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| Year | Locale | Event | Social Effects | Source |
| 1669-70 | Bengal | Earliest famine of note in country | 3 million die | Trager/Nash |
| 1665-70 | Cologne/Rhine | Black Death Spreads | Reaches Austria 1668 via Normandy/Switzerland | Trager |
| 1664-66 | London | Last Black Death due to London Fire, reorganization of city | Over 100,000 die/Red Cross centers open | Trager/Nash |
| 1664 | Amsterdam | Black Death | 10,000 died - pipes/tobacco used to ward off | Trager |
| 1663 | Amsterdam | Black Death | 200,000 died | Trager |
| 1659-1764 | Nederlands/UK | Huygens/Huntsman/Harrison | Navigation chronometers/lathes appear | Burke |
| 1666 | Firenze, Italia | Arno & Po Rivers Flood | City innundated | Nash |
| 1661 | ENSO Warm Event | Records/Proxies of El Niño | Ý | Quinn |
| 1656 | Italy | Plague in Rome spreads to Sardinia and Naples | 400,000 die | Nash |
| 1655 | ENSO Warm Event | Records/Proxies of El Niño | Ý | Quinn |
| 1652 | ENSO Warm Event | Records/Proxies of El Niño | Ý | Quinn |
| 1650 | China | End warm period | Drier, colder winters, fewer floods | Ý |
| 1650 | Camp 100 | cold | Ý | Ladurie |
| 1650 | ENSO Warm Event | Records/Proxies of El Niño | Ý | Quinn |
| 1647-51 | Spain | Black Death | Worst epidemic since 1599 | Trager |
| 1648 | Massachusetts colony | Poor crops | Eat passenger pigeons to avoid starving | Prager |
| 1647 | West Indies | Yellow fever | 1st introduction via African slaves | Trager |
| 1647 | ENSO Warm Event | Records/Proxies of El Niño | Ý | Quinn |
| 1646 | France | Cold Summer | 1646-1650 vintages poor | Ladurie |
| 1645 | No. America | Tree rings aperiodic | tree ring/solar activity minimal | Douglas |
| 1645 | Sun | Fewer spots & Wheat Prices Report on Influence of Solar Activity on Wheat Prices.pdf | 1645-1715, Maunder Minimum | Ladurie |
| 1643 | Alps | Glacial max | Ý | Ladurie |
| 1643 | Swedish coast | Bohuslan herring bloom | Begin 45 year abundance period | Lindquist |
| 1641 | ENSO Warm Event | Records/Proxies of El Niño | Ý | Quinn |
| 1641 | London | Plague | 30,000 die | Goad, 1686 |
| 1639 | France | Cold Summer | 1639-43 vintges poor | Ladurie |
| 1637 | Jura, Fr./Germany | cool spring/summers | good vintages/narrow tree rings | Ladurie |
| 1636 | London | Black Death | 10,000 | Trager/Goad, 1686 |
| 1636 | Jura, Fr./Germany | cool spring/summers | good vintages/narrow tree rings | Ladurie |
| 1635 | France | Warm summer | 1635-38 vintages good | Ladurie |
| 1635 | ENSO Warm Event | Records/Proxies of El Niño | Ý | Quinn |
| 1634 | Jura, Fr.ance/Germany | cool spring/summers | good vintages/narrow tree rings | Ladurie |
| 1632 | France | Plague | 80,000 die, 60 thousand in Lyons | Nash |
| 1630 | Deccan, India | Drought/Floods/Famine | 100,000 die | Nash |
| 1630-31 | ENSO Warm Event | Records/Proxies of El Niño | Ý | Quinn |
| 1629-30 | No. Italy | Black Death | One million die/500,000 Venetians | Trager |
| 1628 | Lyons | Black Death | 1/2 population dies | Trager |
| 1625 | London | Black Death | Kills 41,000 of 63,000 deaths | Trager |
| 1624 | ENSO Warm Event | Records/Proxies of El Niño | Ý | Quinn |
| 1621 | ENSO Warm Event | Records/Proxies of El Niño | Economic Crises 1620-1740 | Quinn |
| 1618-19 | ENSO Warm Event | Records/Proxies of El Niño | Ý | Quinn |
| 1619 | Grand Cairo | Plague | 72,500 dead 10 days | Goad, 1686 |
| 1618 | Naples, Italy | Diptheria | 8,000 die | Nash |
| 1617 | India | Plague | Epidemic | Trager |
| 1617 | London | Smallpox epidemic | Rebecca Rolfe nee Pocahontas dies | Trager |
| 1616 | Galileo Galilei | Admonished by Church | Advocates Copernican System | Trager |
| 1614 | ENSO Warm Event | Records/Proxies of El Niño | Ý | Quinn |
| 1613 | Regensgurg to Austria | Plague | Ý | Trager |
| 1613 | Wurttenburg/Tyrol | Typhus epidemic | Ý | Trager |
| 1611 | Constantinople | Pestilence episode | 200 Thousand killed | Nash |
| 1610 | Virginia | Colony starves | 150 of 900 survive | Trager |
| 1609 |
Dutchman Hugo de Groot/Grotius |
Concept: Mare Librum |
Freedom of the Seas, ends Spanish and Portuguese domination of the seas | Grotius |
| 1609 | Johannnes Kepler | Concept: Earth/Sun orbits | Earth Travels elipse/non-uniform speed | Trager |
| 1608 | So.France | Severe Winter | Exports immense amounts grain/Spain | Ladurie |
| 1607 | Jamestown | Starvation/Illness | Colonists suffer severe winter | Trager |
| 1607 | Kennebec River, Canada | Severe winter | Colony abandoned by French | Trager |
| 1607-08 | ENSO Warm Event | Records/Proxies of El Niño | Ý | Quinn |
| 1604 | ENSO Warm Event | Records/Proxies of El Niño | Ý | Quinn |
| 1603 | Jura, Fr./Germany | cool spring/summers | good vintages/narrow tree rings | Ladurie |
| 1603-04 | London | Black Plague | Over 50,000 killed | Trager/Nash |
| 1603 | Russia | Famine | Kills tens of thousands | Trager |
| 1603 | So.France | Severe Winter | Rhone freezes | Ladurie |
| 1601 | Alps | Glacial max | And
Society within the 1600s - and onward - Click on the Sociology Timeline on this link |
Ladurie Ed Stephan |
| 1600-01 | Andalusia/Castile | Famine/Plague | Regions decimated over 2 yrs | Trager |
| 1600-01 | ENSO Warm Event | Records/Proxies of El Niño | Ý | Quinn |
| 1600s | Korea | Becomes vassal state ofChina | Cut off from outside contact | History |
| 1600 | Peru | Huaynaputin volcano eruption - parallel dating of climate and related processes from sediments and historical records suggest a potential link betweenthis Event - and the following regional and societal 'adventures'. |
Future research may lead to more careful searches for coincidences between major volcanic eruptions and sudden disruptions of societies through time. |
K.L. VEROSUB & J. LIPPMAN EOS Vol 89:15 April 8, 2008 |
| 1600 | Russia | famine &Plague | 500,000 die | Nash |
| 1600 | So.France | Severe Winter | Olives freeze | Ladurie |
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