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Year
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Event
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Answer
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1600
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This philosopher burned at the stake
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Giordano Bruno
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1601
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This composer publishes Le nuove musiche
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Giulio Caccini
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1602
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This library is opened at the University of Oxford
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Bodleian
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1603
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This period of Japanese history begins
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Edo
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1604
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The compilation of this Sikh scripture is completed
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Sri Guru Granth Sahib
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1605
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This Mughal emperor dies
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Akbar the Great
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1606
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Trial of gravediggers in this Bohemian town
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Frankenstein
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1607
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Papal interdict against this city is lifted
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Venice
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1608
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This principality founded
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Liechtenstein
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1609
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This scientist demonstrates the telescope
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Galileo Galilei
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1610
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This French king is assassinated
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Henry IV
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1611
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This poet publishes Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum
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Emilia Lanyer
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1612
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This composer publishes Terpsichore
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Michael Praetorius
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1613
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This Algonquian princess captured
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Pocahontas
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1614
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Bartholomew Fair by this playwright performed
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Ben Jonson
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1615
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This artist completes Salome with the Head of Saint John the Baptist
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Artemisia Gentileschi
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1616
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This playwright dies
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William Shakespeare
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1617
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This occult philosopher publishes Utriusque Cosmi
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Robert Fludd
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1618
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This event precipitates the Thirty Years' War
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Defenestration of Prague
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1619
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This meeting of Calvinists concludes with a rejection of Arminian theology
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Synod of Dort
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1620
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Francis Bacon publishes this philosophical treatise
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Novum Organum
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1621
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Dutch massacre of indigenous population of this island
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Banda
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1622
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This Ottoman Sultan strangled by Janissaries
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Osman II
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1623
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This Italian poet publishes L'Adone
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Giambattista Marino
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1624
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Jesuits expelled from this country
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Japan
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1625
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Francesca Caccini composes this opera
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La liberazione di Ruggiero
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1626
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Ambrosio I Nimi a Nkanga becomes monarch of this kingdom
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Kongo
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1627
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This bovine species goes exinct
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Aurochs
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1628
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This physician publishes De Motu Cordis, describing pulmonary and systemic circulation
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William Harvey
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1629
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Is crowned as the shah of Persia
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Safi
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1630
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This artist paints A Game of Tric Trac, The Happy Couple, and Self-portrait
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Judith Leyster
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1631
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Shah Jahan commissions this mausoleum
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Taj Mahal
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1632
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This Ethiopian emperor declares Ethiopian Orthodoxy to be the state religion, ending a Roman Catholic period
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Fasilides
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1633
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This cleric becomes archbishop of Canterbury
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William Laud
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1634
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This midwife publishes Collection of Secrets, an obstetrics manual
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Louise Bourgeois Boursier
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1635
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This artist completes The Garden of Love
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Peter Paul Rubens
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1636
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This university is founded
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Harvard
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1637
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This Massachusetts woman is tried and convicted during the Antinomian Controversy
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Anne Hutchinson
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1638
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This playwright writes Los tres mayores prodigios (The Three Greatest Wonders)
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Pedro Calderón de la Barca
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1639
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This Ursuline nun departs France for Canada
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Marie de l'Incarnation
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1640
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The first book printed in North America
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The Bay Psalm Book
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1641
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Publishes the Meditations on First Philosophy
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René Descartes
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1642
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This female Ethiopian religious leader dies
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Walatta-Petros
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1643
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This final opera by Claudio Monteverdi performed
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L'Incoronazione di Poppea
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1644
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Qing rulers seize this capital from Ming rulers
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Beijing
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1645
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Bamana forces invade and destroy this empire
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Mali
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1646
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This sister of a philosopher converts to Jansenism
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Jacqueline Pascal
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1647
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The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America by this poet published
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Anne Bradstreet
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1648
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This Jewish mystic declares himself the Messiah
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Sabbatai Zevi
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1649
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This English king is beheaded
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Charles I
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