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17th Century Timeline
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1. Gunpowder Plot failed in England.
1645
1683
1605
1630
2. John Locke publishes his first 'Letter Concerning Toleration'.
1645
1606
1648
1689
3. Franco-Dutch War.
1680
1700
1626
1672
4. Thomas Savery demonstrates his first steam engine to the Royal Society.
1610
1699
1672
1609
5. Disagreements between the Farnese and Barberini Pope Urban VIII escalate into the Wars of Castro and last until 1649.
1627
1632
1639
1622
6. The Mughal Empire nearly bans the EastIndia Company in response to pirate Henry Every's capture of the Ganj-i-Sawai
1695
1700
1700
1606
7. The Bohemian Revolt precipitates the Thirty Years' War which devastates Europe in the years 1618
1618
1700
1641
1648
8. The Long War between the Ottoman Empire and Austria is ended with the Peace of Zsitvatorok - Austria abandons Transylvania.
1618
1664
1606
1655
9. The Treaty of Zurawno brings Polish-Ottoman hostilities to a halt.
1608
1676
1634
1663
10. Ottoman campaign to help the Ukrainian Cossacks. John Sobieski defeats the Ottomans at the second battle of Khotyn (1673).
1610
1682
1672
1606
11. Shimabara Rebellion of Japanese Christians - ronin and peasants against Edo.
1602
1621
1632
1637
12. Mehmed K
1618
1641
1682
1661
13. The Glorious Revolution starts with the Dutch Republic invading England - England becomes a constitutional monarchy.
1605
1644
1645
1688
14. The Pueblo Revolt drives the Spanish out of New Mexico until 1692.
1672
1601
1680
1629
15. Dutch explorer Abel Janszoon Tasman achieves the first recorded European sighting of New Zealand.
1601
1670
1605
1642
16. Fronde civil war in France.
1688
1620
1680
1648
17. TheFirst Anglo-Dutch War begins.
1689
1652
1640
1605
18. 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.'
1654
1647
1606
1673
19. Mehmed K
1606
1690
1654
1672
20. Cape Town founded by the Dutch EastIndia Company in South Africa.
1652
1665
1601
1625
21. 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.
1601
1618
1622
1606
22. The earliest known first-class cricket match took place in Sussex.
1697
1700
1678
1669
23. Disagreements between the Farnese and Barberini Pope Urban VIII escalate into the Wars of Castro and last until 1649.
1639
1682
1688
1631
24. The Great Turkish War halts the Ottoman Empire's expansion into Europe.
1631
1667
1692
1607
25. Galileo Galilei arrives in Rome for his trial before theInquisition.
1678
1616
1688
1633
26. English Civil War ends with the Parliamentarian victory at the Battle of Worcester.
1676
1694
1665
1651
27. Kara Mustafa becomes Grand Vizier.
1622
1624
1676
1608
28. A Habsburg council of war is held in Vienna.
1683
1641
1680
1616
29. Jamestown massacre - Algonquian natives kill 347 English settlers outside Jamestown - Virginia (1/3 of the colony's population) and burn the Henricus settlement.
1603
1622
1672
1639
30. Bethlen Gabor is defeated outside Vienna.
1603
1619
1648
1632
31. The Ottomans make camp at Adrianople.
1682
1621
1625
1665
32. The Northern Wars cement Sweden's rise as a Great Power.
1665
1685
1644
1655
33. William ascends to the throne over England - Scotland - and Ireland.
1622
1689
1694
1644
34. Ottoman war with Venice. The Ottomans invade Crete and capture Canea.
1683
1683
1683
1645
35. The Manchu conquer China ending the Ming Dynasty. The subsequent Qing Dynasty rules until 1912.
1666
1644
1647
1610
36. Harvard University is founded in Cambridge - Massachusetts.
1648
1636
1672
1685
37. The Battle of St. Gotthard - Count Raimondo Montecuccoli defeats the Ottomans. The Peace of Vasvar
1611
1663
1664
1621
38. Battle of L
1662
1642
1632
1620
39. English poet and playwright William Shakespeare dies.
1616
1682
1623
1606
40. Maratha Empire founded inIndia by Shivaji.
1674
1645
1636
1634
41. Giovanni Battista Pamphili is elected PopeInnocent X at the Papal conclave of 1644.
1690
1640
1644
1689
42. Fronde civil war in France.
1696
1634
1648
1616
43. Japan transforms into 'locked country'.
1633
1692
1644
1651
44. Peace Treaty of Lisbon between Spain and Portugal recognizes Portugal as independent country.
1694
1700
1668
1664
45. William ascends to the throne over England - Scotland - and Ireland.
1665
1689
1694
1622
46. The Northern Wars cement Sweden's rise as a Great Power.
1695
1605
1626
1655
47. 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.'
1620
1637
1673
1627
48. Torture is outlawed in England.
1616
1688
1640
1672
49. Bethlen Gabor - Prince of Transylvania joins Protestant Rebels.
1674
1605
1621
1618
50. The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War.
1648
1644
1696
1633