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17th Century Timeline
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1. Siamese revolution of 1688 ousted French influence and virtually severed all ties with the West until the 19th century.
1648
1664
1688
1636
2. Lithuanian Civil War
1672
1606
1700
1618
3. Ottoman war against Habsburg Hungary.
1602
1634
1663
1683
4. The Ottomans capture Crete from the Venetians after the Siege of Candia.
1662
1610
1631
1648
5. The earliest known first-class cricket match took place in Sussex.
1700
1697
1606
1629
6. The Peace of Westphalia ends the Thirty Years' War and the Eighty Years' War and marks the ends of Spain and the Holy Roman Empire as major European powers.
1672
1648
1640
1605
7. Captain Willem Janszoon and his crew aboard the Dutch EastIndia Company ship Duyfken becomes the first recorded Europeans to sight and make landfall in Australia.
1688
1606
1607
1611
8. The 1700 Cascadia earthquake (magnitude 9) occurs off the coast of the Pacific Northwest; Japan is struck by a tsunami.
1601
1688
1603
1700
9. Beginning of English Civil War - conflict will end in 1651 with the execution of King Charles I - abolishment of the monarchy and the establishment of the supremacy of Parliament over the king.
1674
1641
1642
1639
10. The War of Devolution; France invades the Netherlands. The Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle (1668) brings this to a halt.
1667
1601
1620
1632
11. Capture of Ormuz; The island of Hormuz was captured by an Anglo-Persian force from Portuguese.
1676
1622
1700
1648
12. Polish
1689
1626
1682
1613
13. Flight of the Earls (the fleeing of most of the native Gaelic aristocracy) occurs from County Donegal in the west of Ulster in Ireland.
1607
1632
1683
1689
14. As chief minister - Cardinal Richelieu centralises power in France.
1667
1624
1666
1674
15. Koxinga captures Taiwan from the Dutch and founds the Kingdom of Tungning which rules until 1683.
1607
1661
1662
1605
16. Cape Town founded by the Dutch EastIndia Company in South Africa.
1652
1664
1649
1683
17. Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.
1637
1611
1693
1687
18. New Amsterdam founded by the Dutch WestIndia Company in North America.
1683
1602
1663
1625
19. William ascends to the throne over England - Scotland - and Ireland.
1689
1648
1616
1692
20. Michael the Brave (first unificator of Romania) - voivode of Wallachia - Moldavia and Transylvania - is assassinated by the order of the Habsburg general Giorgio Basta at C
1601
1672
1642
1667
21. William ascends to the throne over England - Scotland - and Ireland.
1640
1669
1645
1689
22. Wars of the Three Kingdoms - civil wars throughout Scotland - Ireland - and England.
1664
1618
1639
1618
23. John Locke publishes his first 'Letter Concerning Toleration'.
1639
1689
1608
1676
24. Lynching of Johan de Witt and his brother Cornelis de Witt in the Hague
1682
1700
1672
1667
25. Famine in Finland wipes out almost a third of the population.
1610
1639
1696
1663
26. The Long War between the Ottoman Empire and Austria is ended with the Peace of Zsitvatorok - Austria abandons Transylvania.
1658
1606
1674
1630
27. The Great Plague of London.
1665
1601
1641
1661
28. The Great Plague of London.
1665
1642
1616
1627
29. The Karposh rebellion is crushed in present-day Republic of Macedonia - Skopje is retaken by the Ottoman Turks. Karposh is killed - and the rebels are defeated. Giles Cory was pressed to death during the Salem witch trials in the 1690s
1660
1692
1689
1636
30. Emperor Fasilides founds the city of Gondar - which becomes the capital of Ethiopia for the next two centuries.
1689
1636
1622
1626
31. The Grand Alliance sought to stop French expansion during the Nine Years War.
1648
1627
1700
1688
32. St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican completed.
1626
1642
1674
1669
33. Death of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu
1603
1607
1616
1667
34. Cardinal Richelieu allies with Swedish Protestant forces in the Thirty Years' War to counter Ferdinand II's expansion.
1629
1619
1667
1651
35. The Dutch WestIndia Company invades the Portuguese colony of Pernambuco and founds Dutch Brazil.
1627
1648
1619
1630
36. Mehmed K
1685
1637
1639
1661
37. Emperor Fasilides expels the Catholic Patriarch Afonso Mendes and several Jesuit missionaries from Ethiopia.
1689
1695
1649
1634
38. Fronde civil war in France.
1648
1700
1683
1623
39. The Treaty of Nijmegen ends the hostilities with France
1678
1641
1629
1642
40. Abbas I - the Safavids king - died.
1620
1696
1629
1620
41. Jamestown - Virginia - is settled as what would become the first permanent English colony in North America.
1688
1607
1688
1627
42. Peace Treaty of Lisbon between Spain and Portugal recognizes Portugal as independent country.
1609
1668
1605
1699
43. Mary II of England dies
1688
1694
1693
1644
44. Harvard University is founded in Cambridge - Massachusetts.
1682
1603
1636
1654
45. Battle of L
1700
1672
1652
1632
46. The Russian famine of 1601
1618
1644
1601
1688
47. The Bank of England is established.
1700
1694
1624
1634
48. The Great Plague of Seville.
1647
1613
1637
1664
49. The Great Fire of London.
1645
1620
1624
1666
50. Beginning of English Civil War - conflict will end in 1651 with the execution of King Charles I - abolishment of the monarchy and the establishment of the supremacy of Parliament over the king.
1642
1663
1689
1648
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