17th century facts for kids

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	16th century · 17th century · 18th century
Decades:	1600s 1610s 1620s 1630s 1640s 1650s 1660s 1670s 1680s 1690s
Categories:	Births – Deaths Establishments – Disestablishments

The 17th century is the century from 1601 to 1700.

Decades and years

Note: years before or after the 17th century are in italics.

The Night Watch or The Militia Company of Captain Frans Banning Cocq, 1642. Oil on canvas; on display at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Catholic general Albrecht von Wallenstein (1583–1634), supreme commander of the armies of the Imperial Army during the Thirty Years War
Jan Pieterszoon Coen (1587–1629), the founder of Batavia, was an officer of the Dutch East India Company (VOC), holding two terms as its Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies
René Descartes (1596–1650) with Queen Christina of Sweden (1626–1689)
Cardinal Mazarin (1602–1661), who served as the chief minister to the kings of France Louis XIII and Louis XIV
Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb (1618–1707), who ruled over almost the entire Indian subcontinent for a period of 49 years
Shōgun Tokugawa Ieyasu was the founder of Japan's final shogunate, which lasted well into the 19th century