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17th Century Timeline
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1. The Bank of England is established.
1639
1637
1674
1694
2. Koxinga captures Taiwan from the Dutch and founds the Kingdom of Tungning which rules until 1683.
1647
1637
1694
1662
3. After his father Shah Jahan completes the Taj Mahal - his son Aurangzeb deposes him as ruler of the Mughal Empire.
1651
1658
1616
1613
4. Shimabara Rebellion of Japanese Christians - ronin and peasants against Edo.
1661
1637
1622
1655
5. Assassination of Stephen Bocskay of Transylvania.
1606
1651
1670
1620
6. The Dutch WestIndia Company invades the Portuguese colony of Pernambuco and founds Dutch Brazil.
1630
1688
1648
1678
7. Harvard University is founded in Cambridge - Massachusetts.
1636
1606
1658
1676
8. Peter the Great becomes joint ruler of Russia (sole tsar in 1696).
1658
1667
1682
1689
9. The Pasha of Buda supports Imre Th
1606
1644
1694
1681
10. Ottoman campaign to help the Ukrainian Cossacks. John Sobieski defeats the Ottomans at the second battle of Khotyn (1673).
1672
1689
1639
1700
11. Russia supplants Sweden as the dominant Baltic power after the Great Northern War.
1700
1672
1644
1681
12. John Evelyn's forestry book - Sylva - is published in England.
1655
1616
1664
1652
13. The Great Plague of Seville.
1611
1660
1648
1647
14. Ottoman war with Venice. The Ottomans invade Crete and capture Canea.
1618
1648
1645
1639
15. John Locke publishes his first 'Letter Concerning Toleration'.
1689
1672
1681
1634
16. English poet and playwright William Shakespeare dies.
1640
1606
1689
1616
17. The earliest known first-class cricket match took place in Sussex.
1608
1688
1697
1616
18. Siamese revolution of 1688 ousted French influence and virtually severed all ties with the West until the 19th century.
1688
1674
1700
1642
19. The Portuguese Restoration War led to the end of the Iberian Union.
1620
1688
1640
1641
20. France takes full political and military control over its colonial possessions in New France.
1663
1699
1633
1676
21. The Second Anglo-Dutch War fought between England and the United Provinces.
1665
1663
1642
1689
22. Edict of Fontainebleau outlaws Protestantism in France. King Charles II dies
1685
1689
1606
1652
23. The Ottomans capture Crete from the Venetians after the Siege of Candia.
1630
1648
1683
1641
24. The Battle of Killiecrankie is fought between Jacobite and Williamite forces in Highland Perthshire
1606
1682
1699
1689
25. Royal Society of London for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge founded.
1621
1662
1664
1660
26. Dutch explorer Abel Janszoon Tasman achieves the first recorded European sighting of New Zealand.
1610
1672
1606
1642
27. John Locke publishes his first 'Letter Concerning Toleration'.
1665
1648
1689
1642
28. Torture is outlawed in England.
1683
1640
1633
1633
29. Jamestown - Virginia - is settled as what would become the first permanent English colony in North America.
1607
1619
1689
1606
30. After modernizing his army - Abbas I expands the Persian Empire by capturing territory from the Ottomans and the Portuguese.
1610
1699
1620
1603
31. Bethlen Gabor is defeated outside Vienna.
1694
1663
1672
1619
32. Louis XIV accepts the Spanish crown on behalf of his grandson Philip of Anjou - triggering the War of the Spanish Succession
1606
1639
1648
1700
33. 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.
1667
1655
1606
1642
34. The Treaty of Nijmegen ends the hostilities with France
1700
1665
1609
1678
35. Emperor Fasilides expels the Catholic Patriarch Afonso Mendes and several Jesuit missionaries from Ethiopia.
1634
1630
1618
1648
36. The Northern Wars cement Sweden's rise as a Great Power.
1700
1639
1655
1681
37. 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.'
1673
1601
1700
1688
38. Thomas Savery demonstrates his first steam engine to the Royal Society.
1624
1700
1682
1699
39. Gunpowder Plot failed in England.
1688
1644
1625
1605
40. Treaty of Vienna ends anti-Habsburg uprising in Royal Hungary.
1674
1601
1606
1667
41. Famine in Finland wipes out almost a third of the population.
1696
1651
1664
1670
42. Ottoman campaign to help the Ukrainian Cossacks. John Sobieski defeats the Ottomans at the second battle of Khotyn (1673).
1683
1662
1672
1663
43. Cape Town founded by the Dutch EastIndia Company in South Africa.
1637
1661
1637
1652
44. The Siege of Derry.
1681
1689
1631
1688
45. Famine in Finland wipes out almost a third of the population.
1669
1607
1696
1610
46. Famine in France kills 2 million.
1606
1639
1655
1692
47. The Battle of Vienna finishes the Ottoman Empire's hegemony in south-eastern Europe.
1688
1683
1685
1641
48. The War of the Two Kings in Ireland.
1623
1609
1672
1688
49. 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.
1680
1648
1669
1660
50. The Grand Alliance sought to stop French expansion during the Nine Years War.
1648
1607
1622
1688