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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.
1601
1672
1690
1662
2. English Civil War ends with the Parliamentarian victory at the Battle of Worcester.
1663
1692
1689
1651
3. Peter the Great becomes joint ruler of Russia (sole tsar in 1696).
1605
1613
1682
1699
4. Franco-Dutch War.
1672
1641
1683
1670
5. 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.'
1640
1673
1608
1688
6. The fortresses of Veszpr
1688
1618
1645
1605
7. Russia supplants Sweden as the dominant Baltic power after the Great Northern War.
1688
1700
1627
1665
8. Mount Vesuvius erupts
1636
1645
1683
1631
9. William ascends to the throne over England - Scotland - and Ireland.
1625
1683
1641
1689
10. The Siege of Derry.
1688
1674
1637
1663
11. The Battle of Vienna finishes the Ottoman Empire's hegemony in south-eastern Europe.
1620
1674
1683
1688
12. The Treaty of Westminster ends the war between England and the Republic of the United Provinces.
1674
1641
1648
1608
13. Ottoman war with Venice. The Ottomans invade Crete and capture Canea.
1606
1642
1603
1645
14. The Great Plague of London.
1603
1647
1665
1662
15. Fronde civil war in France.
1683
1634
1641
1648
16. Peace Treaty of Lisbon between Spain and Portugal recognizes Portugal as independent country.
1667
1668
1662
1605
17. The Treaty of Zurawno brings Polish-Ottoman hostilities to a halt.
1689
1648
1609
1676
18. Mary II of England dies
1694
1608
1688
1645
19. The Great Plague of London.
1689
1661
1688
1665
20. Tokugawa Ieyasu seizes control of Japan and establishes the Tokugawa Shogunate - beginning the Edo period that lasts until 1869.
1662
1618
1626
1603
21. Famine in France kills 2 million.
1603
1629
1641
1692
22. Gunpowder Plot failed in England.
1663
1630
1605
1616
23. St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican completed.
1626
1672
1700
1644
24. Tokugawa Ieyasu seizes control of Japan and establishes the Tokugawa Shogunate - beginning the Edo period that lasts until 1869.
1603
1613
1645
1663
25. The Battle of St. Gotthard - Count Raimondo Montecuccoli defeats the Ottomans. The Peace of Vasvar
1664
1647
1689
1652
26. Disagreements between the Farnese and Barberini Pope Urban VIII escalate into the Wars of Castro and last until 1649.
1648
1616
1700
1639
27. Lynching of Johan de Witt and his brother Cornelis de Witt in the Hague
1639
1672
1636
1603
28. Gunpowder Plot failed in England.
1649
1605
1696
1636
29. The death of Miyamoto Musashi - legendary Japanese Samurai warrior - of natural causes.
1634
1603
1689
1645
30. The Glorious Revolution starts with the Dutch Republic invading England - England becomes a constitutional monarchy.
1654
1624
1688
1647
31. Ottoman campaign to help the Ukrainian Cossacks. John Sobieski defeats the Ottomans at the second battle of Khotyn (1673).
1648
1609
1672
1665
32. The Battle of the Boyne in Ireland.
1683
1642
1661
1690
33. The College of William and Mary is founded in Williamsburg - Virginia by a royal charter.
1693
1651
1672
1630
34. The Great Turkish War halts the Ottoman Empire's expansion into Europe.
1624
1661
1667
1693
35. Maratha Empire founded inIndia by Shivaji.
1601
1674
1661
1633
36. Jamestown - Virginia - is settled as what would become the first permanent English colony in North America.
1672
1610
1607
1663
37. Mary II of England dies
1700
1644
1637
1694
38. The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War.
1642
1672
1644
1676
39. Thomas Savery demonstrates his first steam engine to the Royal Society.
1683
1688
1647
1699
40. The Pueblo Revolt drives the Spanish out of New Mexico until 1692.
1672
1680
1603
1605
41. Taj Mahal building work started in Agra -India
1603
1605
1632
1629
42. The Bank of England is established.
1664
1603
1694
1640
43. Lithuanian Civil War
1665
1689
1605
1700
44. Thomas Savery demonstrates his first steam engine to the Royal Society.
1689
1626
1699
1648
45. Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.
1687
1690
1645
1672
46. Rampjaar in the Netherlands
1636
1672
1676
1636
47. The 1700 Cascadia earthquake (magnitude 9) occurs off the coast of the Pacific Northwest; Japan is struck by a tsunami.
1620
1700
1672
1607
48. The Battle of Chocim - Poles and Cossacks under Jan Karol Chodkiewicz defeat the Ottomans.
1610
1664
1621
1673
49. John Evelyn's forestry book - Sylva - is published in England.
1683
1630
1664
1639
50. Russia supplants Sweden as the dominant Baltic power after the Great Northern War.
1622
1692
1700
1620