| 1600 | (Feb) Giordano Bruno burned as heretic: Campo dei Fiori-Rome. Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Tycho Brahe and Johanes Kepler working together in Prague. |
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| 1601 | Earl of Essex leads revolt against Eliz; is tried and executed. Queen Eliz delivers her “Golden Speech” surveying 43 year reign. Jesuit missionary Matteo Ricci admitted to Peking. |
| 1603 | Death of Queen Elizabeth of England. Cousin James of Scotland succeeds as James I. |
| 1605 | Cervantes’ Don Quixote Part I, published.
Shakespeare’s King Lear and Macbeth. Sir Francis Bacon, The Advancement of Learning. In London, Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot. |
| 1606 | Birth of Rembrandt. (d. 1669) |
| 1607 | Foundation of colony of Jamestown, Virginia. first English settlement in America. |
| 1608 | Birth of John Milton.
Dutchman John Lippershey invents telescope. First “checks” (Cash letters) in use in Netherlands. |
| 1609 | Dutch East India Co ships first tea to Europe from China. |
| 1610 | Galileo, The Starry Messenger, published in Venice.
Assassination of King Henry IV of France. Henry Hudson sails into Hudson’s Straits and discovers Hudson’s Bay. |
| 1611 | John Donne: Anatomy of the World. |
| 1612 | Dutch on Manhattan Island.
Begin building very tall buildings. |
| 1614 | Sir Walter Raleigh writes The History of the World.
Death of El Greco. |
| 1616 | Death of Shakespeare. Death of Cervantes. |
| 1618 | Thirty Years War. all Europe drawn in (Prot vs Cath). |
| 1619 | Wm Harvey announces discovery of circulation of blood. (London). |
| 1620 | Pilgrims leave Plymouth, England in Mayflower, seek religious liberty (Puritans). |
| 1621 | Philip IV, King of Spain (to 1665),
Velasquez paints the king. |
| 1621 | Protestant rebellion in France. War between Holland and Spain. |
| 1622 | Weekeley Newes issued in London for first time. Beginning of modern newspapers, London ahead of all cities. |
| 1623 | Publish the First Folio edition of Mr William Shakespeare’s “Comedies, Histories and Tragedies Published According to the True Originall Copies.” |
| 1625 | Death of King James I. succeeded by son Charles I. |
| 1626 | Death of Francis Bacon. (b. 1561) |
| 1630 | John Winthrop (1587-1649) sails with Plymouth Company expedition, April arrives Mass. with 1000 settlers, founds Boston in Sept, becomes first governor of the state, 16,000 more settlers follow. |
| 1632 | (Feb.21) Galileo: Dialogue on Two Chief World Systems (pub in Flo). First coffee shop opens in London(Newspapers and coffee houses).Birth of John Locke. Rembrandt: Anatomy Lesson of Dr Tulp(Science in art). |
| 1633 | (Jun) Galileo in before Inquisition: abjures the Dialogue in Rome. |
| 1636 | Foundation of Harvard.
Tea appears in Paris for first time. |
| 1638 | Nicolas Poussin paints “Et in Arcadia Ego” appearance of central myth of 18th century Romanticism, run off to country, be a shepherd which all French aristocracy will soon enjoy: playing at Arcadia in the woods near their castles. |
| 1640 | Short Parliament & Long Parliament(to 1653).Begin of war between King of England and the Parliament. |
| 1642 | Begin hostilities of the English Civil War.
All theaters closed in England: by order of the Puritans now in control of Parliament. (till 1660). Rembrandt’s The Night Watch.Death of Galileo. |
| 1643 | King Louis XIV becomes King of France (to 1715) the most powerful monarch of the 17th century. Moliere founds the Illustre Theatre in Paris, later Comedie Francaise. |
| 1644 | Descartes: Principia philosophicae (“Cogito ergo sum”).
John Milton: Areopagitica argues for the freedom of the press, radical idea and part of the growing democratic spirit of both England and the new colonies. |
| 1647 | King Charles of England captured, taken prisoner. |
| 1648 | End of 30 Yrs War, pop of Germany down to 8 mil from 17 mil(1618). |
| 1649 | (Jan 19)Trial of King of England before court of Parliament.
(Jan. 30)Execution of the King of England by Parliament. |
| 1660 | Parliament invites Charles II: Come back into England. |
| 1665 | First issue of London Gazette: one of first newspapers. |
| 1667 | John Milton: Paradise Lost. |
| 1669 | Death of Rembrandt. (b. 1606) |
| 1675 | Death of Vermeer. (b. 1632) |
| 1685 | Death of King Charles II of England, succeeded by James II. |
| 1688 | Expel James II, invite in Protestant William and Mary from Holland. |
| 1689 | Parliament confirms “abdication” of James, accession of Wm & Mary. Proclamation of a Declaration of Rights in England (freedom of speech, press). |
| 1690 | John Locke: Essay Concerning Human Understanding. |
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