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17th Century Timeline
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1. Maximilian of Bavaria establishes the Catholic League.
1700
1667
1609
1652
2. New Amsterdam founded by the Dutch WestIndia Company in North America.
1667
1685
1625
1688
3. Japan transforms into 'locked country'.
1683
1687
1633
1620
4. Kara Mustafa becomes Grand Vizier.
1688
1606
1676
1664
5. Famine in Finland wipes out almost a third of the population.
1649
1696
1609
1667
6. St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican completed.
1603
1626
1699
1620
7. Famine in France kills 2 million.
1688
1603
1692
1641
8. The Ottomans capture Crete from the Venetians after the Siege of Candia.
1668
1605
1648
1603
9. Mount Vesuvius erupts
1689
1689
1631
1610
10. Portugal defeats the Kongo Empire at the Battle of Mbwila.
1665
1606
1601
1639
11. The Russian famine of 1601
1639
1647
1663
1601
12. The Treaty of Westminster ends the war between England and the Republic of the United Provinces.
1674
1694
1667
1685
13. The Treaty of Karlowitz ends the Great Turkish War.
1606
1620
1699
1674
14. The War of Devolution; France invades the Netherlands. The Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle (1668) brings this to a halt.
1666
1667
1627
1685
15. After modernizing his army - Abbas I expands the Persian Empire by capturing territory from the Ottomans and the Portuguese.
1609
1692
1603
1680
16. The Hudson's Bay Company is founded in Canada.
1670
1681
1606
1663
17. Lynching of Johan de Witt and his brother Cornelis de Witt in the Hague
1669
1681
1637
1672
18. Russia supplants Sweden as the dominant Baltic power after the Great Northern War.
1664
1639
1700
1695
19. The reign of the Kangxi Emperor of China begins.
1610
1661
1640
1622
20. Death of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu
1696
1620
1616
1666
21. Cape Town founded by the Dutch EastIndia Company in South Africa.
1652
1695
1618
1692
22. Flight of the Earls (the fleeing of most of the native Gaelic aristocracy) occurs from County Donegal in the west of Ulster in Ireland.
1636
1607
1664
1616
23. Naval Battle of the Downs
1606
1665
1647
1639
24. Aurochs go extinct.
1627
1699
1634
1682
25. The Tokugawa Shogunate institutes Sakoku- foreigners are expelled and no one is allowed to enter or leave Japan.
1616
1629
1683
1641
26. Abbas I - the Safavids king - died.
1606
1629
1688
1689
27. Russia and the Ottoman Empire commence the Russo-Turkish Wars.
1648
1689
1665
1676
28. Emperor Fasilides expels the Catholic Patriarch Afonso Mendes and several Jesuit missionaries from Ethiopia.
1664
1634
1688
1700
29. The Ottomans capture Crete.
1606
1669
1626
1660
30. Giovanni Battista Pamphili is elected PopeInnocent X at the Papal conclave of 1644.
1611
1687
1665
1644
31. Battle of Kinsale - one of the most important battles in Irish history - fought.
1633
1601
1634
1606
32. John Evelyn's forestry book - Sylva - is published in England.
1648
1622
1682
1664
33. Cardinal Richelieu allies with Swedish Protestant forces in the Thirty Years' War to counter Ferdinand II's expansion.
1606
1629
1633
1624
34. The Battle of St. Gotthard - Count Raimondo Montecuccoli defeats the Ottomans. The Peace of Vasvar
1664
1694
1607
1660
35. The Pueblo Revolt drives the Spanish out of New Mexico until 1692.
1680
1689
1603
1618
36. Mount Vesuvius erupts
1637
1694
1662
1631
37. China conquers the Kingdom of Tungning and annexes Taiwan.
1676
1700
1683
1601
38. The War of the Two Kings in Ireland.
1688
1651
1693
1670
39. Bethlen Gabor allies with the Ottomans and an invasion of Moldavia takes place. The Polish suffer a disaster at Cecora on the River Prut.
1606
1619
1624
1620
40. Louis XIV accepts the Spanish crown on behalf of his grandson Philip of Anjou - triggering the War of the Spanish Succession
1685
1699
1676
1700
41. Polish-Ottoman War over Moldavia.
1695
1603
1697
1620
42. King Charles was compelled to summon Parliament due to the revolt of the Scots.
1666
1688
1648
1640
43. The Pontifical and Royal University of Santo Tomas - the oldest existing university in Asia - established by the Dominican Order in Manila
1611
1622
1601
1648
44. Kara Mustafa becomes Grand Vizier.
1649
1622
1663
1676
45. Flight of the Earls (the fleeing of most of the native Gaelic aristocracy) occurs from County Donegal in the west of Ulster in Ireland.
1667
1608
1607
1660
46. Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.
1636
1687
1672
1620
47. 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.'
1683
1642
1649
1673
48. After his father Shah Jahan completes the Taj Mahal - his son Aurangzeb deposes him as ruler of the Mughal Empire.
1658
1689
1639
1692
49. Time of Troubles - Vasili IV becomes Tzar of Russia.
1631
1606
1664
1633
50. The Battle of Killiecrankie is fought between Jacobite and Williamite forces in Highland Perthshire
1613
1689
1678
1641