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* [[1641]] - John Wilkins writes ''[[Mercury, Or the Secret and Swift Messenger]]'' | * [[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 | |||
==Significant people== | ==Significant people== | ||
Revision as of 18:44, 17 December 2009
The century of the 1600s.
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Selected Magic Events By Year
(Click on date to see all magic events in that year)
- 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
- 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
Significant people
- Tabarin (1584-1633), a French comedian that performed what became known as Chapeaugraphy.