die.
1665 Newton experiments with gravitation.
1666 Great Fire of London.
1667 The apparent danger of using animals
serums foreign to human beings and animal serums foreign
to other animals is reported in medical literature in 1667 when
lambs blood was unsuccessfully used as a human blood
transfusion. (Sir Graham Wilson, The Hazards of Immunization, London
1967, Athlone Press).
1667 Epidemics of smallpox, dysentery begin.
1668 Merck begins an
apothecary shop in Darmstadt Germany.
1669 Outbreak of cholera in
China.
1670 Measles and tertian fever epidemics displace cholera.
1672 Dysentery becomes mild and some smallpox occurs.
1673
Inoculation against smallpox appears in Denmark. (See 1778).
1674
First mention of diabetes mellitus in British Pharmaceutice
Rationalis, by Thomas Willis, member
of the Royal College of Physicians.
1675 Malaria epidemic in England
and discovery of “Peruvian bark” (quinine).
1677 Ice cream becomes
popular dessert in Paris.
1678 First medical treatise in America on
smallpox and measles.
1683 First German emigrants to America land.
1690 John Locke writes “Concerning Human Understanding.” One of the
crucial elements of the essay
is the belief and concept that children are tabula rasa, i.e.,
totally programmable. The idea was
immediately taken up by the upper class in Europe and the United
States, and it would become a cognitive foundation for the idea of
“the emergence of a strong state,” in terms of “programming an
analytical systems substructure”—the substructure being the children
who, under this paradigm, are entities to be possessed and
controlled—paradigm that would persist for 400 years.
1692 Salem witch trial executions in New England.
1693 National Debt
begins in England.
1694 Bank of England founded.
1695 Royal Bank of
Scotland founded. University of Berlin founded.
1695 Paris and Rome
experience ferocious epidemics of Pertussis.
1696 First English
property insurance company founded. 1698 Tax on beards in Russia
instituted.
1699 Philadelphia epidemic of yellow fever.