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17th Century Timeline
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1. Jamestown massacre - Algonquian natives kill 347 English settlers outside Jamestown - Virginia (1/3 of the colony's population) and burn the Henricus settlement.
1694
1676
1622
1662
2. The Treaty of Westminster ends the war between England and the Republic of the United Provinces.
1629
1640
1641
1674
3. The Irish Rebellion.
1644
1700
1641
1689
4. St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican completed.
1626
1654
1606
1634
5. The Pasha of Buda supports Imre Th
1606
1606
1613
1681
6. The reign of the Kangxi Emperor of China begins.
1661
1673
1654
1665
7. The Hudson's Bay Company is founded in Canada.
1699
1670
1676
1695
8. Bethlen Gabor - Prince of Transylvania joins Protestant Rebels.
1672
1665
1676
1618
9. Mary II of England dies
1654
1694
1682
1700
10. The Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.
1649
1606
1697
1619
11. The Siege of Derry.
1660
1619
1640
1688
12. Death of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu
1616
1682
1697
1651
13. Seven-year-old Mehmed IV becomes sultan.
1652
1603
1647
1632
14. The last remaining Moriscos (Moors who had nominally converted to Christianity) in Spain are expelled.
1688
1616
1648
1678
15. Maffeo Barberini is elected Pope Urban VIII at the Papal conclave of 1623.
1651
1642
1610
1623
16. Russia and the Ottoman Empire commence the Russo-Turkish Wars.
1620
1676
1603
1666
17. Peter the Great becomes joint ruler of Russia (sole tsar in 1696).
1693
1682
1609
1647
18. The Portuguese Restoration War led to the end of the Iberian Union.
1647
1700
1652
1640
19. Russia supplants Sweden as the dominant Baltic power after the Great Northern War.
1622
1663
1700
1667
20. Quebec City founded by Samuel de Champlain in New France (present-day Canada).
1606
1683
1672
1608
21. Mount Vesuvius erupts
1637
1631
1672
1672
22. English poet and playwright William Shakespeare dies.
1661
1699
1664
1616
23. Quebec City founded by Samuel de Champlain in New France (present-day Canada).
1627
1606
1700
1608
24. King Charles was compelled to summon Parliament due to the revolt of the Scots.
1627
1640
1647
1634
25. Franco-Dutch War.
1664
1625
1672
1620
26. The Commonwealth of England ends and the monarchy is brought back during the English Restoration.
1639
1674
1688
1660
27. The Ottomans capture Crete from the Venetians after the Siege of Candia.
1648
1603
1696
1665
28. Dutch EastIndia Company founded. Its success contributes to the Dutch Golden Age.
1607
1606
1662
1602
29. The Grand Alliance sought to stop French expansion during the Nine Years War.
1682
1620
1644
1688
30. Jacques Aymar-Vernay - who later reintroduced Dowsing into popular use in Europe - is born.
1644
1661
1664
1662
31. Torture is outlawed in England.
1692
1640
1660
1668
32. Galileo Galilei arrives in Rome for his trial before theInquisition.
1670
1696
1660
1633
33. English poet and playwright William Shakespeare dies.
1672
1683
1616
1603
34. Mehmed K
1689
1610
1695
1661
35. The Glorious Revolution starts with the Dutch Republic invading England - England becomes a constitutional monarchy.
1688
1647
1611
1676
36. Louis XIV accepts the Spanish crown on behalf of his grandson Philip of Anjou - triggering the War of the Spanish Succession
1605
1641
1700
1616
37. Battle of Kinsale - one of the most important battles in Irish history - fought.
1663
1606
1601
1682
38. The Defenestration of Prague
1636
1672
1645
1618
39. Harvard University is founded in Cambridge - Massachusetts.
1636
1610
1652
1648
40. The Bohemian Revolt precipitates the Thirty Years' War which devastates Europe in the years 1618
1618
1683
1629
1682
41. The Brownist Pilgrims arrive in the Mayflower at Cape Cod
1620
1602
1642
1603
42. Assassination of Stephen Bocskay of Transylvania.
1639
1636
1606
1689
43. The Second Anglo-Dutch War fought between England and the United Provinces.
1649
1665
1620
1682
44. Ottoman war against Habsburg Hungary.
1616
1663
1669
1661
45. After modernizing his army - Abbas I expands the Persian Empire by capturing territory from the Ottomans and the Portuguese.
1648
1606
1603
1689
46. 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.
1640
1687
1620
1606
47. Famine in France kills 2 million.
1663
1692
1651
1664
48. 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.
1645
1620
1688
1642
49. The Deluge wars leave Polish
1608
1619
1648
1624
50. Death of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu
1616
1665
1610
1672