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Decades
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Events
February 3
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Tulipmania
collapses in Netherlands by government order
February 15
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Ferdinand III
becomes
Holy Roman Emperor
December 17
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Shimabara Rebellion
erupts in
Japan
Pierre de Fermat
makes a marginal claim to have proof of what would become known as
Fermat's last theorem
.
France
places a few missionaries in the
Côte d'Ivoire
, a country it would come to rule more than 200 years later.
England
wages
war
against the
Mashantucket Pequots
First
opera
house,
Teatro San Cassiona
, opens in
Venice
René Descartes
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Discours de la Methode
Births
February 12
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Jan Swammerdam
, Dutch scientist (d.
1680
)
December 7
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Bernardo Pasquini
, composer (d.
1710
)
Ottoman sultan
Ahmed III
Emperor Go-Sai of Japan
Pierre Jurieu
, French protestant leader (d.
1713
)
Deaths
February 15
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Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor
April 1
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Niwa Nagashige
, Japanese daimyo and retainer
August 6
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Ben Jonson
, English writer (b.
1572
)
Nicholas Ferrar
involved in the
London Virginia Company
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