World Events

• Reign of James I (1603-1625)
• 1607 - Jamestown Colony founded
• Thirty Years War (1618-1648)
• 1620 - Pilgrims arrive at Cape Cod (Mayflower Compact)
• Reign of Charles I (1625-1649) executed in 1649
• 1626 - Purchase of Manhattan Island
• Vingt-quatre violons du roi (1626-1761)
• English Civil War (1642-1649)
• Reign of Louis XIV (1645-1715)
• English commonwealth (1649-1660)
• 1660 - English Restoration
• Reign of Charles II (1660-1685)
• 1666 - Great fire of London
• 1670 - Pietism began
• 1692 - Salem witchcraft trials
• 1712 - Toleration Act in England
• Great Awakening (1720-1740s)

Literary Figures

• Milton
• Swift
• Pope
• Molière

Artists

• Rembrandt
• Van Dyck
• El Greco

Science

• Newton
• Galileo
• Kepler
• Franklin

Philosophers

• Locke
• Descartes

Baroque Music

Musical Characteristics  |  Genre and Forms  |  Theorists, Treatises and Collections

Composers and Major Works  |  Hymnology

Last Updated: Saturday, February 14, 2009