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17th Century Timeline
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1. The Northern Wars cement Sweden's rise as a Great Power.
1645
1648
1655
1673
2. Polish
1613
1696
1665
1609
3. Elizabeth I of England dies and is succeeded by her cousin King James VI of Scotland - uniting the crowns of Scotland and England.
1603
1664
1637
1608
4. 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.
1606
1699
1627
1605
5. Naval Battle of the Downs
1601
1618
1639
1688
6. Louis XIV accepts the Spanish crown on behalf of his grandson Philip of Anjou - triggering the War of the Spanish Succession
1662
1689
1700
1632
7. The Dutch WestIndia Company invades the Portuguese colony of Bahia in Brazil.
1652
1624
1672
1639
8. The Great Plague of London.
1647
1639
1665
1692
9. Salem witch trials in Massachusetts.
1669
1663
1644
1692
10. The Bohemian Revolt precipitates the Thirty Years' War which devastates Europe in the years 1618
1608
1610
1644
1618
11. The Great Turkish War halts the Ottoman Empire's expansion into Europe.
1664
1620
1636
1667
12. The Deluge wars leave Polish
1682
1648
1665
1689
13. The Treaty of Karlowitz ends the Great Turkish War.
1688
1649
1699
1609
14. Kara Mustafa becomes Grand Vizier.
1666
1696
1676
1669
15. Taj Mahal building work started in Agra -India
1616
1654
1632
1688
16. The Russian famine of 1601
1601
1662
1660
1618
17. Abbas I - the Safavids king - died.
1644
1689
1673
1629
18. Torture is outlawed in England.
1629
1640
1648
1689
19. The Bank of England is established.
1694
1676
1688
1634
20. Famine in Finland wipes out almost a third of the population.
1613
1606
1696
1697
21. Famine in France kills 2 million.
1672
1692
1690
1682
22. Ottoman war against Habsburg Hungary.
1680
1663
1678
1693
23. Royal Society of London for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge founded.
1627
1620
1618
1660
24. Flight of the Earls (the fleeing of most of the native Gaelic aristocracy) occurs from County Donegal in the west of Ulster in Ireland.
1641
1629
1664
1607
25. The Second Anglo-Dutch War fought between England and the United Provinces.
1654
1645
1689
1665
26. John Evelyn's forestry book - Sylva - is published in England.
1640
1625
1664
1624
27. Time of Troubles - Vasili IV becomes Tzar of Russia.
1606
1647
1626
1613
28. Famine in France kills 2 million.
1642
1692
1613
1664
29. Sultan Mehmed IV - advised by Kara Mustafa - decides to disregard the existing peace treaty with Leopold I - due to expire in 1684.
1689
1682
1632
1622
30. Aurochs go extinct.
1627
1689
1618
1649
31. Battle of N
1696
1632
1634
1611
32. The Irish Rebellion.
1641
1605
1607
1613
33. 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.
1601
1648
1700
1670
34. The Treaty of Zurawno brings Polish-Ottoman hostilities to a halt.
1672
1606
1606
1676
35. Thomas Savery demonstrates his first steam engine to the Royal Society.
1672
1699
1689
1607
36. The Manchus start invading China. Their conquest eventually topples the Ming Dynasty.
1664
1680
1688
1618
37. Death of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu
1616
1680
1692
1682
38. British troops capture New Amsterdam and rename it New York.
1688
1641
1625
1664
39. Fronde civil war in France.
1611
1648
1676
1623
40. English Civil War ends with the Parliamentarian victory at the Battle of Worcester.
1645
1672
1651
1695
41. China conquers the Kingdom of Tungning and annexes Taiwan.
1688
1669
1682
1683
42. The Treaty of Nijmegen ends the hostilities with France
1624
1618
1678
1606
43. Ottoman war with Venice. The Ottomans invade Crete and capture Canea.
1697
1644
1660
1645
44. The Pueblo Revolt drives the Spanish out of New Mexico until 1692.
1680
1665
1693
1601
45. Time of Troubles - Vasili IV becomes Tzar of Russia.
1688
1606
1631
1622
46. Seven-year-old Mehmed IV becomes sultan.
1700
1647
1694
1606
47. Harvard University is founded in Cambridge - Massachusetts.
1688
1636
1606
1625
48. Gunpowder Plot failed in England.
1672
1664
1651
1605
49. Tokugawa Ieyasu seizes control of Japan and establishes the Tokugawa Shogunate - beginning the Edo period that lasts until 1869.
1603
1616
1699
1700
50. Antoni van Leeuwenhoek is the first to observe microbes with a homemade microscope - using samples he collected from his teeth scrapings - raindrops - and his own feces. He calls them 'animalcules.'
1620
1673
1633
1644