Royalty of the Scientific Revolution
The atlas holds 5 people and 60 moments here, from 1543 to 1685. The most recorded lives are Elizabeth I, Louis XIV and Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor.
Notable people
Elizabeth I
from 1547 to 1603
35 moments here
Elizabeth I (1533–1603), daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, was Queen of England and Ireland from 1558 until her death.…
Louis XIV
from 1638 to 1685
12 moments here
Louis XIV (Louis-Dieudonné; 1638–1715), king of France from 1643, was the Bourbon monarch known as the Sun King.…
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
from 1547 to 1558
9 moments here
Charles V (1500–1558), also Charles I of Spain, was Holy Roman Emperor, king of Spain, and ruler of the Habsburg Netherlands.…
Peter the Great
from 1672 to 1682
2 moments here
Peter I of Russia, known as Peter the Great, was tsar from 1682 and emperor from 1721 until 1725.…
Suleiman the Magnificent
from 1543 to 1566
2 moments here
Ottoman sultan from 1520 to 1566, known in Ottoman tradition as Kanuni, the Lawgiver. Born at Trabzon and educated for dynastic rule, Suleiman…
Moments
- 1543 Besieges Esztergom Suleiman the Magnificent
- 1547 Household at Chelsea Elizabeth I
- 1547 Battle of Mühlberg Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
- 1549 Residence at Hatfield House Elizabeth I
- 1550 Imperial court at Innsbruck Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
- 1552 Arrival at Villach after escape Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
- 1552 Flight from Innsbruck Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
- 1552 Siege of Metz Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
- 1553 Entry into London with Mary Elizabeth I
- 1554 Departure from Ashridge for interrogation Elizabeth I
- 1554 Imprisonment in the Tower of London Elizabeth I
- 1554 House arrest at Woodstock Palace Elizabeth I
- 1554 Abdication of Naples, Sicily, and Milan Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
- 1555 Public abdication before the States General Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
- 1555 Return to Hatfield House Elizabeth I
- 1557 Retirement at the Monastery of Yuste Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
- 1558 Death at Yuste Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
- 1558 Accession at Hatfield Elizabeth I
- 1559 Coronation at Westminster Abbey Elizabeth I
- 1564 Royal progress to Cambridge Elizabeth I
- 1566 Visit to Fotheringhay Castle Elizabeth I
- 1566 Visit to Houghton Conquest Elizabeth I
- 1566 Royal visit to Oxford Elizabeth I
- 1566 Visit to Greyfriars, Stamford Elizabeth I
- 1566 Dies during the Szigetvár siege Suleiman the Magnificent
- 1572 Royal progress at Warwick Elizabeth I
- 1573 Royal progress to Sandwich Elizabeth I
- 1574 Royal progress to Bristol Elizabeth I
- 1574 Visit to Sudeley Castle Elizabeth I
- 1574 Royal progress at Havering Elizabeth I
- 1575 Royal progress at Lichfield Elizabeth I
- 1575 Royal progress at Shrewsbury Elizabeth I
- 1575 Stay at Kenilworth Castle Elizabeth I
- 1575 Royal progress at Worcester Elizabeth I
- 1578 Royal progress at Bury St Edmunds Elizabeth I
- 1578 Royal progress at Euston Hall Elizabeth I
- 1578 Royal progress to Norwich Elizabeth I
- 1588 Thanksgiving procession to St Paul's Elizabeth I
- 1588 Address to troops at Tilbury Elizabeth I
- 1591 Stay at Cowdray House Elizabeth I
- 1592 Visit to Bisham Elizabeth I
- 1592 Stay at Sudeley Castle Elizabeth I
- 1592 Visit to Elvetham Elizabeth I
- 1592 Visit to Ryecote Elizabeth I
- 1602 Final royal progress to Harefield Elizabeth I
- 1603 Death at Richmond Palace Elizabeth I
- 1638 Birth at Saint-Germain-en-Laye Louis XIV
- 1651 Fronde crisis in Paris Louis XIV
- 1654 Coronation at Reims Cathedral Louis XIV
- 1659 Treaty of the Pyrenees signing Louis XIV