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17th Century Timeline
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1. The Treaty of Nijmegen ends the hostilities with France
1665
1678
1609
1664
2. Disagreements between the Farnese and Barberini Pope Urban VIII escalate into the Wars of Castro and last until 1649.
1682
1661
1654
1639
3. The Irish Rebellion.
1699
1641
1681
1601
4. The Treaty of Westminster ends the war between England and the Republic of the United Provinces.
1682
1641
1692
1674
5. 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.
1674
1660
1606
1620
6. The War of Devolution; France invades the Netherlands. The Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle (1668) brings this to a halt.
1665
1667
1644
1621
7. Peter the Great becomes joint ruler of Russia (sole tsar in 1696).
1647
1682
1663
1663
8. The Great Turkish War halts the Ottoman Empire's expansion into Europe.
1625
1681
1660
1667
9. The last remaining Moriscos (Moors who had nominally converted to Christianity) in Spain are expelled.
1663
1627
1618
1616
10. Gunpowder Plot failed in England.
1644
1605
1618
1610
11. Dutch explorer Abel Janszoon Tasman achieves the first recorded European sighting of New Zealand.
1602
1633
1663
1642
12. Lithuanian Civil War
1620
1641
1642
1700
13. Bethlen Gabor is defeated outside Vienna.
1645
1613
1619
1682
14. The Mughal Empire nearly bans the EastIndia Company in response to pirate Henry Every's capture of the Ganj-i-Sawai
1606
1700
1611
1695
15. Battle of N
1634
1666
1674
1670
16. The 1700 Cascadia earthquake (magnitude 9) occurs off the coast of the Pacific Northwest; Japan is struck by a tsunami.
1700
1610
1672
1655
17. Jacques Aymar-Vernay - who later reintroduced Dowsing into popular use in Europe - is born.
1688
1662
1648
1626
18. Peace Treaty of Lisbon between Spain and Portugal recognizes Portugal as independent country.
1668
1620
1664
1639
19. The Netherlands and Spain agree to a Twelve Years' Truce in the Eighty Years' War.
1605
1609
1700
1669
20. The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War.
1606
1644
1694
1688
21. The Mughal Empire nearly bans the EastIndia Company in response to pirate Henry Every's capture of the Ganj-i-Sawai
1631
1622
1695
1648
22. Quebec City founded by Samuel de Champlain in New France (present-day Canada).
1648
1606
1618
1608
23. Portugal defeats the Kongo Empire at the Battle of Mbwila.
1665
1609
1663
1620
24. Bethlen Gabor allies with the Ottomans and an invasion of Moldavia takes place. The Polish suffer a disaster at Cecora on the River Prut.
1674
1658
1620
1663
25. Emperor Fasilides expels the Catholic Patriarch Afonso Mendes and several Jesuit missionaries from Ethiopia.
1676
1665
1664
1634
26. The Treaty of Westminster ends the war between England and the Republic of the United Provinces.
1629
1642
1674
1676
27. TheFirst Anglo-Dutch War begins.
1634
1665
1652
1627
28. Sultan Mehmed IV - advised by Kara Mustafa - decides to disregard the existing peace treaty with Leopold I - due to expire in 1684.
1682
1640
1700
1608
29. Ottoman campaign to help the Ukrainian Cossacks. John Sobieski defeats the Ottomans at the second battle of Khotyn (1673).
1641
1610
1644
1672
30. Harvard University is founded in Cambridge - Massachusetts.
1622
1620
1606
1636
31. English Civil War ends with the Parliamentarian victory at the Battle of Worcester.
1620
1616
1651
1616
32. Maximilian of Bavaria establishes the Catholic League.
1620
1609
1681
1601
33. The Long War between the Ottoman Empire and Austria is ended with the Peace of Zsitvatorok - Austria abandons Transylvania.
1688
1606
1613
1622
34. Torture is outlawed in England.
1649
1632
1640
1674
35. Maximilian of Bavaria establishes the Catholic League.
1609
1605
1688
1682
36. Abbas I - the Safavids king - died.
1618
1619
1608
1629
37. Russia supplants Sweden as the dominant Baltic power after the Great Northern War.
1700
1606
1652
1618
38. Ottoman war against Habsburg Hungary.
1655
1672
1663
1664
39. Mary II of England dies
1700
1601
1673
1694
40. Famine in France kills 2 million.
1673
1692
1636
1683
41. La Salle explores the length of the Mississippi River and claims Louisiana for France.
1620
1700
1682
1639
42. The Great Plague of Seville.
1648
1647
1610
1668
43. The Battle of Killiecrankie is fought between Jacobite and Williamite forces in Highland Perthshire
1688
1689
1666
1665
44. The Pasha of Buda supports Imre Th
1616
1672
1681
1688
45. Salem witch trials in Massachusetts.
1676
1603
1692
1674
46. Edict of Fontainebleau outlaws Protestantism in France. King Charles II dies
1676
1685
1662
1674
47. Louis XIV accepts the Spanish crown on behalf of his grandson Philip of Anjou - triggering the War of the Spanish Succession
1695
1672
1700
1603
48. Cardinal Richelieu allies with Swedish Protestant forces in the Thirty Years' War to counter Ferdinand II's expansion.
1629
1683
1609
1664
49. The Bank of England is established.
1694
1667
1603
1632
50. The Dutch WestIndia Company invades the Portuguese colony of Pernambuco and founds Dutch Brazil.
1620
1644
1692
1630
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