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Subcategories. This category has the following 19 subcategories, out of 19 total. 17th-century people by conflict (30 C) 17th-century people by continent (7 C) 17th-century people by ethnicity (10 C) 17th-century people by first-level administrative country subdivision (2 C) 17th-century people by nationality (98 C)
Age of Enlightenment. The Age of Enlightenment (also the Age of Reason and the Enlightenment) was the intellectual and philosophical movement that occurred in Europe in the 17th and the 18th centuries. [ 1 ][ 2 ] The Enlightenment featured a range of social ideas centered on the value of knowledge learned by way of rationalism and of empiricism ...
The 17th century lasted from January 1, 1601 (represented by the Roman numerals MDCI), to December 31, 1700 (MDCC).. It falls into the early modern period of Europe and in that continent (whose impact on the world was increasing) was characterized by the Baroque cultural movement, the latter part of the Spanish Golden Age, the Dutch Golden Age, [1] the French Grand Siècle dominated by Louis ...
Early life. Locke was born on 29 August 1632, in a small thatched cottage by the church in Wrington, Somerset, about 12 miles from Bristol. He was baptised the same day, as both of his parents were Puritans. Locke's father, also named John, was an attorney who served as clerk to the Justices of the Peace in Chew Magna [20] and as a captain of ...
1614: Sultan Iskandar Muda of Aceh sinks a Portuguese fleet off of Bintan Island. 1615: The Battle of Osaka (last major threat to Tokugawa shogunate) ends. 1615: A Dutch East India Company attack on Portuguese Malacca is repelled. 1615: The Portuguese stop hiring Japanese mercenaries after a brawl in Malacca.
Rembrandt. Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (/ ˈrɛmbrænt, ˈrɛmbrɑːnt /, [2] Dutch: [ˈrɛmbrɑnt ˈɦɑrmə (n)ˌsoːɱ vɑn ˈrɛin] ⓘ; 15 July 1606 [1] – 4 October 1669), usually simply known as Rembrandt, was a Dutch Golden Age painter, printmaker, and draughtsman. He is generally considered one of the greatest visual artists in the ...
17th-century scientists (13 C, 1 P) 17th-century shipbuilders (9 P) 17th-century slaves (1 C, 66 P) 17th-century spies (39 P) 17th-century sportspeople (4 C) 17th-century storytellers (1 P) 17th-century surgeons (11 P)
The Iroquois became well known in the southern colonies in the 17th century by this time. After the first English settlement in Jamestown, Virginia (1607), numerous 17th-century accounts describe a powerful people known to the Powhatan Confederacy as the Massawomeck, and to the French as the Antouhonoron.