Timeline of the Modern Period

	France	Britan	Germany	Holland	Elsewhere in Europe
1600	Rene Descartes (1596-1650)	William Shakespeare (1564-1616)	Johannes Kepler (1571-1630)	Frans Hals (1581-1666)	Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
		King James Bible (1611)			Caravaggio (1573-1610)
		Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679)			Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640)
	Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)	Margaret Cavendish (1623-1674)		Rembrant (1606-1669)	Giovanni Bernini (1598-1680)
		Anne Conway (1631-1678)		Jan Vermeer (1632-1675)	Velazquez (1599-1660)
1650	Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632-1687)	John Locke (1632-1704)		Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677)	Queen Christina (1626-1689)
	Louis XIV (1638-1715)	Christopher Wren (1632-1723)
		Isaac Newton (1642-1727)	Gottfried Leibniz (1646-1716)		Princess Elizabeth of Bohemia (1630-1714)
		Lady Damaris Cudworth Marsham (1659-1708)
		Mary Astell (1666-1731)
		Catherine Trotter Cockburn (1679-1749)
1700	Antoine Watteau (1684-1721)	George Berkeley (1685-1753)	Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)		Vivaldi (1678-1741)
		George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
	Francois Boucher (1703-1770)	David Hume (1711-1776)
1750	Fragonard (1732-1806)	Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788)	Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)		Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
	Jacques-Louis David (1748-1825)	William Blake (1757-1827)	Johann Wolfgang Goethe (1749-1832)		Mozart (1756-1791)
1800		Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797)			Beethoven (1770-1827)