Life Expectancy

• The average person would live to only 35 years of age

 
Employment

• 67% of people worked in Agriculture
• 15% were in Industry
• 12% of the workforce were employed in services
• 6% worked in Information/Education/Entertainment/Communications

 
Working hours

• An average worker was expected to work about 80 hours per week

 
Farmer’s wage

• A Farm Labourer could expect to earn about 2 shillings a week

 
Cost of a loaf of bread

• A 2lb standard sized loaf would cost between 1½ and 2 pence

Wheat Yield

• Each acre of Wheat would produce 12 bags (or 112lb "hundred weights") of corn.

 
Cost of Wheat in Silver

• 100kg (Two large sacks) would be worth 80 grammes of Silver

  
World Gross Domestic Produce per capita ($)

• Each person would produce about $76 worth of goods in a year

  
Cost of Living vs 1275AD

• The cost of goods and materials (Inflation) was 4½ times that of 1275

World population

• Estimated population of the World was 545, 000, 000 people

UK Population

• 4,800,000 people (or .8% of the World Population) lived in Britain

 
London population

• London had a population of 200,000 people (4% of the UK)

 
Monarchy and World Leaders

• 1603 Death of Queen Elizabeth I, to be replaced by King James I (VI of Scotland)
• 1605 The Monarchy was nearly removed by Guy Fawkes Gunpowder plot
• 1625 James I dies. His son Charles I takes power.
• 1649 Charles I is executed at the end of the Civil War

Wars

• 1630 The 30 years war with France begins
• 1640 Portugal wins independence
• 1645 Start of the English Civil War

Art Culture and Architecture

• 1605 Don Quixote de la Mancha is the world’s first Novel
• 1630 Start of the "Renaissance" Period
• 1643 The mighty Taj Mahal is completed in India
• 1644 End of the Ming Dynasty

Events, Discoveries, and Achievements

• 1601 East India company founded
• 1606 The Dutch discover Australia
• 1610 Galileo sees Jupiter’s moons
• 1611 King James Bible is published
• 1616 Shakespeare dies
• 1620 Mayflower journey to America
• 1627 Iceland is attacked by Algerian pirates
• 1642 Tasman sights New Zealand

Laws

• 1601 English Poor Act
• 1624 Monopoly Act

Inventions

• 1606 The Telescope
• 1628 Blood Circulation is understood for the first time

Disasters

• None. Everyone was busy dying by every other mean!