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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 .
in Isfahan , Iran (completed 1638 ) is considered to be one of the world's greatest architectural achievements.]]
Tokugawa Ieyasu is the founder of Japan's last shogunate, which lasted well into the 19th Century .]]
Events
1600s
1610s
1620s
- 1625 ), by Gian Lorenzo Bernini is considered one the masterpieces of the century.]]
1630s
1640s
1650s
1660s
1670s
1680s
1690s
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 .
Decades and years
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