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17th century
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As a means of recording the passage of
time, the '''17th century''' was that
century which lasted from
1601-
1700 in the
Gregorian calendar.
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Japan Japan's last shogunate, which lasted well into the
19th century.
Events
1600s
*
1601:
Battle of Kinsale, the most important battle in Irish history, fought.
*
1602:
Dutch East India Company founded. Its success contributes to the
Dutch Golden Age.
*
1603:
Elizabeth I of England dies and is succeeded by her cousin King
James VI of Scotland, uniting the crowns of
Scotland and
England.
*
1603:
Tokugawa Ieyasu seizes control of
Japan and establishes the
Tokugawa Shogunate which rules the country until
1868.
*
1603-
1623 23: After modernizing his army,
Abbas I of Safavid Abbas I expands
Persian Empire Persia by capturing territory from the
Ottoman Empire Ottomans and the
Portugal Portuguese.
*
1605:
Gunpowder Plot foiled in
England.
*
1607: The
London Company establishes the
Jamestown Settlement in
North America precipitating the
British colonization of the Americas.
*
1608:
Quebec City founded by
Samuel de Champlain in
New France (present-day
Canada).
1610s
*
1613: The
Time of Troubles in
Russia ends with the establishment of the
Romanov House of Romanov which rules until
1917.
*
1615: The
Mughal Empire grants extensive trading rights to the
British East India Company.
*
1618-
1648 48: The
Thirty Years' War devastates
Central Europe.
1620s
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*
1624-
1642 42: As chief minister,
Armand Jean du Plessis, Cardinal Richelieu Cardinal Richelieu centralizes power in France.
*
1625:
New Amsterdam founded by the
Dutch West India Company in North America.
1630s
*
1637: The
Netherlands Dutch tulip mania bubble bursts.
*
1637: The
Pequot War, the first of the
Indian Wars American Indian Wars
*
1639-
1651 51:
Wars of the Three Kingdoms, civil wars throughout
Scotland,
Ireland, and
English Civil War England.
1640s
*
1640:
Portugal regains its independence from
Spain bringing an end to the
Iberian Union.
*
1640:
Torture is outlawed in
England.
*
1641: The
Tokugawa Shogunate institutes
Sakoku- foreigners are expelled and no one is allowed to enter or leave Japan.
*
1642: Dutch explorer
Abel Janszoon Tasman achieves the first recorded European sighting of
New Zealand.
*
1644: The
Manchu conquer
China ending the
Ming Dynasty. The subsequent
Qing Dynasty rules until
1912.
*
1648: The
Peace of Westphalia ends the
Thirty Years' War and the
Eighty Years' War and marks the ends of
Spain and the
Holy Roman Empire as major European powers.
*
1648-
1653 53:
Fronde civil war in France.
*
1648-
1667 67:
The Deluge (Polish history) The Deluge wars leave
Poland in ruins.
*
1648-
1669 69: The
Ottoman Empire captures
Crete from the
Republic of Venice Venetians after the
Siege of Candia.
1650s
*
1652:
Cape Town founded by the Dutch East India Company in
South Africa.
*
1652:
Anglo-Dutch Wars begin.
*
1655-
1661 61: The
Northern Wars cement
Swedish Empire Sweden's rise as a
Rise of Sweden as a Great Power Great Power.
1660s
*
1660: The
Commonwealth of England ends and the monarchy is brought back during the
English Restoration.
*
1660:
Royal Society of London for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge founded.
*
1661: The reign of the
Kangxi Emperor of China begins.
*
1662:
Koxinga captures
Taiwan from the
Netherlands Dutch and founds the
Kingdom of Tungning which rules until 1683.
*
1663: France takes full political and military
Royal Takeover control over its colonial posessions in
New France.
*
1664: British troops capture New Amsterdam and rename it
New York City New York.
*
1665:
Portuguese Empire Portugal defeats the
Kongo Empire.
*
1666: The
Great Fire of London.
*
1667-
1699 99: The
Great Turkish war halts the
Ottoman Empire's expansion into Europe.
1670s
*
1670: The
Hudson's Bay Company is founded in
Canada.
*
1674:
Maratha Empire founded in
India by
Shivaji.
*
1676: Russia and the
Ottoman Empire commence the
Russo-Turkish Wars.
*
1678 -
1679 Treaties of Nijmegen
1680s
*
1682:
Peter I of Russia Peter the Great becomes joint ruler of
Russia (sole
tsar in
1696).
*
1682:
René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle La Salle explores the length of the
Mississippi River and claims
Louisiana for France.
*
1683:
China conquers the
Kingdom of Tungning and annexes
Taiwan.
*
1685:
Edict of Fontainebleau outlaws
Protestantism in France.
*
1687:
Isaac Newton publishes ''
Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica''.
*
1688-
1689 89: After the
Glorious Revolution, England becomes a
constitutional monarchy and the
Dutch Republic goes into decline.
*
1688-
1697 97: The
Grand Alliance sought to stop French expansion during the
Nine Years War.
*
1689:
Nerchinsk Treaty establishes a border between
Russia and
China.
1690s
*
1692:
Salem witch trials in
Massachusetts Bay Colony Massachusetts.
*
1700-
1721 21:
Russia supplants
Sweden as the dominant
Baltic region Baltic power after the
Great Northern War.
Significant people
*
Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden Gustavus Adolphus,
Monarch of Sweden King of Sweden (
1594-
1632).
*
Tokugawa Ieyasu
*
Francis Bacon (philosopher) Francis Bacon, English philosopher and politician (
1561-
1626).
*
Pierre Corneille, French dramatist (
1606 -
1684)
*
Jean Racine, French dramatist (
1639 - 1699)
*
Molière, French dramatist, actor, director (
1622 -
1673)
*
Jean de La Fontaine French poet (
1621 -
1695)
*
Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux (
1636 -
1711) French poet and critic
*
Gian Lorenzo Bernini (
1598 -
1680) Italian artist
*
Jean-Baptiste Lully Italian-born French compsoer (
1632 -
1687)
*
André Le Nôtre French landscape architect ([1613
-
1700)
*
Gabriel Bethlen, Hungarian prince of Transylvania (
1580-
1629)
* Sir
Thomas Browne, English author, philosopher and scientist (
1605-
1682).
*
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Spanish Author (
1574 -
1616)
*
Charles I of England (
1600 -
1649).
*
Charles II of England (
1630 -
1685).
* Queen
Christina of Sweden, high profile Catholic convert, matron of arts (
1626 -
1689)
*
Oliver Cromwell,
Lord Protector of
England,
Scotland and
Ireland (
1599 -
1658)
*
Richard Cromwell,
Lord Protector of
England,
Scotland and
Ireland (
1626 -
1712).
*
René Descartes, French philosopher and mathematician (
1596 -
1650)
*
John Donne, English
Metaphysical Poetry metaphysical poet (
1572 -
1631)
*
John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester (
1647 -
1680) English poet
*
Elizabeth I of England (
1533 -
1603).
*
Galileo Galilei, Italian natural philosopher (
1564 -
1642)
*
Andreas Gryphius, German poet and dramatist(
1616 -
1664)
*
Thomas Hobbes, English philosopher and mathematician (
1588 -
1679)
*
Christiaan Huygens, Dutch mathematician, physicist and astronomer (
1629 -
1695)
*
Johannes Kepler, German astronomer (
1571 -
1630)
*
Gottfried Leibniz, German philosopher and mathematician (
1646 -
1716)
*
John Locke, English philosopher (
1632 -
1704)
*
James I of England (
1566 -
1625).
*
James II of England (
1633 -
1701).
*
Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I,
Holy Roman Emperor (
1640 -
1705)
*
Louis XIV of France Louis XIV, King of France, (
1638 -
1715)
*
Mary II of England (
1662 -
1694).
*
Dubhaltach MacFhirbhisigh (d.
1671), Irish historian and genealogist.
*
John Milton, English author and poet (
1608 -
1674)
*
Miyamoto Musashi, famous warrior in
Japan, author of
The Book of Five Rings, a treatise on
strategy and martial combat. (
1584 -
1645)
*
Isaac Newton, English physicist and mathematician (
1642 -
1727)
*
Blaise Pascal, French theologian, mathematician and physicist (
1623 -
1662)
*
Samuel Pepys, English civil servant and diarist (
1633 -
1703)
*
Henry Purcell, English composer (
1659 -
1695)
*
Samarth Ramdas, Hindu Saint (
1608 -
1681)
*
Anne of Austria (
1601 -
1666) Queen consort and regent of France
*
Cardinal Richelieu, French Cardinal, Duke, and politician (
1585 -
1642)
*
Cardinal Mazarin, French cardinal and politician of Italian origin (
1602 -
1661)
*
Françoise-Athénaïs, marquise de Montespan (
1641 -
1707) lover of
Louis XIV
*
Françoise d'Aubigné, marquise de Maintenon (
1635 -
1719 second wife of
Louis XIV
*
Rembrandt van Rijn, Dutch painter (
1606 -
1669)
*
William Shakespeare, English author and poet (
1564 -
1616)
*
Pedro Calderón de la Barca Spanish dramatist (
1600 -
1681)
*
Shivaji Shivaji Bhonsle, Hindu King, 1st Maratha ruler, established Hindavi Swaraj. (
1630-
1680)
*
Baruch Spinoza, Dutch philosopher (
1632 -
1677)
*
Seathrún Céitinn, Irish historian (ca.
1569 - ca.
1644)
*
John III Sobieski, King of Poland Jan III Sobieski, King of Poland (
1629 -
1696)
*
Imre Thököly, prince of Transylvania, leader of the anti-Habsburg uprising in
Hungary (
1657 -
1705)
*
Albrecht von Wallenstein, German General in the
Thirty Years' War, Catholic (
1583 -
1634)
*
William III of England (
1650 -
1702).
*
Abel Janszoon Tasman (
1603 -
1659), was a Dutch seafarer and explorer.
Inventions, discoveries, introductions
Timeline of invention#17th century List of 17th century inventions
Major changes in philosophy and science take place, often characterized as the
Scientific revolution.
*
Calculus is invented and used to formulate
classical mechanics.
* First measurement of the
speed of light, 1676.
*
Banknotes were reintroduced in Europe.
*
Ice cream
*
Tea and
Coffeehouse coffee become popular in Europe.
Decades and years
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see
17th century
{{commonscat|17th century}}
Articles and events specifically related to the
17th century (
1601-
1700).
Note that
1601 is the first year of the
17th century, not
1600 as is often erroneously believed.
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