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17th Century Timeline
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1. Maximilian of Bavaria establishes the Catholic League.
1663
1622
1609
1618
2. Ottoman war with Venice. The Ottomans invade Crete and capture Canea.
1621
1645
1674
1666
3. The earliest known first-class cricket match took place in Sussex.
1641
1690
1630
1697
4. The Battle of Killiecrankie is fought between Jacobite and Williamite forces in Highland Perthshire
1689
1647
1658
1601
5. Russia supplants Sweden as the dominant Baltic power after the Great Northern War.
1700
1661
1667
1699
6. Russia supplants Sweden as the dominant Baltic power after the Great Northern War.
1694
1700
1642
1682
7. The Battle of the Boyne in Ireland.
1649
1690
1689
1670
8. The Ottomans capture Crete from the Venetians after the Siege of Candia.
1688
1658
1639
1648
9. The Pasha of Buda supports Imre Th
1689
1644
1681
1696
10. The Great Plague of London.
1687
1642
1665
1663
11. The War of Devolution; France invades the Netherlands. The Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle (1668) brings this to a halt.
1667
1681
1609
1654
12. Lynching of Johan de Witt and his brother Cornelis de Witt in the Hague
1651
1672
1633
1660
13. Gunpowder Plot failed in England.
1662
1605
1639
1606
14. Mount Vesuvius erupts
1631
1641
1622
1627
15. Seven-year-old Mehmed IV becomes sultan.
1690
1608
1647
1685
16. Portugal defeats the Kongo Empire at the Battle of Mbwila.
1634
1689
1648
1665
17. Shimabara Rebellion of Japanese Christians - ronin and peasants against Edo.
1637
1648
1673
1641
18. The Russian famine of 1601
1665
1603
1601
1680
19. Jamestown massacre - Algonquian natives kill 347 English settlers outside Jamestown - Virginia (1/3 of the colony's population) and burn the Henricus settlement.
1685
1622
1665
1620
20. Famine in Finland wipes out almost a third of the population.
1648
1602
1666
1696
21. Death of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu
1694
1672
1682
1616
22. The College of William and Mary is founded in Williamsburg - Virginia by a royal charter.
1632
1693
1622
1700
23. Polish
1658
1663
1613
1618
24. Bethlen Gabor is defeated outside Vienna.
1665
1647
1634
1619
25. Harvard University is founded in Cambridge - Massachusetts.
1603
1648
1636
1616
26. Emperor Fasilides founds the city of Gondar - which becomes the capital of Ethiopia for the next two centuries.
1618
1699
1682
1636
27. The Commonwealth of England ends and the monarchy is brought back during the English Restoration.
1660
1630
1694
1606
28. The Dutch WestIndia Company invades the Portuguese colony of Pernambuco and founds Dutch Brazil.
1630
1669
1665
1616
29. The Second Anglo-Dutch War fought between England and the United Provinces.
1634
1665
1667
1601
30. William ascends to the throne over England - Scotland - and Ireland.
1672
1689
1667
1606
31. Pedro de Peralta - governor of New Mexico - establishes the settlement of Santa Fe.
1610
1651
1605
1620
32. The Deluge wars leave Polish
1687
1648
1616
1606
33. Thomas Savery demonstrates his first steam engine to the Royal Society.
1655
1682
1620
1699
34. New Amsterdam founded by the Dutch WestIndia Company in North America.
1669
1644
1625
1661
35. Emperor Fasilides expels the Catholic Patriarch Afonso Mendes and several Jesuit missionaries from Ethiopia.
1672
1632
1634
1694
36. Torture is outlawed in England.
1640
1682
1647
1642
37. King Charles was compelled to summon Parliament due to the revolt of the Scots.
1634
1688
1640
1616
38. After his father Shah Jahan completes the Taj Mahal - his son Aurangzeb deposes him as ruler of the Mughal Empire.
1674
1625
1658
1607
39. St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican completed.
1626
1611
1695
1645
40. The Deluge wars leave Polish
1648
1681
1618
1601
41. The Brownist Pilgrims arrive in the Mayflower at Cape Cod
1649
1620
1648
1601
42. The Battle of Vienna finishes the Ottoman Empire's hegemony in south-eastern Europe.
1683
1654
1676
1629
43. Jacques Aymar-Vernay - who later reintroduced Dowsing into popular use in Europe - is born.
1652
1662
1693
1640
44. Famine in France kills 2 million.
1610
1647
1676
1692
45. Lithuanian Civil War
1627
1654
1609
1700
46. Treaty of Vienna ends anti-Habsburg uprising in Royal Hungary.
1683
1606
1683
1603
47. The Treaty of Nerchinsk established a border between Russia and China.
1622
1620
1694
1689
48. The Ottomans make camp at Adrianople.
1682
1652
1694
1641
49. Shimabara Rebellion of Japanese Christians - ronin and peasants against Edo.
1633
1688
1637
1672
50. Battle of N
1688
1634
1609
1636
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