Test your basic knowledge |

17th Century Timeline

Subjects : trivia, history
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
  • If you are not ready to take this test, you can study here.
  • Match each statement with the correct term.
  • Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.

This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. The Long War between the Ottoman Empire and Austria is ended with the Peace of Zsitvatorok - Austria abandons Transylvania.






2. Ottoman campaign to help the Ukrainian Cossacks. John Sobieski defeats the Ottomans at the second battle of Khotyn (1673).






3. The Raid on the Medway during the Second Anglo-Dutch War.






4. Ottoman war with Venice. The Ottomans invade Crete and capture Canea.






5. TheFirst Anglo-Dutch War begins.






6. The Pasha of Buda supports Imre Th






7. John Evelyn's forestry book - Sylva - is published in England.






8. The Defenestration of Prague






9. Fronde civil war in France.






10. The Battle of Chocim - Poles and Cossacks under Jan Karol Chodkiewicz defeat the Ottomans.






11. Shimabara Rebellion of Japanese Christians - ronin and peasants against Edo.






12. The Russian famine of 1601






13. The Manchu conquer China ending the Ming Dynasty. The subsequent Qing Dynasty rules until 1912.






14. Famine in Finland wipes out almost a third of the population.






15. Jacques Aymar-Vernay - who later reintroduced Dowsing into popular use in Europe - is born.






16. King Charles was compelled to summon Parliament due to the revolt of the Scots.






17. Maximilian of Bavaria establishes the Catholic League.






18. Michael the Brave (first unificator of Romania) - voivode of Wallachia - Moldavia and Transylvania - is assassinated by the order of the Habsburg general Giorgio Basta at C






19. After his father Shah Jahan completes the Taj Mahal - his son Aurangzeb deposes him as ruler of the Mughal Empire.






20. The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War.






21. Battle of N






22. Cape Town founded by the Dutch EastIndia Company in South Africa.






23. Peter the Great becomes joint ruler of Russia (sole tsar in 1696).






24. Dutch explorer Abel Janszoon Tasman achieves the first recorded European sighting of New Zealand.






25. Bethlen Gabor allies with the Ottomans and an invasion of Moldavia takes place. The Polish suffer a disaster at Cecora on the River Prut.






26. Bethlen Gabor - Prince of Transylvania joins Protestant Rebels.






27. The Grand Alliance sought to stop French expansion during the Nine Years War.






28. The Deluge wars leave Polish






29. Polish-Ottoman War.






30. The Portuguese Restoration War led to the end of the Iberian Union.






31. Mehmed K






32. Koxinga captures Taiwan from the Dutch and founds the Kingdom of Tungning which rules until 1683.






33. The College of William and Mary is founded in Williamsburg - Virginia by a royal charter.






34. The 1700 Cascadia earthquake (magnitude 9) occurs off the coast of the Pacific Northwest; Japan is struck by a tsunami.






35. 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.






36. The Defenestration of Prague






37. Aurochs go extinct.






38. 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.






39. Mehmed K






40. The Hudson's Bay Company is founded in Canada.






41. The Treaty of Nerchinsk established a border between Russia and China.






42. The Bohemian Revolt precipitates the Thirty Years' War which devastates Europe in the years 1618






43. Pedro de Peralta - governor of New Mexico - establishes the settlement of Santa Fe.






44. Sultan Mehmed IV - advised by Kara Mustafa - decides to disregard the existing peace treaty with Leopold I - due to expire in 1684.






45. The Ottomans capture Crete from the Venetians after the Siege of Candia.






46. Polish-Ottoman War over Moldavia.






47. Peace Treaty of Lisbon between Spain and Portugal recognizes Portugal as independent country.






48. Maratha Empire founded inIndia by Shivaji.






49. Dutch EastIndia Company founded. Its success contributes to the Dutch Golden Age.






50. Jamestown massacre - Algonquian natives kill 347 English settlers outside Jamestown - Virginia (1/3 of the colony's population) and burn the Henricus settlement.