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| "Don Quixote" by Cervantes; "King Lear" by Shakespeare |
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Versailles becomes the center of Louis XIV's court.
Christopher Wren is active in London, especially after the Great Fire. |
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| Voltaire publishes "Letters on the English" following three years in England, after being exiled from France. |
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| John Milton writes "Areopagitica" during the English Civil War. He writes "Paradise Lost" during the Restoration. |
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| Michelangelo decorates the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican at the commission of Pope Julius II. |
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| Deaths of Petrarch and Boccaccio, fathers of Renaissance humanism. |
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