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First known coffee house in Europe opens in Venice
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Isabella packs away her childhood books
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First book is printed in North America (The Bay Psalm Book)
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English Parliament bans all Catholic priests
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Invention of thermometer
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Priest William Ward condemned to death
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King Charles I flees London
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Isabella's fictional tale - told in Act of Faith
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Galileo dies - under house arrest after trial by the Inquisition
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Lisbon: Auto da fé
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King tries to arrest members of Parliament
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King declares war on Parliament
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Puritans close London theatres
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Abel Tasman sights Van Diemen's Land
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Rembrandt paints 'The Night Watch'
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Venice: Monteverdi's 'The Coronation of Poppea' premieres at Carnival
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Paris: Louis XIV becomes king, aged 5
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Florence: Invention of first barometer by Evangelista Torricelli
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English Parliament suppresses printing
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Netherlands: Invention of first microscope by Antoni van Leeuwenhoek
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Parliament agrees to Covenant
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Cambridge purge
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Descartes' Principia Philosophiae published
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The Bloudy Tenent of Persecution by Roger Williams published
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Professor Hawkins is arrested
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Isabella and Professor Hawkins flee London
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Seville: Auto da fé
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Wallpaper becomes fashionable in London
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Battle of Marston Moor - King defeated
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Valladolid: Auto da fé
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Milton publishes Areopagitica - on liberty of the press
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A mysterious stranger is hidden in the attic
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Master de Aquila, Isabella and Willem leave Amsterdam
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Isabella first meets Signora Contarini
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The Taj Mahal is under construction
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Master de Aquila vanishes from Venice
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Isabella and friends return to Venice
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