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  More info about: Charles II of England
  Charles II of England
Charles II was the King of England, King of Scots, and King of Ireland from 1649 until his death. His father Charles I had been executed in 1649, following the English Ci...
         
  More info about: Railroad Timeline History
  Railroad Timeline History
Milestones in English and American railway development...
         
  More info about: A Timeline of Framingham History
  A Timeline of Framingham History
Framingham, Massachusetts (USA) On June 25, 1700 the land known as Danforth Farms was incorporated as the Town of Framingham, Massachusetts....
         
  More info about: Taj Mahal of India
  Taj Mahal of India
Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan erected the Taj Mahal in the memory of his beloved wife, Mumtaz Mahal. The construction of Taj Mahal started in the year 1631 and it took approx...
         
  More info about: Mary Stuart, Princess of Orange
  Mary Stuart, Princess of Orange
Mary, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange-Nassau, was the eldest daughter of King Charles I of England, Scotland, and Ireland and his queen, Henrietta Maria. She was th...
         
  More info about: John Dryden
  John Dryden
John Dryden was an English poet, dramatist, and critic. He first came to public notice in 1659 with his Heroic Stanzas, commemorating the death of Oliver Cromwell. The fo...
         
  More info about: Johannes Vermeer
  Johannes Vermeer
Johannes Vermeer was a Dutch painter who specialized in domestic interior scenes of ordinary bourgeois life. His entire life was spent in the town of Delft. Vermeer was a...
         
  More info about: Baruch Spinoza, Dutch Philosopher
  Baruch Spinoza, Dutch Philosopher
A member of the Sephardic Jewish community of Amsterdam, Spinoza received a thorough education in the tradition of medieval philosophical texts as well as in the works of...
         
  More info about: Jean-Baptiste Lully, Composer
  Jean-Baptiste Lully, Composer
Jean-Baptiste Lully, Italian-born French composer. He was court composer to Louis XIV, founding the national French opera and producing court ballets for Molière's plays....
         
  More info about: John Locke
  John Locke
John Locke was a British philosopher, Oxford academic and medical researcher, whose association with Anthony Ashley Cooper (later the First Earl of Shaftesbury) led him t...
         
  More info about: Antony van Leeuwenhoek
  Antony van Leeuwenhoek
Antony van Leeuwenhoek was an unlikely scientist. A tradesman of Delft, Holland, he came from a family of tradesmen, had no fortune, received no higher education or unive...
         
  More info about: Christopher Wren, Architect
  Christopher Wren, Architect
Christopher Wren is best known as the architect of St. Paul's Cathedral and other London churches, but his first love was science and mathematics. During the first part o...
         
  More info about: James II of England, VII of Scotland
  James II of England, VII of Scotland
King James II of England and VII of Scotland was the last Catholic monarch to rule over England, Scotland, and Ireland. His reign, from 1685 to 1688, culminated with the...
         
  More info about: Kara Mustafa Pasha, Military Leader
  Kara Mustafa Pasha, Military Leader
Merzifonlu Kara Mustafa Pasha was an Ottoman military leader and grand vizier who was a central character in the empire's last attempts at expansion into both Central Eur...
         
  More info about: Robert Hooke, Natural Philosopher
  Robert Hooke, Natural Philosopher
Robert Hooke - natural philosopher, inventor, architect, chemist, mathematician, physicist, engineer. Robert Hooke is one of the most neglected natural philosophers of al...
         
         
 
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