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17th Century Timeline
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1. After modernizing his army - Abbas I expands the Persian Empire by capturing territory from the Ottomans and the Portuguese.
1603
1616
1616
1648
2. Japan transforms into 'locked country'.
1633
1666
1620
1682
3. Quebec City founded by Samuel de Champlain in New France (present-day Canada).
1660
1608
1648
1692
4. Cardinal Richelieu lays siege to Protestant La Rochelle which eventually capitulates.
1627
1622
1700
1621
5. The Hudson's Bay Company is founded in Canada.
1697
1670
1696
1624
6. The Time of Troubles in Russia ends with the establishment of the House of Romanov which rules until 1917.
1663
1648
1699
1613
7. Aurochs go extinct.
1682
1642
1627
1660
8. The Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.
1649
1696
1624
1611
9. TheFirst Anglo-Dutch War begins.
1620
1652
1660
1687
10. John Locke publishes his first 'Letter Concerning Toleration'.
1642
1681
1689
1678
11. Ren
1699
1603
1641
1674
12. The Great Turkish War halts the Ottoman Empire's expansion into Europe.
1603
1625
1667
1610
13. Mehmed K
1609
1644
1654
1689
14. A Habsburg council of war is held in Vienna.
1633
1683
1634
1700
15. Bethlen Gabor is defeated outside Vienna.
1665
1652
1700
1619
16. Mount Vesuvius erupts
1631
1682
1601
1648
17. British troops capture New Amsterdam and rename it New York.
1664
1632
1619
1665
18. Maximilian of Bavaria establishes the Catholic League.
1629
1609
1672
1676
19. Russia and the Ottoman Empire commence the Russo-Turkish Wars.
1676
1687
1618
1655
20. The reign of the Kangxi Emperor of China begins.
1618
1647
1661
1630
21. Emperor Ferdinand II defeats the Bohemian rebels in the Battle of White Mountain.
1620
1665
1644
1644
22. The Pontifical and Royal University of Santo Tomas - the oldest existing university in Asia - established by the Dominican Order in Manila
1624
1611
1627
1648
23. The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War.
1689
1644
1667
1619
24. Bethlen Gabor - Prince of Transylvania joins Protestant Rebels.
1601
1683
1648
1618
25. Royal Society of London for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge founded.
1665
1608
1660
1661
26. 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.
1697
1606
1676
1660
27. The Treaty of Zurawno brings Polish-Ottoman hostilities to a halt.
1634
1672
1676
1689
28. Jamestown massacre - Algonquian natives kill 347 English settlers outside Jamestown - Virginia (1/3 of the colony's population) and burn the Henricus settlement.
1682
1606
1627
1622
29. The War of Devolution; France invades the Netherlands. The Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle (1668) brings this to a halt.
1618
1636
1667
1683
30. Fronde civil war in France.
1672
1692
1634
1648
31. Emperor Fasilides expels the Catholic Patriarch Afonso Mendes and several Jesuit missionaries from Ethiopia.
1634
1622
1682
1633
32. Treaty of Vienna ends anti-Habsburg uprising in Royal Hungary.
1662
1606
1672
1619
33. Koxinga captures Taiwan from the Dutch and founds the Kingdom of Tungning which rules until 1683.
1662
1630
1663
1685
34. The Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth army defeats combined Russian- Swedish forces at the Battle of Klushino and conquers Moscow.
1606
1696
1700
1610
35. Salem witch trials in Massachusetts.
1692
1631
1672
1664
36. The Tokugawa Shogunate institutes Sakoku- foreigners are expelled and no one is allowed to enter or leave Japan.
1672
1641
1610
1603
37. The Northern Wars cement Sweden's rise as a Great Power.
1640
1655
1697
1700
38. The earliest known first-class cricket match took place in Sussex.
1640
1689
1655
1697
39. Battle of N
1663
1640
1699
1634
40. Russia supplants Sweden as the dominant Baltic power after the Great Northern War.
1688
1634
1634
1700
41. The Bank of England is established.
1694
1660
1613
1697
42. Battle of Kinsale - one of the most important battles in Irish history - fought.
1618
1676
1636
1601
43. The Battle of the Boyne in Ireland.
1674
1613
1670
1690
44. The Northern Wars cement Sweden's rise as a Great Power.
1609
1664
1620
1655
45. The Pontifical and Royal University of Santo Tomas - the oldest existing university in Asia - established by the Dominican Order in Manila
1696
1611
1673
1634
46. Seven-year-old Mehmed IV becomes sultan.
1654
1616
1647
1687
47. Bethlen Gabor allies with the Ottomans and an invasion of Moldavia takes place. The Polish suffer a disaster at Cecora on the River Prut.
1620
1605
1688
1663
48. Jamestown - Virginia - is settled as what would become the first permanent English colony in North America.
1633
1607
1651
1652
49. Taj Mahal building work started in Agra -India
1647
1664
1696
1632
50. The Ottomans capture Crete.
1669
1634
1625
1649