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17th Century Timeline
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1. Pedro de Peralta - governor of New Mexico - establishes the settlement of Santa Fe.
1672
1637
1610
1609
2. The Bohemian Revolt precipitates the Thirty Years' War which devastates Europe in the years 1618
1689
1618
1689
1608
3. The Battle of the Boyne in Ireland.
1690
1693
1664
1693
4. The fortresses of Veszpr
1620
1624
1605
1667
5. The Grand Alliance sought to stop French expansion during the Nine Years War.
1699
1610
1688
1601
6. A Habsburg council of war is held in Vienna.
1645
1616
1666
1683
7. Treaty of Vienna ends anti-Habsburg uprising in Royal Hungary.
1689
1606
1618
1636
8. Jamestown massacre - Algonquian natives kill 347 English settlers outside Jamestown - Virginia (1/3 of the colony's population) and burn the Henricus settlement.
1661
1622
1663
1694
9. Edict of Fontainebleau outlaws Protestantism in France. King Charles II dies
1606
1662
1685
1642
10. Capture of Ormuz; The island of Hormuz was captured by an Anglo-Persian force from Portuguese.
1690
1622
1613
1610
11. The 1700 Cascadia earthquake (magnitude 9) occurs off the coast of the Pacific Northwest; Japan is struck by a tsunami.
1607
1700
1683
1665
12. Battle of Kinsale - one of the most important battles in Irish history - fought.
1642
1601
1690
1642
13. The Ottomans capture Crete from the Venetians after the Siege of Candia.
1648
1669
1601
1672
14. Jamestown - Virginia - is settled as what would become the first permanent English colony in North America.
1680
1607
1665
1694
15. 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
1616
1655
1689
16. The Glorious Revolution starts with the Dutch Republic invading England - England becomes a constitutional monarchy.
1683
1672
1631
1688
17. Robert Hooke discovers cells using a microscope.
1663
1690
1625
1665
18. Shimabara Rebellion of Japanese Christians - ronin and peasants against Edo.
1681
1637
1672
1619
19. Salem witch trials in Massachusetts.
1652
1618
1672
1692
20. The Mughal Empire nearly bans the EastIndia Company in response to pirate Henry Every's capture of the Ganj-i-Sawai
1695
1601
1642
1605
21. John Evelyn's forestry book - Sylva - is published in England.
1640
1606
1631
1664
22. The Ottomans make camp at Adrianople.
1682
1692
1672
1609
23. The War of the Two Kings in Ireland.
1668
1688
1606
1683
24. English poet and playwright William Shakespeare dies.
1665
1634
1689
1616
25. The Russian famine of 1601
1639
1605
1601
1670
26. France takes full political and military control over its colonial possessions in New France.
1668
1618
1663
1660
27. British troops capture New Amsterdam and rename it New York.
1618
1664
1606
1620
28. Bethlen Gabor is defeated outside Vienna.
1633
1632
1602
1619
29. Mount Vesuvius erupts
1674
1634
1631
1658
30. The Great Turkish War halts the Ottoman Empire's expansion into Europe.
1683
1620
1667
1607
31. The Treaty of Nijmegen ends the hostilities with France
1620
1655
1682
1678
32. The Ottomans capture Crete.
1627
1644
1633
1669
33. Mount Vesuvius erupts
1631
1642
1623
1634
34. The Pasha of Buda supports Imre Th
1681
1652
1642
1682
35. The Ottomans make camp at Adrianople.
1682
1639
1601
1688
36. Robert Hooke discovers cells using a microscope.
1678
1622
1616
1663
37. The Tokugawa Shogunate institutes Sakoku- foreigners are expelled and no one is allowed to enter or leave Japan.
1641
1632
1665
1616
38. Treaty of Vienna ends anti-Habsburg uprising in Royal Hungary.
1632
1602
1606
1690
39. Abbas I - the Safavids king - died.
1629
1664
1627
1625
40. Japan transforms into 'locked country'.
1661
1688
1662
1633
41. The Pueblo Revolt drives the Spanish out of New Mexico until 1692.
1699
1680
1682
1648
42. Cape Town founded by the Dutch EastIndia Company in South Africa.
1663
1609
1652
1683
43. The Raid on the Medway during the Second Anglo-Dutch War.
1693
1639
1700
1667
44. The Treaty of Westminster ends the war between England and the Republic of the United Provinces.
1658
1674
1689
1672
45. The Bank of England is established.
1611
1610
1654
1694
46. Peter the Great becomes joint ruler of Russia (sole tsar in 1696).
1630
1665
1682
1605
47. Emperor Fasilides expels the Catholic Patriarch Afonso Mendes and several Jesuit missionaries from Ethiopia.
1634
1613
1682
1620
48. Battle of Kinsale - one of the most important battles in Irish history - fought.
1689
1621
1639
1601
49. 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.
1682
1641
1644
1606
50. Koxinga captures Taiwan from the Dutch and founds the Kingdom of Tungning which rules until 1683.
1665
1661
1607
1662