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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
Antoine Lavoisier
Jean Bodin
Michel de Montaigne
2. What period of fine art, well known for its grandiosity and exaggeration, started in Italy around 1600?
Symbolism
Romanticism
Baroque
Realism
3. What town became the first permanent English settlement in the Americas in 1607?
Plymouth
Roanoke
Jamestown
Charlestown
4. Which English explorer tried to find the Northwest Passage in 1607?
Samuel de Champlain
John Rolfe
William Bradford
Henry Hudson
5. Which scientist discovered the moons of Jupiter in 1610?
Johannes Kepler
Robert Boyle
Christiaan Huygens
Gallileo Gallilei
6. What was the name of early English settler of North America who was married to Pocahontas?
John Smith
John Rolfe
William Penn
Roger Williams
7. What Native American tribe was Pocahontas from?
Navajo
Powhatan
Sioux
Cherokee
8. Miguel de Cervantes is best known for his novel "Don Quixote" completed in 1615. In what Spanish region is the story taking place?
Aragon
La Mancha
Galicia
Andalusia
9. What war was the result of the Reformation?
Twenty Years' War
Forty Years' War
Sixty Years' War
Thirty Years' War
10. The first Africans arrived in what British colony in America in 1619?
Georgia
Virginia
Connecticut
Massachusetts
11. What was the name of the ship of Pilgrims that landed in Massachusetts in 1620?
Mayflower
Juneflower
Marchflower
Aprilflower
12. What was the stage name of the comedic French playwright, whose works included "The Misanthrope" and "Tartuffe?"
Moliere
Giotto
Jolliet
Voltaire
13. Which artist painted Nicolaes Tulp (1632), Belshazzar's Feast (1635) and The Night Watch (1642)?
Caravaggio
Peter Paul Rubens
Rembrandt
Jan Steen
14. In which U.S state .was Harvard University founded in 1636?
North Carolina
Maine
Michigan
Massachusetts
15. "Cogito, ergo sum" is a statement that was made in Latin by which philosopher?
Gottfried Leibniz
Rene Descartes
Niccolo Macchiavelli
Giordano Bruno
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?
Niccolo Paganini
Claudio Monteverdi
Antonio Stradivari
Antonio Salieri
18. Who was the "Lord Protector of the Commonwealth" of England?
John Collins
Robert Walpole
Thomas Becket
Oliver Cromwell
19. Who did the English colonists of New England fight in King Philip's war between 1675 and 1678?
Native American tribes
Mexicans
French
Spanish
20. Which physicist brought the theories of gravity and the basic laws of motion?
Albert Einstein
Max Planck
Michael Faraday
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
Portobello
Havana
Port Royal
22. For what crime 20 people were executed in Massachusetts in 1692-93?
Rape
Kidnapping
Children abuse
Witchcraft
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