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Isaac Newton

Isaac Newton

The 17th century was defined by the calendar of Earth as occurring from the year 1601 through the year 1700.

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1610
Galileo Galilei discovers the Jovian moon Europa. (PIC: "Watcher")
1623
Posthumous publication of the First Folio by William Shakespeare on Earth. (TOS: "Requiem for Methuselah")
1632
Spinoza is born on Earth. (TNG: "The Offspring")
1647
A man named Ronin is born in Glasgow, on Earth. He becomes infused with an anaphasic lifeform, effectively granting him eternal youth. (TNG: "Sub Rosa")
1663
The Lucasian Chair of Mathematics is created at Cambridge University. (TNG: "All Good Things...")
1665
Human mathematician Pierre de Fermat dies, leaving behind a note claiming to have discovered "remarkable proof" for what becomes known as Fermat's last theorem. (TNG: "The Royale"; DS9: "Facets")
1666
Human scientist Isaac Newton devises three laws of motion that form the basis of Earth's understanding of physics and the universe. Newton's epiphany comes when a member of the Q Continuum, later named Quinn, jostles the apple tree that Newton is sitting under, causing an apple to fall on Newton's head. (VOY: "Death Wish")
1677
Spinoza dies on Earth. (TNG: "The Offspring")
1680
The Spanish serve as the overlords of several American Indian tribes in the region later known as New Mexico. These Indian pueblos rise up against the Spanish and drive them out of the region, in what was known as the Pueblo Revolt. (TNG: "Journey's End")
1690
The Spanish return and brutally reconquer the area they were driven out from in 1680 by American Indians, killing several hundred of them and maiming several thousand more. Javier Maribona-Picard, an ancestor of Jean-Luc Picard, is one of the Spanish soldiers in this campaign. (TNG: "Journey's End")
1691
The inhabitants of Megas-Tu are forced to leave their homes in Salem, Massachusetts, on Earth, following the Salem witch trials. (TAS: "The Magicks of Megas-Tu")
The Star Trek Encyclopedia (4th ed., vol. 2, p. 188) dated this event to 1692.
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The following events are from the fourth edition of the Star Trek Encyclopedia (Vol. 1, pp. 180, 269, 324, and Vol. 2, pp. 43, 50, 80, 269, 380):

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