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17th Century Timeline
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1. English poet and playwright William Shakespeare dies.
1613
1616
1678
1648
2. The Irish Rebellion.
1606
1622
1648
1641
3. The Russian famine of 1601
1601
1631
1692
1616
4. Maratha Empire founded inIndia by Shivaji.
1633
1631
1676
1674
5. Giovanni Battista Pamphili is elected PopeInnocent X at the Papal conclave of 1644.
1603
1683
1644
1601
6. The death of Miyamoto Musashi - legendary Japanese Samurai warrior - of natural causes.
1667
1676
1645
1674
7. Maratha Empire founded inIndia by Shivaji.
1637
1672
1660
1674
8. The War of the Two Kings in Ireland.
1623
1618
1629
1688
9. The Great Turkish War halts the Ottoman Empire's expansion into Europe.
1676
1673
1603
1667
10. Seven-year-old Mehmed IV becomes sultan.
1648
1633
1676
1647
11. Ottoman campaign to help the Ukrainian Cossacks. John Sobieski defeats the Ottomans at the second battle of Khotyn (1673).
1620
1672
1696
1689
12. The Battle of St. Gotthard - Count Raimondo Montecuccoli defeats the Ottomans. The Peace of Vasvar
1644
1697
1664
1601
13. France takes full political and military control over its colonial possessions in New France.
1663
1664
1667
1620
14. Galileo Galilei arrives in Rome for his trial before theInquisition.
1618
1633
1644
1647
15. The Treaty of Karlowitz ends the Great Turkish War.
1667
1613
1620
1699
16. Time of Troubles - Vasili IV becomes Tzar of Russia.
1683
1606
1688
1662
17. The Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth army defeats combined Russian- Swedish forces at the Battle of Klushino and conquers Moscow.
1618
1667
1610
1676
18. Bethlen Gabor - Prince of Transylvania joins Protestant Rebels.
1618
1605
1631
1651
19. The War of Devolution; France invades the Netherlands. The Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle (1668) brings this to a halt.
1613
1633
1667
1605
20. King Charles was compelled to summon Parliament due to the revolt of the Scots.
1640
1603
1695
1627
21. Jacques Aymar-Vernay - who later reintroduced Dowsing into popular use in Europe - is born.
1668
1665
1662
1655
22. John Locke publishes his first 'Letter Concerning Toleration'.
1620
1676
1672
1689
23. The Dutch WestIndia Company invades the Portuguese colony of Bahia in Brazil.
1652
1624
1609
1618
24. The Treaty of Zurawno brings Polish-Ottoman hostilities to a halt.
1674
1673
1640
1676
25. The Great Plague of London.
1626
1620
1664
1665
26. Abbas I - the Safavids king - died.
1681
1697
1629
1676
27. The Bohemian Revolt precipitates the Thirty Years' War which devastates Europe in the years 1618
1667
1618
1672
1641
28. The Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.
1660
1601
1649
1697
29. Salem witch trials in Massachusetts.
1641
1692
1665
1700
30. Taj Mahal building work started in Agra -India
1632
1667
1658
1633
31. Franco-Dutch War.
1640
1642
1672
1603
32. Quebec City founded by Samuel de Champlain in New France (present-day Canada).
1608
1616
1649
1682
33. 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
1680
1622
1627
1689
34. Mehmed K
1603
1640
1692
1654
35. Mount Vesuvius erupts
1676
1631
1621
1651
36. Mary II of England dies
1694
1629
1639
1634
37. The Pasha of Buda supports Imre Th
1678
1620
1692
1681
38. The Tokugawa Shogunate institutes Sakoku- foreigners are expelled and no one is allowed to enter or leave Japan.
1641
1663
1648
1676
39. Death of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu
1697
1641
1616
1648
40. Torture is outlawed in England.
1673
1670
1640
1606
41. Disagreements between the Farnese and Barberini Pope Urban VIII escalate into the Wars of Castro and last until 1649.
1663
1640
1639
1627
42. The War of the Two Kings in Ireland.
1627
1688
1682
1613
43. After his father Shah Jahan completes the Taj Mahal - his son Aurangzeb deposes him as ruler of the Mughal Empire.
1658
1662
1625
1644
44. La Salle explores the length of the Mississippi River and claims Louisiana for France.
1688
1682
1611
1694
45. The Bank of England is established.
1694
1672
1613
1641
46. Robert Hooke discovers cells using a microscope.
1644
1620
1622
1663
47. Emperor Fasilides expels the Catholic Patriarch Afonso Mendes and several Jesuit missionaries from Ethiopia.
1610
1647
1634
1687
48. The Glorious Revolution starts with the Dutch Republic invading England - England becomes a constitutional monarchy.
1619
1688
1606
1661
49. The Manchus start invading China. Their conquest eventually topples the Ming Dynasty.
1618
1622
1641
1645
50. Aurochs go extinct.
1672
1682
1627
1618