17th century
(16th century - 17th century - 18th century - more centuries)
Events
- Union of the Crowns of Scotland and England
- Scottish and English Protestants sent to colonize Ireland, as reaction to Catholicism there.
- The Thirty Years War in Europe (1618-1648).
- The Deluge: series of wars and civil wars in Poland with Sweden, Russia, Prussia and Transylvania which caused Poland to lose power status and began rise of Russia to power status.
- The English Civil Wars (1642-1651).
Significant people
- William Shakespeare, author and poet
- Isaac Newton, physicist and mathematician
- Gottfried Leibniz, philosopher and mathematician
- Galileo Galilei, scientist
- René Descartes, philosopher and mathematician
- Blaise Pascal, theologian, mathematician and physicist.
- Baruch Spinoza, philosopher
- Thomas Hobbes, philosopher
- Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of England
Inventions, Discoveries, Introductions
- Calculus is invented and used to formulate classical mechanics.
- Cannon and gunpowder technology refined.
Decades and Years