Baroque+History


 * Interesting Facts:**
 * -** The word baroque means "a pearl of irregular shape" in Portugal
 * -** The only painting Carvaggio ever signed is "The Beheading of John the Baptist"


 * Timeline:**
 * -** 1600: The Scientific Revolution begins
 * -** 1620: Europeans begin colonization of the new world[[image:http://www.louis-xiv.de/uploads/pics/2b_03.jpg align="right"]]
 * -** 1638: Louis XIV is born
 * -** 1643: Louis XIV becomes king of France
 * -** 1648: Taj Mahal is completed
 * -** 1650: "Leviathan" hails in a new age of philosophy known as //The Enlightenment//
 * -** 1651: Tuberculosis epidemic in Europe causes thousands of deaths
 * -** 1678: Vivaldi is born
 * -** 1683: Allied European forces defeat the Ottomans north of Vienna
 * -** 1687: Isaac Newton publishes "Principia", which states the laws of physics and gravity
 * -** 1688: The English Revolution
 * -** 1693: An earthquake devastates Italy
 * -** 1703: St. Petersburg is founded
 * -** 1720: Anne Bonney and and Mary Reade, notorious women pirates, are captured along the northern coast of Jamaica


 * ENGLAND:**


 * 1603-** King James VI takes over the throne after the death of his mother
 * 1620-** The Pilgrims set sail for the Americas
 * 1649-** Charles the First is executed
 * 1660-** Charles the Second becomes King


 * GERMANY:**


 * 1605-** The tradition of the Christmas Tree is started in Alsace
 * 1608-** Protestant Union
 * 1608-** Catholic League
 * 1618-** Thirty years war begins
 * 1629-** Edict of restitution
 * 1648-** Thirty years war ends, known as the "Peace of Westphilia"
 * 1653-** John Pachabel is born
 * 1683-** Battle of Vienna
 * 1685-** Johan Sebastian Bach is born
 * 1701-** Frederick I declares himself king of Prussia


 * ITALY:**


 * 1600-** Tycho Brahe and Johannes Kepler meet for the first time in Prague, while the Vatican sentences Giordano Bruno to death
 * 1645-** The first coffee house is opened