1607 Jamestown the first permanent English settlement in America is founded.

1609 Galileo uses the newly invented telescope and discovers Jupiter's moons. First regularly published newspaper appears in Germany.

1611 Galileo goes to Rome to show the Jesuits his discoveries. The King James Version of the bible is completed

1614 Pocahontas marries John Rolfe. 

1616 William Shakespeare dies.

1617 Ferdinand II becomes King of Bohemia. 

1619 First representative assembly in America held in Jamestown. Also, first African slaves brought to Jamestown. 

1620 Fredrick V of Bohemia is defeated and sent into exile. The Mayflower from England to New England/ Before landing, some signed the Mayflower Compact 

1627 France introduced registered mail. Ferdinand II (of the Holy Roman Empire) outlaws all religions but Roman Catholicism in Bohemia.
 

1643 Evangelista Torricelli accidentally invents the mercury barometer.

1644 End of the Ming Dynasty in China.

1653 Cromwell dissolves parliament and takes the title of "Lord Protector" to rule as a dictator
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

1668 Francesco Redi attempts to prove that rotting meat cannot spontaneously turn into flies.
 
 

1679 England passes the Habeas Corpuss act guaranteeing people protection from arbitrary arrest.

1692 Salem witch trials

1702 Queen Anne's War between the British and the French in North America begins. England's first daily newspaper, the Daily Courant is founded.

1710 Sheikh Sabah bin Jaber leads his clan into the area now called Kuwait and within the next twenty years establishes an unofficial rule.

1718 Blackbeard the pirate dies. 

1725 Catherine I of Russia takes the throne at her husbands death. 
 
 
 

1733 John Kay invents flying shuttle loom.

1741Elizabeth, daughter of Peter the Great takes the Russian throne. Vitus Bering (a Russian) discovers Alaska.

1755 French and Indian war begins 

1756 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in Salzburg, Austria.

1760 George III of Great Britain crowned. Francis Nixon, an Irishman, comes up with a way to print chintz (brightly colored cloth) using copperplates. 
 
 

1768 Russo-Turkish war. Captain James Cook leaves England for a three year exploration of the Pacific.

1770 Beethoven born. Boston massacre. Poet William Wordsworth is born.

1773 American colonists, disguised as Indians, dump shiploads of tea into the Boston harbour to protest taxation.

1776 Declaration of Independence; San Franciso is founded.

1783 The first human beings to fly in a hot air balloon. The Treaty of Paris formalizes the American independence and defines America's borders.

1786 The British government announces it's plans to make Australia a penal colony.

1787 Russo-Turkish war. French physicist Jacques Charles discovers "Charles Law" describing the relationship between the volume and temperature of a gas.

1788 United States Constitution ratified. 1789 French Revolution Fall of the Bastille. 1791 American Bill of Rights adopted. 

1803 Louisiana Purchase 

1807 the US bans the importation of slaves. The British ban the slave trade. In Prussia Baron Karl vom Stein abolishes personal serfdom. 

1811 The original Siamese twin's (where the name came from) were born. 

1815 June 18th, Battle of Waterloo. Jacob Grimm completes "Grimm's Fairy Tales" 

1818 Mary Wollstonecraft Shelly writes "Frankenstein". Lord Byron begins writing "Don Jaun". US adopts the flag with thirteen stripes and many stars.
 

1824 Edgar Alan Poe publishes his first book. 1827 Russian troops conquer Iran.The first steam driven train is developed for use between Manchester and Liverpool.

1830 Revolutions in France; Mormonism founded by Joseph Smith

1833 Slavery is abolished in the British Empire.

1834 The Spanish Inquisition ends 

1835 Hans Christian Anderson starts writing children's stories.

1836 The Mexicans attack the Alamo. Texas gains independence from Mexico.

1837 Morse invents the telegraph. Victoria becomes Queen of Great Britain. 

1838 Cherokee Indians were forcibly removed from their homeland in the Appalachian 
 

1845 Ireland's potato famine starts. Edgar Allen Poe writes "the Raven"

1846 War between Mexico and US. The Smithsonian institute is founded in Washington. 

1848 Revolutions in France, Austrian Empire, Italy, and Germany; Marx publishes "the Communist Manifesto". The US acquires Texas. Gold is discovered in California. Florence Nightengale works as a nurse during the Crimean War.

1862 Victor Hugo publishes "Les Miserables". Henry David Thoreau dies. Port Royal Experiment of returning land to freed black slaves begins (in USA).

1865 Russia captures Tashkent. American civil war ends.  Ku Klux Klan forms in Tennessee. Lewis Carrol writes "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland". 

1867 Russia sells Alaska to the US. Alfred Nobel invents dynamite. Karl Marx writes "Das Kapital". Laura Ingalls Wilder is born. The last Japanese shogun, Hitotsubashi, resigns 

1869 Suez Canal completed. Louis Riel leads the Metis against Canada. The American transcontinental line was completed.

1876 Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone. Custer's last stand. Mark Twain publishes "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer"

1877 Russo Turkish wars reignite. (1877 - 1878). First sound recording made by Thomas Edison.

1879 Chancellor Bismarck negotiates a military alliance between Germany and Austria-Hungary. Albert Einstein born.

1886 Ludwig II of Bavaria is declared insane and dies. A pharmacist creates Coca-Cola as a "headache tonic".

1890 William II becomes Kaiser of Germany, and forces Bismarck to resign. Reinsurance treaty falls apart. Battle of Wounded knee. First moving-picture shows appear in New York.

1892 Tchaikovsky performs his "the Nutcracker"

1895 H.G. Wells publishes "The Time Machine" and becomes a full time writer. George Eastman produces the hand held Kodak camera. 

1900 Boxer Rebellion in China begins. 

1903 Wright brothers make first flight at Kitty Hawk. Henry Ford founds the Ford Motor company. The Trans-Siberian railroad reaches the Pacific Ocean.

1912 Serbia, Bulgaria and Greece attack the Ottoman Empire in the 1st Balkan War, resulting in, among other things, the creation of the nation of Albania. The Titanic sinks. For the first time mail is carried by airplane. 

1914 Anti-american riots break out after the U.S. invades Mexico. Ford develops assembly line. Panama Canal completed. Heir to the Austria-Hungary throne, the Archduke Francis Ferdinand, is executed. World War I breaks out in Europe.

1918 Women over thirty win right to vote in Britain. All states in the US have passed compulsory education laws. Nicholas II and his family are killed. Brest-Litovsk Treaty signed between Germany and Russia, taking Russia out of WWI. Poland proclaimed itself an independed republic. Yugoslavia created. The Armistice signed, ending WWI. German Kaiser flees to Holland.

1594 JOHN WILBOUR born in Braintree, England
 
 
 
 
 

1616 John Wilbour marries Joan Drane
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

1653 William Wilbour settles in Portsmouth, Rhode Island, USA

1653 William marries Martha ( unknown )

1656 John dies in England

1700 Benjamin marries Mary Kinnicutt

1710 William dies in Tiverton, Rhode Island

1725 Daniell Wilbore [SR] marries Sarah Fish

1756 Daniel [JR] marries Mary Smith
 

1762 BENJAMIN WILBOR born in Adams, Massachusetts

  1764 Daniel [SR] dies in Smithfield, RI
 
 
 
 
 
 

  1786 Benjamin Wilbor marries Thankful Darling

  1818 Ira marries Hannah Southwick

  1821 JOEL WILBER born in Springwater, New York
 
 

  1830 Benjamin dies in Adams, Berkshire, Massachusetts

 
 
 
 
 

  1841 Joel marries Hannah Vanatter

  1866 Henry marries Esther Louis Clement
 
 
 
 

  1875 Joel Wilber dies in Lapeer, MI

  1881 Henry Wilber, family, and brothers move to Dakota Territory
 
 
 

  1897 Freddy Wilber marries Elizabeth Schnase in South Dakota
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

  1918 Henry Wilber dies in Aberdeen, Brown County, South Dakota