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1600s
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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
- 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
- 1670 - Christopher Pinchbeck, a London clockmaker, is born c. 1670
- 1676 - 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
- 1690 - Jean Leurechon dies
- 1694 - Récréations mathématiques et physiques is published by Jacques Ozanam in French
Significant people
- Tabarin (1584-1633), a French comedian that performed what became known as Chapeaugraphy.
- Claude-Gaspar Bachet de Méziriac (1581-1638), a French mathematician who formed the basis for almost all later books on mathematical recreations. Author of Problèmes plaisants et délectables qui se font par les nombres.
- Jean Leurechon (1591-1690), thought to be the author of author of the book Mathematical Recreations which includes parlor tricks and conjuring practices.