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17th Century Timeline
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1. Abbas I - the Safavids king - died.
1662
1629
1648
1616
2. Maratha Empire founded inIndia by Shivaji.
1674
1670
1678
1611
3. The earliest known first-class cricket match took place in Sussex.
1672
1639
1697
1700
4. 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.'
1613
1618
1619
1673
5. Bethlen Gabor - Prince of Transylvania joins Protestant Rebels.
1682
1618
1662
1663
6. The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War.
1667
1647
1644
1608
7. Famine in Finland wipes out almost a third of the population.
1676
1696
1672
1689
8. The Pueblo Revolt drives the Spanish out of New Mexico until 1692.
1639
1680
1634
1663
9. Wars of the Three Kingdoms - civil wars throughout Scotland - Ireland - and England.
1639
1607
1608
1681
10. The last remaining Moriscos (Moors who had nominally converted to Christianity) in Spain are expelled.
1606
1636
1616
1640
11. Disagreements between the Farnese and Barberini Pope Urban VIII escalate into the Wars of Castro and last until 1649.
1609
1672
1700
1639
12. TheFirst Anglo-Dutch War begins.
1601
1606
1613
1652
13. The Mughal Empire nearly bans the EastIndia Company in response to pirate Henry Every's capture of the Ganj-i-Sawai
1695
1640
1652
1636
14. King Charles was compelled to summon Parliament due to the revolt of the Scots.
1640
1636
1627
1672
15. Battle of L
1632
1624
1644
1605
16. 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.
1693
1601
1676
1642
17. Rampjaar in the Netherlands
1672
1700
1689
1606
18. Naval Battle of the Downs
1639
1619
1661
1683
19. The Great Plague of Seville.
1609
1687
1605
1647
20. The Second Anglo-Dutch War fought between England and the United Provinces.
1696
1676
1601
1665
21. The earliest known first-class cricket match took place in Sussex.
1648
1648
1697
1606
22. The Treaty of Zurawno brings Polish-Ottoman hostilities to a halt.
1676
1603
1687
1690
23. The Treaty of Nerchinsk established a border between Russia and China.
1642
1627
1689
1603
24. The Treaty of Karlowitz ends the Great Turkish War.
1674
1699
1609
1682
25. Robert Hooke discovers cells using a microscope.
1603
1648
1663
1609
26. The Brownist Pilgrims arrive in the Mayflower at Cape Cod
1690
1609
1620
1674
27. Shimabara Rebellion of Japanese Christians - ronin and peasants against Edo.
1603
1668
1637
1649
28. 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
1689
1639
1660
1616
29. Famine in Finland wipes out almost a third of the population.
1683
1644
1696
1664
30. The Ottomans capture Crete.
1601
1660
1607
1669
31. Mehmed K
1641
1663
1654
1606
32. New Amsterdam founded by the Dutch WestIndia Company in North America.
1639
1625
1668
1700
33. Ottoman campaign to help the Ukrainian Cossacks. John Sobieski defeats the Ottomans at the second battle of Khotyn (1673).
1666
1690
1672
1618
34. Bethlen Gabor - Prince of Transylvania joins Protestant Rebels.
1667
1678
1700
1618
35. Peace Treaty of Lisbon between Spain and Portugal recognizes Portugal as independent country.
1664
1601
1647
1668
36. The Battle of Chocim - Poles and Cossacks under Jan Karol Chodkiewicz defeat the Ottomans.
1665
1630
1621
1623
37. Peter the Great becomes joint ruler of Russia (sole tsar in 1696).
1670
1682
1672
1672
38. Jacques Aymar-Vernay - who later reintroduced Dowsing into popular use in Europe - is born.
1697
1632
1662
1666
39. Tokugawa Ieyasu seizes control of Japan and establishes the Tokugawa Shogunate - beginning the Edo period that lasts until 1869.
1603
1696
1674
1622
40. Harvard University is founded in Cambridge - Massachusetts.
1654
1629
1636
1699
41. The fortresses of Veszpr
1605
1603
1674
1601
42. Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.
1672
1641
1687
1661
43. The Portuguese Restoration War led to the end of the Iberian Union.
1667
1689
1692
1640
44. The Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.
1689
1606
1649
1697
45. Koxinga captures Taiwan from the Dutch and founds the Kingdom of Tungning which rules until 1683.
1652
1683
1688
1662
46. Famine in France kills 2 million.
1693
1647
1692
1603
47. The Glorious Revolution starts with the Dutch Republic invading England - England becomes a constitutional monarchy.
1630
1629
1688
1633
48. Maffeo Barberini is elected Pope Urban VIII at the Papal conclave of 1623.
1652
1627
1647
1623
49. The Tokugawa Shogunate institutes Sakoku- foreigners are expelled and no one is allowed to enter or leave Japan.
1658
1641
1603
1689
50. Franco-Dutch War.
1601
1640
1641
1672