17th century : 17th Century
(16th century - 17th century - 18th century - more centuries)
Events
- The Thirty Years' War in Europe (1618-1648).
- Union of the Crowns of Scotland and England
- Scottish and English Protestants sent to colonize Ireland, as reaction to Catholicism there
- The English Civil War (1642-1651).
- The Deluge[?]: series of wars and civil wars in Poland with Sweden, Russia, Prussia and Transylvania which caused Poland to lose power status and began rise of Russia to power status.
- Antwerp merchants established the Dutch East India Company in 1602, embarking on colonial expansion based on shareholdership rather than royal control
- The Dutch republic became the dominant economic and political power in Europe. It also underwent crashes, e.g. the windhandel in tulips led to many bankruptcies in 1637
- Republic of the Seven United Netherlands gains formal independence from Spain in 1648. Dutch merchant ships sail all over the world, leading to a Golden Age in the country, which also shows by the many famous Dutch painters living in this age.
- Major changes in philosophy and science take place, often characterised as the Scientific revolution.
Significant people
- William Shakespeare, author and poet
- Isaac Newton, physicist and mathematician
- Gottfried Leibniz, philosopher and mathematician
- Galileo Galilei, scientist
- René Descartes, philosopher and mathematician
- Blaise Pascal, theologian, mathematician and physicist.
- Baruch Spinoza, philosopher
- Thomas Hobbes, philosopher
- John Locke, philosopher
- Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of England
- Christina of Sweden, high profile catholic convert, matron of arts
- Sir Thomas Browne author,philosopher and scientist
- Calculus is invented and used to formulate classical mechanics.
- Cannon and gunpowder technology refined.
- First measurement of the speed of light, 1676.
Decades and Years
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Prefect Carlier had placed her under his official protection, although
benevolent purposes. Seven million tickets, a franc a piece, and the
California. Golden dreams were to displace the Socialist dreams of the
the doctrinal right to labor. Of course, the workingmen of Paris did
francs that had been wheedled out of their pockets. In the main,
meant to open California gold mines without taking the pains to leave
insolvents. The three millions granted by the National Assembly were
vain did Bonaparte open a national subscription, at the head of which he
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never took place, the speculation in Socialist castles in the air fell
content themselves with putting into their own pockets part of the
drawn; they manufactured false tickets; they sold, of Number 10 alone,
"Society of December 10"! The National Assembly did not here have before
flesh and blood. Here it could catch him in the act, not in conflict
interpellation, the National Assembly went over to the order of the day,
"satisfied" reminded the party of Order of its own systematic
into a statesman, supplements his practical meanness with theoretical
a superior being, who can be fought only in a higher, more exalted
slum-proletarian, had over the scampish bourgeois the advantage that he
its own hands over the slippery ground of the military banquets, of the
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