Beginning in the 17th century, immigrants from the United Kingdom, Ireland, Spain, Germany and France began arriving in large numbers, bringing with them new styles and instruments.

Beginning with the 17th century, another form of dagger — the plug bayonet and later the socket bayonet — was used to convert muskets and other longarms into spears by mounting them on the barrel.

Beginning in the middle of the 17th century, the nobles ' democracy, subjected to devastating wars, falling into internal disorder and then anarchy, gradually declined, making the once powerful Commonwealth vulnerable to foreign intervention.

Beginning with the Peace of Westphalia in 1648, the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries saw the growth of the concept of the sovereign " nation-state ", which consisted of a nation controlled by a centralized system of government.

Beginning in the early 17th century, Taiwanese aborigines faced broad cultural change as the island became incorporated into the wider global economy by a succession of competing colonial regimes from Europe and Asia (; ).

Beginning in the middle of the 17th century, a few of the settlers of Windsor, Connecticut, began using land on the east bank of the Connecticut River for grazing and farming purposes.

Beginning in the late 17th century, a small settlement called Stevens Landing ( sometimes Stevens Ferry ) grew at the ferry landing on the south bank of the Pocomoke River.

Beginning in the late 17th and early 18th centuries, Claremont was a busy port town on the navigable portion of the James River, shipping many goods, but especially hogsheads of tobacco.

Beginning in the 17th century Grand Portage became a major center of the fur trade.

Beginning in the 17th century, immigrants from the United Kingdom, Ireland, Spain, Germany and France began arriving in large numbers, bringing with them new styles and instruments.

Beginning in the 17th century wares like Mediterranean fruit, spices, cotton and silk from the Venetian Market in Mittenwald were transported down the Isar and Danube all the way to Vienna and Budapest.

Beginning in the late 17th century the French established settlements in the region as part of Louisiana, notably including Mobile ( 1702 ) and Fort Toulouse ( 1717 ) in present-day Alabama.

Beginning in the 17th century, artisans emigrated to America and experienced fewer restrictions.

Beginning in the late 17th century, some Confucians began to react to the metaphysical nature of Neo-Confucianism.

Beginning in the 17th and 18th century, Canada was the site of four colonial wars and two additional wars in Nova Scotia and Acadia between New France and New England ; the conflicts spanned almost seventy years, as each allied with various First Nation groups.

Beginning from the 17th century, a number of chronicles have been preserved.

Beginning in the 17th century, dikes were built further out to reclaim more land.

Beginning in the early 17th century Warsaw records associate a sword-wielding mermaid with the city.

Beginning at 12: 01 a. m. on the 17th, they were permitted to fill out their Notices of Intent to Marry.

Beginning in the early 17th century, the Nganasans were subjected to the yasak system of Czarist Russia.

Beginning in 1821 with the 17th Congress, Vermont returned to electing representatives from districts.

Beginning in the 17th century, the Gelug view and politics increasingly dominated in Tibet and the minority lineages were at risk for losing their traditions.

Beginning in the early 17th century, colonization of the area by Vietnamese settlers gradually isolated the Khmer of the Mekong Delta from their brethren in Cambodia proper and resulted in their becoming a minority in the delta.

Beginning in the 17th century, the Netherlands began exploring and colonizing Africa.

Beginning during the second half of the 19th century the town became home to numerous artists.

Beginning in the 19th century, the basins of the streams themselves have also been used as housing grounds, resulting in occasional floodings in the city centre.

Beginning in the middle 2nd century, the Wielbark culture shifted to the southeast, towards the Black Sea.

Beginning in the 11th century, longer scrolls and books were produced using movable type printing making books widely available during the Song dynasty ( 960 – 1279 ).

Beginning roughly in the 14th century in Florence, and later spreading through Europe with the development of printing press, a Renaissance of knowledge challenged traditional doctrines in science and theology, with the rediscovery of classical Greek and Roman knowledge.

Beginning in the nineteenth century, with the ascent of academic history, a corpus of historiographic literature developed.

Beginning in the 14th century BC, the Chinese developed a decimal, or base ten-system for recording numbers.

Beginning in the 16th century, this branch of the family became Protestant and decided on expansion through marriage and the purchase of surrounding lands.

Beginning in the mid-18th century and over the next century, large areas of India were annexed by the British East India Company.

Beginning in the 7th century BC, Greek colonies were established on the Illyrian coast.

Beginning in the late-14th century, the Ottomans expanded their empire from Anatolia to the Balkans ( Rumelia ).

Beginning in Renaissance Italy in the 16th century, new mathematical developments, interacting with new scientific discoveries, were made at an increasing pace that continues through the present day.

Beginning in the 4th century, churches painted their walls and made icons to reflect an authentic expression of their faith.

Beginning in the late 19th and early 20th century however, policies such as Woodrow Wilson's mission to " make the world safe for democracy " were often backed by military force, but more often effected from behind the scenes, consistent with the general notion of hegemony and imperium of historical empires ..

Beginning in the nineteenth century, more sophisticated notions of integrals began to appear, where the type of the function as well as the domain over which the integration is performed has been generalised.

Beginning in the 16th century, European countries began officially making January 1 the start of the New Year once again — sometimes called Circumcision Style because this was the date of the Feast of the Circumcision, being the seventh day after December 25.

Beginning in the early 11th century, the Qarakhanids fought constantly among themselves and with the Seljuk Turks to the south.

Beginning around the 3rd century BC, it took two centuries to become a dominant literature of Ancient Rome, with many educated Romans still reading and writing in Ancient Greek, as late as Marcus Aurelius ( 121 – 180 AD ).

Beginning in the 12th century, Livonia was an area of economic and political expansion by Danes and Germans, particularly by the Hanseatic League and the Cistercian Order.

Beginning of the Gospel of John from a pocket Wycliffe translation that may have been used by a roving Lollard preacher ( late 14th century )

Beginning in the early 19th century, most of the island was united and ruled as the Kingdom of Madagascar by a series of Merina nobles.