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A plot by extremist Catholics to blow up the Britain's Parliament fails.
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Johann Kepler discovered that Mars is moving around the sun in a eliptical fashion, not circular. This contradicted the traditional belief of Plato's.
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Galileo exhibits the telescope to the pontifical court. He tries to push view that the earth revolves around the sun, fails to make a positive effect.
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Galileo publishes his ideas about the universe. He is ordered to appear before the Inquisition in Rome.
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The war ends with the Peace of Westphalia.
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The English philosopher Thomas Hobbes writes the Leviathan,
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Oliver Cromwell dissolves parliament and makes himself Lord Protector
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England's parliament restores the monarchy to the eldest son of Charles I, Charles II,
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Peter is born to Tsar Alexius of Russia
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Anton Van Leeuwenhoek was the first to see and describe bacteria with a microscope.
