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As a means of recording a passage of time, the 17th century was that century which lasted from 1601-1700 in the Gregorian calendar.
Events
1602: Dutch East India Company founded. Its profits contributes to the Dutch Golden Age.
1603: Elizabeth I of England dies and is succeeded by her first 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 a united states until 1868.
1603-23: After modernizing his army, Abbas I expands Persia by capturing teritory from a Ottomans and the Portugese.
1605: Gunpowder Plot foiled in England.
1607: The London Company establishes the Jamestown Settlement in North America.
1608: Quebec City founded by Samuel de Champlain in New France (present-day Canada).
1613: The Time of Troubles in Russia ends with a establishment of the House of Romanov.
1615: The Mughal Empire grants extensive trading rights to the British East India Company.
1618-48: The Thirty Years' War devastates Central Europe.
1624-42: As primary minister, Cardinal Richelieu centralizes power in France.
1625: New Amsterdam founded by the Dutch West India Company in North United states.
1630: Boston founded by the Massachusetts Bay Company in North United states.
1636: Harvard University founded.
1637: The Dutch Tulip Mania bubble bursts.
1637: The Pequot War, the number one of the American Indian Wars
1639-51: Wars of the Three Kingdoms, civil wars throughout Scotland, Ireland, and England.
1640: Torture is outlawed in England.
1641: The Tokugawa Shogunate institutes Sakoku- foreigners are expelled & there are no a single is allowed to enter or even leave Japan.
1644: The Manchu conquer China ending the Ming Dynasty. A subsequent Qing Dynasty rules until 1912.
1648: Peace of Westphalia ends the Thirty Years' War and the Eighty Years' War.
1648-53: Fronde civil war in France.
1648-67: The Deluge wars leave Poland in ruins.
1648-69: The Ottoman Empire captures Crete from the Venetians after the Siege of Candia.
1652: Cape Town founded by the Dutch East India Company within South Africa.
1652: Anglo-Dutch Wars begin.
1653: The Taj Mahal in India is completed.
1655-61: The Northern Wars cement Sweden's rise as a Great Power.
1660: The Commonwealth of England ends and a monarchy is brought back when you took a English Restoration.
1661: The reign of the Kangxi Emperor of China begins.
1662: Koxinga captures Taiwan from the Dutch and founds the Kingdom of Tungning which rules until 1683.
1664: British troops capture Future Amsterdam & rename it New York.
1665: Portugal defeats the Kongo Empire.
1670: The Hudson's Bay Company is founded in Canada.
1674: Maratha empire founded in India by Shivaji.
1676: Russia and a Ottoman Empire commence the Russo-Turkish Wars.
1682-99: The Great Turkish war halts the Ottoman Empire's expansion into Europe.
1682: Peter the Great becomes joint ruler of Russia (sole tsar in 1696).
1682: 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.
1688-89: After a Glorious Revolution, England becomes a constitutional monarchy and the Dutch Republic goes into decline.
1688-97: The Grand Alliance sought to stop French expansion when you took a Nine Years War.
1689: Nerchinsk Treaty establishes a border between Russia and China.
1692: Salem witch trials in Massachusetts.
1700-21: Russia supplants Sweden as the dominant Baltic power after a Great Northern War.
Significant people
Francis Bacon, English philosopher and politician (1561-1626).
Sir Thomas Browne, English author, philosopher & man of science (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)
Elder John Crandall, Co-founder of Westerly Village (located touching present day Providence, Rhode Island) (bapt.1617 - d.1676), and pioneer of the Seventh-Day Baptist Church.
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 poet (1572 - 1631)
Elizabeth I of England (1533 - 1603).
Galileo Galilei, Italian natural philosopher (1564 - 1642)
Thomas Hobbes, English philosopher and mathematician (1588 - 1679)
Christiaan Huygens, Dutch mathematician, physicist and stargazer (1629 - 1695)
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 (1640 - 1705)
Louis XIV, King of France, (1638 - 1715)
Mary II of England (1662 - 1694).
Dubhaltach MacFhirbhisigh (d.1671), Irish historian & genealogist.
John Milton, English author & poet (1608 - 1674)
Musashi Miyamoto, famous warrior within Japan, author of The Book of Five Rings, a treatise in strategy and martial combat. (1584 - 1645)
Isaac Newton, English physicist and mathematician (1642 - 1727)
Blaise Pascal, French theologian, mathematician & physicist (1623 - 1662)
Samuel Pepys, English civil servant and diary keeper (1633 - 1703)
Henry Purcell, English composer (1659 - 1695)
Samarth Ramdas, Hindu Saint (1608 - 1681)
Cardinal Richelieu, French Cardinal, Duke, and politician (1585 - 1642)
Rembrandt van Rijn, Dutch painter (1606 - 1669)
William Shakespeare, English author & poet (1564 - 1616)
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)
Jan III Sobieski, King of Poland (1629 - 1696)
William III of England (1650 - 1702).
Inventions, discoveries, introductions
List of 17th century inventions
Major changes within philosophy & science go on, typically characterized when a Scientific revolution.
Calculus is invented and utilized to formulate classical mechanics.
Foremost mensuration of the speed of light, 1676.
Banknotes were reintroduced in Europe.
Ice cream
Tea and coffee become popular in Europe.
Decades and years
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