Renaissance · Europe · Politics

1605

True Law of Free Monarchies Reprinted

1605

James I reissued his earlier treatise arguing for the divine right of kings as an instructional text for his new English subjects. Parliament members read it with dismay. The Jacobean conflict between royal prerogative and common law had its theoretical background in plain print for anyone who cared to look.

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Before and after in Europe

Before: 1604: French East India Company Attempted
After: July 18, 1606: Rembrandt Born in Leiden

Before and after in Politics

Before: 1604: Treaty of London Ends Anglo-Spanish War
After: November 1606: Treaty of Zsitvatorok

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Renaissance (1501–1650), one of 715 events from that era on Saeculum.