{"id":109,"date":"2010-02-04T12:51:21","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T12:51:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/didyouknow.org\/history\/?p=109"},"modified":"2017-04-21T15:38:09","modified_gmt":"2017-04-21T15:38:09","slug":"17thcentury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/didyouknow.org\/history\/17thcentury\/","title":{"rendered":"Seventeenth Century History : 1600 – 1649"},"content":{"rendered":"

1600<\/strong> Sumo wrestling becomes a professional sport in Japan. Tokyo, called Edo, made capital of Japan by Ieyasu.<\/p>\n

1603<\/strong> Galileo Galilei<\/a> improves the telescope. King James I of Scotland becomes king over England and Scotland.<\/p>\n

1605<\/strong> Guy Fawkes<\/a> caught while trying to blow up the English Parliament.<\/p>\n

1606<\/strong> The Union Jack adopted in England.<\/p>\n

1607<\/strong> Jamestown, Virginia established, first permanent English colony on American mainland. <\/p>\n

1608<\/strong> Hans Lippershey invents the first refracting telescope.<\/p>\n

1609<\/strong> The song “The Three Blind Mice” is published. Kepler publishes Brahe’s calculation of the orbit of Mars, revealing his first and second laws of planetary motion. Galileo Galilei constructs his telescope. Samuel de Champlain establishes French colony of Quebec.<\/p>\n

1610<\/strong> Galileo Galilei discovers Jupiter’s 4 largest moons.<\/p>\n

1611<\/strong> King James Bible published, originally with 80 Books (the Apocrypha officially removed in 1885 leaving only 66 books).<\/p>\n

1613<\/strong> Galilei publishes work on sunspots. John Rolfe marries Pocahontas, the Red Indian Princess.<\/p>\n

1614<\/strong> Scottish mathematician John Napier publishes the first logarithmic table Mirifici logarithmorum canonis descriptio, and coins the word “logarithm.”<\/p>\n

1618<\/strong> Thirty Years’ War between Protestants and Catholics begins.<\/p>\n

1619<\/strong> Johannes Kepler<\/a> publishes De cometis and Harmonice mundi, in which he announces his third law of planetary motion. Dutch ship brings first black Africans to British North America.<\/p>\n

1620<\/strong> Settlers from England arrive in Massachusetts on a ship called the Mayflower. Dutch inventor Cornelius van Drebbel builds a submarine<\/a>.<\/p>\n

1621<\/strong> First American Thanksgiving<\/a> celebrated in Massachusetts.<\/p>\n

1622<\/strong> Englishman Edmund Gunter invents the slide rule, an important precursor to the modern calculator and computer.<\/p>\n

1623<\/strong> German inventor Wilhelm Schickard invents the first mechanical calculator. Records detailing the machine’s workings were lost during the Thirty Years’ War.<\/p>\n

1625<\/strong> First apple orchard in the USA planted in Boston. Jean-Baptiste Denys invents a method for blood transfusion.<\/p>\n

1628<\/strong> English physician William Harvey publishes Exercitatio anatomica de motu cordis et sanguinis in animalibus (On the Movement of the Heart and Blood in Animals).<\/p>\n

1629<\/strong> Giovanni Branca invents a steam turbine.<\/p>\n

1632<\/strong> Buildig of Taj Mahal<\/a> started in India. Galilei publishes Dialogo sopra I due massimi sistemi del mondo, supporting Copernicus’ view that the planets circled the sun.<\/p>\n

1633<\/strong> Inquisition forces Galileo to recant his belief in Copernican theory.<\/p>\n

1635<\/strong> Founding of Academie Francaise.<\/p>\n

1636<\/strong> Gascoigne invents the micrometer.<\/p>\n

1638<\/strong> Dom Perignon, a French monk, invents champagne.<\/p>\n

1642<\/strong> Rembrandt completes his Night Watch. 19-year-old Blaise Pascal of Rouen, France, begins work on a digital adding machine to help his father, a local administrator, calculate taxes. When completed two years later, the machine can add and subtract numbers up to eight digits long. Pascal would become an esteemed mathematician and philosopher. Trace the origins of Blaise Pascal and learn how taxes originated; know some international tax specialist in the process.<\/p>\n

1643<\/strong> Evangelista Torricelli invents the barometer. Taj Mahal completed after 11 years.<\/p>\n

1644<\/strong> Italian Evangelista Torricelli invents the barometer, and publishes De Sphaere. Descartes publishes Principles of Philosophy. John Miltion publishes Areopagitica on the freedom of the press.<\/p>\n

1649<\/strong> Cromwell invades Ireland.<\/p>\n

1600- 1649 | 1650 – 1699<\/a><\/p>\n

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