Encyclopedia of the Renaissance and the Reformation

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1611 War of Kalmar
between Denmark and
Sweden

1617 War between
Sweden and Poland
1618 Defenestration of
Prague
1619 Execution of
Oldenbarneveldt

1620 Battle of the White
Mountain, first major
engagement of Thirty
Years’ War

Secular Events Religion Rulers Sciences Arts and Literature

1611 Authorized Version

of the Bible in English

published

1618 Synod of Dort

1619 Capuchins

recognized as

independent order

1620 Pilgrim Fathers sail

for America

1611 Gustavus II

Adolphus king of Sweden

(→1632)

1612 Matthias becomes

emperor (→1619)

1613 Michael first

Romanov tsar of Russia

(→1645)

1617 Ferdinand of Styria

elected king of Bohemia

1619 Ferdinand of Styria

becomes emperor as

Ferdinand II (→1637)

1611 Maurolico’s

Photismi (on lenses)

published; Kepler invents

celestial telescope

1614 Napier’s book on

logarithms published

1619 Kepler’s

Harmonices mundi

published

1620 Bacon’s Novum

organum and Bürgi’s

work on logarithms

published

1611 Shakespeare’s last

play, The Tempest

1617 Duytsche

Academie founded

1620