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| 1609 |
| | | News sheets published in Augsburg and Strasbourg become the first known newspapers | |
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| 1617 |
| | | Albrecht von Wallenstein uses his wife's fortune to mobilize a private army in support of the emperor Ferdinand II | |
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| 1621 |
| | | The first English newspaper (Corante) appears, promising reports 'from Italy, Germany, Hungarie, Spaine and France' | |
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| 1631 |
| | | Gustavus II and the Swedish army win a conclusive victory over the imperial forces at Breitenfeld | |
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| 1632 |
| | | The Swedish army wins another convincing victory at Lützen, but Gustavus II dies leading a cavalry charge | |
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| 1634 |
| | | A Passion play is performed for the first time at Oberammergau, in the spirit of the Counter-Reformation | |
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| 1648 |
| | | The Peace of Westphalia finally brings to an end the Thirty Years' War | |
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| c. 1650 |
| | | A German burgomaster, Otto von Guericke, devises an air pump capable of creating a vacuum | |
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| 1654 |
| | | Otto von Guericke uses sixteen horses to demonstrate in Regensburg the power of a vacuum | |
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| c. 1660 |
| | | The berlin, developed in Berlin, becomes the most successful carriage of the seventeenth century | |
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