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17th century

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

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.

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

1600s

1610s

1620s

1630s

1640s

1650s

1660s

1670s

1680s

1690s

Significant people

See also: English Restoration

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

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

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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