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17th Century Timeline
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1. The Battle of Chocim - Poles and Cossacks under Jan Karol Chodkiewicz defeat the Ottomans.
1689
1601
1662
1621
2. Cape Town founded by the Dutch EastIndia Company in South Africa.
1694
1652
1694
1632
3. Elizabeth I of England dies and is succeeded by her cousin King James VI of Scotland - uniting the crowns of Scotland and England.
1603
1620
1648
1631
4. Russia supplants Sweden as the dominant Baltic power after the Great Northern War.
1682
1700
1624
1672
5. The Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth army defeats combined Russian- Swedish forces at the Battle of Klushino and conquers Moscow.
1662
1611
1610
1637
6. The Bohemian Revolt precipitates the Thirty Years' War which devastates Europe in the years 1618
1630
1654
1618
1672
7. As chief minister - Cardinal Richelieu centralises power in France.
1645
1692
1624
1694
8. The reign of the Kangxi Emperor of China begins.
1681
1623
1649
1661
9. The Russian famine of 1601
1644
1601
1672
1655
10. The fortresses of Veszpr
1680
1660
1682
1605
11. The Treaty of Karlowitz ends the Great Turkish War.
1672
1699
1642
1652
12. Dutch EastIndia Company founded. Its success contributes to the Dutch Golden Age.
1602
1620
1606
1648
13. The Manchu conquer China ending the Ming Dynasty. The subsequent Qing Dynasty rules until 1912.
1639
1644
1692
1652
14. Abbas I - the Safavids king - died.
1652
1669
1629
1673
15. The Great Turkish War halts the Ottoman Empire's expansion into Europe.
1642
1648
1667
1642
16. The Tokugawa Shogunate institutes Sakoku- foreigners are expelled and no one is allowed to enter or leave Japan.
1641
1616
1622
1636
17. The Tokugawa Shogunate institutes Sakoku- foreigners are expelled and no one is allowed to enter or leave Japan.
1641
1700
1683
1672
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
1601
1634
1633
1606
19. The Great Plague of Seville.
1672
1647
1606
1610
20. Famine in Finland wipes out almost a third of the population.
1613
1649
1676
1696
21. The Bank of England is established.
1694
1668
1620
1603
22. The War of the Two Kings in Ireland.
1645
1640
1658
1688
23. Cardinal Richelieu allies with Swedish Protestant forces in the Thirty Years' War to counter Ferdinand II's expansion.
1629
1618
1630
1606
24. The Russian famine of 1601
1658
1665
1645
1601
25. Mehmed K
1654
1622
1647
1610
26. Maximilian of Bavaria establishes the Catholic League.
1609
1680
1637
1645
27. Seven-year-old Mehmed IV becomes sultan.
1655
1636
1606
1647
28. Time of Troubles - Vasili IV becomes Tzar of Russia.
1699
1627
1606
1652
29. Thomas Savery demonstrates his first steam engine to the Royal Society.
1695
1620
1699
1620
30. British troops capture New Amsterdam and rename it New York.
1683
1606
1700
1664
31. Koxinga captures Taiwan from the Dutch and founds the Kingdom of Tungning which rules until 1683.
1640
1667
1608
1662
32. The Time of Troubles in Russia ends with the establishment of the House of Romanov which rules until 1917.
1665
1613
1683
1610
33. Pedro de Peralta - governor of New Mexico - establishes the settlement of Santa Fe.
1632
1648
1610
1608
34. The death of Miyamoto Musashi - legendary Japanese Samurai warrior - of natural causes.
1688
1642
1644
1645
35. The Peace of Westphalia ends the Thirty Years' War and the Eighty Years' War and marks the ends of Spain and the Holy Roman Empire as major European powers.
1648
1672
1660
1618
36. John Locke publishes his first 'Letter Concerning Toleration'.
1618
1606
1644
1689
37. The Glorious Revolution starts with the Dutch Republic invading England - England becomes a constitutional monarchy.
1695
1688
1605
1620
38. 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
1601
1648
1678
1689
39. Ottoman campaign to help the Ukrainian Cossacks. John Sobieski defeats the Ottomans at the second battle of Khotyn (1673).
1683
1613
1672
1688
40. Kara Mustafa becomes Grand Vizier.
1649
1676
1618
1605
41. The Treaty of Nerchinsk established a border between Russia and China.
1601
1699
1644
1689
42. The Battle of St. Gotthard - Count Raimondo Montecuccoli defeats the Ottomans. The Peace of Vasvar
1639
1618
1664
1674
43. The Dutch WestIndia Company invades the Portuguese colony of Bahia in Brazil.
1663
1624
1632
1634
44. Rampjaar in the Netherlands
1605
1626
1672
1664
45. Emperor Fasilides expels the Catholic Patriarch Afonso Mendes and several Jesuit missionaries from Ethiopia.
1634
1683
1616
1625
46. Famine in Finland wipes out almost a third of the population.
1629
1610
1683
1696
47. The Long War between the Ottoman Empire and Austria is ended with the Peace of Zsitvatorok - Austria abandons Transylvania.
1601
1602
1603
1606
48. St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican completed.
1620
1688
1688
1626
49. The Deluge wars leave Polish
1648
1700
1606
1672
50. Giovanni Battista Pamphili is elected PopeInnocent X at the Papal conclave of 1644.
1616
1620
1601
1644