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17th Century Timeline
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1. China conquers the Kingdom of Tungning and annexes Taiwan.
1640
1683
1602
1648
2. The Treaty of Westminster ends the war between England and the Republic of the United Provinces.
1616
1674
1699
1663
3. The Northern Wars cement Sweden's rise as a Great Power.
1608
1641
1603
1655
4. The Pasha of Buda supports Imre Th
1669
1681
1640
1641
5. Assassination of Stephen Bocskay of Transylvania.
1663
1639
1606
1700
6. The Dutch WestIndia Company invades the Portuguese colony of Pernambuco and founds Dutch Brazil.
1645
1645
1618
1630
7. Taj Mahal building work started in Agra -India
1662
1688
1645
1632
8. The Time of Troubles in Russia ends with the establishment of the House of Romanov which rules until 1917.
1644
1678
1602
1613
9. The earliest known first-class cricket match took place in Sussex.
1603
1610
1697
1682
10. Famine in Finland wipes out almost a third of the population.
1644
1696
1627
1632
11. Mehmed K
1627
1642
1636
1661
12. John Evelyn's forestry book - Sylva - is published in England.
1621
1664
1688
1649
13. Maximilian of Bavaria establishes the Catholic League.
1609
1696
1676
1663
14. Giovanni Battista Pamphili is elected PopeInnocent X at the Papal conclave of 1644.
1620
1606
1644
1624
15. Jamestown massacre - Algonquian natives kill 347 English settlers outside Jamestown - Virginia (1/3 of the colony's population) and burn the Henricus settlement.
1622
1648
1648
1665
16. Emperor Fasilides founds the city of Gondar - which becomes the capital of Ethiopia for the next two centuries.
1648
1616
1636
1603
17. Galileo Galilei arrives in Rome for his trial before theInquisition.
1620
1633
1647
1648
18. 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.'
1673
1669
1629
1645
19. Lithuanian Civil War
1632
1616
1634
1700
20. The Battle of Chocim - Poles and Cossacks under Jan Karol Chodkiewicz defeat the Ottomans.
1652
1636
1621
1670
21. France takes full political and military control over its colonial possessions in New France.
1674
1608
1605
1663
22. Bethlen Gabor is defeated outside Vienna.
1680
1610
1619
1692
23. Jacques Aymar-Vernay - who later reintroduced Dowsing into popular use in Europe - is born.
1631
1687
1662
1625
24. Dutch EastIndia Company founded. Its success contributes to the Dutch Golden Age.
1618
1696
1616
1602
25. Treaty of Vienna ends anti-Habsburg uprising in Royal Hungary.
1676
1606
1605
1696
26. John Locke publishes his first 'Letter Concerning Toleration'.
1678
1689
1630
1676
27. Cardinal Richelieu allies with Swedish Protestant forces in the Thirty Years' War to counter Ferdinand II's expansion.
1640
1663
1629
1616
28. The War of Devolution; France invades the Netherlands. The Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle (1668) brings this to a halt.
1660
1683
1667
1626
29. The Battle of St. Gotthard - Count Raimondo Montecuccoli defeats the Ottomans. The Peace of Vasvar
1637
1642
1648
1664
30. Cape Town founded by the Dutch EastIndia Company in South Africa.
1627
1641
1652
1664
31. Mary II of England dies
1689
1605
1694
1672
32. Russia and the Ottoman Empire commence the Russo-Turkish Wars.
1634
1611
1620
1676
33. Torture is outlawed in England.
1689
1640
1699
1620
34. Battle of N
1661
1678
1634
1601
35. The fortresses of Veszpr
1605
1627
1699
1699
36. The Treaty of Zurawno brings Polish-Ottoman hostilities to a halt.
1674
1606
1629
1676
37. The Treaty of Nerchinsk established a border between Russia and China.
1689
1672
1631
1661
38. William ascends to the throne over England - Scotland - and Ireland.
1634
1689
1663
1652
39. Flight of the Earls (the fleeing of most of the native Gaelic aristocracy) occurs from County Donegal in the west of Ulster in Ireland.
1610
1620
1607
1606
40. Edict of Fontainebleau outlaws Protestantism in France. King Charles II dies
1665
1685
1620
1609
41. Elizabeth I of England dies and is succeeded by her cousin King James VI of Scotland - uniting the crowns of Scotland and England.
1610
1665
1603
1606
42. Salem witch trials in Massachusetts.
1624
1602
1692
1683
43. Jamestown massacre - Algonquian natives kill 347 English settlers outside Jamestown - Virginia (1/3 of the colony's population) and burn the Henricus settlement.
1674
1640
1676
1622
44. English Civil War ends with the Parliamentarian victory at the Battle of Worcester.
1660
1601
1688
1651
45. Gunpowder Plot failed in England.
1605
1690
1661
1603
46. Cape Town founded by the Dutch EastIndia Company in South Africa.
1695
1610
1642
1652
47. The Defenestration of Prague
1660
1651
1618
1682
48. The War of the Two Kings in Ireland.
1700
1621
1658
1688
49. TheFirst Anglo-Dutch War begins.
1683
1689
1652
1674
50. Aurochs go extinct.
1627
1696
1662
1676