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17th Century Timeline
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1. Cardinal Richelieu lays siege to Protestant La Rochelle which eventually capitulates.
1627
1618
1665
1689
2. Torture is outlawed in England.
1603
1640
1624
1652
3. As chief minister - Cardinal Richelieu centralises power in France.
1626
1633
1634
1624
4. New Amsterdam founded by the Dutch WestIndia Company in North America.
1625
1622
1607
1697
5. Gunpowder Plot failed in England.
1601
1636
1605
1674
6. Mehmed K
1609
1660
1661
1685
7. Ren
1688
1660
1649
1641
8. The Treaty of Nerchinsk established a border between Russia and China.
1619
1648
1689
1618
9. English poet and playwright William Shakespeare dies.
1601
1665
1654
1616
10. The Deluge wars leave Polish
1625
1641
1672
1648
11. The Grand Alliance sought to stop French expansion during the Nine Years War.
1673
1636
1688
1662
12. The Pontifical and Royal University of Santo Tomas - the oldest existing university in Asia - established by the Dominican Order in Manila
1609
1647
1611
1663
13. 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.
1641
1642
1603
1629
14. Cape Town founded by the Dutch EastIndia Company in South Africa.
1610
1699
1652
1644
15. The Ottomans make camp at Adrianople.
1620
1624
1618
1682
16. Famine in France kills 2 million.
1683
1692
1672
1694
17. Lynching of Johan de Witt and his brother Cornelis de Witt in the Hague
1683
1672
1645
1687
18. The Netherlands and Spain agree to a Twelve Years' Truce in the Eighty Years' War.
1690
1609
1632
1676
19. Tokugawa Ieyasu seizes control of Japan and establishes the Tokugawa Shogunate - beginning the Edo period that lasts until 1869.
1618
1634
1644
1603
20. The Battle of Vienna finishes the Ottoman Empire's hegemony in south-eastern Europe.
1629
1695
1683
1608
21. Famine in France kills 2 million.
1692
1611
1609
1681
22. Assassination of Stephen Bocskay of Transylvania.
1616
1606
1616
1613
23. Time of Troubles - Vasili IV becomes Tzar of Russia.
1606
1692
1660
1641
24. Portugal defeats the Kongo Empire at the Battle of Mbwila.
1655
1665
1603
1667
25. The Hudson's Bay Company is founded in Canada.
1647
1670
1674
1699
26. The Manchus start invading China. Their conquest eventually topples the Ming Dynasty.
1603
1618
1647
1631
27. Wars of the Three Kingdoms - civil wars throughout Scotland - Ireland - and England.
1639
1688
1674
1672
28. Mount Vesuvius erupts
1632
1648
1662
1631
29. The Tokugawa Shogunate institutes Sakoku- foreigners are expelled and no one is allowed to enter or leave Japan.
1665
1620
1641
1636
30. Taj Mahal building work started in Agra -India
1618
1632
1700
1642
31. John Evelyn's forestry book - Sylva - is published in England.
1648
1627
1633
1664
32. Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.
1630
1641
1652
1687
33. A Habsburg council of war is held in Vienna.
1652
1648
1683
1648
34. The War of Devolution; France invades the Netherlands. The Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle (1668) brings this to a halt.
1682
1667
1607
1665
35. The Defenestration of Prague
1647
1618
1666
1607
36. The Brownist Pilgrims arrive in the Mayflower at Cape Cod
1664
1681
1620
1633
37. The College of William and Mary is founded in Williamsburg - Virginia by a royal charter.
1694
1693
1618
1664
38. Disagreements between the Farnese and Barberini Pope Urban VIII escalate into the Wars of Castro and last until 1649.
1606
1639
1674
1667
39. The Mughal Empire nearly bans the EastIndia Company in response to pirate Henry Every's capture of the Ganj-i-Sawai
1688
1695
1624
1654
40. Maratha Empire founded inIndia by Shivaji.
1674
1676
1664
1613
41. Captain Willem Janszoon and his crew aboard the Dutch EastIndia Company ship Duyfken becomes the first recorded Europeans to sight and make landfall in Australia.
1666
1616
1606
1609
42. The Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.
1636
1663
1640
1649
43. Russia and the Ottoman Empire commence the Russo-Turkish Wars.
1676
1683
1645
1674
44. The Irish Rebellion.
1672
1641
1700
1688
45. Kara Mustafa becomes Grand Vizier.
1697
1676
1683
1622
46. The Great Plague of London.
1601
1607
1611
1665
47. Taj Mahal building work started in Agra -India
1632
1692
1700
1625
48. The reign of the Kangxi Emperor of China begins.
1667
1648
1665
1661
49. The Northern Wars cement Sweden's rise as a Great Power.
1655
1676
1630
1618
50. France takes full political and military control over its colonial possessions in New France.
1629
1619
1663
1648