CHARLES II

1660  –  1685

Louis XIV (Sun King)  -  The Palace of Versailles  -  Second Anglo-Dutch War

(Treaty of Breda)  -  The Great Plague of London  -  The Great Fire of London

Treaty of Lisbon (Portugal)  -  Aurangzeb (Mughal Empire)  -  Shivaji (Marathas)

Third Anglo-Dutch War  - The Franco-Dutch War  -  K’ang-hsi (China)

Popish Plot (Titus Oates)  -  Rye House Plot (anti-Catholic)  -  Battle of Kahlenberg

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Nicolas de Largillière (portraits)

Ruisdael (Windmill at Wijk)

Aelbert Cuyp (Piper with Cows)

Jan Steen (The Doctor’s Visit)

Boulle (French cabinetmaker)

Berain the Elder (designer)

Chinese Porcelain

(Ts’ang Ying-hsuan)

Samuel Pepys (Diary)

John Evelyn (Diary)

Madame de Sévigné (letters)

Molière (Le Misanthrope)

Milton (Paradise Lost)

Andrew Marvell (poet)

Racine (Andromaque)

Fontaine (Fables)

Dryden (Annus Mirabilis)

Wycherley (satirist)

Samuel Butler (Hudibras)

Bunyan (Pilgrim’s Progress)

Hudson Bay Company

(Rupert’s Land)

La Salle (Mississippi)

Penn (Pennsylvania)

Christopher Wren

(St.Paul’s Cathedral)

Sébastien de Vauban

(military engineer)

Robert Boyle (Boyle’s Law)

Hooke (chronometer)

Royal Society, London

Tompion (clockmaker)

George Graham (“Orrery”)

Grew (Anatomy of Plants)

Swammerdam (Insects)

Louis Le Vau & Jules

Hardouin-Mansart (architects)

Andre Le Notre (gardens)

Charles Le Brun (interior)

Marco Malpighi (capillaries)

Willis (Anatomy of the Brain)

Sydenham (Observations)

Leeuwenhoek (histology)

Swammerdam (lymph glands)

Baruch Spinoza (Ethics)

Cassini (Jupiter and Saturn)

Ole Romer (Velocity of Light)

Charpentier (church music)

Stradivarius (violin maker)

Jean Baptiste Lully (Master)

Trappist Order

(Armand de Rance)