Famous Men of the 16th & 17th Century

Robert G. Shearer

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$17.95

ISBN: 1882514416
Format: Paperback

Pub Date: 08/01/2009
Publisher: Greenleaf Press

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28 biographies from Queen Elizabeth I (who came to the throne in 1560) through King Louis XIV who died in 1715. The 17th century was an age of religious wars and revolutions. The French had seven civil wars of religion from 1570-1590. The German Empire had a religious civil war from 1618-1648. The English had a civil war from 1642-1649.

It was also the century in which the English and French settlements were founding in North America at Jamestown, Plymouth, Boston, & Quebec.

But learning the wars will not convey to students what the times were like. Biographies will. Here are the twenty-eight individuals who are profiled:

I. Catherine de’ Medici (1519-1589)
II. Henry of Navarre (1553-1610)
III. Elizabeth I (1533-1603)
IV. Sir Francis Drake (1540-1595)
V. Sir Walter Raleigh (1552-1618)
VI. James I (1566-1625)
VII. Matteo Ricci (1552-1610)
VIII. William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
IX. John Smith (1580-1631)
X. Albrecht von Wallenstein (1583-1634)
XI. Gustavus Adolphus (1594-1632)
XII. Samuel de Champlain (1570-1635)
XIII. Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
XIV. Cardinal Richelieu (1585-1642)
XV. Charles I (1600-1649)
XVI. Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658)
XVII. William Bradford (1590-1657)
XVIII. John Winthrop (1588-1649)
XIX. Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)
XX. Rembrandt (1606-1669)
XXI. John Milton (1608-1674)
XXII. Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675)
XXIII. Charles II (1630-1685) & James II (1633-1701)
XXIV. Jan Sobieski (1629-1696)
XXV. William of Orange (1650-1702)
XXVI. John Locke (1632-1704)
XXVII. Johan Pachelbel (1653-1706)
XXVIII. Louis XIV (1638-1715)

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