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Chartering of the British East India Company
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Chartering of Dutch East India Company
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James VI of Scotland becomes James I of England
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Publication of The Advancement of Learning by Sir Francis Bacon
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The telescope is invented
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Publication of On the Motion of Mars by Johannes Kepler
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Publication of King James Bible
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The Catholic Church bans Copernicus’ ideas
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Thirty Years’ War
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Ferdinand II defeats the Bohemians
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Richelieu dominates French government
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Publication of William Harvey’s theory of blood circulation
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Charles I accepts the Petition of Rights
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Gustavus Adolphus wins a military victory at Luetzen
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Publication of Dialogues on the Two Chief Systems of the World by Galileo
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Galileo is imprisoned for heresy
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Charles I forces a new prayer book upon Scotland’s Presbyterians
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Publication of Rene Descartes’ Discourse on Method
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English civil war ends with execution of Charles I
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Peace of Westphalia
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The Fronde in France
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Charles I is beheaded on charge of treason
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Thomas Hobbes’ Leviathan is published
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British Navigation Acts
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Nikon’s reforms split the Russian Orthodox church
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Anglo-Dutch wars
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Torricelli constructs the first mercury barometer
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Treaty of Pyrenees
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Restoration of English monarchy
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The Royal Society of London is founded
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Jean-Baptiste Colbert applies economic reforms to France
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Charles II agrees to re-Catholicize England
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Cossacks revolt in Russia
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Test Act
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Construction of baroque palaces
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Ottomans siege Vienna
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Louis XIV revoked the Edict of Nantes
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James II tries to restore Catholicism as the state religion
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Newton publishes Principia Mathematica and law of universal gravitation
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Fontenelle publishes Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds
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Glorious Revolution in England
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Locke publishes Essay Concerning Human Understanding and the Second Treatise on Civil Government
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The Enlightenment
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Pierre Bayle publishes the Historical and Critical Dictionary
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Ottoman Turkish withdrawal