1600s
Colonial America's founding
The 1600s refers to the years 1600 through 1699—the seventeenth century.
The term typically appears in historical contexts: Fashion in the 1600s differed dramatically from today.
Like other century designations, it can modify nouns: a 1600s farmhouse, 1600s England.
Also written as 1600's.
Decorative additions to something
- chiaroscuroContrast technique in painting
- CaravaggioRenaissance-era Italian painter
- RubensBaroque Flemish painter
- VermeerBaroque Dutch painter
Bernini · Rembrandt · gilded · opulence · grandeur · dramatic · theatrical · polyphony
Resolved dispute or colony
- PilgrimsPlymouth's founding English colonists
- PuritansEnglish Protestant reformers
- JamestownFirst permanent English settlement
- plantationLarge-scale farming operation
charter · Mayflower · tobacco · colonial · settlers · Roanoke · Pocahontas · Thanksgiving
Journey by sea
- circumnavigationComplete journey around something
- navigationDetermining position and course
- astrolabeAncient altitude-measuring instrument
- galleonLarge historical sailing ship
cartography · privateers · maritime · expedition · scurvy · charting · nautical · compass
English republican military leader
- monarchyRule by crowned sovereign
- Restoration1660s monarchical revival
- absolutismUnrestricted governmental authority
- VersaillesFrench royal palace complex
Roundheads · Commonwealth · regicide · Stuart · Bourbon · Westphalia · sovereignty
Renaissance astronomer from Italy
- NewtonFamous scientific surname
- telescopeInstrument magnifying faraway objects
- microscopeInstrument for viewing minute objects
- KeplerPlanetary motion law formulator
Boyle · Harvey · circulation · optics · calculus · astronomy · heliocentrism · Huygens
Dramatic speech to oneself
- folioSingle-fold page format
- quartoFour-leaf printing format
- bardPoet of epics
- Stratford-upon-AvonWarwickshire market town
Hamlet · Macbeth · Othello · tragedy · comedy · Jacobean · theatrical · Elizabethan
ornamentation
Decorative additions to something
- chiaroscuroContrast technique in painting
- CaravaggioRenaissance-era Italian painter
- RubensBaroque Flemish painter
Bernini · Vermeer · Rembrandt · gilded · opulence · grandeur · dramatic · theatrical · polyphony · harpsichord
settlement
Resolved dispute or colony
- PilgrimsPlymouth's founding English colonists
- PuritansEnglish Protestant reformers
- JamestownFirst permanent English settlement
plantation · charter · Mayflower · tobacco · colonial · settlers · Roanoke · Pocahontas · Thanksgiving · Quakers
voyage
Journey by sea
- circumnavigationComplete journey around something
- navigationDetermining position and course
- astrolabeAncient altitude-measuring instrument
galleon · cartography · privateers · maritime · expedition · scurvy · charting · nautical · compass · colonizers
Cromwell
English republican military leader
- monarchyRule by crowned sovereign
- Restoration1660s monarchical revival
- absolutismUnrestricted governmental authority
Versailles · Roundheads · Commonwealth · regicide · Stuart · Bourbon · Westphalia · sovereignty
Galileo
Renaissance astronomer from Italy
- NewtonFamous scientific surname
- telescopeInstrument magnifying faraway objects
- microscopeInstrument for viewing minute objects
Kepler · Boyle · Harvey · circulation · optics · calculus · astronomy · heliocentrism · Huygens · barometer
soliloquy
Dramatic speech to oneself
Stratford-upon-Avon · Hamlet · Macbeth · Othello · tragedy · comedy · Jacobean · theatrical · Elizabethan · sonnet
- Early ModernRenaissance, 1500s, Reformation, seventeenth century, early modern
1600s2000s
First decade, 2000s
21st century · modern era · distant future · postmodernity · prehistoric times
1600sdigital age
Epoch of computerized life
information age · space age · atomic age · modern era · Stone Age
1600sVictorian era
Britain under its longest-reigning queen
20th century · medieval period · ancient world · classical antiquity · Enlightenment
- 1600 Pennsylvania AvenueExecutive mansion's location