1600s

The century of the 1600s.

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Selected Magic Events By Year

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• 1600-Unexact dates - In Early 1600s, many copies of Scot's The Discoverie of Witchcraft are burned

• 1606 - St Nicholas Owen dies on March 2

• 1612 - The Art of Jugling or Legerdemaine is published

• 1615 - John Baptista Porta dies

• 1616 - Chapeaugraphy is first performed

• 1624 - Mathematical Recreations first published

• 1630 - Dainty Conceits by Thomas Johnson published in London

• 1631 - One of the earliest documentations of the bullet catch appeared in the book Threats of God's Judgments by Reverend Thomas Beard

• 1633 - Tabarin dies

• 1634 - Hocus Pocus Junior:The Anatomie of Legerdemain was first published

• 1638 - Claude-Gaspar Bachet dies

• 1640 - Jacques Ozanam is born

• 1641 - John Wilkins writes Mercury, Or the Secret and Swift Messenger

• 1651 - The Discoverie of Witchcraft second edition is published in London.

• 1655 - A Candle in the Dark by Thomas Ady is published

• 1658 - First English Edition of Natural Magick is published

• 1668 - A Rich Cabinet is published in London

• 1678 - Sports and Pastimes is published by anonymous, including possibly the first reference to the ball and vase, which became a common children's prop since.

Significant people

• Tabarin (1584-1633), a French comedian that performed what became known as Chapeaugraphy.