1600
– 1650
|
Political
& Diplomatic |
Intellectual
& Cultural |
Social
& Economic |
|
Thirty
Years War |
Galileo |
Bank
of Amsterdam |
|
Peace
of Westphalia |
Descartes |
Dutch Golden Age |
|
James
I |
King
James Bible |
Anglo
Dutch Wars begin |
|
Charles
I |
Defenestration
of Prgue |
English
Navigation Acts |
|
Long
Parliament |
Moliere |
Witch
Scare continues |
|
Puritan
Revolution |
Corneille |
|
|
Charles
Cromwell |
Racine
1639-99 |
|
|
Protectorate |
Rembrandt |
|
|
Louis
XIII |
Bernini |
|
|
Pichelieu |
Kepler |
|
|
Mararin |
William
Harvey |
|
|
Frederick
William (Eledctor) |
|
|
|
Romanovs
begin |
|
|
|
Petition
of Right |
|
|
|
Prides
Purge |
|
|
|
Gustavus
Adolphus |
|
|
|
Gun
Powder Plot |
|
|
|
Fronde |
|
|
|
Time
of Troubles |
|
|
By 1650 population had dropped to 80 million. Advent of the new Ònobles of the
robeÓ. Towns were increasing in
size the development of the bourgeoisie and burghers was beginning. Serfdom was still dominate in eastern
Europe while in the west it began to decline. Gunpowder and guns grew in importance to armies as the
importance of nobles decreased in the military.