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17th Century Timeline
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1. Lynching of Johan de Witt and his brother Cornelis de Witt in the Hague
1667
1623
1661
1672
2. King Charles was compelled to summon Parliament due to the revolt of the Scots.
1609
1632
1640
1672
3. Torture is outlawed in England.
1640
1664
1605
1672
4. Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.
1616
1610
1687
1626
5. Ren
1672
1641
1634
1682
6. The Bohemian Revolt precipitates the Thirty Years' War which devastates Europe in the years 1618
1695
1618
1700
1613
7. The War of the Two Kings in Ireland.
1608
1692
1648
1688
8. Peter the Great becomes joint ruler of Russia (sole tsar in 1696).
1603
1647
1668
1682
9. Time of Troubles - Vasili IV becomes Tzar of Russia.
1606
1694
1607
1641
10. The Russian famine of 1601
1645
1601
1688
1661
11. Galileo Galilei arrives in Rome for his trial before theInquisition.
1678
1622
1633
1645
12. Death of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu
1664
1616
1682
1645
13. Rampjaar in the Netherlands
1647
1669
1678
1672
14. Pedro de Peralta - governor of New Mexico - establishes the settlement of Santa Fe.
1623
1641
1610
1601
15. Russia supplants Sweden as the dominant Baltic power after the Great Northern War.
1620
1672
1636
1700
16. Siamese revolution of 1688 ousted French influence and virtually severed all ties with the West until the 19th century.
1664
1662
1688
1681
17. 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.
1616
1642
1667
1669
18. The Dutch WestIndia Company invades the Portuguese colony of Pernambuco and founds Dutch Brazil.
1689
1616
1630
1665
19. Koxinga captures Taiwan from the Dutch and founds the Kingdom of Tungning which rules until 1683.
1662
1603
1676
1682
20. Robert Hooke discovers cells using a microscope.
1682
1663
1665
1676
21. Salem witch trials in Massachusetts.
1692
1670
1699
1660
22. Franco-Dutch War.
1610
1672
1694
1609
23. William ascends to the throne over England - Scotland - and Ireland.
1603
1689
1652
1663
24. Koxinga captures Taiwan from the Dutch and founds the Kingdom of Tungning which rules until 1683.
1633
1662
1641
1660
25. The Commonwealth of England ends and the monarchy is brought back during the English Restoration.
1667
1636
1648
1660
26. Fronde civil war in France.
1662
1661
1665
1648
27. Japan transforms into 'locked country'.
1688
1633
1603
1610
28. Death of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu
1633
1639
1616
1624
29. The War of the Two Kings in Ireland.
1688
1618
1616
1669
30. Tokugawa Ieyasu seizes control of Japan and establishes the Tokugawa Shogunate - beginning the Edo period that lasts until 1869.
1660
1603
1689
1605
31. Mount Vesuvius erupts
1634
1631
1666
1689
32. Jamestown massacre - Algonquian natives kill 347 English settlers outside Jamestown - Virginia (1/3 of the colony's population) and burn the Henricus settlement.
1660
1645
1622
1688
33. The Battle of Vienna finishes the Ottoman Empire's hegemony in south-eastern Europe.
1676
1683
1672
1665
34. China conquers the Kingdom of Tungning and annexes Taiwan.
1697
1637
1618
1683
35. 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.
1627
1672
1642
1676
36. Cape Town founded by the Dutch EastIndia Company in South Africa.
1652
1647
1662
1601
37. Assassination of Stephen Bocskay of Transylvania.
1630
1672
1606
1689
38. St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican completed.
1685
1620
1626
1611
39. The Siege of Derry.
1661
1683
1688
1692
40. Giovanni Battista Pamphili is elected PopeInnocent X at the Papal conclave of 1644.
1688
1644
1700
1624
41. 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
1673
1676
1644
42. The Mughal Empire nearly bans the EastIndia Company in response to pirate Henry Every's capture of the Ganj-i-Sawai
1625
1622
1662
1695
43. Assassination of Stephen Bocskay of Transylvania.
1687
1648
1632
1606
44. The Treaty of Westminster ends the war between England and the Republic of the United Provinces.
1674
1601
1694
1623
45. The Grand Alliance sought to stop French expansion during the Nine Years War.
1672
1688
1607
1640
46. The Mughal Empire nearly bans the EastIndia Company in response to pirate Henry Every's capture of the Ganj-i-Sawai
1666
1689
1607
1695
47. The Northern Wars cement Sweden's rise as a Great Power.
1661
1655
1632
1670
48. The last remaining Moriscos (Moors who had nominally converted to Christianity) in Spain are expelled.
1670
1616
1601
1629
49. The Great Plague of Seville.
1700
1647
1667
1699
50. Famine in Finland wipes out almost a third of the population.
1603
1645
1674
1696
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