17th century
Shakespeare's later years
The 17th century spans the years 1601 to 1700, a period marked by scientific revolution, colonial expansion, and religious conflict across Europe and beyond.
It saw figures like Galileo, Newton, and Descartes reshape understanding of the natural world.
In historical and cultural contexts, the term typically appears with an article: a 17th century manuscript, the 17th century was an age of exploration.
The adjectival form usually takes a hyphen: 17th-century architecture.
- Treaty of Westphalia1648 sovereignty-establishing peace
- BaroqueOrnate artistic period
- Dutch Golden AgeNetherlands' 17th-century cultural zenith
- tulip maniaIrrational asset price craze
- merchant classTraders as social group
Sun King · Counter-Reformation · Rembrandt · Mannerism · Thirty Years' War · Puritanism · witch trials · Spinoza · Grand Tour · Great Fire of London · Ottoman Empire · English Civil War · Scientific Revolution · Siege of Vienna · Boyle's law · wig · musket fire · Glorious Revolution
- Colonial AmericaGeorge Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin, Benjamin Franklin, Declaration of Independence
- time periodsday, year, month, week, hour
- Renaissance LiteratureShakespeare, Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, The Prince, Don Quixote
- Canadian ExplorationNorthwest Passage, Hudson Bay, Jacques Cartier, John Cabot, Henry Hudson
- DumasThe Three Musketeers, Athos, Porthos, Aramis, swashbuckling
- Plymouth ColonyPlymouth Colony, Pilgrims, Mayflower, Mayflower Compact, 1620
17th century21st century
Years 2001 to 2100
today · 20th century · prehistoric era · ancient times · antiquity
17th centurydigital age
Epoch of computerized life
information age · Industrial Age · medieval period · ancient world · Middle Ages