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| 1600 |
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Shakespeare's Hamlet
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| 1601 |
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Conversion of St. Paul by Carravaggio
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| 1602 |
Persia rules Bahrain 1602 - 1783
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Dutch East India Company founded
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| 1603 |
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Queen Elizabeth I dies, James I assumes the English throne
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| 1604 |
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| 1605 |
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| 1606 |
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Rembrandt born
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Dutch East India Company issues first joint-stock offering in European history
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| 1607 |
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Jamestown, Virginia founded by English colonists
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| 1608 |
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Telescope invented by Galileo
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Samuel de Champlain founds Quebec
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| 1609 |
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| 1610 |
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(1) Henry Hudson sees Hudson Bay
(2) Galileo uses telescope to observe Jupiter's moons
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| 1611 |
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Henry Hudson dies
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King James version of the Bible
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| 1612 |
British to India
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Jamestown colonists plant first tobacco
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| 1613 |
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| 1614 |
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(1) Sir Walter a Raleigh writes The History of the World
(2) El Greco dies
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| 1615 |
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Inquisition questions Galileo
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| 1616 |
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Richelieu appointed minister of France
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Blood circulation discovered
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| 1617 |
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| 1618 |
Defenestration of Prague begins the Bohemian Revolt and Thirty Years' War
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| 1619 |
Dutch take over East Indies
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Jamestown colonists meet in a representative body
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African slaves introduced to Virginia
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| 1620 |
Imperial forces under Tilly defeat Bohemian rebels at White Mountain; Effective end of Bohemian Revolt
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Pilgrims land at Plymouth Rock, Massachusetts
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| 1621 |
12 Years' Truce expires; Dutch and Spanish resume war
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Dutch West India Company chartered with trade monopoly in the Caribbean
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| 1622 |
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James I dissolves Parliament
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| 1623 |
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| 1624 |
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| 1625 |
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| 1626 |
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Francis Bacon dies
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| 1627 |
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| 1628 |
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| 1629 |
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| 1630 |
Gustavus Adolphus invades Germany
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Johann Kepler dies
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Puritans found Boston
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| 1631 |
Gustavus Adolphus destroys Imperial Army at Breitenfeld
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| 1632 |
Gustavas Adolphus killed at Battle of Luetzen
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Christopher Wren born
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(1) Jan Vermeer born
(2) John Locke born
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| 1633 |
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Galileo recants
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| 1634 |
Catholic Imperial army defeats Swedish army at the Battle of Nördlingen
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Anne Hutchinson settles in Massachusetts
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| 1635 |
France enters Thirty Years' War as an active combatant; Franco-Spanish War begins
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| 1636 |
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Harvard founded in Cambridge, Massachussets
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| 1637 |
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| 1638 |
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King Louis XIV born in France
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(1) Educational reforms by Comenius
(2) Anne Hutchinson expelled from Massachusetts and moves to Rhode Island
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| 1639 |
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Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
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| 1640 |
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| 1641 |
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Star Chamber abolished in England
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| 1642 |
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Revolt against Charles I; Beginning of English Civil War
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(1) Isaac Newton born
(2) Galileo dies
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The Night Watch by Rembrandt
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| 1643 |
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(1) Louis XIII dies, Louis XIV assumes French Throne
(1643 to 1715)(2) Confederation of New England
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Barometer invented
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Westminster Assembly
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| 1644 |
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(1) Rebels take Peking
(2) Last Ming emperor commits suicide
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Ecstasy of St. Teresa by Bernini
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| 1645 |
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| 1646 |
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| 1647 |
Masaniello's Revolt in Naples
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| 1648 |
Peace of Westphalia (ends Thirty Years War)
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The Fronde insurrection begins in France when the Parlement of Paris opposes the centralizing policies of Cardinal Mazarin, Louis XIV's chief minister
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| 1649 |
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(1) Cromwell's Ireland campaign
(2) Charles I executed
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Religious toleration in Maryland
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| 1650 |
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Rene Descartes dies
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| 1651 |
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Battle of Worcester; English Civil War ends with Parliamentary victory
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Nell Gwyn born
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| 1652 |
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Dutch colonists led by Jan van Riebeeck establish settlement at Cape Town
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| 1653 |
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Oliver Cromwell takes the title Lord Protector
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Taj Mahal is completed
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| 1654 |
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| 1655 |
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English Parliament dissolved by Oliver Cromwell
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| 1656 |
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| 1657 |
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| 1658 |
Battle of the Dunes
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Oliver Cromwell dies
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| 1659 |
Franco-Spanish War ends with Treaty of the Pyrenees
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Moliere and Comedy
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| 1660 |
Louis XIV marries Maria Teresa, the daughter of Philip IV of Spain, as part of the Treaty of the Pyrenees
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The Restoration begins
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| 1661 |
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(1) Charles II coroneted
(2) Louis XIV begins personal reign in France
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Daniel Defoe born
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| 1662 |
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| 1663 |
Ottoman army defeated at Vienna
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| 1664 |
English take New York
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| 1666 |
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Isaac Newton discovers gravitation
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London burns for five days
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| 1667 |
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| 1668 |
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| 1669 |
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Rembrandt dies
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| 1670 |
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| 1671 |
Morgan sacks Panama
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Rob Roy born
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| 1672 |
English and French war against Dutch
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| 1673 |
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| 1674 |
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| 1675 |
King Philip's War
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The Great Elector at Fehrbellin
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Greenwich Observatory founded
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Jan Vermeer dies
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| 1676 |
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| 1677 |
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| 1678 |
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| 1679 |
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Thomas Hobbes dies
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| 1680 |
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| 1681 |
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William Penn and the Charter for Pennsylvania
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| 1683 |
Turks lay siege to Vienna, Turks later defeated
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| 1684 |
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| 1685 |
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Monmouth's Rebellion
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(1) Bach born
(2) Handel born
(3) Louis XIV revokes the Edict of Nantes and begins persecutions of Huguenots
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| 1686 |
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| 1687 |
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Nell Gwyn dies
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| 1688 |
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James II flees England
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| 1689 |
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(1) William & Mary assume English throne
(2) Peter the Great assumes Russian throne
(3) Massacre at Lachine
(4) Jacobite Rebellions begins
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| 1690 |
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Battle of the Boyne
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| 1691 |
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Plymouth Colony becomes part of Massachusetts Bay colony
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| 1692 |
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(1) Salem witch trials
(2) College of William and Mary, Virginia, founded
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| 1693 |
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| 1694 |
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Bank of England established
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| 1695 |
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| 1696 |
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| 1697 |
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| 1698 |
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Russian peasant revolt
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| 1699 |
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Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville founds French colony at Biloxi
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