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 * style="width: 3em;" | 1566. || Suleiman the Magnificent died.
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 * style="width: 3em;" | 1567. || Revolt of the Netherlands.
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 * style="width: 3em;" | 1568. || Execution of Counts Egmont and Horn.
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 * style="width: 3em;" | 1571. || Kepler born.
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 * style="width: 3em;" | 1573. || Siege of Alkmaar.
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 * style="width: 3em;" | 1578. || Harvey born.
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 * style="width: 3em;" | 1583. || Sir Walter Raleigh's expedition to Virginia.
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 * style="width: 3em;" | 1601. || Tycho Brahe died.
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 * style="width: 3em;" | 1603. || James I King of England and Scotland. Dr. Gilbert died.
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 * style="width: 3em;" | 1605. || Jehangir Great Mogul.
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 * style="width: 3em;" | 1606. || Virginia Company founded.
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 * style="width: 3em;" | 1609. || Holland independent.
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 * style="width: 3em;" | 1618. || Thirty Years War began.
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 * style="width: 3em;" | 1620. || Mayflower expedition founded New Plymouth. First negro slaves landed at Jamestown (Va.).
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 * style="width: 3em;" | 1625. || Charles I of England.
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 * style="width: 3em;" | 1626. || Sir Francis Bacon (Lord Verulam) died.
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 * style="width: 3em;" | 1628. || Shah Jehan Great Mogul. The English Petition of Right.
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 * style="width: 3em;" | 1629. || Charles I of England began his eleven years of rule without a parliament.
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 * style="width: 3em;" | 1630. || Kepler died.
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 * style="width: 3em;" | 1632. || Leeuwenhoek born. Gustavus Adolphus killed at the Battle of Lützen.
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 * style="width: 3em;" | 1634. || Wallenstein murdered.
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 * style="width: 3em;" | 1638. || Japan closed to Europeans (until 1865).
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 * style="width: 3em;" | 1640. || Charles I of England summoned the Long Parliament.
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 * style="width: 3em;" | 1641. || Massacre of the English in Ireland.
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 * style="width: 3em;" | 1642. || Galileo died. Newton born.
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 * style="width: 3em;" | 1643. || Louis XIV began his reign of seventy-two years.
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 * style="width: 3em;" | 1644. || The Manchus ended the Ming dynasty.
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 * style="width: 3em;" | 1645. || Swine pens in the inner town of Leipzig pulled down.
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 * style="width: 3em;" | 1648. || Treaty of Westphalia. Thereby Holland and Switzerland were recognized as free republics and Prussia became important. The treaty gave a complete victory neither to the Imperial Crown nor to the Princes. War of the Fronde; it ended in the complete victory of the French crown.
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