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| 1618 |
| | | The 19-year-old Flemish painter Anthony van Dyck is employed by Rubens in Antwerp as his chief assistant | |
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| 1619 |
| | | The Protestant Frederick V (elector palatine of the Rhine) is elected king by the rebellious Bohemian nobles | |
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| 1619 |
| | | Jan Pieterszoon Coen destroys the town of Jakarta, on the coast of Java, and rebuilds it as a Dutch trading centre under the name Batavia | |
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| c. 1620 |
| | | The Dutch painter Frans Hals displays exceptional brilliance in his group portraits, including several of the civic guards of Haarlem | |
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| 1620 |
| | | The battle of the White Mountain, to the west of Prague, ends the brief reign of Frederick V in Bohemia | |
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| c. 1620 |
| | | Delft becomes the centre for tin-glazed earthenware in nothern Europe, specializing in the blue-and-white Chinese style | |
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| 1620 September 16 |
| | | The Pilgrims (or Pilgrim Fathers), a group of 102 English settlers, sail in the Mayflower to the new world | |
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| 1620 November 11 |
| | | Ten days after their first landfall, at Cape Cod, the adult males on the Mayflower agree a form of government for their new colony | |
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| 1620 |
| | | In his Novum Organum Francis Bacon introduces a modern philosophy of experimental science | |
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| 1620 December 26 |
| | | The Pilgrims on the Mayflower select a place for their settlement, and give it the name of Plymouth, their port of departure in England | |
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| 1620 |
| | | William Bradford begins a journal of the Pilgrims' experience in New England, subsequently published (in 1856) as History of Plymouth Plantation | |
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| 1621 autumn |
| | | The Mayflower settlers in Plymouth offer thanksgiving for their first harvest, eating turkeys in a celebration shared by local Indians | |
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| 1621 |
| | | The first English newspaper (Corante) appears, promising reports 'from Italy, Germany, Hungarie, Spaine and France' | |
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| 1621 |
| | | William Bradford, one of the Pilgrims from the Mayflower, is elected governor of the new Plymouth Colony | |
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| 1621 |
| | | The Dutch West India Company is chartered to trade and found colonies anywhere along the entire American coast | |
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| 1621 |
| | | John Donne, England's leading Metaphysical poet, becomes dean of St Paul's | |
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| 1622 |
| | | A sudden attack by Powhatan Indians, led by their chieftain Opechancanough against the English colony at Jamestown, results in the death of more than 300 settlers | |
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| 1622 |
| | | Bernini's youthful Pluto and Proserpina, suggesting soft flesh in cold marble, introduces the lively tradition of baroque sculpture | |
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| 1622 |
| | | The Flemish painter Anthony van Dyck begins a five-year stay, and a successful career as a portrait painter, in Genoa | |
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| 1623 |
| | | John Heminge and Henry Condell publish thirty-six Shakespeare plays in the First Folio | |
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| 1623 |
| | | Diego Velazquez becomes court painter to the king of Spain - a post which he will hold for the remaining thirty-seven years of his life | |
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| 1624 |
| | | The Japanese are forbidden to leave their country, or foreigners to enter, at the start of more than two centuries of almost total isolation | |
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| 1624 |
| | | Nicolas Poussin arrives in Rome, where he develops the tradition of French classicism | |
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| c. 1625 |
| | | Gustavus II, king of Sweden, conscripts and trains an army far more mobile than those of his rivals | |
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| c. 1625 |
| | | Ordnance factories in Sweden begin producing light but powerful field artillery, easy to move on the battlefield | |
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| 1625 |
| | | Rubens completes a great narrative sequence of twenty-one paintings to celebrate the achievements of Marie de Médicis | |
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| c. 1625 |
| | | Three brothers among the Dahomey people establish a long-lasting kingdom in the Bight of Benin | |
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| c. 1625 |
| | | The Dutch gradually exclude the Portuguese from the immensely lucrative trade in cloves from the Spice Islands (or Moluccas) | |
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| 1625 |
| | | On the death of his father, James VI and I, Charles I becomes king of England and Scotland | |
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| 1625 |
| | | The English parliament attempts to clip the wings of the new king, Charles I, by placing an annual limit on his power to raise taxes | |
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| 1626 |
| | | Peter Minuit purchases the island of Manhattan from local Indians and calls the place New Amsterdam | |
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| 1626 |
| | | Charles I frustrates the English parliament's restrictions by raising taxes without summoning parliament for renewed approval | |
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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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