Fruit still life with shells painted by Balthasar van der Ast. His sons and his pupil and brother-in-law, Balthasar van der Ast, were among those to uphold the Bosschaert dynasty which continued until the mid-17th century.

Nicaragua's legal system also is a mixture of the English Common Law and the Civil Law through the influence of British administration of the Eastern half of the country from the mid-17th century until about 1905, the William Walker period from about 1855 through 1857, USA interventions / occupations during the period from 1909 to 1933, the influence of USA institutions during the Somoza family administrations ( 1933 through 1979 ) and the considerable importation between 1979 and the present of USA culture and institutions.

The administrative reforms and military brilliance of Aluma sustained the empire until the mid-17th century, when its power began to fade.

Queen Elizabeth I of England is noted to have been entertained by " Country Dancing ," although the relationship of the dances she saw to the surviving dances of the mid-17th century is disputed.

In Ireland, genealogical records were recorded by professional families of senchaidh ( historians ) until as late as the mid-17th century, when Gaelic civilization died out.

Galen continued to exert an important influence over the theory and practice of medicine until the mid-17th century in the Byzantine and Arabic worlds and Europe.

By the mid-17th century fireworks were used for entertainment on an unprecedented scale in Europe, being popular even at resorts and public gardens.

From the mid-17th century, the huge state entered a period of decline caused by devastating wars and deterioration of the country's system of government.

However economic decline and conflict between the Druze and the Ottomans led to the community's gradual decline by the mid-17th century.

Recovery of lost territories started in the mid-17th century, when the Khmelnitsky Uprising in Ukraine against Polish rule brought about the Treaty of Pereyaslav concluded between Russia and the Ukrainian Cossacks.

Together the state and the nobles placed the overwhelming burden of taxation on the peasants, whose rate was 100 times greater in the mid-17th century than it had been a century earlier.

Much of its expansion had taken place in the 17th century, culminating in the first Russian settlement of the Pacific in the mid-17th century, the reconquest of Kiev, and the pacification of the Siberian tribes.

By the mid-17th century, Irish prisoners-of-war and ethnically cleansed civilians were involuntarily shipped to Bermuda, condemned to slavery.

In the mid-17th century, changes in liturgy and practice instituted by Patriarch Nikon resulted in a split in the Russian Orthodox Church.

This came principally from Sweden from the mid-17th century and later also from Russia from the end of the 1720s.

His paternal great-grandfather Andrew Monroe emigrated to America from Scotland in the mid-17th century.

The administrative reforms and military brilliance of Aluma sustained the empire until the mid-17th century, when its power began to fade.

From the 16th to the mid-17th century culture, arts, and education flourished, fueled by the Renaissance and the Protestant Reformation.

England emerged as a major naval power in the mid-17th century in the first Anglo-Dutch war with a technical victory.

Spain also produced its own distinctive form of opera, known as zarzuela, which had two separate flowerings: one from the mid-17th century through the mid-18th century, and another beginning around 1850.

Early performances of opera were too infrequent for singers to make a living exclusively from the style, but with the birth of commercial opera in the mid-17th century, professional performers began to emerge.

The career of the first major female star ( or prima donna ), Anna Renzi, dates to the mid-17th century.

Although the Oirats could not assert this claim prior to the mid-17th century, they did in fact have a close connection to Genghis Khan by virtue of the fact that Genghis Khan's brother, Hasar, was in command of the Khoshut tribe.

The Society of Friends established itself in Street in the mid-17th century, and among the close-knit group of Quaker families were the Clarks: Cyrus started a business in sheepskin rugs, later joined by his brother James, who introduced the production of woollen slippers and, later, boots and shoes.

Of Anglo-Irish extraction, the Harrison family were long-established residents of the area ; her mother's family appear to have emigrated from Yorkshire to Virginia in the mid-17th century, and her paternal grandfather and his older brother, Senator Orlando Harrison, Mayor of Berlin 1900-1910 and 1916-1918, established the family's orchards, which once employed from two hundred to five hundred workers.

Popular sovereignty in its modern sense-that is, including all the people and not just noblemen-is an idea that dates to the social contracts school ( mid-17th to mid-18th centuries ), represented by Thomas Hobbes ( 1588 – 1679 ), John Locke ( 1632 – 1704 ), and Jean-Jacques Rousseau ( 1712 – 1778 ), author of The Social Contract, a prominent political work that clearly highlighted the ideals of " general will " and further matured the idea of popular sovereignty.

After the chapel was demolished following the Dissolution of the Monasteries, a house called " St. Ann's " was built at the site by Thomas Avery in the mid-17th century.

The word first appears in English in the mid-17th century ( used in Thomas Browne's Pseudodoxia Epidemica, 1646 ), where it is an adaptation of Late Latin rhabdomantia, from a presumed ( unrecorded ) ancient Greek * rhabdomanteia, from the ancient Greek ῥαβδος ( rhabdos ) a rod.

A forge in Brewood Park was rented from the Giffard family from the mid-17th century by Thomas Foley ( 1616 – 1677 ) and Philip Foley ( 1648 – 1716 ), perhaps the most famous ironmasters of their period in the West Midlands.

Between mid-17th c and early 19th c, the region was part of the Karabakh khanate of the Safavid Empire.

c. mid-17th century BC ), an ancient Egyptian scribe who lived during the Second Intermediate Period and at the beginning of the Eighteenth Dynasty, who wrote the Rhind Mathematical Papyrus, a work of Ancient Egyptian mathematics

Since mid-17th c., the Church Slavonic orthography has the following main rules related to the usage of shapes Є and Е:

Optical theory progressed in the mid-17th century with treatises written by philosopher René Descartes, which explained a variety of optical phenomena including reflection and refraction by assuming that light was emitted by objects which produced it.

The legend of Pope Joan was " effectively demolished " by David Blondel, a mid-17th century Protestant historian, who suggested that Pope Joan's tale may have originated in a satire against Pope John XI, who died in his early 20s.

By the mid-17th century, the Amur Daurs fell under the influence of the Manchus of the Qing Dynasty which crushed the resistance of Bombogor, leader of the Evenk-Daur Federation in 1640.

Jacques Cartier first brought cabbage to the Americas in 1541 – 42, and it was probably planted in what is now the United States by the early colonists, despite the lack of written evidence of its existence there until the mid-17th century.

The term Deluge (,, Cyrillic: Потоп ) denotes a series of mid-17th century campaigns in the Polish – Lithuanian Commonwealth.

The abbey began to expand in the mid-17th century and grew especially large at the turn of the century, when Patriarch Adrian made the cloister his summer residence and built the so-called Old Katholikon ( 1696 – 1700 ).

) The Kaw are closely related to the Osage Nation and Ponca tribes ( who first settled in Nebraska ), being from the same tribe before migrating from the Ohio valley in the mid-17th century.

In Italy, spadone, or longsword, instruction lingered on in spite of the popularity of the rapier, at least into the mid-17th century ( Alfieri's Lo Spadone of 1653 ), with a late treatise of the " two handed sword " by one Giuseppe Colombani, a dentist in Venice dating to 1711.

* Center Church on the Green Crypt, the best-preserved burial ground in the country ( because it lies underneath a church ), with gravestones dating back to the mid-17th century that include numerous colonial luminaries.

Also from the mid-17th century is the altar of Saint Orontius by Francesco Antonio Zimbalo, followed by the altar of Saint Irene with a canvas by Giuseppe Verrio ( 1639 ), nine busts of saints housing relics and a large statue of the saint.

Until mid-17th century the area belonged to the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, and since the Treaty of Pereyaslav of 1654, besides of its southern part ( part of Taurida ), it fell under Russian control, later reaffirmed in the Treaty of Andrusovo ( 1667 ) and the Eternal Peace Treaty ( 1686 ) between the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and Tsardom of Russia.

In the mid-17th century the Métis, descendants of these Frenchmen and Cree tribes people ( in addition to other First Nations peoples ), settled in the valley.

The Wars of Castro were a series of conflicts during the mid-17th century revolving around the ancient city of Castro ( located in present-day Lazio, Italy ), which eventually resulted in the city's destruction on 2 September 1649.

In an earlier version ( before Bernini's renovations in the mid-17th century ), something similar may have resonated with and been observed by Prince Rory O ' Donnell, 1st Earl of Tyrconnell following his visit to Pope Paul V ( at the Palazzo Quirinale ) in Rome, just prior to his death in 1608.

* the town hall ( mid-17th century ), in Renaissance style

Grigory Kotoshikhin authored a work called On Russia during the Reign of Alexey Mikhailovich ( first published in 1840 ), which represents a valuable source of history of the mid-17th century Muscovite Russia.

In the mid-17th century there were an estimated 2, 200 authors in France ( mostly nobles and clergy ), writing for a reading public of just a few tens of thousands.

The Cacán language ( or language group ), spoken by Diaguitas and Calchaquíes, became extinct since the mid-17th century or beginning of 18th century.