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17th Century Timeline
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1. Quebec City founded by Samuel de Champlain in New France (present-day Canada).
1682
1660
1678
1608
2. John Evelyn's forestry book - Sylva - is published in England.
1696
1665
1644
1664
3. France takes full political and military control over its colonial possessions in New France.
1633
1663
1622
1689
4. Harvard University is founded in Cambridge - Massachusetts.
1636
1608
1639
1644
5. The Portuguese Restoration War led to the end of the Iberian Union.
1648
1689
1640
1607
6. Polish
1613
1640
1601
1636
7. Maffeo Barberini is elected Pope Urban VIII at the Papal conclave of 1623.
1611
1623
1642
1683
8. Naval Battle of the Downs
1606
1683
1626
1639
9. The Raid on the Medway during the Second Anglo-Dutch War.
1667
1603
1674
1606
10. Emperor Fasilides expels the Catholic Patriarch Afonso Mendes and several Jesuit missionaries from Ethiopia.
1634
1697
1663
1644
11. Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.
1687
1663
1618
1620
12. The Pasha of Buda supports Imre Th
1681
1700
1662
1648
13. Russia supplants Sweden as the dominant Baltic power after the Great Northern War.
1700
1663
1627
1699
14. Time of Troubles - Vasili IV becomes Tzar of Russia.
1645
1661
1663
1606
15. Russia and the Ottoman Empire commence the Russo-Turkish Wars.
1606
1676
1694
1678
16. The College of William and Mary is founded in Williamsburg - Virginia by a royal charter.
1667
1693
1609
1641
17. Russia and the Ottoman Empire commence the Russo-Turkish Wars.
1609
1655
1647
1676
18. As chief minister - Cardinal Richelieu centralises power in France.
1616
1624
1652
1663
19. Harvard University is founded in Cambridge - Massachusetts.
1606
1636
1682
1699
20. King Charles was compelled to summon Parliament due to the revolt of the Scots.
1620
1661
1644
1640
21. The Irish Rebellion.
1688
1641
1640
1644
22. Jacques Aymar-Vernay - who later reintroduced Dowsing into popular use in Europe - is born.
1632
1639
1662
1606
23. The Russian famine of 1601
1629
1601
1674
1660
24. The Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth army defeats combined Russian- Swedish forces at the Battle of Klushino and conquers Moscow.
1624
1607
1610
1651
25. Wars of the Three Kingdoms - civil wars throughout Scotland - Ireland - and England.
1618
1622
1688
1639
26. Polish-Ottoman War.
1618
1689
1606
1672
27. The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War.
1647
1645
1633
1644
28. Pedro de Peralta - governor of New Mexico - establishes the settlement of Santa Fe.
1663
1639
1682
1610
29. Robert Hooke discovers cells using a microscope.
1664
1626
1642
1663
30. Polish
1639
1676
1651
1613
31. Ottoman campaign to help the Ukrainian Cossacks. John Sobieski defeats the Ottomans at the second battle of Khotyn (1673).
1606
1672
1639
1652
32. Mary II of England dies
1672
1606
1694
1663
33. Torture is outlawed in England.
1689
1624
1692
1640
34. Torture is outlawed in England.
1673
1640
1618
1622
35. The Pontifical and Royal University of Santo Tomas - the oldest existing university in Asia - established by the Dominican Order in Manila
1641
1618
1683
1611
36. The Battle of Killiecrankie is fought between Jacobite and Williamite forces in Highland Perthshire
1663
1689
1645
1661
37. A Habsburg council of war is held in Vienna.
1683
1681
1654
1609
38. Franco-Dutch War.
1694
1672
1655
1641
39. The Tokugawa Shogunate institutes Sakoku- foreigners are expelled and no one is allowed to enter or leave Japan.
1641
1621
1672
1629
40. John Locke publishes his first 'Letter Concerning Toleration'.
1606
1644
1689
1606
41. Famine in France kills 2 million.
1692
1644
1613
1624
42. The Treaty of Zurawno brings Polish-Ottoman hostilities to a halt.
1683
1682
1676
1669
43. Ren
1641
1642
1620
1658
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.
1607
1603
1651
1601
45. The Russian famine of 1601
1608
1601
1683
1633
46. John Locke publishes his first 'Letter Concerning Toleration'.
1689
1627
1661
1634
47. The Hudson's Bay Company is founded in Canada.
1700
1687
1632
1670
48. Emperor Fasilides founds the city of Gondar - which becomes the capital of Ethiopia for the next two centuries.
1688
1637
1672
1636
49. The Battle of Chocim - Poles and Cossacks under Jan Karol Chodkiewicz defeat the Ottomans.
1662
1621
1700
1661
50. Rampjaar in the Netherlands
1672
1682
1652
1688