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17th Century Timeline
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1. Death of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu
1700
1611
1616
1603
2. Taj Mahal building work started in Agra -India
1664
1632
1603
1673
3. Lynching of Johan de Witt and his brother Cornelis de Witt in the Hague
1689
1625
1645
1672
4. Torture is outlawed in England.
1619
1621
1622
1640
5. Thomas Savery demonstrates his first steam engine to the Royal Society.
1699
1664
1630
1627
6. Pedro de Peralta - governor of New Mexico - establishes the settlement of Santa Fe.
1700
1682
1610
1639
7. The War of the Two Kings in Ireland.
1696
1688
1666
1689
8. The reign of the Kangxi Emperor of China begins.
1661
1666
1642
1601
9. The Hudson's Bay Company is founded in Canada.
1693
1689
1689
1670
10. The Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth army defeats combined Russian- Swedish forces at the Battle of Klushino and conquers Moscow.
1667
1611
1648
1610
11. 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
1642
1639
1697
12. Capture of Ormuz; The island of Hormuz was captured by an Anglo-Persian force from Portuguese.
1622
1633
1692
1605
13. Bethlen Gabor is defeated outside Vienna.
1616
1640
1619
1625
14. Royal Society of London for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge founded.
1660
1603
1689
1648
15. The Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.
1649
1610
1621
1631
16. The Pueblo Revolt drives the Spanish out of New Mexico until 1692.
1682
1672
1680
1697
17. Russia supplants Sweden as the dominant Baltic power after the Great Northern War.
1634
1700
1682
1668
18. The Netherlands and Spain agree to a Twelve Years' Truce in the Eighty Years' War.
1683
1609
1610
1670
19. Jacques Aymar-Vernay - who later reintroduced Dowsing into popular use in Europe - is born.
1603
1688
1662
1610
20. Polish-Ottoman War over Moldavia.
1687
1620
1674
1681
21. France takes full political and military control over its colonial possessions in New France.
1663
1642
1631
1655
22. The Northern Wars cement Sweden's rise as a Great Power.
1652
1664
1655
1688
23. Japan transforms into 'locked country'.
1645
1633
1692
1664
24. Elizabeth I of England dies and is succeeded by her cousin King James VI of Scotland - uniting the crowns of Scotland and England.
1662
1603
1606
1613
25. Cape Town founded by the Dutch EastIndia Company in South Africa.
1667
1652
1661
1639
26. John Locke publishes his first 'Letter Concerning Toleration'.
1641
1689
1620
1609
27. The 1700 Cascadia earthquake (magnitude 9) occurs off the coast of the Pacific Northwest; Japan is struck by a tsunami.
1700
1620
1652
1613
28. The Treaty of Westminster ends the war between England and the Republic of the United Provinces.
1674
1620
1616
1607
29. Battle of L
1689
1601
1632
1700
30. The Treaty of Nerchinsk established a border between Russia and China.
1644
1603
1689
1601
31. A Habsburg council of war is held in Vienna.
1651
1683
1688
1664
32. Treaty of Vienna ends anti-Habsburg uprising in Royal Hungary.
1700
1700
1601
1606
33. The Tokugawa Shogunate institutes Sakoku- foreigners are expelled and no one is allowed to enter or leave Japan.
1641
1629
1665
1607
34. After his father Shah Jahan completes the Taj Mahal - his son Aurangzeb deposes him as ruler of the Mughal Empire.
1662
1658
1629
1627
35. Mary II of England dies
1636
1618
1694
1624
36. The Ottomans capture Crete from the Venetians after the Siege of Candia.
1670
1637
1648
1620
37. William ascends to the throne over England - Scotland - and Ireland.
1689
1639
1658
1609
38. Ren
1689
1641
1683
1672
39. Aurochs go extinct.
1688
1651
1627
1634
40. John Evelyn's forestry book - Sylva - is published in England.
1699
1664
1662
1682
41. The Manchu conquer China ending the Ming Dynasty. The subsequent Qing Dynasty rules until 1912.
1607
1692
1665
1644
42. The College of William and Mary is founded in Williamsburg - Virginia by a royal charter.
1693
1681
1697
1700
43. The Battle of Chocim - Poles and Cossacks under Jan Karol Chodkiewicz defeat the Ottomans.
1621
1652
1652
1651
44. The Raid on the Medway during the Second Anglo-Dutch War.
1610
1601
1687
1667
45. The Second Anglo-Dutch War fought between England and the United Provinces.
1627
1670
1665
1613
46. The Mughal Empire nearly bans the EastIndia Company in response to pirate Henry Every's capture of the Ganj-i-Sawai
1699
1641
1649
1695
47. The Great Fire of London.
1607
1697
1666
1660
48. British troops capture New Amsterdam and rename it New York.
1673
1664
1618
1634
49. The Time of Troubles in Russia ends with the establishment of the House of Romanov which rules until 1917.
1667
1627
1613
1630
50. The Dutch WestIndia Company invades the Portuguese colony of Pernambuco and founds Dutch Brazil.
1667
1665
1678
1630
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