We’re all so 17th Century (TRIH ep 4)
1642 · Resource
Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook explore parallels and contrasts between the tumultuous 17th century and the present. They sketch the period's key episodes — Elizabeth I's death, the accession of James VI/I, the English Civil Wars, the execution of Charles I, Cromwell's Protectorate, the Restoration, the 1665 plague and 1666 Great Fire, and the Glorious Revolution — and link them to modern concerns: pandemic lockdowns, climate-driven crises, information revolutions, political polarisation an...
On these timelines: The Rest Is History (podcast), Resources: Combined
Around 1642
- English Civil War (1642)
- Reign of Peter the Great (1682)
- Thirty Years' War (1618)
- Great Plague of London (1665)
- Salem witch trials (1692)
- Glorious Revolution (1688)
- Siege of Vienna (1683) (1683)
- Newton's Principia Mathematica (1687)
- Edo period (1603)
- Qing dynasty (1644)