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17th Century Timeline
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1. Louis XIV accepts the Spanish crown on behalf of his grandson Philip of Anjou - triggering the War of the Spanish Succession
1700
1606
1645
1601
2. The 1700 Cascadia earthquake (magnitude 9) occurs off the coast of the Pacific Northwest; Japan is struck by a tsunami.
1636
1620
1700
1640
3. The Portuguese Restoration War led to the end of the Iberian Union.
1661
1663
1640
1688
4. Ren
1651
1641
1618
1664
5. Tokugawa Ieyasu seizes control of Japan and establishes the Tokugawa Shogunate - beginning the Edo period that lasts until 1869.
1670
1645
1603
1616
6. Mary II of England dies
1620
1672
1694
1609
7. Ottoman war with Venice. The Ottomans invade Crete and capture Canea.
1688
1664
1660
1645
8. Jamestown - Virginia - is settled as what would become the first permanent English colony in North America.
1607
1689
1674
1601
9. Maffeo Barberini is elected Pope Urban VIII at the Papal conclave of 1623.
1683
1602
1623
1655
10. The Netherlands and Spain agree to a Twelve Years' Truce in the Eighty Years' War.
1609
1610
1682
1664
11. The Great Plague of Seville.
1663
1647
1662
1642
12. The Russian famine of 1601
1601
1639
1688
1620
13. British troops capture New Amsterdam and rename it New York.
1603
1620
1664
1683
14. Treaty of Vienna ends anti-Habsburg uprising in Royal Hungary.
1665
1605
1689
1606
15. The Battle of Killiecrankie is fought between Jacobite and Williamite forces in Highland Perthshire
1674
1689
1649
1616
16. Kara Mustafa becomes Grand Vizier.
1667
1676
1647
1606
17. The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War.
1639
1699
1618
1644
18. After his father Shah Jahan completes the Taj Mahal - his son Aurangzeb deposes him as ruler of the Mughal Empire.
1627
1695
1601
1658
19. Ottoman campaign to help the Ukrainian Cossacks. John Sobieski defeats the Ottomans at the second battle of Khotyn (1673).
1601
1672
1625
1649
20. Fronde civil war in France.
1689
1672
1648
1620
21. Ottoman war with Venice. The Ottomans invade Crete and capture Canea.
1626
1602
1647
1645
22. Famine in France kills 2 million.
1692
1644
1603
1689
23. Torture is outlawed in England.
1700
1682
1640
1660
24. The Time of Troubles in Russia ends with the establishment of the House of Romanov which rules until 1917.
1613
1670
1663
1609
25. Dutch explorer Abel Janszoon Tasman achieves the first recorded European sighting of New Zealand.
1642
1641
1647
1667
26. Battle of L
1648
1639
1611
1632
27. Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.
1697
1669
1696
1687
28. The Battle of Vienna finishes the Ottoman Empire's hegemony in south-eastern Europe.
1642
1695
1665
1683
29. The Treaty of Nerchinsk established a border between Russia and China.
1622
1689
1611
1672
30. The Dutch WestIndia Company invades the Portuguese colony of Bahia in Brazil.
1672
1624
1674
1682
31. Time of Troubles - Vasili IV becomes Tzar of Russia.
1636
1645
1606
1672
32. Koxinga captures Taiwan from the Dutch and founds the Kingdom of Tungning which rules until 1683.
1662
1649
1672
1689
33. Gunpowder Plot failed in England.
1652
1666
1682
1605
34. The Great Turkish War halts the Ottoman Empire's expansion into Europe.
1670
1667
1688
1618
35. The Battle of Chocim - Poles and Cossacks under Jan Karol Chodkiewicz defeat the Ottomans.
1610
1621
1618
1665
36. The Great Plague of London.
1625
1665
1664
1609
37. A Habsburg council of war is held in Vienna.
1639
1699
1683
1618
38. Russia supplants Sweden as the dominant Baltic power after the Great Northern War.
1700
1688
1676
1689
39. The Treaty of Karlowitz ends the Great Turkish War.
1689
1610
1664
1699
40. Ottoman campaign to help the Ukrainian Cossacks. John Sobieski defeats the Ottomans at the second battle of Khotyn (1673).
1665
1641
1672
1665
41. Russia supplants Sweden as the dominant Baltic power after the Great Northern War.
1673
1676
1647
1700
42. Battle of N
1634
1683
1690
1694
43. Galileo Galilei arrives in Rome for his trial before theInquisition.
1633
1622
1674
1662
44. The Irish Rebellion.
1641
1694
1694
1673
45. The Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.
1620
1666
1649
1621
46. After modernizing his army - Abbas I expands the Persian Empire by capturing territory from the Ottomans and the Portuguese.
1616
1697
1603
1682
47. Maratha Empire founded inIndia by Shivaji.
1687
1652
1674
1639
48. The Siege of Derry.
1641
1626
1601
1688
49. The fortresses of Veszpr
1639
1694
1605
1669
50. Seven-year-old Mehmed IV becomes sultan.
1647
1694
1662
1672