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17th Century Timeline
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1. The Irish Rebellion.
1641
1603
1618
1610
2. The Commonwealth of England ends and the monarchy is brought back during the English Restoration.
1616
1664
1660
1700
3. Ren
1649
1687
1641
1696
4. Taj Mahal building work started in Agra -India
1610
1632
1603
1610
5. Tokugawa Ieyasu seizes control of Japan and establishes the Tokugawa Shogunate - beginning the Edo period that lasts until 1869.
1603
1602
1620
1640
6. The Battle of Chocim - Poles and Cossacks under Jan Karol Chodkiewicz defeat the Ottomans.
1700
1609
1621
1645
7. Ottoman war with Venice. The Ottomans invade Crete and capture Canea.
1627
1660
1609
1645
8. Jamestown - Virginia - is settled as what would become the first permanent English colony in North America.
1607
1700
1662
1610
9. Battle of N
1688
1634
1621
1623
10. The Irish Rebellion.
1655
1606
1641
1674
11. The War of the Two Kings in Ireland.
1682
1683
1681
1688
12. King Charles was compelled to summon Parliament due to the revolt of the Scots.
1672
1640
1683
1619
13. The Deluge wars leave Polish
1648
1665
1626
1662
14. Bethlen Gabor is defeated outside Vienna.
1619
1664
1629
1605
15. Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.
1662
1687
1676
1665
16. Jamestown massacre - Algonquian natives kill 347 English settlers outside Jamestown - Virginia (1/3 of the colony's population) and burn the Henricus settlement.
1622
1644
1603
1674
17. Battle of L
1632
1603
1636
1692
18. The Great Fire of London.
1648
1632
1683
1666
19. Dutch explorer Abel Janszoon Tasman achieves the first recorded European sighting of New Zealand.
1642
1647
1688
1632
20. The Dutch WestIndia Company invades the Portuguese colony of Bahia in Brazil.
1700
1694
1624
1685
21. The Pueblo Revolt drives the Spanish out of New Mexico until 1692.
1680
1601
1654
1629
22. Mount Vesuvius erupts
1680
1631
1606
1645
23. Gunpowder Plot failed in England.
1605
1688
1654
1606
24. The War of the Two Kings in Ireland.
1685
1676
1688
1694
25. The Pontifical and Royal University of Santo Tomas - the oldest existing university in Asia - established by the Dominican Order in Manila
1682
1676
1611
1627
26. Shimabara Rebellion of Japanese Christians - ronin and peasants against Edo.
1637
1676
1664
1660
27. The Grand Alliance sought to stop French expansion during the Nine Years War.
1688
1647
1602
1663
28. The Glorious Revolution starts with the Dutch Republic invading England - England becomes a constitutional monarchy.
1688
1680
1649
1648
29. Flight of the Earls (the fleeing of most of the native Gaelic aristocracy) occurs from County Donegal in the west of Ulster in Ireland.
1682
1607
1670
1606
30. Emperor Fasilides founds the city of Gondar - which becomes the capital of Ethiopia for the next two centuries.
1636
1672
1648
1663
31. The Second Anglo-Dutch War fought between England and the United Provinces.
1618
1605
1672
1665
32. The Portuguese Restoration War led to the end of the Iberian Union.
1613
1634
1640
1699
33. Emperor Fasilides expels the Catholic Patriarch Afonso Mendes and several Jesuit missionaries from Ethiopia.
1634
1652
1664
1697
34. Maffeo Barberini is elected Pope Urban VIII at the Papal conclave of 1623.
1649
1601
1664
1623
35. Peace Treaty of Lisbon between Spain and Portugal recognizes Portugal as independent country.
1620
1668
1660
1690
36. After his father Shah Jahan completes the Taj Mahal - his son Aurangzeb deposes him as ruler of the Mughal Empire.
1658
1689
1608
1624
37. La Salle explores the length of the Mississippi River and claims Louisiana for France.
1627
1644
1630
1682
38. Russia and the Ottoman Empire commence the Russo-Turkish Wars.
1644
1700
1676
1613
39. Fronde civil war in France.
1648
1644
1694
1636
40. Giovanni Battista Pamphili is elected PopeInnocent X at the Papal conclave of 1644.
1672
1641
1644
1632
41. Seven-year-old Mehmed IV becomes sultan.
1688
1627
1647
1694
42. Harvard University is founded in Cambridge - Massachusetts.
1644
1608
1636
1603
43. Beginning of English Civil War - conflict will end in 1651 with the execution of King Charles I - abolishment of the monarchy and the establishment of the supremacy of Parliament over the king.
1642
1648
1690
1685
44. Franco-Dutch War.
1690
1641
1607
1672
45. 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.'
1672
1673
1676
1640
46. Rampjaar in the Netherlands
1632
1644
1672
1682
47. The Long War between the Ottoman Empire and Austria is ended with the Peace of Zsitvatorok - Austria abandons Transylvania.
1633
1606
1688
1613
48. Maffeo Barberini is elected Pope Urban VIII at the Papal conclave of 1623.
1623
1665
1682
1601
49. The earliest known first-class cricket match took place in Sussex.
1700
1697
1645
1606
50. The Treaty of Zurawno brings Polish-Ottoman hostilities to a halt.
1665
1632
1676
1664