seventeenth century
Post-Renaissance, pre-Enlightenment
The seventeenth century spans the years 1601 to 1700.
In Western history, it encompasses the Scientific Revolution, the English Civil War, and the height of European colonialism.
As an adjective, it describes things from or characteristic of that period: seventeenth-century architecture, a seventeenth-century manuscript.
- Treaty of Westphalia1648 sovereignty-establishing peace
- heliocentrismSun-centered astronomical theory
- Isaac NewtonLaws of motion formulator
- English Civil War1640s British constitutional conflict
- pendulum clockClock using oscillating weight
John Milton · Boyle's law · Thirty Years' War · Louis XIV · Sun King · absolute monarchy · Dutch Golden Age · Rembrandt · Mayflower Compact · Peter the Great · Glorious Revolution · Galileo Galilei · Atlantic slave trade · sailing ships · Taj Mahal · microscope · Molière · colonial America
- time periodsday, year, month, week, hour
- Early ModernRenaissance, 1500s, 1600s, Reformation, early modern
- Dutch WICWIC, New Netherland, New Amsterdam, Zeeland, Curacao
- Taiwan historyWhite Terror, Kuomintang, democratization, Formosa, aboriginal tribes
- fablesfable, Aesop, Aesop's fables, Aesop fables, tortoise and hare
- CervantesDon Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes, Sancho Panza, Cervantes, Rocinante
seventeenth centurytwenty-first century
Years 2001 through 2100
modern era · twentieth century · distant future · antiquity · nineteenth century
seventeenth centurymodern age
Current historical epoch
digital age · information age · Industrial Revolution · medieval period · Middle Ages