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17th Century Timeline
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1. Russia and the Ottoman Empire commence the Russo-Turkish Wars.
1665
1647
1693
1676
2. Tokugawa Ieyasu seizes control of Japan and establishes the Tokugawa Shogunate - beginning the Edo period that lasts until 1869.
1673
1603
1692
1665
3. Maffeo Barberini is elected Pope Urban VIII at the Papal conclave of 1623.
1601
1606
1651
1623
4. China conquers the Kingdom of Tungning and annexes Taiwan.
1683
1621
1651
1690
5. Mehmed K
1601
1644
1661
1606
6. Time of Troubles - Vasili IV becomes Tzar of Russia.
1673
1616
1613
1606
7. Mehmed K
1680
1661
1620
1695
8. The Peace of Westphalia ends the Thirty Years' War and the Eighty Years' War and marks the ends of Spain and the Holy Roman Empire as major European powers.
1648
1620
1690
1603
9. Ottoman war with Venice. The Ottomans invade Crete and capture Canea.
1645
1700
1672
1616
10. Cardinal Richelieu lays siege to Protestant La Rochelle which eventually capitulates.
1700
1700
1627
1680
11. Franco-Dutch War.
1613
1608
1622
1672
12. Royal Society of London for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge founded.
1618
1629
1665
1660
13. The Hudson's Bay Company is founded in Canada.
1670
1663
1629
1629
14. Flight of the Earls (the fleeing of most of the native Gaelic aristocracy) occurs from County Donegal in the west of Ulster in Ireland.
1685
1648
1607
1665
15. Royal Society of London for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge founded.
1607
1639
1660
1668
16. The Battle of St. Gotthard - Count Raimondo Montecuccoli defeats the Ottomans. The Peace of Vasvar
1664
1629
1676
1634
17. Naval Battle of the Downs
1640
1625
1689
1639
18. The Brownist Pilgrims arrive in the Mayflower at Cape Cod
1620
1621
1699
1696
19. Mary II of England dies
1694
1616
1644
1644
20. The War of the Two Kings in Ireland.
1606
1688
1606
1620
21. La Salle explores the length of the Mississippi River and claims Louisiana for France.
1640
1682
1685
1618
22. The Raid on the Medway during the Second Anglo-Dutch War.
1634
1621
1667
1682
23. The Treaty of Westminster ends the war between England and the Republic of the United Provinces.
1687
1605
1674
1665
24. Bethlen Gabor is defeated outside Vienna.
1636
1647
1699
1619
25. A Habsburg council of war is held in Vienna.
1689
1601
1601
1683
26. Mary II of England dies
1616
1674
1694
1700
27. John Evelyn's forestry book - Sylva - is published in England.
1661
1654
1689
1664
28. The Glorious Revolution starts with the Dutch Republic invading England - England becomes a constitutional monarchy.
1681
1639
1688
1633
29. The College of William and Mary is founded in Williamsburg - Virginia by a royal charter.
1630
1682
1644
1693
30. English poet and playwright William Shakespeare dies.
1620
1700
1609
1616
31. Dutch explorer Abel Janszoon Tasman achieves the first recorded European sighting of New Zealand.
1690
1642
1620
1636
32. Jamestown massacre - Algonquian natives kill 347 English settlers outside Jamestown - Virginia (1/3 of the colony's population) and burn the Henricus settlement.
1683
1622
1616
1648
33. The Ottomans capture Crete.
1689
1658
1669
1692
34. Cape Town founded by the Dutch EastIndia Company in South Africa.
1678
1672
1606
1652
35. Giovanni Battista Pamphili is elected PopeInnocent X at the Papal conclave of 1644.
1690
1676
1644
1689
36. The Grand Alliance sought to stop French expansion during the Nine Years War.
1641
1688
1693
1602
37. Maffeo Barberini is elected Pope Urban VIII at the Papal conclave of 1623.
1623
1622
1674
1688
38. Capture of Ormuz; The island of Hormuz was captured by an Anglo-Persian force from Portuguese.
1688
1683
1663
1622
39. The Great Fire of London.
1627
1631
1621
1666
40. Louis XIV accepts the Spanish crown on behalf of his grandson Philip of Anjou - triggering the War of the Spanish Succession
1648
1700
1688
1603
41. 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
1694
1682
1682
42. Quebec City founded by Samuel de Champlain in New France (present-day Canada).
1608
1672
1620
1606
43. Russia and the Ottoman Empire commence the Russo-Turkish Wars.
1622
1676
1664
1605
44. The Great Fire of London.
1696
1683
1692
1666
45. The Ottomans capture Crete from the Venetians after the Siege of Candia.
1625
1634
1648
1699
46. Jacques Aymar-Vernay - who later reintroduced Dowsing into popular use in Europe - is born.
1672
1662
1647
1641
47. The Ottomans capture Crete.
1672
1623
1639
1669
48. The Second Anglo-Dutch War fought between England and the United Provinces.
1689
1665
1676
1603
49. Famine in Finland wipes out almost a third of the population.
1618
1672
1696
1606
50. The Dutch WestIndia Company invades the Portuguese colony of Bahia in Brazil.
1611
1697
1624
1620