CHARLES I

1625  –  1649

Thirty Years’ War (Treaty of Lubeck)  -  Cardinal Richelieu (Huguenots)

Eleven Years’ Tyranny  -  Thirty Years’ War (Gustavus Adolphus and Nordlingen)

The Bishops’ Wars (Scotland)  -  Murad IV (Ottoman Empire)  -  The Barbary Pirates

(sailing boats)  -  Siberia (Russian advance)  -  The Long Parliament   -  Rory O’More

(Ireland)  -  English Civil War (Edgehill)  -  Battle of Marston Moor (Prince Rupert)

Oliver Cromwell  -  The Manchus (Nurhachi)  -  Battle of Naseby (New Model Army)

Battle of Preston (Cromwell)  -  Peace of Westphalia (end of Thirty Years’ War)

The Fronde (Paris)  -  The Trial of Charles I (execution)

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Descartes (Discourse on Method)

Malebranche (Vision of God)

Shah Jahan (Taj Mahal)

Bernini (Piazza, Rome)

Borromini (Sant’Ivo)

William Harvey

(circulation)

Harvard (New Towne)

Yale (New Haven)

Hevelius (Senogaphia)

Horrocks (Transit of Venus)

Torricelli (barometer)

Helmont (gasses) Descartes (geometry)

New Amsterdam (Manhattan)

Abel Tasman (Tasmania)

Anton Van Dieman (Malacca)

Van Dyck (Charles I)

Jacob Jordaens (The Four Evangelists)

Peacock Throne & the Koh-i-noor

Giovanni Bernini (Apollo and Daphne)

Diego Velasquez  (Surrender of Breda)

Bartolomé Murillo (Young Beggar Boy)

Nicolas Poussin (Extreme Unction)

Lorrain (Embarkation of St. Ursula)

George de la Tour (New-born Child)

Rembrandt (The Night Watch)

Gerard Ter Borch (The Letter)

Jansen (Augustinus)

Witchcraft (Hopkins)

Rambouillet (literary salon)

Pierre Corneille (Le Cid)

John Donne (Satires)

Robert Herrick (Hesperides)

The Cavalier Poets

(Lovelace, Suckling & Carew)