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17th Century Timeline
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1. Galileo Galilei arrives in Rome for his trial before theInquisition.
1647
1688
1633
1605
2. Torture is outlawed in England.
1665
1695
1640
1618
3. Aurochs go extinct.
1616
1627
1688
1611
4. Cardinal Richelieu allies with Swedish Protestant forces in the Thirty Years' War to counter Ferdinand II's expansion.
1641
1627
1662
1629
5. The Battle of Vienna finishes the Ottoman Empire's hegemony in south-eastern Europe.
1641
1601
1683
1606
6. Dutch EastIndia Company founded. Its success contributes to the Dutch Golden Age.
1602
1672
1642
1678
7. Gunpowder Plot failed in England.
1610
1630
1605
1609
8. After his father Shah Jahan completes the Taj Mahal - his son Aurangzeb deposes him as ruler of the Mughal Empire.
1664
1652
1607
1658
9. The Long War between the Ottoman Empire and Austria is ended with the Peace of Zsitvatorok - Austria abandons Transylvania.
1613
1606
1601
1609
10. Peace Treaty of Lisbon between Spain and Portugal recognizes Portugal as independent country.
1621
1630
1633
1668
11. Abbas I - the Safavids king - died.
1688
1669
1620
1629
12. The Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.
1649
1632
1685
1620
13. The Bank of England is established.
1610
1694
1605
1644
14. Famine in Finland wipes out almost a third of the population.
1681
1668
1696
1670
15. Torture is outlawed in England.
1673
1640
1663
1641
16. The Long War between the Ottoman Empire and Austria is ended with the Peace of Zsitvatorok - Austria abandons Transylvania.
1664
1606
1601
1667
17. New Amsterdam founded by the Dutch WestIndia Company in North America.
1603
1625
1620
1678
18. The Portuguese Restoration War led to the end of the Iberian Union.
1655
1672
1640
1654
19. The Defenestration of Prague
1618
1689
1606
1700
20. Thomas Savery demonstrates his first steam engine to the Royal Society.
1632
1648
1699
1602
21. The Battle of Chocim - Poles and Cossacks under Jan Karol Chodkiewicz defeat the Ottomans.
1688
1683
1621
1632
22. Japan transforms into 'locked country'.
1607
1633
1606
1667
23. Polish-Ottoman War over Moldavia.
1647
1620
1609
1639
24. The Tokugawa Shogunate institutes Sakoku- foreigners are expelled and no one is allowed to enter or leave Japan.
1641
1694
1618
1694
25. Bethlen Gabor is defeated outside Vienna.
1648
1667
1619
1685
26. English poet and playwright William Shakespeare dies.
1658
1658
1616
1689
27. Seven-year-old Mehmed IV becomes sultan.
1648
1647
1672
1629
28. The Peace of Westphalia ends the Thirty Years' War and the Eighty Years' War and marks the ends of Spain and the Holy Roman Empire as major European powers.
1648
1680
1634
1606
29. King Charles was compelled to summon Parliament due to the revolt of the Scots.
1601
1688
1624
1640
30. Franco-Dutch War.
1660
1636
1688
1672
31. The Treaty of Nerchinsk established a border between Russia and China.
1689
1642
1608
1609
32. The Northern Wars cement Sweden's rise as a Great Power.
1648
1672
1639
1655
33. Mount Vesuvius erupts
1672
1631
1678
1658
34. TheFirst Anglo-Dutch War begins.
1652
1683
1606
1605
35. Death of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu
1685
1694
1648
1616
36. The Bohemian Revolt precipitates the Thirty Years' War which devastates Europe in the years 1618
1642
1606
1606
1618
37. A Habsburg council of war is held in Vienna.
1683
1621
1601
1637
38. Sultan Mehmed IV - advised by Kara Mustafa - decides to disregard the existing peace treaty with Leopold I - due to expire in 1684.
1660
1682
1618
1672
39. Emperor Ferdinand II defeats the Bohemian rebels in the Battle of White Mountain.
1611
1639
1651
1620
40. The Manchu conquer China ending the Ming Dynasty. The subsequent Qing Dynasty rules until 1912.
1688
1601
1644
1660
41. France takes full political and military control over its colonial possessions in New France.
1607
1661
1663
1676
42. Assassination of Stephen Bocskay of Transylvania.
1613
1622
1606
1682
43. Cardinal Richelieu allies with Swedish Protestant forces in the Thirty Years' War to counter Ferdinand II's expansion.
1629
1683
1651
1602
44. Flight of the Earls (the fleeing of most of the native Gaelic aristocracy) occurs from County Donegal in the west of Ulster in Ireland.
1609
1682
1607
1655
45. The Siege of Derry.
1662
1681
1688
1682
46. The 1700 Cascadia earthquake (magnitude 9) occurs off the coast of the Pacific Northwest; Japan is struck by a tsunami.
1606
1700
1688
1607
47. La Salle explores the length of the Mississippi River and claims Louisiana for France.
1661
1618
1672
1682
48. Maximilian of Bavaria establishes the Catholic League.
1664
1609
1601
1636
49. William ascends to the throne over England - Scotland - and Ireland.
1629
1609
1666
1689
50. The Deluge wars leave Polish
1648
1626
1683
1694