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17th Century Timeline
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1. Famine in France kills 2 million.
1692
1602
1665
1618
2. The Dutch WestIndia Company invades the Portuguese colony of Pernambuco and founds Dutch Brazil.
1683
1634
1630
1641
3. The Brownist Pilgrims arrive in the Mayflower at Cape Cod
1620
1673
1700
1685
4. The Ottomans capture Crete.
1641
1648
1678
1669
5. The Long War between the Ottoman Empire and Austria is ended with the Peace of Zsitvatorok - Austria abandons Transylvania.
1601
1606
1613
1601
6. After his father Shah Jahan completes the Taj Mahal - his son Aurangzeb deposes him as ruler of the Mughal Empire.
1636
1663
1672
1658
7. Polish-Ottoman War over Moldavia.
1680
1620
1663
1688
8. Mount Vesuvius erupts
1631
1603
1700
1639
9. Louis XIV accepts the Spanish crown on behalf of his grandson Philip of Anjou - triggering the War of the Spanish Succession
1618
1700
1660
1688
10. Dutch explorer Abel Janszoon Tasman achieves the first recorded European sighting of New Zealand.
1634
1676
1622
1642
11. Capture of Ormuz; The island of Hormuz was captured by an Anglo-Persian force from Portuguese.
1605
1678
1606
1622
12. The Hudson's Bay Company is founded in Canada.
1672
1670
1665
1619
13. Peter the Great becomes joint ruler of Russia (sole tsar in 1696).
1648
1652
1672
1682
14. After modernizing his army - Abbas I expands the Persian Empire by capturing territory from the Ottomans and the Portuguese.
1610
1603
1627
1647
15. The Battle of St. Gotthard - Count Raimondo Montecuccoli defeats the Ottomans. The Peace of Vasvar
1664
1648
1622
1640
16. Rampjaar in the Netherlands
1664
1640
1639
1672
17. Treaty of Vienna ends anti-Habsburg uprising in Royal Hungary.
1674
1605
1606
1641
18. The Treaty of Nijmegen ends the hostilities with France
1641
1649
1685
1678
19. 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
1606
1601
1629
1639
20. John Evelyn's forestry book - Sylva - is published in England.
1700
1674
1632
1664
21. Mary II of England dies
1676
1627
1690
1694
22. Quebec City founded by Samuel de Champlain in New France (present-day Canada).
1667
1608
1630
1625
23. The Manchu conquer China ending the Ming Dynasty. The subsequent Qing Dynasty rules until 1912.
1660
1637
1644
1632
24. The Irish Rebellion.
1632
1685
1641
1694
25. The Raid on the Medway during the Second Anglo-Dutch War.
1605
1667
1616
1663
26. The Pontifical and Royal University of Santo Tomas - the oldest existing university in Asia - established by the Dominican Order in Manila
1700
1608
1611
1694
27. Bethlen Gabor allies with the Ottomans and an invasion of Moldavia takes place. The Polish suffer a disaster at Cecora on the River Prut.
1682
1689
1676
1620
28. The Treaty of Karlowitz ends the Great Turkish War.
1699
1601
1689
1636
29. Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.
1630
1648
1687
1664
30. Seven-year-old Mehmed IV becomes sultan.
1647
1618
1606
1606
31. Jacques Aymar-Vernay - who later reintroduced Dowsing into popular use in Europe - is born.
1630
1688
1662
1601
32. Edict of Fontainebleau outlaws Protestantism in France. King Charles II dies
1699
1683
1648
1685
33. The Russian famine of 1601
1622
1618
1661
1601
34. Mehmed K
1649
1654
1620
1639
35. Ottoman war with Venice. The Ottomans invade Crete and capture Canea.
1645
1629
1688
1665
36. Abbas I - the Safavids king - died.
1676
1640
1603
1629
37. The Manchus start invading China. Their conquest eventually topples the Ming Dynasty.
1647
1618
1689
1662
38. Polish-Ottoman War.
1605
1639
1672
1680
39. Ottoman campaign to help the Ukrainian Cossacks. John Sobieski defeats the Ottomans at the second battle of Khotyn (1673).
1694
1661
1672
1666
40. Bethlen Gabor is defeated outside Vienna.
1619
1605
1602
1620
41. The Pasha of Buda supports Imre Th
1618
1619
1693
1681
42. Louis XIV accepts the Spanish crown on behalf of his grandson Philip of Anjou - triggering the War of the Spanish Succession
1652
1667
1627
1700
43. Mount Vesuvius erupts
1662
1664
1700
1631
44. The Great Plague of Seville.
1626
1647
1664
1641
45. The Long War between the Ottoman Empire and Austria is ended with the Peace of Zsitvatorok - Austria abandons Transylvania.
1700
1606
1620
1699
46. Beginning of English Civil War - conflict will end in 1651 with the execution of King Charles I - abolishment of the monarchy and the establishment of the supremacy of Parliament over the king.
1618
1642
1633
1639
47. The fortresses of Veszpr
1605
1700
1688
1663
48. Lithuanian Civil War
1624
1620
1699
1700
49. Royal Society of London for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge founded.
1633
1697
1660
1667
50. Dutch explorer Abel Janszoon Tasman achieves the first recorded European sighting of New Zealand.
1678
1666
1647
1642