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17th Century Timeline
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1. Battle of L
1665
1632
1620
1683
2. Mount Vesuvius erupts
1700
1672
1634
1631
3. British troops capture New Amsterdam and rename it New York.
1662
1662
1664
1634
4. After modernizing his army - Abbas I expands the Persian Empire by capturing territory from the Ottomans and the Portuguese.
1603
1605
1618
1607
5. Polish-Ottoman War.
1661
1672
1642
1699
6. The Bohemian Revolt precipitates the Thirty Years' War which devastates Europe in the years 1618
1641
1688
1602
1618
7. The Grand Alliance sought to stop French expansion during the Nine Years War.
1648
1689
1688
1672
8. The Mughal Empire nearly bans the EastIndia Company in response to pirate Henry Every's capture of the Ganj-i-Sawai
1651
1682
1625
1695
9. Aurochs go extinct.
1627
1648
1663
1683
10. Ottoman campaign to help the Ukrainian Cossacks. John Sobieski defeats the Ottomans at the second battle of Khotyn (1673).
1660
1688
1644
1672
11. The Northern Wars cement Sweden's rise as a Great Power.
1685
1636
1655
1610
12. Abbas I - the Safavids king - died.
1695
1663
1637
1629
13. The Treaty of Zurawno brings Polish-Ottoman hostilities to a halt.
1648
1676
1641
1663
14. Cardinal Richelieu lays siege to Protestant La Rochelle which eventually capitulates.
1627
1629
1672
1655
15. Taj Mahal building work started in Agra -India
1648
1607
1632
1692
16. Emperor Fasilides expels the Catholic Patriarch Afonso Mendes and several Jesuit missionaries from Ethiopia.
1632
1603
1634
1682
17. Louis XIV accepts the Spanish crown on behalf of his grandson Philip of Anjou - triggering the War of the Spanish Succession
1648
1676
1682
1700
18. The Battle of Killiecrankie is fought between Jacobite and Williamite forces in Highland Perthshire
1689
1620
1648
1644
19. Mehmed K
1652
1661
1616
1603
20. Naval Battle of the Downs
1651
1639
1602
1633
21. Ottoman war against Habsburg Hungary.
1682
1607
1663
1676
22. The Portuguese Restoration War led to the end of the Iberian Union.
1662
1640
1616
1695
23. Jamestown - Virginia - is settled as what would become the first permanent English colony in North America.
1607
1670
1688
1605
24. The Manchus start invading China. Their conquest eventually topples the Ming Dynasty.
1689
1658
1682
1618
25. The Battle of Chocim - Poles and Cossacks under Jan Karol Chodkiewicz defeat the Ottomans.
1692
1621
1672
1629
26. Sultan Mehmed IV - advised by Kara Mustafa - decides to disregard the existing peace treaty with Leopold I - due to expire in 1684.
1660
1624
1682
1648
27. The Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.
1649
1695
1636
1652
28. Aurochs go extinct.
1627
1689
1669
1613
29. Mary II of England dies
1694
1611
1639
1639
30. Lynching of Johan de Witt and his brother Cornelis de Witt in the Hague
1672
1682
1673
1689
31. Franco-Dutch War.
1625
1672
1699
1665
32. 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.'
1666
1662
1676
1673
33. The Great Turkish War halts the Ottoman Empire's expansion into Europe.
1624
1665
1651
1667
34. Edict of Fontainebleau outlaws Protestantism in France. King Charles II dies
1695
1647
1607
1685
35. The Irish Rebellion.
1607
1641
1618
1700
36. France takes full political and military control over its colonial possessions in New France.
1644
1663
1689
1660
37. Cardinal Richelieu allies with Swedish Protestant forces in the Thirty Years' War to counter Ferdinand II's expansion.
1616
1660
1634
1629
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
1687
1601
1652
1620
39. Rampjaar in the Netherlands
1672
1620
1639
1637
40. Royal Society of London for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge founded.
1700
1621
1624
1660
41. A Habsburg council of war is held in Vienna.
1689
1683
1689
1687
42. The fortresses of Veszpr
1644
1605
1663
1688
43. Bethlen Gabor is defeated outside Vienna.
1613
1613
1619
1699
44. Emperor Ferdinand II defeats the Bohemian rebels in the Battle of White Mountain.
1606
1620
1632
1645
45. The Ottomans make camp at Adrianople.
1688
1667
1682
1676
46. Fronde civil war in France.
1645
1676
1648
1662
47. The 1700 Cascadia earthquake (magnitude 9) occurs off the coast of the Pacific Northwest; Japan is struck by a tsunami.
1688
1622
1700
1611
48. The Tokugawa Shogunate institutes Sakoku- foreigners are expelled and no one is allowed to enter or leave Japan.
1641
1636
1606
1609
49. Portugal defeats the Kongo Empire at the Battle of Mbwila.
1665
1692
1696
1682
50. Maffeo Barberini is elected Pope Urban VIII at the Papal conclave of 1623.
1699
1687
1672
1623