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17th Century Timeline
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1. Capture of Ormuz; The island of Hormuz was captured by an Anglo-Persian force from Portuguese.
1603
1622
1696
1688
2. 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.
1616
1606
1665
1648
3. The Manchus start invading China. Their conquest eventually topples the Ming Dynasty.
1689
1663
1618
1607
4. Battle of N
1644
1672
1634
1606
5. 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
1633
1642
1661
6. Pedro de Peralta - governor of New Mexico - establishes the settlement of Santa Fe.
1640
1610
1681
1618
7. Bethlen Gabor is defeated outside Vienna.
1681
1665
1689
1619
8. Polish-Ottoman War over Moldavia.
1606
1683
1636
1620
9. Ottoman war with Venice. The Ottomans invade Crete and capture Canea.
1689
1645
1616
1688
10. The Defenestration of Prague
1660
1674
1680
1618
11. The Great Turkish War halts the Ottoman Empire's expansion into Europe.
1667
1672
1647
1626
12. Bethlen Gabor allies with the Ottomans and an invasion of Moldavia takes place. The Polish suffer a disaster at Cecora on the River Prut.
1634
1620
1689
1616
13. 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
1678
1651
1688
1601
14. Edict of Fontainebleau outlaws Protestantism in France. King Charles II dies
1676
1667
1685
1697
15. Famine in Finland wipes out almost a third of the population.
1632
1683
1630
1696
16. The Grand Alliance sought to stop French expansion during the Nine Years War.
1688
1644
1672
1601
17. Emperor Ferdinand II defeats the Bohemian rebels in the Battle of White Mountain.
1611
1616
1682
1620
18. Russia and the Ottoman Empire commence the Russo-Turkish Wars.
1663
1676
1652
1602
19. The Dutch WestIndia Company invades the Portuguese colony of Pernambuco and founds Dutch Brazil.
1630
1606
1616
1658
20. Harvard University is founded in Cambridge - Massachusetts.
1689
1602
1636
1689
21. Kara Mustafa becomes Grand Vizier.
1618
1661
1637
1676
22. The Time of Troubles in Russia ends with the establishment of the House of Romanov which rules until 1917.
1680
1603
1613
1672
23. The Battle of Killiecrankie is fought between Jacobite and Williamite forces in Highland Perthshire
1689
1618
1605
1609
24. The Tokugawa Shogunate institutes Sakoku- foreigners are expelled and no one is allowed to enter or leave Japan.
1641
1645
1700
1636
25. The Grand Alliance sought to stop French expansion during the Nine Years War.
1655
1688
1648
1663
26. The Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth army defeats combined Russian- Swedish forces at the Battle of Klushino and conquers Moscow.
1620
1664
1690
1610
27. The Battle of Vienna finishes the Ottoman Empire's hegemony in south-eastern Europe.
1648
1605
1672
1683
28. 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
1634
1609
1607
29. Salem witch trials in Massachusetts.
1672
1692
1606
1665
30. Taj Mahal building work started in Agra -India
1632
1637
1620
1688
31. William ascends to the throne over England - Scotland - and Ireland.
1689
1682
1668
1607
32. The Hudson's Bay Company is founded in Canada.
1670
1664
1688
1644
33. Mehmed K
1652
1661
1683
1690
34. Seven-year-old Mehmed IV becomes sultan.
1682
1647
1666
1601
35. Emperor Fasilides expels the Catholic Patriarch Afonso Mendes and several Jesuit missionaries from Ethiopia.
1666
1634
1652
1630
36. Royal Society of London for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge founded.
1673
1660
1663
1664
37. Russia supplants Sweden as the dominant Baltic power after the Great Northern War.
1683
1700
1625
1681
38. 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
1700
1648
1601
1603
39. The earliest known first-class cricket match took place in Sussex.
1697
1667
1613
1648
40. Jamestown massacre - Algonquian natives kill 347 English settlers outside Jamestown - Virginia (1/3 of the colony's population) and burn the Henricus settlement.
1622
1626
1618
1658
41. Death of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu
1647
1664
1616
1652
42. William ascends to the throne over England - Scotland - and Ireland.
1662
1689
1616
1665
43. British troops capture New Amsterdam and rename it New York.
1606
1689
1664
1682
44. St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican completed.
1626
1647
1654
1618
45. The Battle of Chocim - Poles and Cossacks under Jan Karol Chodkiewicz defeat the Ottomans.
1621
1647
1696
1662
46. Russia supplants Sweden as the dominant Baltic power after the Great Northern War.
1636
1676
1688
1700
47. Battle of L
1682
1672
1670
1632
48. The Great Fire of London.
1666
1624
1676
1654
49. After his father Shah Jahan completes the Taj Mahal - his son Aurangzeb deposes him as ruler of the Mughal Empire.
1661
1658
1642
1663
50. The Ottomans capture Crete from the Venetians after the Siege of Candia.
1658
1648
1672
1642
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