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1617 tobacco trade
1629 witch burning … 1740 last executions … little over century
17th century: until the 17th century few mechanical clocks were found outside cathedral towers, monasteries, abbeys, and public squares. Probably the earliest clock, closest to the modern ones, was that constructed by the clockmaker Henry de Vick in the 14th century for the tower of the palace of Charles V of France.
17th century VOC - Holland's 'Gouden Eeuw' (Golden Century)
1609-1611 Mores leave Spain
1623-1662 Blaise Pascal, French philosopher, mathematician, and physicist, considered one of the great minds in Western intellectual history.
1623 William Schickard invents the first mechanical calculator
1625 the Dutch found New-Amsterdam (New York)
1629-1695 Christiaan Huygens, Dutch astronomer, mathematician, and physicist, born in The Hague. His numerous, original scientific discoveries won him wide recognition and honors among scientists of the 17th century.
1632-1677 Benedict Spinoza, Dutch rationalist philosopher and religious thinker, who is accounted the most thoroughgoing modern exponent of pantheism.
1642 Rebellion against monarchy in England, which was brought to a climax by the execution of King Charles I, political and revolutionary action against autocratic European governments resulted in the establishment of democratic governments
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MODERN SCIENCE LEIBNIZ & NEWTON
1646-1716 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, German philosopher, mathematician, and statesman, regarded as one of the supreme intellects of the 17th century.
1687 Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727) presents his “Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica”; introducing equations for the movement of particles caused by gravity or artificial forces: mechanics, and calculus (mathematical analysis concerned with the rates of change of continuous functions as their arguments change)
1689 the british take powers from king
1694-1778 Voltaire, assumed name of Francois Marie Arouet (1694-1778), French writer and philosopher, who was one of the leaders of the Enlightenment.
1700 breakthrough in literacy, agri techniques spread
less farm workers needed, capitalism takes off
1701 war of spanish succession (habsburg no heir)
1713 British monopolize slavery
1727 coffee trade
1724 - 1804 Immanuel Kant
1740 maria theresa inherits habsburg, wars follow
1760 - 1914 industrial revolution
1768 sugar trade
1799-1815 Napoleon era https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleonic_era
The rest is quite 'modern'…
1807 us abolishes slavery, dominated by england
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_Enlightenment
19th century - history inventions
1825 George Stephenson's “Locomotion” steam train starts service on the Stockton–Darlington Railway (United Kingdom), the world’s first passenger railway.
Development of the steam engine: In 1698 Thomas Savery (an English military engineer and inventor) patented the first crude steam engine, based on Denis Papin's Digester or pressure cooker of 1679. In 1712, Thomas Newcomen together with John Calley built their first engine on top of a water filled mine shaft and used it to pump water out of the mine. James Watt (Scottish inventor and mechanical engineer) made further improvements to the steam engine: most notably Watt's 1769 patent for a separate condenser connected to a cylinder by a valve. Unlike Newcomen's engine, Watt's design had a condenser that could be cool while the cylinder was hot. Watt's engine soon became the dominant design for all modern steam engines and helped bring about the Industrial Revolution, in which transportation and fabrication became mechanical. The unit of power called the Watt was named after James Watt.
After the WWII … Commercialisation of inventions …
Age of consumerism …
In a 1955 speech, John Bugas, a vice president of the Ford Motor Company, [4] coined the term “consumerism” as a substitute for “capitalism” and better describe the American economy.
1894 bottled coca cola introduced - history brands
20th century - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumerism
21st century
Today's society has entered the era of entertainment via the Internet. Most people spend more time browsing on mobile phones than face-to-face.
Admin, author of this history, identifies most with his images library (in app F-stop on his Nokia Android tablet, a 10“ handheld). Images of news, girls & cyber/critical/Freespeech.
Take a look: BU notes 0324