17th century

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries: 16th century · 17th century · 18th century
Decades: 1600s 1610s 1620s 1630s 1640s
1650s 1660s 1670s 1680s 1690s

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, the French Grand Siècle dominated by Louis XIV, 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,[1] the Great Turkish War, the end of the Dutch Revolt 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, Safavid 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.

Contents

Events

1600–1609

James I of England and VI of Scotland.

1610s

1620s

The Night Watch or The Militia Company of Captain Frans Banning Cocq, 1642. Oil on canvas; on display at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

1630s

1640s

Utagawa Kuniyoshi, Miyamoto Musashi having his fortune told. Print c.1847-1853
Map of Europe in 1648 at the end of the Thirty Years' War.

1650s

1660s

Sultan Mehmed IV

1670s

1680s

Crimean Tatar soldier fighting with the soldier of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Europe's steppe frontier was in a state of semi-permanent warfare until the 18th century.

1690s

Significant people

See also: English Restoration
Peter Paul Rubens, Anne of Austria, Queen of France, mother of King Louis XIV, 1622-1625
Elias Gottlieb Haussmann, Johann Sebastian Bach, 1748
Galileo Galilei is often referred to as the Father of Modern Astronomy.
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, the first person to use a microscope to view bacteria
Miyamoto Musashi, Self-portrait, Samurai, writer and artist, c. 1640
Sir Isaac Newton at 46 in Godfrey Kneller's 1689 portrait.
Self portrait by Rembrandt, c. 1655.
Probable self-portrait of Francisco Zurbarán as Saint Luke, c. 1635-1640.[3]

Musicians and Composers

See also: List of Baroque composers

Visual artists

See also: Baroque painting and Baroque sculpture

Literature

See also: Elizabethan era and French literature of the 17th century

Educators

Exploration

See also: Exploration

Science and Philosophy

See also: Scientific Revolution and Age of Reason

Inventions, discoveries, introductions

List of 17th century inventions

Johannes Kepler, 1610

Major changes in philosophy and science take place, often characterized as the Scientific revolution.

Denis Papin, best known for his pioneering invention of the steam digester, the forerunner of the steam engine.
Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz, c.1700

References

  1. ↑ "The Thirty-Years-War". Western New England College. Retrieved on 2008-05-24.
  2. ↑ The Tatar Khanate of Crimea
  3. ↑ Saint Luke as a Painter before Christ on the Cross. Humanities Web. Retrieved 30 September, 2007.

Decades and years

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17th century
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1590s 1590 1591 1592 1593 1594 1595 1596 1597 1598 1599
1600–1609 1600 1601 1602 1603 1604 1605 1606 1607 1608 1609
1610s 1610 1611 1612 1613 1614 1615 1616 1617 1618 1619
1620s 1620 1621 1622 1623 1624 1625 1626 1627 1628 1629
1630s 1630 1631 1632 1633 1634 1635 1636 1637 1638 1639
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1660s 1660 1661 1662 1663 1664 1665 1666 1667 1668 1669
1670s 1670 1671 1672 1673 1674 1675 1676 1677 1678 1679
1680s 1680 1681 1682 1683 1684 1685 1686 1687 1688 1689
1690s 1690 1691 1692 1693 1694 1695 1696 1697 1698 1699
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