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17th Century Timeline
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1. The Irish Rebellion.
1661
1640
1641
1689
2. The Tokugawa Shogunate institutes Sakoku- foreigners are expelled and no one is allowed to enter or leave Japan.
1641
1682
1609
1688
3. The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War.
1624
1644
1683
1641
4. The last remaining Moriscos (Moors who had nominally converted to Christianity) in Spain are expelled.
1613
1616
1624
1652
5. Treaty of Vienna ends anti-Habsburg uprising in Royal Hungary.
1670
1627
1602
1606
6. Mehmed K
1624
1654
1678
1601
7. Ren
1674
1641
1688
1623
8. The Treaty of Karlowitz ends the Great Turkish War.
1667
1678
1699
1624
9. Dutch EastIndia Company founded. Its success contributes to the Dutch Golden Age.
1602
1616
1640
1693
10. Bethlen Gabor allies with the Ottomans and an invasion of Moldavia takes place. The Polish suffer a disaster at Cecora on the River Prut.
1648
1648
1620
1645
11. The Raid on the Medway during the Second Anglo-Dutch War.
1622
1667
1606
1696
12. The Commonwealth of England ends and the monarchy is brought back during the English Restoration.
1640
1605
1644
1660
13. Robert Hooke discovers cells using a microscope.
1636
1663
1688
1658
14. Polish
1633
1616
1613
1652
15. The Hudson's Bay Company is founded in Canada.
1670
1652
1689
1683
16. Elizabeth I of England dies and is succeeded by her cousin King James VI of Scotland - uniting the crowns of Scotland and England.
1688
1603
1688
1676
17. Edict of Fontainebleau outlaws Protestantism in France. King Charles II dies
1633
1685
1670
1696
18. The Treaty of Zurawno brings Polish-Ottoman hostilities to a halt.
1700
1676
1629
1700
19. Edict of Fontainebleau outlaws Protestantism in France. King Charles II dies
1685
1634
1601
1669
20. Ottoman campaign to help the Ukrainian Cossacks. John Sobieski defeats the Ottomans at the second battle of Khotyn (1673).
1688
1647
1606
1672
21. The Second Anglo-Dutch War fought between England and the United Provinces.
1663
1648
1665
1627
22. Galileo Galilei arrives in Rome for his trial before theInquisition.
1609
1637
1633
1688
23. A Habsburg council of war is held in Vienna.
1689
1648
1682
1683
24. Giovanni Battista Pamphili is elected PopeInnocent X at the Papal conclave of 1644.
1647
1644
1688
1667
25. Maximilian of Bavaria establishes the Catholic League.
1610
1636
1609
1618
26. Quebec City founded by Samuel de Champlain in New France (present-day Canada).
1608
1689
1648
1624
27. Royal Society of London for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge founded.
1660
1663
1642
1697
28. The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War.
1700
1681
1644
1610
29. The War of Devolution; France invades the Netherlands. The Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle (1668) brings this to a halt.
1667
1601
1658
1700
30. Bethlen Gabor allies with the Ottomans and an invasion of Moldavia takes place. The Polish suffer a disaster at Cecora on the River Prut.
1645
1620
1680
1664
31. The Dutch WestIndia Company invades the Portuguese colony of Pernambuco and founds Dutch Brazil.
1629
1694
1630
1699
32. The Battle of Chocim - Poles and Cossacks under Jan Karol Chodkiewicz defeat the Ottomans.
1621
1608
1634
1680
33. Russia supplants Sweden as the dominant Baltic power after the Great Northern War.
1676
1618
1700
1667
34. English Civil War ends with the Parliamentarian victory at the Battle of Worcester.
1651
1682
1665
1601
35. Disagreements between the Farnese and Barberini Pope Urban VIII escalate into the Wars of Castro and last until 1649.
1639
1606
1605
1627
36. Maximilian of Bavaria establishes the Catholic League.
1652
1608
1609
1644
37. The Brownist Pilgrims arrive in the Mayflower at Cape Cod
1636
1642
1620
1689
38. Famine in France kills 2 million.
1654
1630
1692
1601
39. Siamese revolution of 1688 ousted French influence and virtually severed all ties with the West until the 19th century.
1666
1700
1688
1673
40. France takes full political and military control over its colonial possessions in New France.
1685
1663
1688
1647
41. Mount Vesuvius erupts
1631
1608
1627
1692
42. Portugal defeats the Kongo Empire at the Battle of Mbwila.
1665
1670
1651
1673
43. Mehmed K
1602
1641
1654
1633
44. Kara Mustafa becomes Grand Vizier.
1689
1676
1616
1669
45. Dutch explorer Abel Janszoon Tasman achieves the first recorded European sighting of New Zealand.
1689
1642
1672
1660
46. John Locke publishes his first 'Letter Concerning Toleration'.
1661
1618
1622
1689
47. The Ottomans capture Crete.
1665
1651
1618
1669
48. The Great Plague of London.
1665
1623
1647
1687
49. The Great Turkish War halts the Ottoman Empire's expansion into Europe.
1636
1699
1672
1667
50. The Ottomans make camp at Adrianople.
1700
1685
1682
1632