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17th Century Timeline
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1. The Great Plague of London.
1633
1610
1665
1681
2. Japan transforms into 'locked country'.
1633
1636
1665
1681
3. Ottoman war with Venice. The Ottomans invade Crete and capture Canea.
1645
1644
1696
1601
4. The Brownist Pilgrims arrive in the Mayflower at Cape Cod
1648
1620
1618
1688
5. Polish
1696
1623
1613
1639
6. The Treaty of Zurawno brings Polish-Ottoman hostilities to a halt.
1648
1663
1676
1641
7. The Great Turkish War halts the Ottoman Empire's expansion into Europe.
1692
1667
1644
1672
8. Bethlen Gabor allies with the Ottomans and an invasion of Moldavia takes place. The Polish suffer a disaster at Cecora on the River Prut.
1620
1616
1647
1633
9. Taj Mahal building work started in Agra -India
1610
1622
1672
1632
10. The Manchus start invading China. Their conquest eventually topples the Ming Dynasty.
1606
1674
1696
1618
11. St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican completed.
1660
1665
1672
1626
12. 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.
1640
1606
1616
1602
13. The Battle of Chocim - Poles and Cossacks under Jan Karol Chodkiewicz defeat the Ottomans.
1621
1666
1696
1636
14. Shimabara Rebellion of Japanese Christians - ronin and peasants against Edo.
1637
1655
1660
1648
15. Quebec City founded by Samuel de Champlain in New France (present-day Canada).
1639
1694
1606
1608
16. The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War.
1639
1644
1674
1660
17. Tokugawa Ieyasu seizes control of Japan and establishes the Tokugawa Shogunate - beginning the Edo period that lasts until 1869.
1688
1682
1692
1603
18. The Great Fire of London.
1652
1662
1666
1694
19. The earliest known first-class cricket match took place in Sussex.
1697
1700
1647
1699
20. Robert Hooke discovers cells using a microscope.
1663
1624
1639
1699
21. Mount Vesuvius erupts
1618
1603
1631
1683
22. The Treaty of Nijmegen ends the hostilities with France
1670
1678
1648
1605
23. Russia supplants Sweden as the dominant Baltic power after the Great Northern War.
1601
1618
1631
1700
24. The last remaining Moriscos (Moors who had nominally converted to Christianity) in Spain are expelled.
1630
1616
1631
1674
25. The reign of the Kangxi Emperor of China begins.
1622
1661
1666
1672
26. The Ottomans capture Crete.
1688
1669
1689
1613
27. The Grand Alliance sought to stop French expansion during the Nine Years War.
1663
1620
1644
1688
28. New Amsterdam founded by the Dutch WestIndia Company in North America.
1665
1610
1625
1629
29. The Siege of Derry.
1664
1616
1618
1688
30. Giovanni Battista Pamphili is elected PopeInnocent X at the Papal conclave of 1644.
1631
1641
1644
1645
31. Dutch EastIndia Company founded. Its success contributes to the Dutch Golden Age.
1689
1630
1602
1639
32. 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.
1667
1606
1605
1603
33. Time of Troubles - Vasili IV becomes Tzar of Russia.
1689
1667
1606
1689
34. The Dutch WestIndia Company invades the Portuguese colony of Pernambuco and founds Dutch Brazil.
1640
1630
1634
1606
35. Mehmed K
1616
1699
1647
1654
36. The Hudson's Bay Company is founded in Canada.
1694
1670
1700
1620
37. The Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth army defeats combined Russian- Swedish forces at the Battle of Klushino and conquers Moscow.
1610
1682
1692
1700
38. The Treaty of Nerchinsk established a border between Russia and China.
1601
1689
1665
1664
39. The Irish Rebellion.
1700
1640
1641
1631
40. Abbas I - the Safavids king - died.
1670
1629
1673
1619
41. Jamestown massacre - Algonquian natives kill 347 English settlers outside Jamestown - Virginia (1/3 of the colony's population) and burn the Henricus settlement.
1689
1629
1690
1622
42. After his father Shah Jahan completes the Taj Mahal - his son Aurangzeb deposes him as ruler of the Mughal Empire.
1647
1601
1658
1620
43. A Habsburg council of war is held in Vienna.
1683
1687
1620
1606
44. Edict of Fontainebleau outlaws Protestantism in France. King Charles II dies
1673
1627
1685
1618
45. Naval Battle of the Downs
1689
1665
1624
1639
46. Galileo Galilei arrives in Rome for his trial before theInquisition.
1683
1633
1648
1681
47. Assassination of Stephen Bocskay of Transylvania.
1637
1606
1609
1682
48. Famine in Finland wipes out almost a third of the population.
1637
1688
1696
1683
49. The death of Miyamoto Musashi - legendary Japanese Samurai warrior - of natural causes.
1692
1645
1640
1647
50. Torture is outlawed in England.
1640
1674
1699
1613