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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

• Popular Girl Names of the 17th Century
• Popular Boy Names of the 17th Century

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