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17th Century Timeline
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1. The Manchus start invading China. Their conquest eventually topples the Ming Dynasty.
1668
1609
1618
1632
2. Giovanni Battista Pamphili is elected PopeInnocent X at the Papal conclave of 1644.
1699
1651
1644
1641
3. Treaty of Vienna ends anti-Habsburg uprising in Royal Hungary.
1606
1689
1625
1622
4. Salem witch trials in Massachusetts.
1692
1611
1688
1622
5. Disagreements between the Farnese and Barberini Pope Urban VIII escalate into the Wars of Castro and last until 1649.
1640
1639
1647
1609
6. The Pasha of Buda supports Imre Th
1652
1681
1627
1663
7. Jamestown massacre - Algonquian natives kill 347 English settlers outside Jamestown - Virginia (1/3 of the colony's population) and burn the Henricus settlement.
1622
1633
1636
1683
8. 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
1601
1690
1633
1648
9. Dutch EastIndia Company founded. Its success contributes to the Dutch Golden Age.
1682
1682
1648
1602
10. The Treaty of Karlowitz ends the Great Turkish War.
1688
1699
1664
1689
11. Death of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu
1616
1676
1609
1682
12. The Hudson's Bay Company is founded in Canada.
1670
1660
1688
1620
13. Emperor Fasilides expels the Catholic Patriarch Afonso Mendes and several Jesuit missionaries from Ethiopia.
1689
1660
1609
1634
14. John Locke publishes his first 'Letter Concerning Toleration'.
1663
1618
1688
1689
15. The Dutch WestIndia Company invades the Portuguese colony of Bahia in Brazil.
1616
1624
1620
1644
16. Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.
1687
1648
1613
1603
17. Naval Battle of the Downs
1636
1607
1639
1664
18. The death of Miyamoto Musashi - legendary Japanese Samurai warrior - of natural causes.
1697
1694
1645
1601
19. Bethlen Gabor allies with the Ottomans and an invasion of Moldavia takes place. The Polish suffer a disaster at Cecora on the River Prut.
1609
1633
1620
1663
20. The Treaty of Karlowitz ends the Great Turkish War.
1663
1668
1654
1699
21. Mount Vesuvius erupts
1700
1631
1645
1618
22. The Battle of Chocim - Poles and Cossacks under Jan Karol Chodkiewicz defeat the Ottomans.
1619
1621
1676
1665
23. Emperor Ferdinand II defeats the Bohemian rebels in the Battle of White Mountain.
1630
1620
1670
1664
24. Dutch explorer Abel Janszoon Tasman achieves the first recorded European sighting of New Zealand.
1689
1601
1642
1680
25. John Evelyn's forestry book - Sylva - is published in England.
1666
1664
1636
1660
26. The Commonwealth of England ends and the monarchy is brought back during the English Restoration.
1660
1667
1662
1601
27. The reign of the Kangxi Emperor of China begins.
1618
1642
1642
1661
28. The Treaty of Nijmegen ends the hostilities with France
1688
1633
1678
1676
29. The Glorious Revolution starts with the Dutch Republic invading England - England becomes a constitutional monarchy.
1688
1667
1652
1655
30. Dutch EastIndia Company founded. Its success contributes to the Dutch Golden Age.
1602
1663
1672
1648
31. Louis XIV accepts the Spanish crown on behalf of his grandson Philip of Anjou - triggering the War of the Spanish Succession
1634
1672
1618
1700
32. After modernizing his army - Abbas I expands the Persian Empire by capturing territory from the Ottomans and the Portuguese.
1616
1603
1618
1648
33. The Tokugawa Shogunate institutes Sakoku- foreigners are expelled and no one is allowed to enter or leave Japan.
1692
1641
1620
1618
34. The Bank of England is established.
1667
1641
1688
1694
35. The 1700 Cascadia earthquake (magnitude 9) occurs off the coast of the Pacific Northwest; Japan is struck by a tsunami.
1642
1611
1631
1700
36. Maximilian of Bavaria establishes the Catholic League.
1609
1670
1676
1688
37. France takes full political and military control over its colonial possessions in New France.
1672
1639
1663
1639
38. The Great Fire of London.
1692
1682
1666
1672
39. Edict of Fontainebleau outlaws Protestantism in France. King Charles II dies
1605
1685
1688
1620
40. As chief minister - Cardinal Richelieu centralises power in France.
1689
1644
1672
1624
41. Harvard University is founded in Cambridge - Massachusetts.
1636
1640
1663
1694
42. TheFirst Anglo-Dutch War begins.
1665
1688
1665
1652
43. The Karposh rebellion is crushed in present-day Republic of Macedonia - Skopje is retaken by the Ottoman Turks. Karposh is killed - and the rebels are defeated. Giles Cory was pressed to death during the Salem witch trials in the 1690s
1660
1634
1647
1689
44. The Time of Troubles in Russia ends with the establishment of the House of Romanov which rules until 1917.
1688
1672
1639
1613
45. Seven-year-old Mehmed IV becomes sultan.
1654
1632
1647
1664
46. China conquers the Kingdom of Tungning and annexes Taiwan.
1629
1683
1689
1625
47. Famine in Finland wipes out almost a third of the population.
1692
1674
1696
1601
48. The Battle of the Boyne in Ireland.
1699
1601
1690
1689
49. Wars of the Three Kingdoms - civil wars throughout Scotland - Ireland - and England.
1640
1642
1697
1639
50. Lithuanian Civil War
1699
1667
1642
1700