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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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Tokugawa Ieyasu is the founder of Japan's last shogunate, which lasted well into the 19th Century .]]


EVENTS


1600s

• , the most important battle in Irish history, fought.


• founded. Its success contributes to the Dutch Golden Age .


• dies and is succeeded by her cousin King James VI Of Scotland , uniting the crowns of Scotland and England .


• seizes control of Japan and establishes the Tokugawa Shogunate which rules the country until 1868 .


• expands Persia by capturing territory from the Ottomans and the Portuguese .


• foiled in England .


• establishes the Jamestown Settlement in North America precipitating the British Colonization Of The Americas .


• founded by Samuel De Champlain in New France (present-day Canada ).

1610s

• in Russia ends with the establishment of the House Of Romanov which rules until 1917 .


• grants extensive trading rights to the British East India Company .


• devastates Central Europe .

1620s

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• centralizes power in France.


• founded by the Dutch West India Company in North America.

1630s

• Tulip Mania bubble bursts.


• , the first of the American Indian Wars


• , civil wars throughout Scotland , Ireland , and England .

1640s

• regains its independence from Spain bringing an end to the Iberian Union .


• is outlawed in England .


• institutes Sakoku - foreigners are expelled and no one is allowed to enter or leave Japan.


• achieves the first recorded European sighting of New Zealand .


• conquer China ending the Ming Dynasty . The subsequent Qing Dynasty rules until 1912 .


• 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.


• Civil War in France.


• wars leave Poland in ruins.


• captures Crete from the Venetians after the Siege Of Candia .

1650s

• founded by the Dutch East India Company in South Africa .


• begin.


• cement Sweden's rise as a Great Power .

1660s

• ends and the monarchy is brought back during the English Restoration .


• founded.


• of China begins.


• captures Taiwan from the Dutch and founds the Kingdom Of Tungning which rules until 1683.


• over its colonial posessions in New France .


• .


• defeats the Kongo Empire .


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• halts the Ottoman Empire 's expansion into Europe.

1670s

• is founded in Canada .




• founded in India by Shivaji .


• commence the Russo-Turkish Wars .

1680s

• becomes joint ruler of Russia (sole Tsar in 1696 ).


• explores the length of the Mississippi River and claims Louisiana for France.


• conquers the Kingdom Of Tungning and annexes Taiwan .


• outlaws Protestantism in France.


• publishes '' Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica ''.


• , England becomes a Constitutional Monarchy and the Dutch Republic goes into decline.


• sought to stop French expansion during the Nine Years War .


• establishes a border between Russia and China .

1690s

• in Massachusetts .


• supplants Sweden as the dominant Baltic power after the Great Northern War .

SIGNIFICANT PEOPLE

• Gustavus Adolphus , King Of Sweden ( 1594 - 1632 ).


• Tokugawa Ieyasu


• 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 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 ( 1640 - 1705 )


• 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 )


• Sant Tukaram , Hindu Saint ( 1600 - 1650 )


• 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 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 )


• 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

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.


• Banknote s were reintroduced in Europe.


• Ice Cream


• Tea and Coffee become popular in Europe.


• Central Banking in France and Modern Finance by Scottish economist John Law .

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