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Cervantes

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1616

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Galileo 1642

1642Kepler

William Harvey

1630

1657

Jamestown

founded

1607

Plymouth

founded

1620

Rembrandt1606 1669Painter

Rene Descartes1596 1650Philosopher

Playwright

“Don Quijote”

(Astronomy, physics)

(Anatomy)

(Astronomy)

Isaac Newton

“Paradise Lost”John Milton1608 1674

British EastIndia Company

founded

King James Act of

Uniformity

Battle ofBothwellBridge

TheGlorious

Revolution

Bible published

1611

WestminsterAssembly

1643-48

1662

GreatPlague in London1664-65

GreatFire in

London1666

"TheAdopting

Act"1729

Foundingof William and MaryUniversity

Foundingof Yale

University

Foundingof Columbia

University

Foundingof BrownUniversity

Foundingof HarvardUniversity

1693 1701

1754

17651636

"Plan ofUnion" Founding of

CumberlandPresb. Church

1801

1810

16791688

Louis XIVrevokes Edict

of Nantes1685

Formationof AssociatePresbytery(Scotland)

1733

LayPatronage

Act1712

France

England Elizabeth I1603

James I Charles I Charles IIWilliam& Mary Anne George I George II George III Victoria

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Cromwell1625 1649 1660 1685 1702 1714 1727 1760 1820 18371688

Henry IV(of Navarre) Louis XIII Louis XIV Louis XV Louis XVI Louis XVIII

Louis PhilippeNapoleon I

16431610 1715 1774

1792 1799

1814 1824 1830 1848

Richelieu

Edict of

Nantes

1598

Synodof Dort1618-19

John Bunyan1628 1688Jacobus Arminius(1560) 1609

George Fox (Quakers)1624 1691

PuritansPuritans1691

Philip Spener (Pietism)

John Owen

Richard Baxter

1635

1616

1619

1705

1683

John Robinson (Separatists)(1575) 1625

(1563)

(1585)

Robert Brown (Separatists)

Richard Alleine

Matthew Henry

Steven Charnock

(1550)

1611

1662 1714

1628

1633

1691

1691

1680

“Pilgrim’s Progress”

1624

1638

John Smythe

(General Baptists)(1554) 1612

Henry Jacob (Congregationalists)

Cornelius Jansen (Jansenism)

1st GeneralAssembly

1789

George Washington1732 1799

"The Sun King" "The Citizen King"

Benjamin Franklin1706 1790

1700

1658

1674

1663

1760

1708

1748

1728

Count Zinzendorf

Francis Makemie

Isaac Watts

Cotton Mather

Thomas Jefferson 18261743

William Wilberforce1759 1833

Napoleon Bonaparte1769 1821

Abraham Lincoln1809 (1865)

FrenchRevolution

FrenchRevolution

Foundingof Princeton

University1746

Old Side/New Side Split

1741-1758Old School/

New School Split1837

George Whitefield1714 1770

17581703

1703

1714

Jonathan Edwards

Gilbert Tennent

David Brainerd 1747

1st Great Awakening 1st Great

Awakening Evangelist

1764

1761 1834William Carey

Charles Finney1792 (1875)

Peter Cartwright1785 (1872)

Circuit riders

Camp meetings

1788

1791

1781

1850

1857

1812

Adoniram Judson

Daniel Baker

Henry Martin

1819

1812

1818

1800

1813

(1893)

(1864)

(1902)

(1873)

(1873)

Philip Schaff

James Thornwell

Benjamin Palmer

William McGuffey

David Livingston

1825 (1898)Girardeau

India

Moravians Burma

Africa

1834

(1863)

Friedrich Schleiermacher

Lyman Beecher

Samuel Davies

1816Francis Asbury1745

1817James McGready1763

17681775

1723 1761

1724

Peter the Great1682 1725

Bach1685 1750 Mozart1756 1791

Montesqieu1689 1755

"The Wealth of Nations"Adam Smith1723 1790

Beethoven1770 1827Handel1685 1759

Vivaldi1675 1741

Economist

Political Philosopher

Hymn writer

John Wesley1703 1791Founder of Methodism

Composer

Chemist

Sailor/explorer

ComposerComposer

Composer

Composer

"Tartuffe”Playwright

Joseph Priestley

Captain James Cook

Schiller

Samuel Johnson

Robert Fulton

Friedrich Engels

Karl Marx

Edward Gibbon

Moliere

Blaise Pascal

Robert Boyle

Oliver Goldsmith

1733

1728

1759

1709

1765

1820

1818

1739

1622

1623

1627

1728

1804

1779

1805

1784

1815

(1895)

(1883)

ComposerFranz Joseph Haydn1732 1809

PhilosopherDavid Hume1711 1776

1794

PhilosopherJohn Locke1632 1704

PhilosopherSpinoza1632 1677

PainterRubens1577 1660

Philosopher “Leviathan”Thomas Hobbes1588 1679

1673

"Amazing Grace"John Newton1725 1807

1662

1691

1774

"William Tell"

Dictionary of the English Language

Immanuel Kant1724 1804Philosopher "Critique of Pure Reason"

Naturalist

Steam Engine

"Songs of Innocence"

James Watt

Alexander Humboldt

TelegraphSamuel Morse

Michael Faraday

William Blake

1736

1769

1791

1791

1757

1819

(1859)

(1872)

(1867)

1827

William Wordsworth1770 1850

"The Ancient Mariner"Samuel Taylor Coleridge1772 1834

“Ivanhoe”Sir Walter Scott1771 1832

Percy Shelley1792 1822

"Frankenstein"Mary Shelley1797 1851

John Keats1795 1821

Lord Byron1788 1824

"Les Miserables"Victor Hugo1802 (1885)

"Oliver Twist"Charles Dickens1812 (1870)

"The Raven"Poe1809 1849

"The Messiah"

Denis Diderot1713 1784Encyclodedie

Philosopher

Voltaire1694 1778Philosopher "Candide"

Jean-Jacques Rousseau1712 1778Philosopher "Emile"

"Gulliver's Travels"Jonathon Swift1667 1745

"Robinson Crusoe"Daniel Defoe1660 1731

Poet

Historian

Alexander Pope1688 1744

Hegel1770 1831Philosopher

"Faust"Johann Wolfgang Goethe1749 1832Dramatist

Dramatist

Ralph Waldo Emerson1803 (1882)Poet

Painter

"The Scarlet Letter"Hawthorne

Delacroix

1804

1798

(1864)

(1863)

Schoppenhauer1788 (1860)Philosopher

China

Africa1782

1795

1834

(1883)

Robert Morrison

Robert Moffat

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Awakening

AmericanRevolution

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Origin of the Species1809 (1892)Darwin

El Greco 1614Painter

(1583)

Francis Bacon

Hugo Grotius

1626

1645

Philosopher

International Law

Peace ofWestphalia 30 Years

War1618 1648

Dutch EastIndia Company

founded

1600

1602

Jennerinvents

smallpoxvaccine1796

EliWhitneyinvents

cotton gin1793

LouisianaPurchase1803

Battleof theAlamo1836

CommunistManifestopublished

1848

Year ofthe

Revolutionsin Europe

1848

Voltainvents the

electricbattery1800

Firstsuccessful

hot airballoon1783

SolemnLeague &Covenant

National Covenant in

Scotland

1643

1638

Charles Iexecuted

1649

English Civil War between Cavaliers and Roundheads

1642-46

The Whiskey Rebellion

1794

Invasion ofSpanishFlorida1819

U.S.-MexicanWar

1845-47

War of 18121812-14

"TheKillingTimes"1684-5

Romantic MovementRomantic Movement

Virginia1607

Massachusetts1620

New York1626

Maryland1633

Rhode IslandConnecticut1636

DelawareNew Hampshire1638

NorthCarolina

1653

SouthCarolina

1663

NewJersey1664

Pennsylvania1682

Georgia1732

MissionsMissionsFather of Modern Missions

War of the League of Augsburg

King William's War

1689-97

North AmericaNorth America

EuropeEurope

War of the SpanishSuccession

Queen Anne's War

1702-12

North AmericaNorth America

EuropeEurope

1700

War of the AustrianSuccession

King George's War

1744-48

1789-99

1775-83

North AmericaNorth America

EuropeEurope

Seven Years' War

French and Indian War

1755-63

North AmericaNorth America

EuropeEurope

Formationof ReliefSynod

(Scotland)1752

1717 1775Scotch-Irish migration to the ColoniesScotch-Irish migration to the Colonies

1794John Witherspoon1723

Foundingof RutgersUniversity

1766

1700

Father of American Presbyterianism

Bible Commentator

"The Danger of an Unconverted Ministry"

ItinerantEvangelist

Cane Ridge, KentuckyRevival

Presbyterian educator

"Sinners in the hands of an Angry God"

Henry Clay May, 2004