The Church in turmoil. Louis XIV and Versailles.
Modern philosophy begins.
Hobbes, Descartes, Spinoza, Rubens, Rembrandt, Vermeer, Milton, Plymouth Colony founded. Leibniz, Locke, Hume, Swift, Voltaire, Johnson. The triumph of Whiggism, The Bourgeoisie, and the Evangelical Movement. The American and French Revolutions. Constable, Turner, Delacroix.