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17th Century Timeline
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1. Mehmed K
1674
1662
1654
1618
2. 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.'
1664
1673
1605
1625
3. Time of Troubles - Vasili IV becomes Tzar of Russia.
1674
1644
1697
1606
4. The Battle of Killiecrankie is fought between Jacobite and Williamite forces in Highland Perthshire
1603
1689
1669
1690
5. The earliest known first-class cricket match took place in Sussex.
1697
1610
1665
1639
6. Ottoman campaign to help the Ukrainian Cossacks. John Sobieski defeats the Ottomans at the second battle of Khotyn (1673).
1670
1626
1672
1605
7. English poet and playwright William Shakespeare dies.
1663
1616
1632
1700
8. Emperor Fasilides founds the city of Gondar - which becomes the capital of Ethiopia for the next two centuries.
1639
1665
1648
1636
9. The Treaty of Zurawno brings Polish-Ottoman hostilities to a halt.
1633
1676
1683
1672
10. France takes full political and military control over its colonial possessions in New France.
1690
1606
1663
1644
11. Kara Mustafa becomes Grand Vizier.
1676
1688
1648
1605
12. Quebec City founded by Samuel de Champlain in New France (present-day Canada).
1608
1620
1618
1678
13. The Great Turkish War halts the Ottoman Empire's expansion into Europe.
1665
1692
1613
1667
14. The Netherlands and Spain agree to a Twelve Years' Truce in the Eighty Years' War.
1624
1609
1633
1603
15. Abbas I - the Safavids king - died.
1640
1642
1606
1629
16. The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War.
1644
1661
1694
1618
17. The Battle of the Boyne in Ireland.
1619
1626
1622
1690
18. 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
1688
1688
1654
19. Dutch EastIndia Company founded. Its success contributes to the Dutch Golden Age.
1627
1662
1683
1602
20. Naval Battle of the Downs
1660
1639
1613
1648
21. Battle of N
1674
1634
1667
1640
22. The Ottomans capture Crete from the Venetians after the Siege of Candia.
1648
1674
1667
1647
23. The Raid on the Medway during the Second Anglo-Dutch War.
1662
1667
1633
1613
24. Taj Mahal building work started in Agra -India
1644
1632
1603
1609
25. Ottoman war against Habsburg Hungary.
1631
1611
1663
1632
26. Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.
1664
1641
1687
1674
27. Russia and the Ottoman Empire commence the Russo-Turkish Wars.
1603
1682
1641
1676
28. Michael the Brave (first unificator of Romania) - voivode of Wallachia - Moldavia and Transylvania - is assassinated by the order of the Habsburg general Giorgio Basta at C
1676
1610
1624
1601
29. The last remaining Moriscos (Moors who had nominally converted to Christianity) in Spain are expelled.
1607
1652
1672
1616
30. The death of Miyamoto Musashi - legendary Japanese Samurai warrior - of natural causes.
1645
1664
1606
1618
31. Bethlen Gabor is defeated outside Vienna.
1610
1639
1619
1613
32. The War of the Two Kings in Ireland.
1683
1699
1672
1688
33. The Great Plague of London.
1696
1665
1664
1689
34. Tokugawa Ieyasu seizes control of Japan and establishes the Tokugawa Shogunate - beginning the Edo period that lasts until 1869.
1674
1603
1694
1658
35. Mehmed K
1601
1644
1661
1674
36. The fortresses of Veszpr
1693
1616
1693
1605
37. Ren
1641
1685
1609
1618
38. The Ottomans capture Crete from the Venetians after the Siege of Candia.
1672
1648
1688
1688
39. The Pontifical and Royal University of Santo Tomas - the oldest existing university in Asia - established by the Dominican Order in Manila
1603
1611
1683
1632
40. The Ottomans make camp at Adrianople.
1682
1664
1627
1700
41. The Battle of St. Gotthard - Count Raimondo Montecuccoli defeats the Ottomans. The Peace of Vasvar
1664
1610
1606
1616
42. The 1700 Cascadia earthquake (magnitude 9) occurs off the coast of the Pacific Northwest; Japan is struck by a tsunami.
1625
1672
1700
1670
43. British troops capture New Amsterdam and rename it New York.
1616
1672
1665
1664
44. The Treaty of Westminster ends the war between England and the Republic of the United Provinces.
1683
1605
1641
1674
45. The Defenestration of Prague
1692
1606
1700
1618
46. The Dutch WestIndia Company invades the Portuguese colony of Pernambuco and founds Dutch Brazil.
1630
1681
1665
1692
47. Maximilian of Bavaria establishes the Catholic League.
1654
1609
1606
1682
48. Salem witch trials in Massachusetts.
1692
1674
1618
1664
49. Koxinga captures Taiwan from the Dutch and founds the Kingdom of Tungning which rules until 1683.
1605
1662
1689
1672
50. Maximilian of Bavaria establishes the Catholic League.
1696
1609
1694
1687