Stats: Every Year in the Seventeenth Century

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The average score is 53 of 100

Answer Stats

Year	Event	Answer	% Correct
1602	This library is opened at the University of Oxford	Bodleian	100%
1649	This English king is beheaded	Charles I	100%
1656	This artist paints Las Meninas	Diego Velázquez	100%
1609	This scientist demonstrates the telescope	Galileo Galilei	100%
1636	This university is founded	Harvard	100%
1610	This French king is assassinated	Henry IV	100%
1695	This composer provides music for the funeral of Queen Mary II	Henry Purcell	100%
1687	Publishes the Principia Mathematica	Isaac Newton	100%
1665	This artist paints Girl with a Pearl Earring	Jan Vermeer	100%
1685	This Baroque composer born	Johann Sebastian Bach	100%
1693	This philosopher publishes Some Thoughts Concerning Education	John Locke	100%
1608	This principality founded	Liechtenstein	100%
1664	This playwright writes Tartuffe	Molière	100%
1613	This Algonquian princess captured	Pocahontas	100%
1662	This artist paints The Syndics of the Drapers' Guild	Rembrandt	100%
1692	Witch trials begin in this Massachusetts city	Salem	100%
1660	This member of parliament begins writing his diary	Samuel Pepys	100%
1631	Shah Jahan commissions this mausoleum	Taj Mahal	100%
1657	This drink is introduced to England	Tea	100%
1683	Ottomans besiege this city and are defeated by the Habsburgs and Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth	Vienna	100%
1633	This cleric becomes archbishop of Canterbury	William Laud	100%
1616	This playwright dies	William Shakespeare	100%
1605	This Mughal emperor dies	Akbar the Great	50%
1658	This poet writes the play Absurda Comica oder Herr Peter Sqenz	Andreas Gryphius	50%
1647	The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America by this poet published	Anne Bradstreet	50%
1637	This Massachusetts woman is tried and convicted during the Antinomian Controversy	Anne Hutchinson	50%
1615	This artist completes Salome with the Head of Saint John the Baptist	Artemisia Gentileschi	50%
1627	This bovine species goes exinct	Aurochs	50%
1621	Dutch massacre of indigenous population of this island	Banda	50%
1654	This composer publishes Cantate e ariette, op. 3	Barbara Strozzi	50%
1670	This philosopher writes Tractatus Theologico-Politicus	Baruch Spinoza	50%
1644	Qing rulers seize this capital from Ming rulers	Beijing	50%
1614	Bartholomew Fair by this playwright performed	Ben Jonson	50%
1697	This writer releases Histoires ou contes du temps passé (English, Mother Goose Tales)	Charles Perrault	50%
1618	This event precipitates the Thirty Years' War	Defenestration of Prague	50%
1667	The opera house opens in this German city	Dresden	50%
1603	This period of Japanese history begins	Edo	50%
1611	This poet publishes Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum	Emilia Lanyer	50%
1651	First performance of La Calisto by this composer	Francesco Cavalli	50%
1606	Trial of gravediggers in this Bohemian town	Frankenstein	50%
1652	This religious leader has a vision on Pendle Hill	George Fox	50%
1623	This Italian poet publishes L'Adone	Giambattista Marino	50%
1600	This philosopher burned at the stake	Giordano Bruno	50%
1601	This composer publishes Le nuove musiche	Giulio Caccini	50%
1691	This Jewish businesswoman begins writing her memoirs	Glückel of Hameln	50%
1666	Starts in Pudding Lane	Great Fire of London	50%
1625	Francesca Caccini composes this opera	La liberazione di Ruggiero	50%
1643	This final opera by Claudio Monteverdi performed	L'Incoronazione di Poppea	50%
1620	Francis Bacon publishes this philosophical treatise	Novum Organum	50%
1688	Aphra Behn publishes this novel	Oroonoko	50%
1671	John Milton publishes this sequel	Paradise Regained	50%
1698	Publishes Salmi concertati a 4 voci con strumenti	Isabella Leonarda	50%
1668	Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen publishes this novel	Simplicius Simplicissimus	50%
1604	The compilation of this Sikh scripture is completed	Sri Guru Granth Sahib	50%
1640	The first book printed in North America	The Bay Psalm Book	50%
1696	This misogynistic play is a hit in London	The Female Wits	50%
1646	This sister of a philosopher converts to Jansenism	Jacqueline Pascal	50%
1624	Jesuits expelled from this country	Japan	50%
1676	Atys, an opera by this composer is performed	Jean-Baptiste Lully	50%
1650	This cleric publishes Rules and Exercises of Holy Living	Jeremy Taylor	50%
1682	This poet writes Religio Laici	John Dryden	50%
1659	This Icelandic pastor completes his Píslarsaga (Story of My Sufferings)	Jón Magnússon	50%
1630	This artist paints A Game of Tric Trac, The Happy Couple, and Self-portrait	Judith Leyster	50%
1661	Beginning of reign of this Chinese emperor, the longest-serving	Kangxi	50%
1699	Guru Gobind Singh establishes this Sikh community	Khalsa	50%
1626	Ambrosio I Nimi a Nkanga becomes monarch of this kingdom	Kongo	50%
1678	This author publishes La Princesse de Clèves	Madame de la Fayette	50%
1645	Bamana forces invade and destroy this empire	Mali	50%
1655	This author and philosopher writes The World's Olio	Margaret Cavendish	50%
1639	This Ursuline nun departs France for Canada	Marie de l'Incarnation	50%
1694	This philosopher publishes A Serious Proposal to the Ladies	Mary Astell	50%
1612	This composer publishes Terpsichore	Michael Praetorius	50%
1622	This Ottoman Sultan strangled by Janissaries	Osman II	50%
1638	This playwright writes Los tres mayores prodigios (The Three Greatest Wonders)	Pedro Calderón de la Barca	50%
1635	This artist completes The Garden of Love	Peter Paul Rubens	50%
1680	This Native American group engages in the Po'pay's Rebellion against Spanish colonists in New Mexico	Pueblo	50%
1641	Publishes the Meditations on First Philosophy	René Descartes	50%
1617	This occult philosopher publishes Utriusque Cosmi	Robert Fludd	50%
1648	This Jewish mystic declares himself the Messiah	Sabbatai Zevi	50%
1689	Publishes Loa to Divine Narcissus	Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz	50%
1619	This meeting of Calvinists concludes with a rejection of Arminian theology	Synod of Dort	50%
1607	Papal interdict against this city is lifted	Venice	50%
1642	This female Ethiopian religious leader dies	Walatta-Petros	50%
1628	This physician publishes De Motu Cordis, describing pulmonary and systemic circulation	William Harvey	50%
1677	This microbiologist discovers the spermatozoon	Antonie van Leeuwenhoek	0%
1669	This Mughal emperor issues decree for protection of Hindu temples	Aurangzeb	0%
1673	The building of this mosque in Lahore completed	Badshahi Masjid	0%
1681	This battle takes place between Portuguese Angola and the Kingdom of Matamba	Battle of Katole	0%
1679	This serial killer is arrested in Paris	Catherine Deshayes Monvoisin	0%
1675	This Mongolian group revolts against the Chinese emperor	Chahar	0%
1632	This Ethiopian emperor declares Ethiopian Orthodoxy to be the state religion, ending a Roman Catholic period	Fasilides	0%
1684	This poet composes 23,500 verses in 24 hours	Ihara Saikaku	0%
1690	Publishes The Court Midwife	Justine Siegemund	0%
1672	Begins reign as emperor of Vietnam	Lê Gia Tông	0%
1634	This midwife publishes Collection of Secrets, an obstetrics manual	Louise Bourgeois Boursier	0%
1653	Completes the Krishnanattam, a series of dance dramas on the life of Krishna	Manaveda	0%
1686	This bey seizes power in Tunisia	Mohamed El Mouradi	0%
1663	Ascends as queen regnant of Ndongo and Matamba	Mukambu Mbandi	0%
1629	Is crowned as the shah of Persia	Safi	0%
1674	Becomes emperor of Korea	Sukjong	0%

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