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| 1627 |
| | A British colony is founded in Barbados and within fifteen years has 18,000 settlers | |
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| 1627 |
| | Claude Lorrain, basing himself like Poussin in Rome, paints classical landscapes suffused in light | |
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| 1628 |
| | William Harvey publishes a short book, De Motu Cordis, proving the circulation of the blood | |
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| 1628 |
| | The English parliament's Petition of Right emphasizes the right of the citizen to be protected from royal tyranny | |
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| 1628 |
| | John Bunyan is born the son of a brass-worker in the Bedfordshire village of Elstow | |
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| c. 1628 |
| | The Dutch painter Rembrandt van Rijn develops a life-long interest in self-portraiture | |
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| 1629 |
| | After years of warfare, the truce of Altmark gives Estonia and most of Latvia to Sweden | |
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| 1629 |
| | The sculptor and architect Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini is given the task of adding the drama of baroque to the newly completed St Peter's in Rome | |
| | Bernini's Baldacchino in St Peter's Fotofile CG
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| 1629 |
| | Charles I dismisses his parliament in Westminster, and fails to summon another in the following eleven years | |
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| c. 1630 |
| | Rival Dutch, English and French colonies are established in Guiana, the northeast coast of south America | |
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