Heritage Guernsey

Timeline - 1600s

1642	LINKS	World Events
English Civil War: Guernsey supports Parliament, Castle Cornet supports the King	Castle Cornet	English Civil War

1651	LINKS	World Events
Castle Cornet surrenders to the Parliamentarians	Castle Cornet	England under Cromwell

1661	LINKS	World Events
Sir John Lambert, one of Cromwell's deputies, is imprisoned in Castle Cornet by Charles II	Castle Cornet	St Peter's Basilica in Rome completed

1672	LINKS	World Events
The keep in Castle Cornet and members of the Governors family and entourage are destroyed in an explosion	Castle Cornet	Louis XIV

1680	LINKS	World Events
The Legge Report gives an inventory of all the Island Ordnance		Classical period in French culture

1689	LINKS	World Events
The age of Privateering begins when the privilege of neutrality is surrendered		Isaac Newton

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