Piracy had been virtually ended by the mid to late seventeenth century with a treaty between England and Spain. (ambergrisCaye.com)
This was accomplished in the late seventeenth century. (religion-online.org)
Cartesian dualism arose in the early stages of the first scientific revolution that culminated in the late seventeenth century, while we are still coming to grips with the quantum revolution of the twentieth century. (firstthings.com)