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17th Century Timeline
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1. Seven-year-old Mehmed IV becomes sultan.
1647
1694
1683
1605
2. Ren
1648
1641
1645
1685
3. Wars of the Three Kingdoms - civil wars throughout Scotland - Ireland - and England.
1682
1668
1639
1662
4. Portugal defeats the Kongo Empire at the Battle of Mbwila.
1665
1649
1629
1678
5. The Manchu conquer China ending the Ming Dynasty. The subsequent Qing Dynasty rules until 1912.
1618
1672
1644
1682
6. Giovanni Battista Pamphili is elected PopeInnocent X at the Papal conclave of 1644.
1639
1644
1663
1606
7. Battle of N
1700
1644
1634
1639
8. France takes full political and military control over its colonial possessions in New France.
1663
1668
1682
1618
9. The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War.
1658
1665
1689
1644
10. The Raid on the Medway during the Second Anglo-Dutch War.
1652
1688
1688
1667
11. The Treaty of Westminster ends the war between England and the Republic of the United Provinces.
1674
1667
1606
1611
12. Sultan Mehmed IV - advised by Kara Mustafa - decides to disregard the existing peace treaty with Leopold I - due to expire in 1684.
1618
1606
1626
1682
13. New Amsterdam founded by the Dutch WestIndia Company in North America.
1625
1609
1682
1683
14. The Battle of the Boyne in Ireland.
1642
1651
1609
1690
15. The Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.
1625
1663
1700
1649
16. Maximilian of Bavaria establishes the Catholic League.
1609
1682
1627
1665
17. Death of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu
1616
1620
1674
1620
18. The death of Miyamoto Musashi - legendary Japanese Samurai warrior - of natural causes.
1607
1645
1664
1606
19. Lynching of Johan de Witt and his brother Cornelis de Witt in the Hague
1647
1672
1618
1648
20. Battle of N
1672
1689
1634
1626
21. The Bohemian Revolt precipitates the Thirty Years' War which devastates Europe in the years 1618
1618
1652
1693
1624
22. The death of Miyamoto Musashi - legendary Japanese Samurai warrior - of natural causes.
1672
1663
1645
1670
23. The Tokugawa Shogunate institutes Sakoku- foreigners are expelled and no one is allowed to enter or leave Japan.
1692
1688
1641
1603
24. The War of the Two Kings in Ireland.
1683
1688
1700
1663
25. William ascends to the throne over England - Scotland - and Ireland.
1694
1631
1689
1651
26. The Bohemian Revolt precipitates the Thirty Years' War which devastates Europe in the years 1618
1618
1651
1689
1636
27. The Treaty of Zurawno brings Polish-Ottoman hostilities to a halt.
1676
1607
1644
1672
28. Rampjaar in the Netherlands
1644
1689
1672
1652
29. The Defenestration of Prague
1634
1683
1618
1603
30. The Manchus start invading China. Their conquest eventually topples the Ming Dynasty.
1672
1688
1674
1618
31. The Hudson's Bay Company is founded in Canada.
1700
1694
1647
1670
32. Mehmed K
1654
1618
1689
1670
33. Russia and the Ottoman Empire commence the Russo-Turkish Wars.
1694
1649
1623
1676
34. Bethlen Gabor - Prince of Transylvania joins Protestant Rebels.
1687
1618
1639
1631
35. John Locke publishes his first 'Letter Concerning Toleration'.
1689
1607
1601
1663
36. Treaty of Vienna ends anti-Habsburg uprising in Royal Hungary.
1644
1606
1689
1626
37. Cardinal Richelieu lays siege to Protestant La Rochelle which eventually capitulates.
1627
1678
1652
1676
38. The Battle of Vienna finishes the Ottoman Empire's hegemony in south-eastern Europe.
1606
1690
1683
1619
39. The Irish Rebellion.
1676
1641
1683
1608
40. The Pontifical and Royal University of Santo Tomas - the oldest existing university in Asia - established by the Dominican Order in Manila
1652
1611
1689
1689
41. Siamese revolution of 1688 ousted French influence and virtually severed all ties with the West until the 19th century.
1688
1655
1609
1648
42. Jamestown - Virginia - is settled as what would become the first permanent English colony in North America.
1624
1641
1607
1664
43. Royal Society of London for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge founded.
1660
1603
1642
1639
44. Battle of L
1606
1622
1634
1632
45. The Long War between the Ottoman Empire and Austria is ended with the Peace of Zsitvatorok - Austria abandons Transylvania.
1663
1667
1606
1699
46. 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.'
1692
1673
1603
1611
47. Emperor Ferdinand II defeats the Bohemian rebels in the Battle of White Mountain.
1620
1640
1621
1606
48. The Glorious Revolution starts with the Dutch Republic invading England - England becomes a constitutional monarchy.
1688
1676
1685
1640
49. 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
1640
1601
1644
1689
50. Emperor Ferdinand II defeats the Bohemian rebels in the Battle of White Mountain.
1616
1663
1690
1620