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