Test your basic knowledge |

17th Century Timeline

Subjects : trivia, history
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
  • If you are not ready to take this test, you can study here.
  • Match each statement with the correct term.
  • Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.

This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Battle of N






2. Pedro de Peralta - governor of New Mexico - establishes the settlement of Santa Fe.






3. Naval Battle of the Downs






4. New Amsterdam founded by the Dutch WestIndia Company in North America.






5. Cape Town founded by the Dutch EastIndia Company in South Africa.






6. The Ottomans capture Crete from the Venetians after the Siege of Candia.






7. New Amsterdam founded by the Dutch WestIndia Company in North America.






8. Sultan Mehmed IV - advised by Kara Mustafa - decides to disregard the existing peace treaty with Leopold I - due to expire in 1684.






9. Emperor Fasilides founds the city of Gondar - which becomes the capital of Ethiopia for the next two centuries.






10. Flight of the Earls (the fleeing of most of the native Gaelic aristocracy) occurs from County Donegal in the west of Ulster in Ireland.






11. Mehmed K






12. The death of Miyamoto Musashi - legendary Japanese Samurai warrior - of natural causes.






13. The Great Turkish War halts the Ottoman Empire's expansion into Europe.






14. Dutch explorer Abel Janszoon Tasman achieves the first recorded European sighting of New Zealand.






15. The Great Plague of Seville.






16. The Brownist Pilgrims arrive in the Mayflower at Cape Cod






17. The Glorious Revolution starts with the Dutch Republic invading England - England becomes a constitutional monarchy.






18. Gunpowder Plot failed in England.






19. The Siege of Derry.






20. The Northern Wars cement Sweden's rise as a Great Power.






21. The Pueblo Revolt drives the Spanish out of New Mexico until 1692.






22. Time of Troubles - Vasili IV becomes Tzar of Russia.






23. Maffeo Barberini is elected Pope Urban VIII at the Papal conclave of 1623.






24. Kara Mustafa becomes Grand Vizier.






25. The Treaty of Karlowitz ends the Great Turkish War.






26. The Battle of Chocim - Poles and Cossacks under Jan Karol Chodkiewicz defeat the Ottomans.






27. After modernizing his army - Abbas I expands the Persian Empire by capturing territory from the Ottomans and the Portuguese.






28. The Raid on the Medway during the Second Anglo-Dutch War.






29. Mary II of England dies






30. The Battle of Vienna finishes the Ottoman Empire's hegemony in south-eastern Europe.






31. Maratha Empire founded inIndia by Shivaji.






32. Taj Mahal building work started in Agra -India






33. Galileo Galilei arrives in Rome for his trial before theInquisition.






34. Polish






35. Time of Troubles - Vasili IV becomes Tzar of Russia.






36. Shimabara Rebellion of Japanese Christians - ronin and peasants against Edo.






37. Jacques Aymar-Vernay - who later reintroduced Dowsing into popular use in Europe - is born.






38. The Bohemian Revolt precipitates the Thirty Years' War which devastates Europe in the years 1618






39. Abbas I - the Safavids king - died.






40. Death of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu






41. Ottoman campaign to help the Ukrainian Cossacks. John Sobieski defeats the Ottomans at the second battle of Khotyn (1673).






42. Disagreements between the Farnese and Barberini Pope Urban VIII escalate into the Wars of Castro and last until 1649.






43. John Evelyn's forestry book - Sylva - is published in England.






44. Ottoman war with Venice. The Ottomans invade Crete and capture Canea.






45. Bethlen Gabor - Prince of Transylvania joins Protestant Rebels.






46. Battle of L






47. The Ottomans capture Crete.






48. Giovanni Battista Pamphili is elected PopeInnocent X at the Papal conclave of 1644.






49. The 1700 Cascadia earthquake (magnitude 9) occurs off the coast of the Pacific Northwest; Japan is struck by a tsunami.






50. The Dutch WestIndia Company invades the Portuguese colony of Pernambuco and founds Dutch Brazil.