Stuart Period (1603-1713)
1607 - Iron ore and coal mined at Silkstone

1624 - Michael Wentworth fined for not filling in old coal pits at Darton.Wortley Wire Mill at Thurgoland, an early water-powered site; Barnsley now a noted centre for wiremaking

1649 - Parliamentary survey of Barnsley refers to the Manor House, cottages, St Mary's chapel, town fields, common etc

c.1650 - Glassworks at Silkstone, one the earliest in the north of England
                                   
1660 - Quaker Burial Ground at Monk Bretton, one of earliest in Britain

c.1660 - Nailmaking at Mapplewell, Darton, Barnsley.
Thomas Keresforth establishes a school in Barnsley

1669 - Barnsley 'commonly called Black Barnsley' due to the colour of the soil

1672 - First recorded fatality - James Townend - from an explosion in a coal pit

1697 - Coal pits worked at Gawber.Quaker Meeting House built at Monk Bretton

1699 - Penistone market starts

1695 - John Hallifax, clockmaker born: Barnsley becoming a noted centre for horology

1698 - A Dutchman, William Bentinck, later Earl of Portland manorial lord of Barnsley

National/International Events:
1600 - East India Company founded
1605 - Gunpowder Plot
1649 - Execution of Charles I
1665 - Great Plague in London
1666 - Great Fire of London
1688-89 - Glorious Revolution