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17th Century Timeline
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1. Sultan Mehmed IV - advised by Kara Mustafa - decides to disregard the existing peace treaty with Leopold I - due to expire in 1684.
1648
1672
1682
1624
2. The Glorious Revolution starts with the Dutch Republic invading England - England becomes a constitutional monarchy.
1644
1613
1688
1700
3. Gunpowder Plot failed in England.
1640
1700
1616
1605
4. The Brownist Pilgrims arrive in the Mayflower at Cape Cod
1648
1689
1624
1620
5. The Bank of England is established.
1700
1654
1694
1610
6. The Grand Alliance sought to stop French expansion during the Nine Years War.
1629
1688
1641
1673
7. The Netherlands and Spain agree to a Twelve Years' Truce in the Eighty Years' War.
1667
1694
1625
1609
8. Cape Town founded by the Dutch EastIndia Company in South Africa.
1676
1652
1608
1613
9. The Treaty of Nerchinsk established a border between Russia and China.
1633
1689
1692
1634
10. Polish-Ottoman War.
1690
1639
1672
1631
11. Famine in France kills 2 million.
1640
1692
1660
1661
12. The Mughal Empire nearly bans the EastIndia Company in response to pirate Henry Every's capture of the Ganj-i-Sawai
1692
1682
1695
1689
13. The Great Plague of London.
1622
1661
1665
1688
14. The Great Plague of Seville.
1663
1647
1672
1700
15. 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.'
1616
1689
1673
1627
16. The Treaty of Karlowitz ends the Great Turkish War.
1699
1700
1673
1609
17. Pedro de Peralta - governor of New Mexico - establishes the settlement of Santa Fe.
1632
1642
1610
1662
18. The Irish Rebellion.
1667
1641
1683
1639
19. The Northern Wars cement Sweden's rise as a Great Power.
1655
1641
1640
1633
20. Cardinal Richelieu lays siege to Protestant La Rochelle which eventually capitulates.
1627
1700
1662
1620
21. The Tokugawa Shogunate institutes Sakoku- foreigners are expelled and no one is allowed to enter or leave Japan.
1620
1641
1633
1606
22. New Amsterdam founded by the Dutch WestIndia Company in North America.
1625
1685
1603
1664
23. The Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth army defeats combined Russian- Swedish forces at the Battle of Klushino and conquers Moscow.
1637
1642
1610
1673
24. Famine in Finland wipes out almost a third of the population.
1692
1696
1623
1676
25. Torture is outlawed in England.
1667
1640
1687
1663
26. Japan transforms into 'locked country'.
1667
1633
1637
1603
27. Quebec City founded by Samuel de Champlain in New France (present-day Canada).
1651
1672
1608
1621
28. Mount Vesuvius erupts
1683
1632
1682
1631
29. Bethlen Gabor is defeated outside Vienna.
1613
1674
1619
1672
30. After modernizing his army - Abbas I expands the Persian Empire by capturing territory from the Ottomans and the Portuguese.
1672
1673
1618
1603
31. Russia supplants Sweden as the dominant Baltic power after the Great Northern War.
1642
1662
1699
1700
32. A Habsburg council of war is held in Vienna.
1605
1683
1676
1627
33. Lithuanian Civil War
1630
1636
1625
1700
34. Mehmed K
1654
1699
1652
1644
35. The Bank of England is established.
1621
1610
1678
1694
36. Disagreements between the Farnese and Barberini Pope Urban VIII escalate into the Wars of Castro and last until 1649.
1623
1622
1647
1639
37. The War of the Two Kings in Ireland.
1669
1673
1695
1688
38. Cape Town founded by the Dutch EastIndia Company in South Africa.
1652
1642
1640
1647
39. The Time of Troubles in Russia ends with the establishment of the House of Romanov which rules until 1917.
1621
1613
1605
1624
40. The Dutch WestIndia Company invades the Portuguese colony of Pernambuco and founds Dutch Brazil.
1685
1689
1630
1632
41. Mount Vesuvius erupts
1665
1631
1601
1606
42. Emperor Ferdinand II defeats the Bohemian rebels in the Battle of White Mountain.
1669
1674
1641
1620
43. Dutch explorer Abel Janszoon Tasman achieves the first recorded European sighting of New Zealand.
1683
1664
1642
1640
44. Jacques Aymar-Vernay - who later reintroduced Dowsing into popular use in Europe - is born.
1662
1647
1665
1682
45. Flight of the Earls (the fleeing of most of the native Gaelic aristocracy) occurs from County Donegal in the west of Ulster in Ireland.
1651
1652
1607
1667
46. Cardinal Richelieu allies with Swedish Protestant forces in the Thirty Years' War to counter Ferdinand II's expansion.
1624
1672
1616
1629
47. Russia and the Ottoman Empire commence the Russo-Turkish Wars.
1672
1676
1697
1648
48. Maffeo Barberini is elected Pope Urban VIII at the Papal conclave of 1623.
1639
1623
1616
1613
49. St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican completed.
1626
1673
1637
1620
50. Battle of L
1627
1632
1618
1620