| 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. succeeded by his son Louis XIII at age 9. mother Marie de' Medici as Regent. Death of Caravaggio. 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 castels. |
| 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. |
Ludovica Albertoni in the church of San Francesco a Ripa, Photo by Ken Sandall. Enlarge Image
