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Timeline of the 17th Century

How well do you remember historical events from 1601 until 1700?
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Last updated: February 17, 2021
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1. Which philosopher was burned at the stake for believing that the universe is infinite and that other solar systems exist?
Giordano Bruno
Jean Bodin
Michel de Montaigne
Antoine Lavoisier
2. What period of fine art, well known for its grandiosity and exaggeration, started in Italy around 1600?
Symbolism
Baroque
Romanticism
Realism
3. What town became the first permanent English settlement in the Americas in 1607?
Plymouth
Roanoke
Charlestown
Jamestown
4. Which English explorer tried to find the Northwest Passage in 1607?
John Rolfe
Samuel de Champlain
William Bradford
Henry Hudson
5. Which scientist discovered the moons of Jupiter in 1610?
Robert Boyle
Christiaan Huygens
Johannes Kepler
Gallileo Gallilei
6. What was the name of early English settler of North America who was married to Pocahontas?
John Smith
William Penn
John Rolfe
Roger Williams
7. What Native American tribe was Pocahontas from?
Cherokee
Powhatan
Navajo
Sioux
8. Miguel de Cervantes is best known for his novel "Don Quixote" completed in 1615. In what Spanish region is the story taking place?
La Mancha
Galicia
Aragon
Andalusia
9. What war was the result of the Reformation?
Forty Years' War
Twenty Years' War
Thirty Years' War
Sixty Years' War
10. The first Africans arrived in what British colony in America in 1619?
Connecticut
Georgia
Virginia
Massachusetts
11. What was the name of the ship of Pilgrims that landed in Massachusetts in 1620?
Aprilflower
Mayflower
Marchflower
Juneflower
12. What was the stage name of the comedic French playwright, whose works included "The Misanthrope" and "Tartuffe?"
Moliere
Jolliet
Giotto
Voltaire
13. Which artist painted Nicolaes Tulp (1632), Belshazzar's Feast (1635) and The Night Watch (1642)?
Caravaggio
Jan Steen
Peter Paul Rubens
Rembrandt
14. In which U.S state .was Harvard University founded in 1636?
Massachusetts
Michigan
North Carolina
Maine
15. "Cogito, ergo sum" is a statement that was made in Latin by which philosopher?
Giordano Bruno
Rene Descartes
Niccolo Macchiavelli
Gottfried Leibniz
16. In 1643, who led the first known European expedition to reach New Zealand and to sight the Fiji islands?
John Cabot
Hernando de Soto
James Cook
Abel Tasman
17. Which Italian violin maker opened a shop at Piazza Roma, prominent craftsmen square in Cremona?
Antonio Salieri
Claudio Monteverdi
Antonio Stradivari
Niccolo Paganini
18. Who was the "Lord Protector of the Commonwealth" of England?
Robert Walpole
Oliver Cromwell
Thomas Becket
John Collins
19. Who did the English colonists of New England fight in King Philip's war between 1675 and 1678?
Mexicans
French
Spanish
Native American tribes
20. Which physicist brought the theories of gravity and the basic laws of motion?
Michael Faraday
Albert Einstein
Max Planck
Isaac Newton
21. Which Caribbean port city was largely destroyed by a cataclysmic earthquake in 1692, leaving pirates to find another refuge and base of operations?
Tortuga
Havana
Port Royal
Portobello
22. For what crime 20 people were executed in Massachusetts in 1692-93?
Rape
Children abuse
Kidnapping
Witchcraft
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