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| 1602 |
| | | The Dutch East India Company is founded, with a tax-free monopoly of the eastern trade for twenty-one years | |
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| 1608 |
| | | A lucky accident reveals the principle of the telescope to a spectacle maker, Hans Lippershey. In the Dutch town of Middelburg | |
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| 1608 |
| | | A shipload of Puritans, among them some of the future Pilgrim Fathers, sail from Boston in Lincolnshire to seek religious freedom in Holland | |
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| c. 1620 |
| | | The Dutch painter Frans Hals displays exceptional brilliance in his group portraits, including several of the civic guards of Haarlem | |
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| c. 1620 |
| | | Delft becomes the centre for tin-glazed earthenware in nothern Europe, specializing in the blue-and-white Chinese style | |
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| 1621 |
| | | The Dutch West India Company is chartered to trade and found colonies anywhere along the entire American coast | |
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| c. 1628 |
| | | The Dutch painter Rembrandt van Rijn develops a life-long interest in self-portraiture | |
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| 1631 |
| | | Rembrandt moves from his home town of Leiden to set up a studio in Amsterdam | |
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| 1633 |
| | | The four years of tulip mania in Holland provide the first example of speculative frenzy in a capitalist market | |
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| 1634 |
| | | Rembrandt marries Saskia van Uylenburgh, who will feature in many of his paintings | |
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