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17th Century Timeline
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1. Koxinga captures Taiwan from the Dutch and founds the Kingdom of Tungning which rules until 1683.
1662
1601
1616
1676
2. English poet and playwright William Shakespeare dies.
1664
1616
1672
1689
3. Royal Society of London for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge founded.
1652
1601
1660
1652
4. The earliest known first-class cricket match took place in Sussex.
1634
1697
1639
1636
5. The Ottomans make camp at Adrianople.
1651
1605
1610
1682
6. Cape Town founded by the Dutch EastIndia Company in South Africa.
1652
1685
1613
1663
7. Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.
1620
1687
1648
1616
8. Edict of Fontainebleau outlaws Protestantism in France. King Charles II dies
1683
1620
1610
1685
9. Franco-Dutch War.
1631
1688
1682
1672
10. Taj Mahal building work started in Agra -India
1607
1623
1609
1632
11. 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
1672
1632
1601
1632
12. After his father Shah Jahan completes the Taj Mahal - his son Aurangzeb deposes him as ruler of the Mughal Empire.
1645
1601
1658
1678
13. King Charles was compelled to summon Parliament due to the revolt of the Scots.
1640
1644
1636
1682
14. France takes full political and military control over its colonial possessions in New France.
1624
1663
1672
1676
15. Royal Society of London for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge founded.
1664
1688
1623
1660
16. The Treaty of Nijmegen ends the hostilities with France
1689
1637
1678
1620
17. Time of Troubles - Vasili IV becomes Tzar of Russia.
1606
1663
1689
1682
18. Battle of N
1676
1682
1667
1634
19. The Treaty of Westminster ends the war between England and the Republic of the United Provinces.
1674
1689
1618
1682
20. Cardinal Richelieu allies with Swedish Protestant forces in the Thirty Years' War to counter Ferdinand II's expansion.
1629
1642
1616
1606
21. Salem witch trials in Massachusetts.
1681
1625
1692
1601
22. The Bohemian Revolt precipitates the Thirty Years' War which devastates Europe in the years 1618
1658
1688
1618
1641
23. Pedro de Peralta - governor of New Mexico - establishes the settlement of Santa Fe.
1618
1623
1610
1700
24. The Tokugawa Shogunate institutes Sakoku- foreigners are expelled and no one is allowed to enter or leave Japan.
1688
1641
1622
1603
25. Treaty of Vienna ends anti-Habsburg uprising in Royal Hungary.
1652
1620
1606
1610
26. The Glorious Revolution starts with the Dutch Republic invading England - England becomes a constitutional monarchy.
1688
1642
1692
1689
27. Gunpowder Plot failed in England.
1696
1605
1683
1668
28. The Glorious Revolution starts with the Dutch Republic invading England - England becomes a constitutional monarchy.
1663
1688
1667
1634
29. The War of the Two Kings in Ireland.
1689
1607
1610
1688
30. Dutch explorer Abel Janszoon Tasman achieves the first recorded European sighting of New Zealand.
1642
1625
1660
1662
31. Emperor Fasilides expels the Catholic Patriarch Afonso Mendes and several Jesuit missionaries from Ethiopia.
1636
1637
1654
1634
32. Shimabara Rebellion of Japanese Christians - ronin and peasants against Edo.
1606
1700
1637
1618
33. The reign of the Kangxi Emperor of China begins.
1625
1613
1631
1661
34. Ottoman campaign to help the Ukrainian Cossacks. John Sobieski defeats the Ottomans at the second battle of Khotyn (1673).
1672
1652
1680
1689
35. The Ottomans make camp at Adrianople.
1680
1601
1682
1637
36. Peace Treaty of Lisbon between Spain and Portugal recognizes Portugal as independent country.
1668
1632
1647
1618
37. Emperor Ferdinand II defeats the Bohemian rebels in the Battle of White Mountain.
1694
1685
1620
1661
38. Jamestown - Virginia - is settled as what would become the first permanent English colony in North America.
1631
1620
1607
1689
39. Battle of L
1641
1632
1644
1606
40. The Treaty of Karlowitz ends the Great Turkish War.
1674
1601
1665
1699
41. Cardinal Richelieu allies with Swedish Protestant forces in the Thirty Years' War to counter Ferdinand II's expansion.
1626
1668
1629
1661
42. Torture is outlawed in England.
1627
1648
1601
1640
43. Gunpowder Plot failed in England.
1608
1648
1605
1620
44. The Netherlands and Spain agree to a Twelve Years' Truce in the Eighty Years' War.
1669
1624
1609
1641
45. British troops capture New Amsterdam and rename it New York.
1648
1664
1626
1616
46. Lithuanian Civil War
1666
1660
1683
1700
47. The Netherlands and Spain agree to a Twelve Years' Truce in the Eighty Years' War.
1649
1609
1630
1613
48. France takes full political and military control over its colonial possessions in New France.
1603
1667
1663
1644
49. Polish
1682
1642
1616
1613
50. Quebec City founded by Samuel de Champlain in New France (present-day Canada).
1647
1627
1608
1629
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