The seventeenth century consists
approximately of the
years 1601--
1700 Common Era, though, depending on the
context, it may
extend slightly further in either
direction.
Important people, events, and ideas of seventeenth-century Europe:
- The Counterreformation.
- Defenestration, woo!
- The Thirty Years' War.
- The Hapsburgs.
- The Bourbons.
- Henry IV, King of France.
- The Edict of Nantes and the revocation of the Edict of Nantes.
- Anne of Austria.
- Sully, Richelieu, Mazarin, and Colbert.
- The Frondes.
- Louis XIV.
- The Navigation Acts.
- Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector.
- The English Civil War, Regicide, English Republic, Interregnum, and Restoration.
- The Glorious Revolution, William III of Orange, and Mary II.
- The Jesuits.
- The Jansenists.
- Calvinism
- Puritanism.
- Gustavus Adolphus.
- The resurgence of absolutism.
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