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1605 |
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Miguel
de Cervantes's Don Quixote de
la Mancha, the first modern novel.
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Pocahontas
(1596-1617)
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1606 |
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Jamestown,
Virginia, established-first permanent English colony
on American mainland. Pocahontas,
daughter of Chief Powhatan, saves life of
John Smith.
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1609 |
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Johannes
Kepler
publishes his Laws of Planetary Motion which explained
the movement of planets around the sun.
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Galileo
Galilei
(1564-1642)
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1610 |
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Galileo
Galilei sees
the moons of Jupiter through his telescope. Galileo
also showed the Copernican system in which the planets
circle the sun was correct.
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1006 from The Engines of Our Ingenuity
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1611 |
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King
James Version of the Bible
published in England.
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William
Shakespeare
(1564-1616)
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1616 |
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William
Shakespeare
dies.
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1618 |
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Start
of the Thirty Years' War
- Protestants revolt against Catholic oppression; Denmark,
Sweden, and France invade Germany in later phases of
war. Johannes Kepler proposes
last of three laws of planetary motion.
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1619 |
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The
first African slaves are brought to Jamestown.
(Slavery is made legal
in 1650.)
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The
Mayflower
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1620 |
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Pilgrims
from England arrive at Plymouth, Massachusetts, on the
Mayflower.
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1626 |
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Peter
Minuit
buys Manhattan island for the Dutch from Man-a-hat-a
Indians for goods worth $24. The island is renamed New
Amsterdam.
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1630 |
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Boston
is founded by Massachusetts colonists led by
John Winthrop.
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The Taj Mahal
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1631 |
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1633 |
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The
Spanish Inquisition forces
Galileo
Galilei to
recant his belief in Copernican theory.
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1603 from The Engines of Our Ingenuity
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Rembrandt
Harmensz van Rijn
(1606-1669)
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1642 |
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English
Civil War. Cavaliers, supporters of Charles I, against
Roundheads, parliamentary forces. Oliver Cromwell
defeats Royalists (1646). Parliament demands reforms.
Charles I offers concessions, brought to trial (1648),
beheaded (1649). Cromwell becomes Lord Protector (1653).
Rembrandt Harmenszoon
van Rijn paints his Night Watch.
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1644 |
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End
of Ming Dynasty in China-Manchus come to power. René
Descartes's Principles of Philosophy.
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1648 |
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End
of the Thirty Years' War.
German population about half of what it was in 1618 because
of war and pestilence.
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Oliver
Cromwell
(1649-1658 )
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1658 |
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Oliver
Cromwell
dies; son Richard resigns and Puritan government collapses.
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1660 |
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English
Parliament calls for the restoration of the monarchy;
invites Charles II to return
from France.
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1661 |
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Charles
II is crowned King of England.
Louis XIV begins personal rule as absolute monarch;
starts to build Versailles.
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Isaac
Newton
(1642-1727)
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1664 |
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Isaac
Newton's
experiments with gravity. The English seize New Amsterdam
from the Dutch. The city is renamed New York.
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1665 |
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Great
Plague
in London kills 75,000.
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1699 |
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French
settlers
move into Mississippi and Louisiana.
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