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René Descartes
René Descartes was a French philosopher, mathematician and physicist considered the father of analytical geometry and modern philosophy, as well as one of the protagonists with his own light on the threshold of the scientific revolution. -
Elizabeth First dies
Elizabeth I of England, nicknamed the Virgin Queen, Gloriana or the Good Queen Bess, was the queen of England and Ireland from her accession to the throne on November 17, 1558, until her death in 1603. His reign, of more than four decades, was known as the Elizabethan era. -
William Shakespeare, Miguel de Cervantes and Inca Garcilaso die
April 23 is a symbolic day for world literature since on that day in 1616 Cervantes, Shakespeare and Inca Garcilaso de la Vega died. -
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Thirty Years' War
The Thirty Years' War was a war fought in Central Europe (mainly the Holy Roman Empire) between 1618 and 1648, in which most of the great European powers of the time intervened. This war marked the future of Europe as a whole in the centuries that followed. -
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English Revolution
It covers from 1642 to 1688. It extends from the end of the reign of Charles I, through a republican period and Oliver Cromwell's Protectorate, the restoration of the Stuarts and ends with the Glorious Revolution, which deposes James II. -
Discovery of gravity
Isaac Newton was the first to explain that the force that causes objects to fall with constant acceleration on Earth (terrestrial gravity) and the force that keeps planets and stars moving is of the same nature. -
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Governorship of the Habsburgs Minor in Spain
In the midst of the Golden Age of Spanish culture, the last kings of the House of Austria had to face military defeat and the decline of the country as a world power. The unifying policy of the Count-Duke of Olivares provoked the uprising of Catalonia and Portugal, while the numerous foreign wars exhausted the economy. -
Johann Sebastian Bach dies
Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer, musician, conductor, chapel master, cantor and teacher of the Baroque period. He was the most important member of one of the most prominent families of musicians in history, with more than 35 famous composers: the Bach family.