Chronyas has 5,262 events dated to the 17th century (1601 to 1700 CE), during the Early modern world. Below are the most notable ones, in date order.
Most of the events in this century belong to Art, literature & culture and Universe & space.
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- 1601Construction of Jerónimos Monastery
- from 1602 to 1799Founding of Dutch East India Company
- 1602Publication of Hamlet
- from 1603 to 1868Edo period
- 8 October 1604SN 1604
- 1605Construction of Kensington Palace
- 1605Publication of Don Quixote
- 5 November 1605Gunpowder Plot
- May 1607Jamestown
- 1608Publication of King Lear
- 1609Kepler's laws of planetary motion
- 1609Kepler publishes Astronomia Nova
- 7 January 1610Discovery of Io
- 7 January 1610Discovery of Callisto
- 7 January 1610Discovery of Europa
- 7 January 1610Discovery of Ganymede
- 7 January 1610Galileo discovers the moons of Jupiter
- from 1613 to 1762House of Romanov
- 1614Founding of Tirana
- 1616Construction of Sultan Ahmed Mosque
- from 1616 to 1912Qing dynasty
- from 1618 to 1648Thirty Years' War
- 1619Manneken Pis
- August 1619The first enslaved Africans arrive in English Virginia
- 1620Construction of Luxembourg Palace
- 1622Publication of Othello
- 1623Publication of Macbeth
- 1623Publication of Twelfth Night
- 1623Founding of Barbados
- 1623Publication of The Tempest
- 1624Founding of New York City
- 1628William Harvey describes the circulation of the blood
- 8 September 1636Founding of Harvard University
- 1638Construction of Schönbrunn Palace
- 1642The Night Watch
- from 1642 to 1651English Civil War
- 1642Invention of Pascal's calculator
- 25 December 1642Birth of Isaac Newton
- 1643Barometer
- June 1644The Manchus take Beijing and found Qing rule
- 6 April 1648Construction of Red Fort
- 24 October 1648Peace of Westphalia
- 1652Origins of Quakers
- c. 1653The Taj Mahal is completed
- 1654Magdeburg hemispheres
- 25 March 1655Discovery of Titan
- 1656Las Meninas
- 1656Construction of Jama Masjid, Delhi
- from 1660 to 1725Rise of Classicism
- November 1660Founding of Royal Society of London
- 1661Construction of Palace of Versailles
- 1662The last confirmed sighting of the dodo
- 1664Construction of Nymphenburg Palace
- 1665Girl with a Pearl Earring
- from 2 September 1666 to 6 September 1666Great Fire of London
- 1667Publication of Paradise Lost
- 1669Discovery of phosphorus
- 1670Construction of avenue des Champs-Élysées
- 1671Construction of Badshahi Mosque
- 25 October 1671Discovery of Iapetus
- 23 December 1672Discovery of Rhea
- 1675Construction of St Paul's Cathedral
- 1675Construction of Royal Observatory
- 9 October 1676Leeuwenhoek discovers microorganisms
- 15 May 1681Construction of Canal du Midi
- from 1683 to 1699Great Turkish War
- 1684Construction of 10 Downing Street
- 21 March 1684Discovery of Dione
- 21 March 1684Discovery of Tethys
- 21 March 1685Birth of Johann Sebastian Bach
- 1687Publication of Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica
- 5 July 1687Newton's laws of motion
- from September 1688 to September 1697Nine Years' War
- from 28 December 1688 to 1 January 1689Glorious Revolution
- 29 March 1693Founding of Curitiba
- 27 July 1694Founding of Bank of England
- 1698Founding of London Stock Exchange
- 1699Construction of Drottningholm Palace
- 26 January 1699Treaty of Karlowitz
- from 22 February 1700 to 10 September 1721Great Northern War