Editing Timeline of Christianity (section)

==17th century==
{{See also|17th-century philosophy{{!}}Age of Reason}}
*1604 [[Fausto Paolo Sozzini]] [[Socinianism]]
*1606 [[Carlo Maderno]] redesigns St Peter's Basilica into a Latin cross
*1607 [[Jamestown, Virginia]] founded
*1608 [[Quebec City]] founded by Samuel de Champlain
*1609 [[Baptist]] Church founded by [[John Smyth (Baptist minister)|John Smyth]], due to objections to infant baptism and demands for church-state separation
*1609–1610 [[Douay–Rheims Bible]], 1st Catholic English translation, OT published in two volumes, based on an unofficial Louvain text corrected by Sistine Vulgate, NT is Rheims text of 1582
*1611 [[King James Version]] (Authorised Version) is published, based primarily on Tyndale's work and Bishop's Bible of 1572, first printings included separate Apocrypha between the testaments
*1614 [[Fama Fraternitatis]], the first [[Rosicrucian]] manifesto (may have been in circulation ca. 1610) presenting "The Fraternity of the [[Rose Cross]]"
*1615 [[Confessio Fraternitatis]], the second Rosicrucian manifesto describing the "Most Honorable Order" as Christian<ref>"What think you, loving people, and how seem you affected, seeing that you now understand and know, that we acknowledge ourselves truly and sincerely to profess Christ, condemn the Pope, addict ourselves to the true Philosophy, lead a Christian life (...)".</ref>
*1616 [[Chemical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz]], the third Rosicrucian manifesto (an [[hermeticism|hermetic]] allegory presenting [[alchemy|alchemical]] and Christian elements)
*1618–1648 [[Thirty Years' War]]
*1620 [[Plymouth Colony]] founded by [[Puritans]]
*1622–1642 [[Armand Jean du Plessis, Cardinal Richelieu]]
*1630 [[City upon a Hill]], sermon by [[John Winthrop]]
*1634–1637 ''[[Confessio catholica]]'' by Lutheran theologian [[Johann Gerhard]]
*1635 [[Roger Williams]] banished from [[Massachusetts Bay Colony]], for advocating separation of church and state
*1636 Founding of what was later known as [[Harvard University]] as a training school for ministers – the first of thousands of institutions of Christian higher education founded in the USA
*1636–1638 [[Cornelius Jansen]], bishop of Ypres, founder of [[Jansenism]]
*1637–1638 [[Shimabara Rebellion]]
*1638 [[Anne Hutchinson]] banished as a heretic from Massachusetts
*1641 [[John Cotton (puritan)|John Cotton]], advocate of [[theonomy]], helps to establish the social constitution of the [[Massachusetts Bay Colony]]
*1642, 15 September – 27 October: [[Synod of Iași]] at [[Iași]]
*1643 [[Acta Sanctorum]]
*1643 [[John Campanius]] arrives in New Sweden
*1644 [[Rhode Island]] founded by [[Roger Williams]] as first colony to establish complete religious liberty
*1644 [[Long Parliament]] directs that only Hebrew canon be read in the Church of England (effectively removing the Apocrypha)
*1646 [[Westminster Standards]] produced by the Assembly, one of the first and undoubtedly the most important and lasting religious document drafted after the reconvention of the Parliament, also decrees Biblical canon
*1648 [[George Fox]] founds the [[Quaker]] movement
*1648 [[Peace of Westphalia|Treaty of Westphalia]] ends [[Thirty Years' War]], extends religious toleration to Calvinists
*1650 Bishop [[James Ussher]] calculates [[Ussher chronology|date of creation]] as October 23, 4004 BC
*1653–1656 [[Raskol]] of the [[Russian Orthodox Church]]
*1653 [[Coonan Cross Oath]] at [[Mattancherry]] by [[Malankara Church]]
*1655–1677, [[Abraham Calovius]] publishes ''Systema Iocorum theologicorum'', height of [[Lutheran scholasticism]]
*1660–1685 King [[Charles II of England]], restoration of monarchy, continuing through [[James II of England|James II]], reversed decision of Long Parliament of 1644, reinstating the Apocrypha, reversal not heeded by non-conformists
*1666 [[Paul Gerhardt]], Lutheran pastor and hymnwriter, is removed from his position as a pastor in [[St. Nicholas Church, Berlin|Nikolaikirche]] in Berlin, when he refuses to accept "syncretistic" edict of the Elector [[Friedrich Wilhelm I of Brandenburg]]
*1672 [[Eastern Orthodox Church|Greek Orthodox]] [[Synod of Jerusalem (1672)|Synod of Jerusalem]]: decreed [[Biblical canon]]
*1675 [[Philipp Jakob Spener]] publishes ''Pia Desideria'', which becomes a manifesto for [[Pietism]]
*1678 [[John Bunyan]] publishes ''[[Pilgrim's Progress]]''
*1682 [[Avvakum]], leader of the [[Old Believers]], burned at the stake in the Far North of Russia
*1683 [[Roger Williams]], advocate of [[Separation of church and state]], founder of Providence, Rhode Island, dies
*1685 [[Edict of Fontainebleau]] outlaws Protestantism in France
*1685 [[James II of England]] baptizes his son as a Catholic
*1685 Orthodoxy introduced to Beijing by [[Russian Orthodox Church]]
*1688 '[[Glorious Revolution]]' overthrows [[James II of England]] over fears of Catholic restoration; [[William III of England|William of Orange]] takes English throne
*1689 [[English bill of rights|English Bill of Rights]] establishes religious liberty
*1692 [[Salem witch trials]] held in [[Colonial America]]
*1692–1721 [[Chinese Rites controversy]]
*1693 [[Jakob Amman]] founds [[Amish]] sect