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Important Dates of the 17th Century
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Sky-high Parliament
A plot by extremist Catholics to blow up the Britain's Parliament fails. -
New Astronomical Viewpoint
Johann Kepler discovered that Mars is moving around the sun in a eliptical fashion, not circular. This contradicted the traditional belief of Plato's. -
Galileo Planetary Movement Presentation
Galileo exhibits the telescope to the pontifical court. He tries to push view that the earth revolves around the sun, fails to make a positive effect. -
Galileo's Ideas
Galileo publishes his ideas about the universe. He is ordered to appear before the Inquisition in Rome. -
End of the 30 Years' War
The war ends with the Peace of Westphalia. -
Leviathan Written
The English philosopher Thomas Hobbes writes the Leviathan, -
Cromwell vs. Parliament
Oliver Cromwell dissolves parliament and makes himself Lord Protector -
Restoration of English Monarchy
England's parliament restores the monarchy to the eldest son of Charles I, Charles II, -
Peter the Great born
Peter is born to Tsar Alexius of Russia -
Discovery of Bacteria
Anton Van Leeuwenhoek was the first to see and describe bacteria with a microscope.