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17th Century Timeline
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1. The Siege of Derry.
1624
1652
1688
1683
2. Mount Vesuvius erupts
1603
1630
1631
1632
3. Koxinga captures Taiwan from the Dutch and founds the Kingdom of Tungning which rules until 1683.
1644
1662
1642
1652
4. The Treaty of Karlowitz ends the Great Turkish War.
1601
1606
1601
1699
5. Capture of Ormuz; The island of Hormuz was captured by an Anglo-Persian force from Portuguese.
1640
1622
1662
1665
6. Fronde civil war in France.
1620
1640
1648
1634
7. The Treaty of Nijmegen ends the hostilities with France
1700
1619
1621
1678
8. Ottoman war against Habsburg Hungary.
1661
1685
1618
1663
9. The Great Fire of London.
1666
1624
1673
1665
10. The Battle of Killiecrankie is fought between Jacobite and Williamite forces in Highland Perthshire
1639
1689
1683
1618
11. The Mughal Empire nearly bans the EastIndia Company in response to pirate Henry Every's capture of the Ganj-i-Sawai
1613
1690
1695
1673
12. Kara Mustafa becomes Grand Vizier.
1672
1682
1663
1676
13. After modernizing his army - Abbas I expands the Persian Empire by capturing territory from the Ottomans and the Portuguese.
1603
1672
1660
1667
14. Michael the Brave (first unificator of Romania) - voivode of Wallachia - Moldavia and Transylvania - is assassinated by the order of the Habsburg general Giorgio Basta at C
1601
1692
1606
1621
15. Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.
1639
1687
1651
1648
16. New Amsterdam founded by the Dutch WestIndia Company in North America.
1625
1663
1620
1606
17. Ren
1682
1616
1644
1641
18. The Time of Troubles in Russia ends with the establishment of the House of Romanov which rules until 1917.
1626
1613
1661
1681
19. Peace Treaty of Lisbon between Spain and Portugal recognizes Portugal as independent country.
1683
1644
1618
1668
20. Maximilian of Bavaria establishes the Catholic League.
1636
1633
1618
1609
21. Shimabara Rebellion of Japanese Christians - ronin and peasants against Edo.
1696
1630
1632
1637
22. Peace Treaty of Lisbon between Spain and Portugal recognizes Portugal as independent country.
1668
1607
1665
1689
23. Seven-year-old Mehmed IV becomes sultan.
1689
1634
1667
1647
24. Emperor Ferdinand II defeats the Bohemian rebels in the Battle of White Mountain.
1667
1620
1669
1648
25. The Battle of St. Gotthard - Count Raimondo Montecuccoli defeats the Ottomans. The Peace of Vasvar
1664
1652
1645
1607
26. The Great Plague of Seville.
1616
1683
1647
1694
27. Dutch explorer Abel Janszoon Tasman achieves the first recorded European sighting of New Zealand.
1648
1688
1642
1637
28. The Dutch WestIndia Company invades the Portuguese colony of Pernambuco and founds Dutch Brazil.
1687
1601
1630
1636
29. 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.'
1673
1682
1666
1633
30. Mehmed K
1688
1640
1661
1616
31. The Great Fire of London.
1663
1666
1620
1667
32. The War of the Two Kings in Ireland.
1639
1633
1688
1616
33. Ottoman campaign to help the Ukrainian Cossacks. John Sobieski defeats the Ottomans at the second battle of Khotyn (1673).
1700
1618
1672
1673
34. 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
1658
1663
1652
1689
35. As chief minister - Cardinal Richelieu centralises power in France.
1624
1682
1672
1652
36. The Treaty of Zurawno brings Polish-Ottoman hostilities to a halt.
1672
1676
1694
1652
37. The Pasha of Buda supports Imre Th
1676
1651
1674
1681
38. Wars of the Three Kingdoms - civil wars throughout Scotland - Ireland - and England.
1664
1639
1687
1666
39. Polish-Ottoman War over Moldavia.
1664
1620
1624
1610
40. Royal Society of London for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge founded.
1660
1688
1668
1606
41. Rampjaar in the Netherlands
1672
1688
1620
1620
42. Cape Town founded by the Dutch EastIndia Company in South Africa.
1620
1689
1652
1627
43. Jamestown massacre - Algonquian natives kill 347 English settlers outside Jamestown - Virginia (1/3 of the colony's population) and burn the Henricus settlement.
1631
1603
1665
1622
44. The College of William and Mary is founded in Williamsburg - Virginia by a royal charter.
1655
1693
1648
1664
45. The Pasha of Buda supports Imre Th
1622
1681
1666
1602
46. Dutch explorer Abel Janszoon Tasman achieves the first recorded European sighting of New Zealand.
1663
1640
1676
1642
47. The Ottomans capture Crete from the Venetians after the Siege of Candia.
1648
1688
1605
1601
48. 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.
1688
1642
1629
1676
49. The Battle of Vienna finishes the Ottoman Empire's hegemony in south-eastern Europe.
1688
1683
1644
1649
50. Naval Battle of the Downs
1636
1642
1639
1663
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