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17th Century Timeline
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1. Captain Willem Janszoon and his crew aboard the Dutch EastIndia Company ship Duyfken becomes the first recorded Europeans to sight and make landfall in Australia.
1667
1606
1616
1681
2. The Manchus start invading China. Their conquest eventually topples the Ming Dynasty.
1662
1666
1620
1618
3. The Ottomans capture Crete.
1669
1647
1693
1634
4. Mehmed K
1661
1672
1618
1676
5. The Manchu conquer China ending the Ming Dynasty. The subsequent Qing Dynasty rules until 1912.
1644
1632
1629
1606
6. Emperor Fasilides expels the Catholic Patriarch Afonso Mendes and several Jesuit missionaries from Ethiopia.
1618
1633
1674
1634
7. Bethlen Gabor allies with the Ottomans and an invasion of Moldavia takes place. The Polish suffer a disaster at Cecora on the River Prut.
1632
1683
1683
1620
8. Flight of the Earls (the fleeing of most of the native Gaelic aristocracy) occurs from County Donegal in the west of Ulster in Ireland.
1661
1667
1607
1699
9. Polish-Ottoman War.
1672
1696
1644
1639
10. Captain Willem Janszoon and his crew aboard the Dutch EastIndia Company ship Duyfken becomes the first recorded Europeans to sight and make landfall in Australia.
1683
1620
1606
1683
11. Peace Treaty of Lisbon between Spain and Portugal recognizes Portugal as independent country.
1668
1624
1685
1602
12. Russia and the Ottoman Empire commence the Russo-Turkish Wars.
1676
1620
1663
1641
13. As chief minister - Cardinal Richelieu centralises power in France.
1629
1694
1601
1624
14. Fronde civil war in France.
1648
1618
1645
1641
15. La Salle explores the length of the Mississippi River and claims Louisiana for France.
1633
1696
1682
1680
16. The Great Plague of London.
1621
1665
1689
1661
17. Royal Society of London for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge founded.
1645
1660
1667
1694
18. Ren
1641
1665
1620
1618
19. Taj Mahal building work started in Agra -India
1627
1610
1632
1622
20. Peter the Great becomes joint ruler of Russia (sole tsar in 1696).
1682
1644
1603
1665
21. The Pasha of Buda supports Imre Th
1618
1682
1645
1681
22. Portugal defeats the Kongo Empire at the Battle of Mbwila.
1616
1660
1633
1665
23. Cardinal Richelieu lays siege to Protestant La Rochelle which eventually capitulates.
1676
1692
1662
1627
24. Cardinal Richelieu allies with Swedish Protestant forces in the Thirty Years' War to counter Ferdinand II's expansion.
1629
1620
1627
1700
25. Robert Hooke discovers cells using a microscope.
1688
1663
1676
1641
26. St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican completed.
1629
1662
1626
1700
27. The Northern Wars cement Sweden's rise as a Great Power.
1697
1673
1611
1655
28. The Defenestration of Prague
1613
1631
1618
1700
29. The Portuguese Restoration War led to the end of the Iberian Union.
1694
1673
1640
1644
30. Elizabeth I of England dies and is succeeded by her cousin King James VI of Scotland - uniting the crowns of Scotland and England.
1645
1613
1603
1648
31. The Ottomans make camp at Adrianople.
1682
1644
1660
1642
32. New Amsterdam founded by the Dutch WestIndia Company in North America.
1689
1625
1667
1665
33. Cape Town founded by the Dutch EastIndia Company in South Africa.
1639
1616
1669
1652
34. English Civil War ends with the Parliamentarian victory at the Battle of Worcester.
1680
1624
1605
1651
35. John Locke publishes his first 'Letter Concerning Toleration'.
1689
1613
1621
1658
36. Aurochs go extinct.
1663
1634
1627
1694
37. 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
1687
1670
1689
1648
38. Lithuanian Civil War
1622
1602
1619
1700
39. The Battle of St. Gotthard - Count Raimondo Montecuccoli defeats the Ottomans. The Peace of Vasvar
1695
1664
1606
1642
40. The Dutch WestIndia Company invades the Portuguese colony of Pernambuco and founds Dutch Brazil.
1641
1694
1630
1618
41. Assassination of Stephen Bocskay of Transylvania.
1641
1699
1606
1620
42. The Battle of Chocim - Poles and Cossacks under Jan Karol Chodkiewicz defeat the Ottomans.
1688
1624
1621
1678
43. Death of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu
1616
1633
1644
1625
44. The Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.
1649
1682
1601
1608
45. British troops capture New Amsterdam and rename it New York.
1672
1664
1641
1633
46. Giovanni Battista Pamphili is elected PopeInnocent X at the Papal conclave of 1644.
1644
1690
1674
1676
47. The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War.
1699
1640
1644
1634
48. The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War.
1644
1676
1624
1618
49. Maximilian of Bavaria establishes the Catholic League.
1667
1624
1623
1609
50. Naval Battle of the Downs
1662
1682
1639
1676