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17th Century Timeline
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1. Treaty of Vienna ends anti-Habsburg uprising in Royal Hungary.
1688
1606
1637
1688
2. Torture is outlawed in England.
1620
1640
1634
1680
3. Famine in France kills 2 million.
1672
1676
1692
1618
4. The Treaty of Zurawno brings Polish-Ottoman hostilities to a halt.
1624
1700
1676
1695
5. The Tokugawa Shogunate institutes Sakoku- foreigners are expelled and no one is allowed to enter or leave Japan.
1613
1664
1644
1641
6. Mary II of England dies
1642
1694
1652
1666
7. Elizabeth I of England dies and is succeeded by her cousin King James VI of Scotland - uniting the crowns of Scotland and England.
1647
1620
1603
1672
8. Cape Town founded by the Dutch EastIndia Company in South Africa.
1664
1616
1652
1681
9. The College of William and Mary is founded in Williamsburg - Virginia by a royal charter.
1672
1661
1693
1620
10. Portugal defeats the Kongo Empire at the Battle of Mbwila.
1645
1665
1603
1601
11. Cardinal Richelieu allies with Swedish Protestant forces in the Thirty Years' War to counter Ferdinand II's expansion.
1663
1667
1629
1642
12. Rampjaar in the Netherlands
1648
1672
1602
1663
13. William ascends to the throne over England - Scotland - and Ireland.
1611
1689
1606
1608
14. Taj Mahal building work started in Agra -India
1645
1633
1632
1672
15. Bethlen Gabor is defeated outside Vienna.
1627
1619
1610
1647
16. The Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth army defeats combined Russian- Swedish forces at the Battle of Klushino and conquers Moscow.
1641
1601
1610
1672
17. Galileo Galilei arrives in Rome for his trial before theInquisition.
1634
1674
1633
1644
18. The Irish Rebellion.
1672
1641
1623
1683
19. 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
1655
1655
1665
1689
20. The Battle of St. Gotthard - Count Raimondo Montecuccoli defeats the Ottomans. The Peace of Vasvar
1699
1608
1610
1664
21. Dutch EastIndia Company founded. Its success contributes to the Dutch Golden Age.
1655
1692
1603
1602
22. The Pueblo Revolt drives the Spanish out of New Mexico until 1692.
1690
1680
1624
1639
23. A Habsburg council of war is held in Vienna.
1645
1667
1689
1683
24. John Locke publishes his first 'Letter Concerning Toleration'.
1689
1639
1700
1687
25. Death of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu
1625
1616
1648
1652
26. The Northern Wars cement Sweden's rise as a Great Power.
1641
1664
1655
1683
27. La Salle explores the length of the Mississippi River and claims Louisiana for France.
1683
1648
1682
1693
28. The Treaty of Zurawno brings Polish-Ottoman hostilities to a halt.
1632
1676
1622
1621
29. 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.
1678
1641
1648
1700
30. English Civil War ends with the Parliamentarian victory at the Battle of Worcester.
1640
1689
1618
1651
31. TheFirst Anglo-Dutch War begins.
1666
1652
1688
1642
32. The War of Devolution; France invades the Netherlands. The Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle (1668) brings this to a halt.
1667
1651
1625
1647
33. Mount Vesuvius erupts
1613
1601
1632
1631
34. Emperor Fasilides founds the city of Gondar - which becomes the capital of Ethiopia for the next two centuries.
1620
1636
1633
1639
35. Japan transforms into 'locked country'.
1640
1624
1633
1689
36. The Northern Wars cement Sweden's rise as a Great Power.
1660
1651
1655
1666
37. The Russian famine of 1601
1672
1633
1601
1633
38. Gunpowder Plot failed in England.
1605
1633
1664
1672
39. The Great Plague of London.
1642
1662
1665
1667
40. The Great Turkish War halts the Ottoman Empire's expansion into Europe.
1631
1618
1667
1688
41. Naval Battle of the Downs
1645
1644
1639
1683
42. Famine in Finland wipes out almost a third of the population.
1609
1642
1696
1682
43. As chief minister - Cardinal Richelieu centralises power in France.
1624
1644
1672
1641
44. The Grand Alliance sought to stop French expansion during the Nine Years War.
1688
1672
1637
1627
45. Polish-Ottoman War.
1626
1620
1610
1672
46. Louis XIV accepts the Spanish crown on behalf of his grandson Philip of Anjou - triggering the War of the Spanish Succession
1639
1700
1618
1662
47. Emperor Ferdinand II defeats the Bohemian rebels in the Battle of White Mountain.
1603
1620
1630
1688
48. The College of William and Mary is founded in Williamsburg - Virginia by a royal charter.
1693
1602
1636
1618
49. Jamestown - Virginia - is settled as what would become the first permanent English colony in North America.
1640
1694
1607
1660
50. Russia supplants Sweden as the dominant Baltic power after the Great Northern War.
1623
1618
1672
1700