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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