JAMES I

1603  –  1625

Tokugawa Ieyasu (Japan)  -  The Gunpowder Plot (Robert Catesby & Guy Fawkes)

Jamestown, Virginia  -  The Ulster Plantation (Ireland)  -  The Romanov Dynasty

(Russia)  -  Louis XIII of France (Estates General)  -  Pilgrim Fathers (Mayflower)

(Plymouth Colony)  -  Abbas I of Iran (Baghdad)

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Kabuki Theatre (Japan)

Rimpa School (Hon’ami Koetsu)

Peter Rubens (Baroque Art)

Frans Hals (The Gypsy Girl)

Quiros & Torres

(New Guinea)

Willem Jansz

(Torres Strait)

Dick Hartog

(Australia)

Jamestown (Virginia)

Smith & Pocahontas

Champlain (Quebec)

Henry Hudson

(N & S America)

Baffin (NE Canada)

Francis Bacon

(Essays, Civil & Moral)

Shakespeare (Macbeth)

Mermaid Tavern

Beaumont & Fletcher

(The Maid’s Tragedy)

Ben Jonson (Laureate)

(Bartholomew Fair)

Miguel Cervantes

(Don Quixoto)

Lope de Vega

(Dog in the Manger)

Galileo (Dialogue)

Hans Lippershey (telescope)

Kepler (Harmonies of the World)

Monteverdi (Orpheus)

Campion (Songs & Ayres)

Dowland (Lachrimae)

Gibbons (Madrigals)

Praetorius (Musae Sioniae)

Francis de Sales

(Introduction to a Devout Life)

Napier & Briggs (logarithms)

Snell (refraction of light)

Hugo Grotius (The Free Sea)

Inigo Jones

Banqueting House

Cornelius van Drebbel

(“underwater boat”)

Santorio (On Medical Measurement)

Robert Burton (Anatomy of Melancholy)