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| 1604 |
| | | James I commissions the Authorized version of the Bible, which is completed by forty-seven scholars in seven years | |
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| 1605 |
| | | The Gunpowder Plot, attempting murder and treason, severely damages the Catholic cause in Britain | |
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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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| 1612 |
| | | The establishment of a Baptist church in London is a defining moment for the Baptist sect within Christianity | |
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| 1614 |
| | | An edict is passed expelling Jesuit missionaries from Japan, and ordering their converts to revert to Buddhism | |
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| 1619 |
| | | The Protestant Frederick V (elector palatine of the Rhine) is elected king by the rebellious Bohemian nobles | |
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| 1632 |
| | | Shah Jahan orders that all recently built Hindu temples shall be destroyed, ending the Mughal tradition of religious tolerance | |
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| 1636 |
| | | Rhode Island is founded by Roger Williams as a colony based on the principle of religious tolerance | |
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| 1637 |
| | | Charles I and his archbishop of Canterbury, William Laud, attempt to impose the full Anglican hierarchy on presbyterian Scotland | |
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| 1638 |
| | | A National Covenant, first signed in an Edinburgh churchyard, commits the Covenanters to oppose Charles I's reforms of the Church of Scotland | |
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