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Timeline: 17th Century Europe/North America

1600-24

1625-49

1650-74

1675-99

1620: Bacon - Great Instauration 1624: Gassendi - Exercitationes paradoxicae

1625: Grotius - On the Law of War and Peace 1637: Descartes - Discourse on Method

1651: Hobbes - Leviathan 1660: Pascal- Pensées

1677: Spinoza - Ethics  1690: Locke - Essay Concerning Human Understanding 1692: Bayle - Dictionaire

<-------------Baroque-------------> <-Gabrieli-|                                                           |---------------------Corelli------------------------> <----------------Monteverdi--------------|                                                         |-------Vivaldi--------> <-----------------------Allegri----------------------------|                                                |--J.S. Bach-->                                                                                                                            |---Handel---->

<--El Greco--| <-----------------------Rubens-------------| <--------------------------Poussin------------------------------| <---------------------------------------------Bernini--------------------------------------| <--------------------Velázguez------------------------------|     |-------------------------Rembrandt---------------------------|

1603: Shakespeare - Hamlet 1605: Cervantes - Don Quixote (Bk. 1)

1666: Moliere - The Misanthrope 1667: Milton - Paradise Lost

1677: Racine - Phaedra

1602: Campanella - The City of the Sun

1629: Bacon - The New Atlantis 1646: Walwyn - Tolleration Justified

1656: Harrington - The Commonwealth of Oceana

1690: Locke - Two Treatises of Government

1600: Gilbert - De Magnete 1609: Kepler - Astronomia nova  1610: Galieleo - The Starry Messenger  1619: Kepler - Harmonices mundi

1628: Harvey - On the Motions of the Heart and Blood 1632: Galileo - Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems 1645: Pascal invents 1st calculating machine

1661: Boyle - The Skeptical Chymist 1665: Hooke - Micrographia 1665: Newton & Leibniz independently invent calculus

1676: Romer discovers velocity of light 1678: Huygens - Traite de la lumiere  1686: Ray - Historia Plantarum (Vol. 1) 1687: Newton - Principia

<-----------Various Wars------------ > <-----Reformation & Counter Reformation--------|

1600: Bruno burned at the stake in Rome 1600-04: British, Dutch & French East India Co.'s chartered 1616: Catholic church issues edict against Copernicanism 1618-48: Thirty Years' War 1619: 1st African slaves in Virginia 1620: Mayflower lands in Plymouth 1624-42: Richelieu prime minister

1633: Galileo convicted of heresy 1631: 1st newspaper published (Paris) 1642-46: English Civil War 1643: Louis XIV takes throne 1648: Treaty of Westphalia 1649: Charles I beheaded

1653: Cromwell named Lord Protector  1662: Restoration of English monarchy  1665: Great Plague in London

1682: Peter I (the Great) becomes tsar 1688: "Glorious Revolution" 1692: Witchcraft trials in Salem 1694: Bank of England incorporated

  

©Carl Mickelsen