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17th Century Timeline
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1. The last remaining Moriscos (Moors who had nominally converted to Christianity) in Spain are expelled.
1624
1644
1616
1695
2. Bethlen Gabor - Prince of Transylvania joins Protestant Rebels.
1652
1687
1618
1670
3. Giovanni Battista Pamphili is elected PopeInnocent X at the Papal conclave of 1644.
1699
1647
1644
1611
4. Fronde civil war in France.
1624
1605
1648
1633
5. The Second Anglo-Dutch War fought between England and the United Provinces.
1676
1665
1692
1652
6. Thomas Savery demonstrates his first steam engine to the Royal Society.
1697
1637
1645
1699
7. British troops capture New Amsterdam and rename it New York.
1674
1664
1676
1682
8. The Treaty of Zurawno brings Polish-Ottoman hostilities to a halt.
1639
1676
1620
1607
9. After his father Shah Jahan completes the Taj Mahal - his son Aurangzeb deposes him as ruler of the Mughal Empire.
1613
1658
1667
1668
10. John Evelyn's forestry book - Sylva - is published in England.
1631
1689
1624
1664
11. Salem witch trials in Massachusetts.
1692
1663
1636
1632
12. The reign of the Kangxi Emperor of China begins.
1647
1661
1601
1642
13. Franco-Dutch War.
1682
1605
1672
1648
14. The War of the Two Kings in Ireland.
1699
1647
1609
1688
15. St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican completed.
1661
1647
1641
1626
16. Mehmed K
1631
1618
1673
1661
17. Maratha Empire founded inIndia by Shivaji.
1674
1627
1607
1694
18. Russia and the Ottoman Empire commence the Russo-Turkish Wars.
1676
1603
1640
1632
19. The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War.
1644
1609
1672
1676
20. The Great Plague of Seville.
1613
1688
1647
1665
21. The Brownist Pilgrims arrive in the Mayflower at Cape Cod
1620
1606
1648
1644
22. The Portuguese Restoration War led to the end of the Iberian Union.
1634
1640
1606
1601
23. Treaty of Vienna ends anti-Habsburg uprising in Royal Hungary.
1665
1694
1662
1606
24. King Charles was compelled to summon Parliament due to the revolt of the Scots.
1689
1674
1642
1640
25. The Bank of England is established.
1613
1606
1694
1689
26. Cardinal Richelieu allies with Swedish Protestant forces in the Thirty Years' War to counter Ferdinand II's expansion.
1629
1697
1694
1610
27. Edict of Fontainebleau outlaws Protestantism in France. King Charles II dies
1674
1663
1606
1685
28. The Great Plague of London.
1665
1619
1676
1688
29. The Siege of Derry.
1669
1608
1688
1623
30. The Battle of the Boyne in Ireland.
1688
1690
1601
1667
31. Mehmed K
1652
1618
1654
1622
32. The Tokugawa Shogunate institutes Sakoku- foreigners are expelled and no one is allowed to enter or leave Japan.
1640
1641
1624
1672
33. A Habsburg council of war is held in Vienna.
1636
1683
1603
1648
34. Wars of the Three Kingdoms - civil wars throughout Scotland - Ireland - and England.
1639
1699
1619
1660
35. The Great Plague of London.
1665
1636
1620
1663
36. Elizabeth I of England dies and is succeeded by her cousin King James VI of Scotland - uniting the crowns of Scotland and England.
1613
1622
1676
1603
37. The Great Turkish War halts the Ottoman Empire's expansion into Europe.
1642
1667
1689
1694
38. The Battle of St. Gotthard - Count Raimondo Montecuccoli defeats the Ottomans. The Peace of Vasvar
1664
1602
1607
1606
39. Death of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu
1603
1616
1631
1601
40. The Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth army defeats combined Russian- Swedish forces at the Battle of Klushino and conquers Moscow.
1610
1695
1618
1627
41. Galileo Galilei arrives in Rome for his trial before theInquisition.
1627
1674
1700
1633
42. Emperor Ferdinand II defeats the Bohemian rebels in the Battle of White Mountain.
1699
1620
1700
1642
43. The 1700 Cascadia earthquake (magnitude 9) occurs off the coast of the Pacific Northwest; Japan is struck by a tsunami.
1601
1667
1700
1624
44. Russia supplants Sweden as the dominant Baltic power after the Great Northern War.
1606
1700
1678
1648
45. English poet and playwright William Shakespeare dies.
1616
1645
1688
1620
46. Abbas I - the Safavids king - died.
1690
1606
1629
1630
47. The fortresses of Veszpr
1645
1689
1680
1605
48. Ottoman campaign to help the Ukrainian Cossacks. John Sobieski defeats the Ottomans at the second battle of Khotyn (1673).
1640
1603
1609
1672
49. The Bohemian Revolt precipitates the Thirty Years' War which devastates Europe in the years 1618
1618
1620
1627
1622
50. Emperor Fasilides expels the Catholic Patriarch Afonso Mendes and several Jesuit missionaries from Ethiopia.
1634
1632
1670
1676