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17th Century Timeline
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1. John Evelyn's forestry book - Sylva - is published in England.
1618
1682
1605
1664
2. Jamestown - Virginia - is settled as what would become the first permanent English colony in North America.
1606
1607
1632
1608
3. The reign of the Kangxi Emperor of China begins.
1640
1606
1663
1661
4. As chief minister - Cardinal Richelieu centralises power in France.
1681
1690
1648
1624
5. The Pueblo Revolt drives the Spanish out of New Mexico until 1692.
1680
1676
1640
1645
6. The Tokugawa Shogunate institutes Sakoku- foreigners are expelled and no one is allowed to enter or leave Japan.
1641
1669
1620
1611
7. Koxinga captures Taiwan from the Dutch and founds the Kingdom of Tungning which rules until 1683.
1665
1602
1662
1660
8. Elizabeth I of England dies and is succeeded by her cousin King James VI of Scotland - uniting the crowns of Scotland and England.
1681
1634
1687
1603
9. The Bohemian Revolt precipitates the Thirty Years' War which devastates Europe in the years 1618
1609
1627
1618
1616
10. The Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.
1649
1620
1601
1632
11. Maratha Empire founded inIndia by Shivaji.
1667
1696
1618
1674
12. The Siege of Derry.
1688
1639
1664
1645
13. Quebec City founded by Samuel de Champlain in New France (present-day Canada).
1607
1608
1693
1674
14. Maximilian of Bavaria establishes the Catholic League.
1609
1676
1639
1670
15. Jamestown massacre - Algonquian natives kill 347 English settlers outside Jamestown - Virginia (1/3 of the colony's population) and burn the Henricus settlement.
1613
1622
1688
1672
16. Emperor Fasilides founds the city of Gondar - which becomes the capital of Ethiopia for the next two centuries.
1688
1636
1616
1625
17. The Great Fire of London.
1672
1627
1633
1666
18. The Grand Alliance sought to stop French expansion during the Nine Years War.
1648
1648
1700
1688
19. Giovanni Battista Pamphili is elected PopeInnocent X at the Papal conclave of 1644.
1694
1618
1644
1658
20. The Defenestration of Prague
1672
1669
1672
1618
21. The Battle of Chocim - Poles and Cossacks under Jan Karol Chodkiewicz defeat the Ottomans.
1673
1621
1699
1603
22. Maximilian of Bavaria establishes the Catholic League.
1672
1699
1667
1609
23. Emperor Ferdinand II defeats the Bohemian rebels in the Battle of White Mountain.
1690
1620
1605
1622
24. The Manchus start invading China. Their conquest eventually topples the Ming Dynasty.
1672
1666
1618
1629
25. Mount Vesuvius erupts
1683
1631
1639
1610
26. Beginning of English Civil War - conflict will end in 1651 with the execution of King Charles I - abolishment of the monarchy and the establishment of the supremacy of Parliament over the king.
1672
1660
1642
1602
27. The Second Anglo-Dutch War fought between England and the United Provinces.
1636
1693
1683
1665
28. Emperor Fasilides expels the Catholic Patriarch Afonso Mendes and several Jesuit missionaries from Ethiopia.
1634
1699
1624
1620
29. The 1700 Cascadia earthquake (magnitude 9) occurs off the coast of the Pacific Northwest; Japan is struck by a tsunami.
1648
1682
1631
1700
30. Franco-Dutch War.
1692
1672
1665
1645
31. Cardinal Richelieu allies with Swedish Protestant forces in the Thirty Years' War to counter Ferdinand II's expansion.
1629
1630
1640
1605
32. The Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.
1674
1620
1681
1649
33. Lithuanian Civil War
1664
1606
1667
1700
34. The Great Plague of London.
1621
1665
1629
1667
35. The Pontifical and Royal University of Santo Tomas - the oldest existing university in Asia - established by the Dominican Order in Manila
1611
1637
1619
1636
36. John Evelyn's forestry book - Sylva - is published in England.
1664
1667
1641
1672
37. The Great Turkish War halts the Ottoman Empire's expansion into Europe.
1690
1667
1655
1606
38. After modernizing his army - Abbas I expands the Persian Empire by capturing territory from the Ottomans and the Portuguese.
1631
1648
1634
1603
39. The Grand Alliance sought to stop French expansion during the Nine Years War.
1681
1627
1688
1620
40. The Manchu conquer China ending the Ming Dynasty. The subsequent Qing Dynasty rules until 1912.
1647
1622
1606
1644
41. Polish-Ottoman War.
1694
1625
1699
1672
42. The Treaty of Nerchinsk established a border between Russia and China.
1666
1689
1661
1661
43. Assassination of Stephen Bocskay of Transylvania.
1666
1606
1624
1608
44. Salem witch trials in Massachusetts.
1692
1700
1654
1639
45. Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.
1687
1661
1647
1618
46. The Hudson's Bay Company is founded in Canada.
1699
1670
1641
1647
47. Tokugawa Ieyasu seizes control of Japan and establishes the Tokugawa Shogunate - beginning the Edo period that lasts until 1869.
1603
1672
1699
1649
48. The Glorious Revolution starts with the Dutch Republic invading England - England becomes a constitutional monarchy.
1610
1688
1699
1606
49. Famine in Finland wipes out almost a third of the population.
1648
1618
1613
1696
50. The Ottomans capture Crete from the Venetians after the Siege of Candia.
1678
1692
1648
1606