Raleigh's History of the World
1614 · Work
Written during thirteen years' imprisonment in the Tower, Raleigh's vast unfinished history, from the Creation to 130 BC, becomes one of the most widely read books of the century.
On these timelines: Arts and Thoughts, England, Master, United Kingdom (combined)
More from Arts and Thoughts
- Homer's Iliad and Odyssey (750 BCE)
- Plato's Republic written (375 BCE)
- Shakespeare's Hamlet (1601)
- Renaissance (1400)
- Scientific Revolution (1543)
- Epic of Gilgamesh recorded (2100 BCE)
- Euclid's Elements (300 BCE)
- The Last Supper (1495)
Around 1614
- Eighty Years' War / Dutch Revolt (1568)
- Spanish Armada (1588)
- Thirty Years' War (1618)
- English Civil War (1642)
- William Shakespeare (1564)
- Edo period (1603)
- Qing dynasty (1644)
- Peace of Westphalia (1648)
- Battle of Sekigahara (1600)
- Reign of Louis XIV (the Sun King) (1643)