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17th Century Timeline
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1. Russia and the Ottoman Empire commence the Russo-Turkish Wars.
1644
1607
1606
1676
2. After his father Shah Jahan completes the Taj Mahal - his son Aurangzeb deposes him as ruler of the Mughal Empire.
1676
1658
1666
1618
3. Time of Troubles - Vasili IV becomes Tzar of Russia.
1665
1654
1655
1606
4. Death of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu
1622
1669
1689
1616
5. Edict of Fontainebleau outlaws Protestantism in France. King Charles II dies
1663
1685
1654
1690
6. Harvard University is founded in Cambridge - Massachusetts.
1636
1651
1606
1605
7. Battle of Kinsale - one of the most important battles in Irish history - fought.
1601
1624
1674
1676
8. Edict of Fontainebleau outlaws Protestantism in France. King Charles II dies
1688
1672
1629
1685
9. The Siege of Derry.
1619
1688
1605
1682
10. Mary II of England dies
1688
1694
1648
1649
11. The Treaty of Karlowitz ends the Great Turkish War.
1607
1601
1699
1692
12. Dutch EastIndia Company founded. Its success contributes to the Dutch Golden Age.
1602
1670
1641
1616
13. Ottoman campaign to help the Ukrainian Cossacks. John Sobieski defeats the Ottomans at the second battle of Khotyn (1673).
1641
1692
1672
1631
14. Cardinal Richelieu allies with Swedish Protestant forces in the Thirty Years' War to counter Ferdinand II's expansion.
1630
1606
1642
1629
15. The Long War between the Ottoman Empire and Austria is ended with the Peace of Zsitvatorok - Austria abandons Transylvania.
1689
1683
1606
1668
16. The Ottomans make camp at Adrianople.
1672
1682
1690
1626
17. Cape Town founded by the Dutch EastIndia Company in South Africa.
1645
1620
1618
1652
18. Disagreements between the Farnese and Barberini Pope Urban VIII escalate into the Wars of Castro and last until 1649.
1601
1689
1644
1639
19. Galileo Galilei arrives in Rome for his trial before theInquisition.
1683
1633
1661
1644
20. The reign of the Kangxi Emperor of China begins.
1661
1645
1620
1688
21. The Treaty of Nijmegen ends the hostilities with France
1664
1603
1678
1641
22. Japan transforms into 'locked country'.
1613
1633
1624
1627
23. Maximilian of Bavaria establishes the Catholic League.
1663
1609
1627
1644
24. Dutch EastIndia Company founded. Its success contributes to the Dutch Golden Age.
1639
1667
1602
1648
25. Ottoman war against Habsburg Hungary.
1663
1603
1688
1640
26. The Treaty of Karlowitz ends the Great Turkish War.
1699
1687
1632
1641
27. The Treaty of Westminster ends the war between England and the Republic of the United Provinces.
1607
1639
1670
1674
28. Lynching of Johan de Witt and his brother Cornelis de Witt in the Hague
1672
1616
1639
1616
29. Robert Hooke discovers cells using a microscope.
1663
1626
1607
1676
30. John Evelyn's forestry book - Sylva - is published in England.
1629
1683
1664
1629
31. St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican completed.
1689
1626
1622
1652
32. English poet and playwright William Shakespeare dies.
1672
1616
1689
1660
33. Mehmed K
1697
1630
1661
1682
34. 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
1700
1601
1660
1644
35. The Deluge wars leave Polish
1632
1633
1648
1665
36. Emperor Fasilides expels the Catholic Patriarch Afonso Mendes and several Jesuit missionaries from Ethiopia.
1607
1634
1692
1603
37. The Tokugawa Shogunate institutes Sakoku- foreigners are expelled and no one is allowed to enter or leave Japan.
1669
1682
1633
1641
38. William ascends to the throne over England - Scotland - and Ireland.
1644
1658
1689
1620
39. Abbas I - the Safavids king - died.
1676
1676
1689
1629
40. The Defenestration of Prague
1630
1618
1673
1688
41. Polish
1689
1664
1601
1613
42. The Portuguese Restoration War led to the end of the Iberian Union.
1700
1634
1640
1664
43. The Northern Wars cement Sweden's rise as a Great Power.
1648
1655
1690
1644
44. 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.'
1663
1644
1607
1673
45. Treaty of Vienna ends anti-Habsburg uprising in Royal Hungary.
1606
1678
1611
1647
46. Quebec City founded by Samuel de Champlain in New France (present-day Canada).
1608
1669
1663
1670
47. A Habsburg council of war is held in Vienna.
1616
1606
1620
1683
48. 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.
1660
1640
1634
1606
49. TheFirst Anglo-Dutch War begins.
1652
1696
1648
1618
50. Royal Society of London for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge founded.
1660
1699
1601
1639