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17th Century Timeline
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1. A Habsburg council of war is held in Vienna.
1605
1683
1678
1688
2. Harvard University is founded in Cambridge - Massachusetts.
1606
1632
1689
1636
3. The Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.
1609
1634
1667
1649
4. Peter the Great becomes joint ruler of Russia (sole tsar in 1696).
1660
1682
1606
1685
5. Famine in Finland wipes out almost a third of the population.
1696
1634
1609
1683
6. The fortresses of Veszpr
1606
1644
1605
1620
7. Time of Troubles - Vasili IV becomes Tzar of Russia.
1606
1694
1660
1636
8. The Siege of Derry.
1682
1688
1668
1690
9. British troops capture New Amsterdam and rename it New York.
1626
1664
1631
1613
10. Mehmed K
1607
1688
1682
1654
11. The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War.
1663
1700
1644
1634
12. The reign of the Kangxi Emperor of China begins.
1610
1661
1664
1606
13. The Karposh rebellion is crushed in present-day Republic of Macedonia - Skopje is retaken by the Ottoman Turks. Karposh is killed - and the rebels are defeated. Giles Cory was pressed to death during the Salem witch trials in the 1690s
1624
1639
1689
1626
14. 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.'
1678
1681
1700
1673
15. Lithuanian Civil War
1631
1685
1606
1700
16. Franco-Dutch War.
1672
1639
1685
1648
17. Tokugawa Ieyasu seizes control of Japan and establishes the Tokugawa Shogunate - beginning the Edo period that lasts until 1869.
1693
1603
1688
1672
18. The Pontifical and Royal University of Santo Tomas - the oldest existing university in Asia - established by the Dominican Order in Manila
1663
1644
1611
1619
19. Polish
1624
1682
1672
1613
20. The Brownist Pilgrims arrive in the Mayflower at Cape Cod
1651
1680
1620
1696
21. Disagreements between the Farnese and Barberini Pope Urban VIII escalate into the Wars of Castro and last until 1649.
1639
1618
1683
1672
22. Death of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu
1661
1672
1631
1616
23. Capture of Ormuz; The island of Hormuz was captured by an Anglo-Persian force from Portuguese.
1622
1663
1639
1672
24. The 1700 Cascadia earthquake (magnitude 9) occurs off the coast of the Pacific Northwest; Japan is struck by a tsunami.
1672
1700
1630
1689
25. Flight of the Earls (the fleeing of most of the native Gaelic aristocracy) occurs from County Donegal in the west of Ulster in Ireland.
1607
1629
1687
1625
26. The Portuguese Restoration War led to the end of the Iberian Union.
1603
1663
1664
1640
27. The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War.
1623
1644
1689
1664
28. The Treaty of Karlowitz ends the Great Turkish War.
1624
1680
1681
1699
29. Cardinal Richelieu lays siege to Protestant La Rochelle which eventually capitulates.
1639
1627
1619
1696
30. The Mughal Empire nearly bans the EastIndia Company in response to pirate Henry Every's capture of the Ganj-i-Sawai
1624
1652
1695
1683
31. Cardinal Richelieu allies with Swedish Protestant forces in the Thirty Years' War to counter Ferdinand II's expansion.
1601
1629
1622
1627
32. The Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.
1683
1647
1649
1640
33. Cardinal Richelieu lays siege to Protestant La Rochelle which eventually capitulates.
1676
1627
1687
1624
34. Harvard University is founded in Cambridge - Massachusetts.
1699
1620
1636
1606
35. Abbas I - the Safavids king - died.
1683
1664
1629
1680
36. The Pontifical and Royal University of Santo Tomas - the oldest existing university in Asia - established by the Dominican Order in Manila
1642
1649
1666
1611
37. The Great Plague of Seville.
1609
1666
1647
1616
38. Battle of Kinsale - one of the most important battles in Irish history - fought.
1601
1636
1689
1647
39. Jacques Aymar-Vernay - who later reintroduced Dowsing into popular use in Europe - is born.
1642
1662
1665
1630
40. France takes full political and military control over its colonial possessions in New France.
1618
1663
1640
1692
41. Kara Mustafa becomes Grand Vizier.
1606
1607
1676
1640
42. The Dutch WestIndia Company invades the Portuguese colony of Pernambuco and founds Dutch Brazil.
1630
1618
1641
1690
43. Peace Treaty of Lisbon between Spain and Portugal recognizes Portugal as independent country.
1613
1683
1695
1668
44. The Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth army defeats combined Russian- Swedish forces at the Battle of Klushino and conquers Moscow.
1688
1610
1694
1658
45. Rampjaar in the Netherlands
1648
1655
1672
1618
46. The Pueblo Revolt drives the Spanish out of New Mexico until 1692.
1645
1680
1689
1665
47. Giovanni Battista Pamphili is elected PopeInnocent X at the Papal conclave of 1644.
1666
1678
1644
1605
48. Mary II of England dies
1689
1694
1618
1700
49. Salem witch trials in Massachusetts.
1682
1693
1626
1692
50. China conquers the Kingdom of Tungning and annexes Taiwan.
1665
1601
1662
1683