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17th Century Timeline
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1. Siamese revolution of 1688 ousted French influence and virtually severed all ties with the West until the 19th century.
1605
1606
1601
1688
2. Thomas Savery demonstrates his first steam engine to the Royal Society.
1620
1699
1606
1651
3. Treaty of Vienna ends anti-Habsburg uprising in Royal Hungary.
1672
1613
1668
1606
4. Jamestown massacre - Algonquian natives kill 347 English settlers outside Jamestown - Virginia (1/3 of the colony's population) and burn the Henricus settlement.
1642
1616
1622
1607
5. Peter the Great becomes joint ruler of Russia (sole tsar in 1696).
1665
1606
1663
1682
6. Death of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu
1633
1676
1621
1616
7. Ren
1620
1665
1633
1641
8. Sultan Mehmed IV - advised by Kara Mustafa - decides to disregard the existing peace treaty with Leopold I - due to expire in 1684.
1667
1632
1665
1682
9. Famine in Finland wipes out almost a third of the population.
1601
1672
1696
1624
10. Jamestown - Virginia - is settled as what would become the first permanent English colony in North America.
1648
1665
1607
1673
11. After modernizing his army - Abbas I expands the Persian Empire by capturing territory from the Ottomans and the Portuguese.
1602
1603
1627
1699
12. A Habsburg council of war is held in Vienna.
1678
1640
1682
1683
13. Giovanni Battista Pamphili is elected PopeInnocent X at the Papal conclave of 1644.
1623
1644
1641
1658
14. The Portuguese Restoration War led to the end of the Iberian Union.
1639
1640
1663
1655
15. The Ottomans capture Crete from the Venetians after the Siege of Candia.
1606
1644
1648
1680
16. 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
1682
1601
1688
1603
17. Polish-Ottoman War over Moldavia.
1620
1694
1676
1606
18. Cardinal Richelieu allies with Swedish Protestant forces in the Thirty Years' War to counter Ferdinand II's expansion.
1678
1700
1683
1629
19. The Netherlands and Spain agree to a Twelve Years' Truce in the Eighty Years' War.
1683
1610
1609
1640
20. China conquers the Kingdom of Tungning and annexes Taiwan.
1683
1652
1689
1640
21. Mehmed K
1663
1661
1616
1700
22. Flight of the Earls (the fleeing of most of the native Gaelic aristocracy) occurs from County Donegal in the west of Ulster in Ireland.
1618
1607
1627
1694
23. France takes full political and military control over its colonial possessions in New France.
1672
1663
1674
1642
24. The Hudson's Bay Company is founded in Canada.
1606
1670
1676
1640
25. Pedro de Peralta - governor of New Mexico - establishes the settlement of Santa Fe.
1640
1682
1610
1699
26. Franco-Dutch War.
1613
1601
1605
1672
27. The Irish Rebellion.
1641
1672
1605
1644
28. 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
1663
1608
1622
1601
29. As chief minister - Cardinal Richelieu centralises power in France.
1624
1644
1663
1682
30. The Great Fire of London.
1618
1685
1642
1666
31. Peter the Great becomes joint ruler of Russia (sole tsar in 1696).
1685
1682
1618
1667
32. Assassination of Stephen Bocskay of Transylvania.
1620
1606
1639
1664
33. The Treaty of Nijmegen ends the hostilities with France
1619
1678
1641
1689
34. Taj Mahal building work started in Agra -India
1620
1606
1632
1639
35. Fronde civil war in France.
1699
1618
1627
1648
36. William ascends to the throne over England - Scotland - and Ireland.
1642
1663
1607
1689
37. The Great Plague of Seville.
1690
1654
1647
1610
38. Japan transforms into 'locked country'.
1674
1627
1689
1633
39. Harvard University is founded in Cambridge - Massachusetts.
1605
1633
1672
1636
40. Maratha Empire founded inIndia by Shivaji.
1674
1692
1601
1627
41. The Tokugawa Shogunate institutes Sakoku- foreigners are expelled and no one is allowed to enter or leave Japan.
1641
1694
1609
1616
42. TheFirst Anglo-Dutch War begins.
1689
1652
1667
1674
43. Dutch EastIndia Company founded. Its success contributes to the Dutch Golden Age.
1602
1603
1673
1601
44. Mount Vesuvius erupts
1631
1652
1652
1622
45. The 1700 Cascadia earthquake (magnitude 9) occurs off the coast of the Pacific Northwest; Japan is struck by a tsunami.
1700
1620
1641
1616
46. 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
1689
1637
1647
1667
47. Dutch EastIndia Company founded. Its success contributes to the Dutch Golden Age.
1639
1627
1602
1626
48. Capture of Ormuz; The island of Hormuz was captured by an Anglo-Persian force from Portuguese.
1622
1678
1682
1649
49. Ottoman war against Habsburg Hungary.
1682
1663
1682
1637
50. Thomas Savery demonstrates his first steam engine to the Royal Society.
1621
1667
1665
1699