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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?
Antoine Lavoisier
Jean Bodin
Giordano Bruno
Michel de Montaigne
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
Charlestown
Jamestown
Roanoke
4. Which English explorer tried to find the Northwest Passage in 1607?
Henry Hudson
William Bradford
Samuel de Champlain
John Rolfe
5. Which scientist discovered the moons of Jupiter in 1610?
Robert Boyle
Johannes Kepler
Christiaan Huygens
Gallileo Gallilei
6. What was the name of early English settler of North America who was married to Pocahontas?
Roger Williams
John Rolfe
William Penn
John Smith
7. What Native American tribe was Pocahontas from?
Sioux
Navajo
Cherokee
Powhatan
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
Andalusia
Aragon
9. What war was the result of the Reformation?
Twenty Years' War
Thirty Years' War
Forty Years' War
Sixty Years' War
10. The first Africans arrived in what British colony in America in 1619?
Georgia
Connecticut
Virginia
Massachusetts
11. What was the name of the ship of Pilgrims that landed in Massachusetts in 1620?
Aprilflower
Juneflower
Mayflower
Marchflower
12. What was the stage name of the comedic French playwright, whose works included "The Misanthrope" and "Tartuffe?"
Jolliet
Voltaire
Giotto
Moliere
13. Which artist painted Nicolaes Tulp (1632), Belshazzar's Feast (1635) and The Night Watch (1642)?
Jan Steen
Rembrandt
Peter Paul Rubens
Caravaggio
14. In which U.S state .was Harvard University founded in 1636?
Michigan
Massachusetts
North Carolina
Maine
15. "Cogito, ergo sum" is a statement that was made in Latin by which philosopher?
Niccolo Macchiavelli
Rene Descartes
Gottfried Leibniz
Giordano Bruno
16. In 1643, who led the first known European expedition to reach New Zealand and to sight the Fiji islands?
Hernando de Soto
Abel Tasman
James Cook
John Cabot
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?
John Collins
Thomas Becket
Robert Walpole
Oliver Cromwell
19. Who did the English colonists of New England fight in King Philip's war between 1675 and 1678?
Mexicans
Native American tribes
Spanish
French
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
Portobello
Port Royal
22. For what crime 20 people were executed in Massachusetts in 1692-93?
Kidnapping
Witchcraft
Rape
Children abuse
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