Major Events of The Century
- First established English colony in Jamestown, Virginia. Pocahontas saves John Smith. (1606)
- Laws of Planetary Motion published (1609) and Galileo sees Jupiter’s moons through telescope (1610) which both showed that planets orbit the sun.
- King James version of the Bible published in England
- Thirty Years’ War (1618-1648)
- The first African slaves are brought to Jamestown. (Slavery is made legal in 1650.)
- Pilgrims from England arrive at Plymouth, Massachusetts, on the Mayflower (1620)
- English Civil War (1642-1651)
- End of Ming Dynasty in China (1644)
- Louis XIV begins personal rule as an absolute monarch and starts to build Versailles (1661)
- Issac Newton’s experiments with gravity (1664)
- English seize New Amsterdam and rename it New York (1664)
- The Great Plague in London kills 75,000 (1665-1666)
- French Settlers movie into Mississippi and Louisiana (1699)
- Extensive list of events in the 17th century (by decade)
Popular Culture and Society
- 1600s Food
- 1600s Musicians
- 1600s Visual Artists
- 1600s Literature
- 1600s Explorers
- 1600s Science and Philosophy
- 1600s Inventions and Discoveries
Names
Clothing
- 1600-1650 Western European Fashion
- 1650-1700 Western European Fashion
- Chinese Clothing during Qing Dynasty
- (Native) American Clothing during the 1600s
- Western Women’s Fashion in the 17th Century
By Country
- 1600s in Australia
- 1600s in Brazil
- 1600s in the British Empire
- 1600s in British India
- 1600s in Canada
- 1600s in the Caribbean
- 1600s in China
- 1600s in Denmark
- 1600s in the Dutch Empire
- 1600s in Dutch India
- 1600s in the Dutch Republic
- 1600s in England
- 1600s in France
- 1600s in Germany
- 1600s in Greenland
- 1600s in the Habsburg Monarchy
- 1600s in the Habsburg Netherlands
- 1600s in the Holy Roman Empire
- 1600s in Hungary
- 1600s in India
- 1600s in Iran
- 1600s in Ireland
- 1600s in Italy
- 1600s in Japan
- 1600s in the Majeerteen Sultanate
- 1600s in Malta
- 1600s in Mexico
- 1600s in Morocco
- 1600s in New France
- 1600s in New Spain
- 1600s in Norway
- 1600s in the Ottoman Empire
- 1600s in the Papal States
- 1600s in the Philippines
- 1600s in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
- 1600s in Portugal
- 1600s in the Portuguese Empire
- 1600s in Romania
- 1600s in Russia
- 1600s in Scotland
- 1600s in Siam
- 1600s in the Kingdom of Sicily
- 1600s in Spain
- 1600s in Sweden
- 1600s in Switzerland
- 1600s in the Thirteen Colonies
- 1600s in Tonga
- 1600s in the Grand Duchy of Tuscany
- 1600s in the Republic of Venice
- 1600s in Wales
Resources For Writing Period Pieces: 1600s
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