17th Century

• 00s
  • 1602
    • Death of Pontus Heuterus
  • 1603
    • Death of Gregory of Valencia
  • 1604
    • Lapide nearly martyred at the shrine of Our Lady of Aspromont near Louvain; Dutch cavalry attacked on the feast of the Nativity of Our Lady
  • 1605
    • Death of Pope Clement VIII
    • Death of Ulisse Aldrovandi
  • 1608
    • Death of Martin Delrio
• 10s
  • 1610
    • Death of Benedictus Pererius
  • 1612
    • Death of Christopher Clavius
  • 1615
    • Censor Egbert Spitholdius approved Lapide's Commentary on the Pentateuch, 9 May
  • 1616
    • Mutius Vitelleschi, Jesuit Superior General, granted permission for Lapide's Commentaries on the Pentateuch, 9 January
    • Charles Scribani, Provincial Superior, granted permission for printing at Antwerp, 23 August
    • First publication of Lapide's Commentaries on the Pentateuch of Moses at Antwerp
    • Death of Shakespeare
• 20s
  • 1621
    • Death of Adrianus Scrieckius (approximate date)
    • Death of Archduke Albert of Austria
    • Death of St. Robert Bellarmine
  • 1623
    • Second edition of Lapide's Commentaries on the Pentateuch, published in folio at Antwerp
  • 1629
    • Death of Andreas Schottus
    • Death of Charles Scribani
• 30s
  • 1635
    • Publication of Lapide's Commentary on the Proverbs of Solomon at Antwerp and Paris (Cramoisy)
  • 1637
    • Death of Cornelius a Lapide in Rome, 12 March
  • 1638
    • Publication of Lapide's Commentary on Ecclesiastes at Antwerp
  • 1639
    • Paris edition of Lapide's Commentary on Ecclesiastes
    • Birth of Racine
• 40s
  • 1642
    • Publication of Lapide's Commentaries on Joshua, Judges, Ruth, Kings, and Chronicles at Antwerp (posthumous)
  • 1644
    • Publication of Lapide's Commentaries on Ezra, Nehemiah, Tobit, Judith, Esther, and Maccabees at Antwerp (posthumous)
    • Death of Henry Francis Van der Burch
  • 1645
    • Death of Mutius Vitelleschi
  • 1649
    • Birth of Alphonse des Vignoles
• 90s
  • 1694
    • Birth of Voltaire
  • 1699
    • Death of Racine