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17th Century Timeline
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1. La Salle explores the length of the Mississippi River and claims Louisiana for France.
1606
1688
1682
1644
2. A Habsburg council of war is held in Vienna.
1662
1639
1683
1625
3. The 1700 Cascadia earthquake (magnitude 9) occurs off the coast of the Pacific Northwest; Japan is struck by a tsunami.
1674
1664
1700
1688
4. The War of Devolution; France invades the Netherlands. The Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle (1668) brings this to a halt.
1678
1667
1627
1601
5. Time of Troubles - Vasili IV becomes Tzar of Russia.
1662
1647
1603
1606
6. Assassination of Stephen Bocskay of Transylvania.
1607
1662
1655
1606
7. Peter the Great becomes joint ruler of Russia (sole tsar in 1696).
1682
1660
1620
1693
8. Harvard University is founded in Cambridge - Massachusetts.
1636
1607
1649
1687
9. The Great Plague of Seville.
1647
1605
1664
1664
10. The Siege of Derry.
1665
1676
1688
1687
11. The Hudson's Bay Company is founded in Canada.
1660
1605
1670
1673
12. 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.'
1639
1673
1647
1683
13. Battle of N
1633
1634
1678
1629
14. Polish
1648
1682
1629
1613
15. The Tokugawa Shogunate institutes Sakoku- foreigners are expelled and no one is allowed to enter or leave Japan.
1606
1648
1606
1641
16. The Treaty of Westminster ends the war between England and the Republic of the United Provinces.
1674
1652
1607
1676
17. Pedro de Peralta - governor of New Mexico - establishes the settlement of Santa Fe.
1610
1616
1655
1683
18. After his father Shah Jahan completes the Taj Mahal - his son Aurangzeb deposes him as ruler of the Mughal Empire.
1682
1663
1658
1664
19. Famine in France kills 2 million.
1665
1629
1647
1692
20. Royal Society of London for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge founded.
1639
1625
1660
1651
21. The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War.
1644
1610
1689
1683
22. English poet and playwright William Shakespeare dies.
1601
1647
1668
1616
23. The War of the Two Kings in Ireland.
1633
1632
1688
1621
24. The Netherlands and Spain agree to a Twelve Years' Truce in the Eighty Years' War.
1689
1609
1620
1630
25. Mount Vesuvius erupts
1631
1689
1680
1624
26. The Treaty of Karlowitz ends the Great Turkish War.
1633
1683
1699
1689
27. 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.
1681
1632
1648
1606
28. Bethlen Gabor - Prince of Transylvania joins Protestant Rebels.
1624
1672
1622
1618
29. Edict of Fontainebleau outlaws Protestantism in France. King Charles II dies
1620
1685
1647
1683
30. The Pueblo Revolt drives the Spanish out of New Mexico until 1692.
1680
1682
1642
1618
31. Robert Hooke discovers cells using a microscope.
1699
1609
1672
1663
32. The Pasha of Buda supports Imre Th
1674
1681
1640
1664
33. The Second Anglo-Dutch War fought between England and the United Provinces.
1665
1610
1629
1636
34. La Salle explores the length of the Mississippi River and claims Louisiana for France.
1619
1664
1605
1682
35. Cardinal Richelieu allies with Swedish Protestant forces in the Thirty Years' War to counter Ferdinand II's expansion.
1624
1668
1629
1630
36. Quebec City founded by Samuel de Champlain in New France (present-day Canada).
1692
1608
1616
1607
37. Jamestown - Virginia - is settled as what would become the first permanent English colony in North America.
1689
1672
1607
1648
38. Emperor Ferdinand II defeats the Bohemian rebels in the Battle of White Mountain.
1648
1606
1620
1689
39. The Peace of Westphalia ends the Thirty Years' War and the Eighty Years' War and marks the ends of Spain and the Holy Roman Empire as major European powers.
1648
1636
1663
1667
40. Royal Society of London for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge founded.
1632
1601
1660
1700
41. Battle of L
1632
1644
1689
1616
42. Maratha Empire founded inIndia by Shivaji.
1674
1689
1680
1676
43. Tokugawa Ieyasu seizes control of Japan and establishes the Tokugawa Shogunate - beginning the Edo period that lasts until 1869.
1644
1603
1676
1622
44. Ren
1699
1682
1641
1689
45. The Long War between the Ottoman Empire and Austria is ended with the Peace of Zsitvatorok - Austria abandons Transylvania.
1645
1690
1606
1689
46. As chief minister - Cardinal Richelieu centralises power in France.
1661
1625
1624
1620
47. Maffeo Barberini is elected Pope Urban VIII at the Papal conclave of 1623.
1632
1647
1630
1623
48. The Northern Wars cement Sweden's rise as a Great Power.
1682
1689
1697
1655
49. Torture is outlawed in England.
1606
1640
1644
1689
50. Death of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu
1664
1603
1616
1683