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17th Century

As a means of recording the passage of time, the 17th Century was that century which lasted from 1601-1700 in the Gregorian calendar. more...

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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, 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.

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.

Events

1600–1609

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1601: Battle of Kinsale, one of the most important battles in Irish history, fought.; 1601 -- 1603: The Russian famine of 1601 - 1603 kills perhaps a third of Russia.; 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.; 1603-1623: After modernizing his army, Abbas I expands the Safavid Empire by capturing territory from the Ottomans and the Portuguese.; 1605: Gunpowder Plot failed in England.; 1605: The fortresses of Veszprém en Visegrad are retaken by the Ottomans.; 1606: The Long War between the Ottoman Empire and Austria is ended with the Peace of Zsitvatorok.; 1606: Captain Willem Janszoon and his crew aboard the Dutch East India Company ship Duyfken becomes the first recorded Europeans to sight and make landfall in Australia.; 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.;

1610s

1613: The Time of Troubles in Russia ends with the establishment of the House of Romanov which rules until 1917.; 1613-1617: Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth is invaded by the Tatars dozens of times.; 1616: The last remaining Moriscos (Moors who had nominally converted to Christianity) in the Spain are expelled.; 1618: The Bohemian Revolt precipitates the Thirty Years' War which devastates Europe in the years 1618-48.; 1618: Bethlen Gabor, Prince of Transylvania joins Protestant Rebels.; 1618: The Manchus start invading China. Their conquest eventually topples the Ming Dynasty.; 1619: Bethlen Gabor is defeated outside Vienna.;