The British East India Company is chartered. The British East India Company was significant because it fundamentally reshaped the relationship between commerce and political power….
Tag: 1600
17 February 1600
On his way to be burned at the stake for heresy, at Campo de’ Fiori in Rome, the philosopher Giordano Bruno has a wooden vise…
6 October 1600
Euridice, the earliest surviving opera, receives its première performance, beginning the Baroque period. “Euridice” is the earliest surviving operas in the history of Western music….