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.

The 17th Century falls into the Early Modern period of Europe and was characterized by the Baroque cultural movement and the beginning of modern science and philosophy , including the contributions of Galileo Galilei , René Descartes , Blaise Pascal , Isaac Newton ; Europe was torn by warfare throughout the century, by the Thirty Years' War , the Great Turkish War and the English Civil War among others, while European colonization of the Americas began in earnest.

Shogun

Tokugawa Ieyasu

is the founder of Japan's last shogunate, which lasted well into the 19th century.

In the east, the 17th Century saw the flowering of the Ottoman and Mughal empires, the beginning of the Edo period in feudal Japan, and the violent transition from the Ming to the Qing Dynasty in China.

1 Events
- 1.1 1600s
- 1.2 1610s
- 1.3 1620s
- 1.4 1630s
- 1.5 1640s
- 1.6 1650s
- 1.7 1660s
- 1.8 1670s
- 1.9 1680s
- 1.10 1690s
2 Significant people
3 Inventions, discoveries, introductions
4 References
5 Decades and years

[edit] Events

[edit] 1600s

1600: Charles I of England born to James VI of Scotland and Anne of Denmark .

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Catholic general Albrecht von Wallenstein

1601 : Battle of Kinsale , one of the most important battles 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.
1603-23 : After modernizing his army, Abbas I expands Persia by capturing territory from the Ottomans and the Portuguese .
1605: Gunpowder Plot failed in England.
1606: The Long War between the Ottoman Empire and Austria is ended with the Peace of Zsitvatorok .
1607 : Jamestown, Virginia , is settled as what would become the first permanent English colony in North America .
1608 : Quebec City founded by Samuel de Champlain in New France (present-day Canada).
1609: The Netherlands and Spain agree to a Twelve Years' Truce in the Eighty Years' War .
1609: Pedro de Peralta, a later governor of New Mexico , establishes the settlement of Santa Fe .
1609: Maximilian of Bavaria establishes the Catholic League .

[edit] 1610s

1613: The Time of Troubles in Russia ends with the establishment of the House of Romanov which rules until 1917.
1618: The Bohemian Revolt precipitates the Thirty Years' War which devastates Europe in the years 1618-48 .
1618: The Manchu s start invading China. Their conquest eventually topples the Ming Dynasty .

Apollo and Daphne (1622

-1625

), by Gian Lorenzo Bernini

is considered one of the masterpieces of the century.

[edit] 1620s

1620: Emperor Ferdinand II defeats the Bohemian rebels in the Battle of White Mountain .
1620: The Puritan Pilgrims arrive in the Mayflower at Plymouth Rock , Cape Cod .
1624 -42 : As chief minister, Cardinal Richelieu centralizes power in France.
1625 : New Amsterdam founded by the Dutch West India Company in North America.
1626: St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican completed.
1627 : Cardinal Richelieu lays siege to Protestant La Rochelle which eventually capitulates.
1629 : Cardinal Richelieu allies with Swedish Protestant forces in the Thirty Years' War to counter Ferdinand II's expansion.

[edit] 1630s

1639 -51 : Wars of the Three Kingdoms , civil wars throughout Scotland, Ireland , and England .

[edit] 1640s

1640 : King Charles was compelled to summon Parliament due to the revolt of the Scots.
1640 -68 : The Portuguese Restoration War led to the end of 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.
1641 : The Irish Rebellion .
1642 : Dutch explorer Abel Janszoon Tasman achieves the first recorded European sighting of New Zealand .
1642 -49 : Civil War in England; Charles I is beheaded by Cromwell
1644 : The Manchu conquer China ending the Ming Dynasty . The subsequent Qing Dynasty rules until 1912 .
1644 -1674 : The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War .
1647 -1652 : The Great Plague of Seville .

Map of Europe in 1648 at the end of the Thirty Years' War

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 -53 : Fronde civil war in France.
1648 -67 : The Deluge wars leave Poland in ruins.
1648 -69 : The Ottomans capture Crete from the Venetians after the Siege of Candia .
1649 -1653 : The Cromwellian conquest of Ireland .

[edit] 1650s

1652 : Cape Town founded by the Dutch East India Company in South Africa .
1652 : Anglo-Dutch Wars begin.
1655 -61 : The Northern Wars cement Sweden's rise as a Great Power .
1648 : After his father Shah Jahan completes the Taj Mahal , his son Aurangzeb deposes him as ruler of the Mughal Empire .

[edit] 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.

Sultan Mehmed IV

1662 : Koxinga captures Taiwan from the Dutch and founds the Kingdom of Tungning which rules until 1683.
1662 : Jacques Aymar-Vernay , who later reintroduced Dowsing into popular use in Europe, is born.
1663 : France takes full political and military control over its colonial possessions in New France . Hooke's microscope discovers cells
1664 : British troops capture New Amsterdam and rename it New York .
1665 : The Great Plague of London .
1665 : Portugal defeats the Kongo Empire .
1666 : The Great Fire of London .
1667 -99 : The Great Turkish War halts the Ottoman Empire's expansion into Europe.
1668 - Peace Treaty of Lisbon between Spain and Portugal recognizes Portugal as independent country.