Test your basic knowledge |

17th Century Timeline

Subjects : trivia, history
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
  • If you are not ready to take this test, you can study here.
  • Match each statement with the correct term.
  • Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.

This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Abbas I - the Safavids king - died.






2. Maratha Empire founded inIndia by Shivaji.






3. The earliest known first-class cricket match took place in Sussex.






4. 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.'






5. Bethlen Gabor - Prince of Transylvania joins Protestant Rebels.






6. The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War.






7. Famine in Finland wipes out almost a third of the population.






8. The Pueblo Revolt drives the Spanish out of New Mexico until 1692.






9. Wars of the Three Kingdoms - civil wars throughout Scotland - Ireland - and England.






10. The last remaining Moriscos (Moors who had nominally converted to Christianity) in Spain are expelled.






11. Disagreements between the Farnese and Barberini Pope Urban VIII escalate into the Wars of Castro and last until 1649.






12. TheFirst Anglo-Dutch War begins.






13. The Mughal Empire nearly bans the EastIndia Company in response to pirate Henry Every's capture of the Ganj-i-Sawai






14. King Charles was compelled to summon Parliament due to the revolt of the Scots.






15. Battle of L






16. 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.






17. Rampjaar in the Netherlands






18. Naval Battle of the Downs






19. The Great Plague of Seville.






20. The Second Anglo-Dutch War fought between England and the United Provinces.






21. The earliest known first-class cricket match took place in Sussex.






22. The Treaty of Zurawno brings Polish-Ottoman hostilities to a halt.






23. The Treaty of Nerchinsk established a border between Russia and China.






24. The Treaty of Karlowitz ends the Great Turkish War.






25. Robert Hooke discovers cells using a microscope.






26. The Brownist Pilgrims arrive in the Mayflower at Cape Cod






27. Shimabara Rebellion of Japanese Christians - ronin and peasants against Edo.






28. The Karposh rebellion is crushed in present-day Republic of Macedonia - Skopje is retaken by the Ottoman Turks. Karposh is killed - and the rebels are defeated. Giles Cory was pressed to death during the Salem witch trials in the 1690s






29. Famine in Finland wipes out almost a third of the population.






30. The Ottomans capture Crete.






31. Mehmed K






32. New Amsterdam founded by the Dutch WestIndia Company in North America.






33. Ottoman campaign to help the Ukrainian Cossacks. John Sobieski defeats the Ottomans at the second battle of Khotyn (1673).






34. Bethlen Gabor - Prince of Transylvania joins Protestant Rebels.






35. Peace Treaty of Lisbon between Spain and Portugal recognizes Portugal as independent country.






36. The Battle of Chocim - Poles and Cossacks under Jan Karol Chodkiewicz defeat the Ottomans.






37. Peter the Great becomes joint ruler of Russia (sole tsar in 1696).






38. Jacques Aymar-Vernay - who later reintroduced Dowsing into popular use in Europe - is born.






39. Tokugawa Ieyasu seizes control of Japan and establishes the Tokugawa Shogunate - beginning the Edo period that lasts until 1869.






40. Harvard University is founded in Cambridge - Massachusetts.






41. The fortresses of Veszpr






42. Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.






43. The Portuguese Restoration War led to the end of the Iberian Union.






44. The Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.






45. Koxinga captures Taiwan from the Dutch and founds the Kingdom of Tungning which rules until 1683.






46. Famine in France kills 2 million.






47. The Glorious Revolution starts with the Dutch Republic invading England - England becomes a constitutional monarchy.






48. Maffeo Barberini is elected Pope Urban VIII at the Papal conclave of 1623.






49. The Tokugawa Shogunate institutes Sakoku- foreigners are expelled and no one is allowed to enter or leave Japan.






50. Franco-Dutch War.