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17th Century Timeline
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1. Cardinal Richelieu lays siege to Protestant La Rochelle which eventually capitulates.
1610
1627
1667
1670
2. The Hudson's Bay Company is founded in Canada.
1626
1670
1694
1683
3. Cardinal Richelieu allies with Swedish Protestant forces in the Thirty Years' War to counter Ferdinand II's expansion.
1642
1647
1676
1629
4. The Treaty of Nerchinsk established a border between Russia and China.
1685
1640
1647
1689
5. Polish-Ottoman War.
1605
1618
1660
1672
6. The Treaty of Karlowitz ends the Great Turkish War.
1699
1662
1609
1619
7. The Long War between the Ottoman Empire and Austria is ended with the Peace of Zsitvatorok - Austria abandons Transylvania.
1648
1630
1672
1606
8. Abbas I - the Safavids king - died.
1639
1629
1654
1609
9. The Great Turkish War halts the Ottoman Empire's expansion into Europe.
1642
1667
1674
1644
10. The death of Miyamoto Musashi - legendary Japanese Samurai warrior - of natural causes.
1601
1632
1621
1645
11. The Battle of St. Gotthard - Count Raimondo Montecuccoli defeats the Ottomans. The Peace of Vasvar
1674
1637
1664
1627
12. The Second Anglo-Dutch War fought between England and the United Provinces.
1644
1644
1616
1665
13. The Dutch WestIndia Company invades the Portuguese colony of Bahia in Brazil.
1632
1624
1606
1699
14. Emperor Fasilides expels the Catholic Patriarch Afonso Mendes and several Jesuit missionaries from Ethiopia.
1603
1644
1634
1700
15. Tokugawa Ieyasu seizes control of Japan and establishes the Tokugawa Shogunate - beginning the Edo period that lasts until 1869.
1603
1685
1654
1676
16. The Pontifical and Royal University of Santo Tomas - the oldest existing university in Asia - established by the Dominican Order in Manila
1611
1625
1606
1622
17. The Long War between the Ottoman Empire and Austria is ended with the Peace of Zsitvatorok - Austria abandons Transylvania.
1621
1606
1688
1667
18. The Manchu conquer China ending the Ming Dynasty. The subsequent Qing Dynasty rules until 1912.
1601
1682
1644
1645
19. The Portuguese Restoration War led to the end of the Iberian Union.
1607
1631
1640
1688
20. The Great Plague of London.
1665
1618
1645
1654
21. Bethlen Gabor - Prince of Transylvania joins Protestant Rebels.
1640
1667
1618
1620
22. Ren
1620
1689
1603
1641
23. Koxinga captures Taiwan from the Dutch and founds the Kingdom of Tungning which rules until 1683.
1662
1664
1699
1607
24. Naval Battle of the Downs
1611
1639
1608
1695
25. Emperor Fasilides expels the Catholic Patriarch Afonso Mendes and several Jesuit missionaries from Ethiopia.
1688
1606
1644
1634
26. The Treaty of Zurawno brings Polish-Ottoman hostilities to a halt.
1616
1663
1609
1676
27. Polish-Ottoman War over Moldavia.
1620
1640
1649
1670
28. Kara Mustafa becomes Grand Vizier.
1608
1660
1688
1676
29. Maratha Empire founded inIndia by Shivaji.
1683
1674
1661
1624
30. The Northern Wars cement Sweden's rise as a Great Power.
1694
1652
1655
1664
31. The Russian famine of 1601
1672
1634
1601
1681
32. Peter the Great becomes joint ruler of Russia (sole tsar in 1696).
1682
1672
1633
1663
33. Elizabeth I of England dies and is succeeded by her cousin King James VI of Scotland - uniting the crowns of Scotland and England.
1692
1606
1685
1603
34. Polish-Ottoman War.
1672
1626
1685
1640
35. The Manchus start invading China. Their conquest eventually topples the Ming Dynasty.
1688
1622
1618
1672
36. Ren
1700
1620
1664
1641
37. The Battle of Vienna finishes the Ottoman Empire's hegemony in south-eastern Europe.
1692
1642
1683
1688
38. Torture is outlawed in England.
1663
1641
1681
1640
39. Mary II of England dies
1649
1644
1639
1694
40. New Amsterdam founded by the Dutch WestIndia Company in North America.
1696
1625
1618
1626
41. France takes full political and military control over its colonial possessions in New France.
1639
1655
1663
1609
42. The Ottomans make camp at Adrianople.
1602
1682
1616
1630
43. Bethlen Gabor - Prince of Transylvania joins Protestant Rebels.
1695
1618
1662
1672
44. Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.
1687
1609
1676
1664
45. The Great Plague of Seville.
1688
1648
1647
1688
46. The War of the Two Kings in Ireland.
1606
1688
1609
1654
47. New Amsterdam founded by the Dutch WestIndia Company in North America.
1625
1689
1665
1642
48. The Treaty of Nerchinsk established a border between Russia and China.
1673
1700
1676
1689
49. The Mughal Empire nearly bans the EastIndia Company in response to pirate Henry Every's capture of the Ganj-i-Sawai
1620
1696
1665
1695
50. The reign of the Kangxi Emperor of China begins.
1610
1680
1613
1661