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J.S. Bach
composes
Toccata
and Fuge in D minor.German Protestant states adopt
the Gregorian calendar. |
1700 |
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| London Stock
Exchange founded. Thomas Savery develops a steam engine. |
1698 |
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| Peter the Great
of Russia visits capitals of Europe in disguise and returns determined to Westernize his
country. Charles Perrault publishes Contes de ma mère l'oie (Mother Goose Tales). |
1697 |
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| Gottfried Wilhelm
von Leibnitz invents a calculating machine that multiplies and divides. China publishes Edict of Toleration for Christians. |
1692 |
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| John Locke
proposes the social contract and limited monarchy in Two Treatises of Civil
Government. Denis Papin experiments with an atmospheric steam engine. |
1690 |
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| English
Parliament adopts the Bill of Rights. |
1689 |
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| English novelist
Aphra Behn introduces the concept of the noble savage to literature. |
1688 |
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| Isaac Newton
publishes Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica. James II of England issues the Declaration of Liberty of Conscience granting religious
freedom to all citizens.
Edmund Halley publishes Newton's work at his own expense. |
1687 |
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| Mme. Maintenom
establishes the Cordon Bleu cookery in the Institut de Saint-Louis. |
1686 |
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| Japanese poet
Saikaku composes over 23,000 poems in 24 hours. |
1684 |
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| William Penn of
Pennsylvania develops concept of a self-adjusting governmental framework that allows for
amendments. Pierre Bayle argues against superstition in "Thoughts on the Comet of 1680." |
1682 |
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English
Parliament passes the
Habeas Corpus Act. |
1679 |
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| Anton van
Leeuwenhoek discovers red blood corpuscles and eventually develops the germ theory of
disease. |
1675 |
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| First metal tooth
filings used by English surgeons. |
1673 |
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| Gabriel Mouton
devises a decimal system of measurement. Baruch Spinoza publishes Tractatus Theologico-Politicus arguing against religious
intolerance and political meddling.
William Clement invents clock escapement. |
1670 |
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| Antonio
Stradivari makes his first violin. |
1669 |
Aurangzeb forbids
practice of Hindu religion. |
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| Isaac Newton
invents reflecting telescope. |
1668 |
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Isaac Newton
develops the calculus
and the laws of gravity. |
1666 |
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Physician
peer-review system
established in England. |
1665 |
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| Japanese develop
an express mail system. |
1664 |
First women
condemned as witches
in the New World.Conventicle Act forbids Nonconformist meetings of more than five members. |
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| The Royal Society
for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge founded in London with help from Robert Boyle. |
1662 |
English
Parliament passes An Act of Uniformity. |
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| Robert Boyle, the
father of chemistry, publishes The Sceptical Chymist. |
1661 |
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| Christian Huygens
builds pendulum clock. |
1656 |
Baruch Spinoza
excommunicated from the Amsterdam synagogue. |
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1651 |
Boys prohibited
from acting in kabuki theater in Japan. Thomas Hobbes in Leviathan
argues that people need to surrender their individual rights to absolute authority. |
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| Hermann Busembaum
publishes Medulla Theologia Morales proposing "the end justifies the
means." |
1650 |
Archbishop James
Ussher of Ireland cites Bible to calculate life emerged on Sunday, October 23, -4004. |
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| Blaise Pascal
invents a calculating machine. |
1649 |
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| Taj Mahal
completed. |
1648 |
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| George Fox
incorporates supremacy of conscience into his Quaker philosophy. |
1647 |
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| Athanasius
Kircher invents projection lantern. In Pseudoxia Epidemics Sir Thomas Browne exposes the follow of superstitions and
popular delusions. |
1646 |
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| Evangelista
Torricelli invents the barometer. |
1643 |
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| Isaac
Newton born. Balise Pascal invents a calculating machine. |
1642 |
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1641 |
Catholics
massacre Protestants in Ulster. |
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1639 |
Tokugawa of Japan
expels and closes ports to all foreigners. |
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| In Discours
de la Mèthode René Descartes argues for critical thinking and declares, Cogito
ergo sum. |
1637 |
Japanese outlaw
Christianity, foreign books, and contact with Europeans.
British Licensing Act requires all plays submitted for censorship before performance. |
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1635 |
The Académie
Française established to set gramatical standards and cleanse impurities from the French
language. |
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1633 |
June 21
Galileo forced by Inquisition
to renounce theories of Copernicus.
Descartes stops publishing in France in response to the Church's attacks on Galileo. |
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| Galileo publishes
treatise on double motion.
First coffee shop opens in London. |
1632 |
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| Albert Gerard
introduces mathematical abbreviations. |
1629 |
Women are forbidden
to act in
Japanese Kabuki Theatre. |
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| English
Parliament issues the Petition of Rights. |
1628 |
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| Hugo Grotius
pioneers the science of
international law. |
1625 |
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| Monopolies
declared illegal by James I's last Parliament. |
1624 |
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| England devises
patent laws. |
1623 |
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1621 |
Church bans
Johann Kepler's The Epitome of the Copernican Astronomer. |
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| Sir Francis Bacon
writes Novum Organum, proposing that observation and experience superior to
deductive reasoning. Cornelius Drebbel, Holland, builds wooden-framed, leather-covered submaries. |
1620 |
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| Pilgrims at
Plymouth create the Mayflower Compact, introducing rule of the people over the English
throne. In Mirifici Logarithmorum Canonis Descriptio, John Napier introduces logarithmic
calculation. |
1619 |
First African
slaves arrive in America.
February 9 Humanist Lucilio Vanini is tortured and burnt at the stake for
atheism. |
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28 World's first pawnshop opens in Burssels. |
1618 |
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1616 |
Church prohibits
Galileo from further scientific work. |
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| Cervantes
completes Don
Quixote. |
1615 |
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| January
29 Galileo discovers Neptune. |
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| Galileo
publishes Dialogue concerning the two chief world-systems. |
1613 |
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1612 |
Japanese begin
persecution of Christians. |
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| Virginia's
struggling Jamestown colony converts from a kind of socialism to private enterprise. |
1611 |
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| Thomas Harriott
discovers sunspots. |
1610 |
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| Hans Lippershey
applies for a patent for his telescope. |
1608 |
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| Pocahontas saves
the live of John Smith. |
1607 |
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| Galileo invents
proportional compass. |
1606 |
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| Abraham Verkoeven
begins publishing the world's first newspaper in Antwerp. |
1605 |
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Federico
Cesi, Duke of Aquasparta, establishes l'Academia
dei Lincei, the world's first formal
scientific research organization. |
1603 |
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