History & World Events Literature & Philosophy Architecture, & Visual & Performing Arts 1500 Suleiman rules Ottoman Empire
(1520–1566) Mogul Dynasty (1526–1666) Elizabeth I of England (1533–1603) Akbar rules Mogul Empire (1556–1605) James I of England (1566–1625) Shah Abbas rules Safavid Empire (1588–1629)
Copernicus publishes De onibus orbium revoluti
(1543) Loyola, Spiritual Exercises (1548)
Michelangelo Buonarroti, The Last Judgment (1536–1540) El Greco, ny in the Garden The Ago (ca. 1585–1586)
1600 Charles I of England (1600–1649) Tokugawa Shogunate in Japan (1600–1868) Jahangir rules Mogul Empire (1607–1627) Thirty Years’ War (1618–1648) Kepler formulates three laws of planetary motion (1619)
Donne, Holy Sonnets (1610) Saint Teresa’s Visions (1611) Bacon, Novum Organum (1620) Donne, Meditation 17 (1623)
Caravaggio, The Supper at Emmaus (ca. 1600) Caravaggio, The Crucifixion of Saint Peter (1601) Monteverdi, Orfeo (1607) Artemisia Gentileschi, Judith Slaying Holofemes (ca. 1614–1620) Gabrieli, Motet, “In Ecclesiis” (1615)
History & World Events Literature & Philosophy Architecture, & Visual & Performing Arts
Gianlorenzo Bernini, David (1623) Taj Mahal (1623–1643)
1625 Charles I becomes king of England (1625) Shah Jahan rules Mogul Empire (1627–1666) Trial of Galileo (1633) Japan expels all Europeans (1637) Louis XIV of France (1638–1715) English Civil War (1642–1648) Louis XIV rules France (1643–1715) Qing (Manchu Dynasty) (1644–1912) Charles I executed (1649)
Bacon, Of Studies (1625) Descartes, Discourse on Method (1637) First weekly newspaper (London) (1648)
Judith Leyster, SelfPortrait (ca. 1630) First opera house in Venice (1637) Anthony van Dyck, Charles I on Horseback (ca. 1638) Gianlorenzo Bernini, The Ecstasy of Saint Teresa (1645–1652) Rembrandt van Rijn, Christ Preaching (ca. 1648–1650)
History & World Events Literature & Philosophy Architecture, & Visual & Performing Arts English Commonwealth (1649–1660)
1650 Restoration of monarchy (1660) Kangxi (Qing dynasty) rules China (1661–1722) Royal Society of London founded (1662) Fire of London (1666)
Hobbes, Leviathan (1651) Crashaw, The Flaming Heart (1652) La Rochefoucauld, Maxims (1664) Milton, Paradise Lost (1667) Moliere, Le Bourgeois
mme Gentilho (1670)
Diego Velazquez, Las Meninas (The Maids of Honor)
(1656) Rembrandt van Rijn, The Return of the Prodigal Son (ca. 1662–1668) Jan Vermeer, Woman Holding a Balance (ca. 1664) Maria van Oosterwyck, Vanitas Still Life (1668)
1675 James II becomes king (1685) Glorious Revolution (1688) English Bill of Rights; Toleration Act (1689)
Locke, Essay Concerning Human anding Underst
(1690) Locke, f Civil Government O (1690)
History & World Events Literature & Philosophy Architecture, & Visual & Performing Arts 1700 yacinthe Rigaud, H Portrait of Louis XIV
(1701) Bach, Cantata No. 80, “Eine feste Burg iste unser Gott” (1724)
1725 Flying shuttle (1733)
Swift, Modest Proposal A (1729) Pope, Man Essay on (1733–1734)
Handel, Messiah (1742)
1750 Spinning jenny (1764) Steam engine (1765)
Diderot, lopedie Encyc (1751–1772) Rousseau, Discourse on the
f Inequality among Men Origin o (1755) Voltaire, Candide, or Optimism (1759)
William Hogarth, Gin Lane (1751) Jean‐Honore Fragonard, The Swing (1768–1769)
1775 Power loom (1785) Meeting of the Estates General (1789) Fall of Bastilee (1789)
Jefferson, Declaration of Independence (1776) Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of
Nations (1776)
Jacques‐Louis David, The Oath of the Horatii (1784) Mozart, Serenade No. 13 in G Major (1787) Haydn, Symphony No. 94 in G Major (1791)
History & World Events Literature & Philosophy Architecture, & Visual & Performing Arts Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen (1789) France declared a republic (1792) Louis XVI executed (1793) Reign of Terror (1793–1794) Napoleon rules the Directory (1795–1799)
Equiano, Travels (1789) Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of
ts of Woman the Righ (1792) Condorcet, Sketch for a Historical Picture of the Progress
uman Mind of the H (1793)
Briffault de la Charprais and Mme. Esclapart, e Bastille, July 14, 1789 The Siege of th
(1791–1796) Jacques‐Louis David, The Death of Marat (1793)
1800 Li Ruzhen, Flowers in the Mirror (1828)
Arc de Triomphe (1806–1836) Jefferson, The Rotunda, University of Virginia (1822–1826) Jean‐Auguste‐Dominique Ingres, La Grande
ue Odalisq (1814) Jean‐Auguste‐Dominique Ingres, The
osis of Homer Apothe (1827)