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17th Century Timeline
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1. Maximilian of Bavaria establishes the Catholic League.
1606
1637
1633
1609
2. Cardinal Richelieu lays siege to Protestant La Rochelle which eventually capitulates.
1685
1672
1627
1658
3. Louis XIV accepts the Spanish crown on behalf of his grandson Philip of Anjou - triggering the War of the Spanish Succession
1700
1661
1644
1603
4. Russia supplants Sweden as the dominant Baltic power after the Great Northern War.
1700
1625
1647
1632
5. The Pontifical and Royal University of Santo Tomas - the oldest existing university in Asia - established by the Dominican Order in Manila
1616
1652
1682
1611
6. Peace Treaty of Lisbon between Spain and Portugal recognizes Portugal as independent country.
1668
1645
1647
1603
7. Salem witch trials in Massachusetts.
1647
1689
1692
1670
8. Giovanni Battista Pamphili is elected PopeInnocent X at the Papal conclave of 1644.
1645
1644
1618
1674
9. Death of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu
1616
1682
1632
1622
10. The Netherlands and Spain agree to a Twelve Years' Truce in the Eighty Years' War.
1618
1641
1682
1609
11. As chief minister - Cardinal Richelieu centralises power in France.
1664
1660
1629
1624
12. Battle of Kinsale - one of the most important battles in Irish history - fought.
1601
1655
1667
1647
13. Edict of Fontainebleau outlaws Protestantism in France. King Charles II dies
1640
1685
1676
1678
14. Bethlen Gabor - Prince of Transylvania joins Protestant Rebels.
1618
1672
1700
1664
15. Polish-Ottoman War over Moldavia.
1654
1618
1694
1620
16. Famine in Finland wipes out almost a third of the population.
1636
1627
1696
1689
17. Portugal defeats the Kongo Empire at the Battle of Mbwila.
1700
1665
1694
1688
18. Abbas I - the Safavids king - died.
1629
1648
1700
1672
19. The Treaty of Nijmegen ends the hostilities with France
1689
1631
1678
1658
20. William ascends to the throne over England - Scotland - and Ireland.
1682
1633
1689
1602
21. Treaty of Vienna ends anti-Habsburg uprising in Royal Hungary.
1605
1674
1665
1606
22. The fortresses of Veszpr
1676
1605
1700
1634
23. The Irish Rebellion.
1661
1641
1694
1631
24. The reign of the Kangxi Emperor of China begins.
1618
1640
1644
1661
25. Kara Mustafa becomes Grand Vizier.
1689
1688
1610
1676
26. As chief minister - Cardinal Richelieu centralises power in France.
1647
1692
1678
1624
27. Polish-Ottoman War over Moldavia.
1636
1620
1693
1606
28. Mount Vesuvius erupts
1626
1661
1631
1663
29. The Battle of Killiecrankie is fought between Jacobite and Williamite forces in Highland Perthshire
1689
1608
1631
1700
30. Jamestown massacre - Algonquian natives kill 347 English settlers outside Jamestown - Virginia (1/3 of the colony's population) and burn the Henricus settlement.
1627
1622
1618
1644
31. Tokugawa Ieyasu seizes control of Japan and establishes the Tokugawa Shogunate - beginning the Edo period that lasts until 1869.
1700
1667
1603
1636
32. Bethlen Gabor - Prince of Transylvania joins Protestant Rebels.
1618
1667
1606
1627
33. English poet and playwright William Shakespeare dies.
1618
1683
1616
1700
34. English Civil War ends with the Parliamentarian victory at the Battle of Worcester.
1685
1652
1670
1651
35. The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War.
1644
1693
1620
1605
36. The Battle of Vienna finishes the Ottoman Empire's hegemony in south-eastern Europe.
1683
1676
1634
1663
37. Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.
1661
1687
1678
1641
38. St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican completed.
1654
1626
1700
1662
39. Death of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu
1664
1669
1616
1634
40. The War of Devolution; France invades the Netherlands. The Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle (1668) brings this to a halt.
1622
1645
1696
1667
41. English poet and playwright William Shakespeare dies.
1688
1616
1672
1606
42. The Second Anglo-Dutch War fought between England and the United Provinces.
1676
1665
1620
1693
43. Flight of the Earls (the fleeing of most of the native Gaelic aristocracy) occurs from County Donegal in the west of Ulster in Ireland.
1611
1636
1607
1660
44. The Netherlands and Spain agree to a Twelve Years' Truce in the Eighty Years' War.
1609
1607
1647
1695
45. The Treaty of Nerchinsk established a border between Russia and China.
1689
1688
1633
1605
46. The Portuguese Restoration War led to the end of the Iberian Union.
1616
1639
1687
1640
47. The Great Turkish War halts the Ottoman Empire's expansion into Europe.
1667
1606
1609
1690
48. Peter the Great becomes joint ruler of Russia (sole tsar in 1696).
1661
1682
1620
1689
49. The Northern Wars cement Sweden's rise as a Great Power.
1644
1655
1652
1663
50. Russia and the Ottoman Empire commence the Russo-Turkish Wars.
1625
1676
1674
1632