Issued by Henry IV of France, the Edict of Nantes gave Huguenots (French Protestants) significant protection under the law in an overwhelmingly Catholic state.
Death of Elizabeth I; Scotland’s James VI becomes England and Ireland’s James I
The Tokugawa shogunate, a feudal government, rules Japan.
An assassination plot to kill King James I of England and VI of Scotland was organized by disillusioned English Catholics. It ultimately failed and the conspirators were executed.
Jamestown is established as the first English colony in the Americas.
Francis Bacon’s (1561-1626) 'Novum organum' published
Death of James I/VI; Charles I accedes to the throne
Japan closes itself off from most forms of external influence, with exceptions for trade with China, Korea, and the Dutch East India Company.
A series of events, rather than one continuous battle, the English Civil War saw supporters of Parliament against challenge monarchical authority.
The second of three plagues to hit Spain in the seventeenth century, with this occurrence nearly a quarter of the population was killed.
The Peace of Westphalia ends the Thirty Years War
A series of civil wars in France pitted King Louis XIV and his powerful Minister, Cardinal Mazarin, against the nobility.
In England, Charles I is tried and executed; monarchy is abolished. Cromwell rules England, first as a Commonwealth and then a Protectorate.
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Hobbes’ (1588-1679) Leviathan published
Charles II restored to the throne, marking the end of the Interregnum.
Using a microscope, Robert Hooke first identifies cells.
It will last until his death in 1715.
The Great Plague of London killed an estimated 15% of the city's population.
Though the fire caused few deaths, it destroyed much (up to one-third) of the city's infrastructure.
Filmer’s Patriarcha first published, though it was written years earlier.
Long thought to be written in 1689, Locke in fact composed the treatises nearly ten years earlier.
The Edict of Fontainebleau revokes the Edict of Nantes, issued in 1598.
Invasion of England by William of Orange to secure Parliament; James flees to France, which is deemed an abdication of the throne, which is then offered to William and Mary.
The full title is 'A Serious Proposal to the Ladies for the Advancement of their True and Greatest Interest. By a Lover of Her Sex.'
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