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17th Century Timeline
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1. The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War.
1613
1644
1700
1690
2. 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
1620
1601
1687
1616
3. The earliest known first-class cricket match took place in Sussex.
1672
1636
1697
1601
4. Jamestown massacre - Algonquian natives kill 347 English settlers outside Jamestown - Virginia (1/3 of the colony's population) and burn the Henricus settlement.
1607
1660
1696
1622
5. The Time of Troubles in Russia ends with the establishment of the House of Romanov which rules until 1917.
1603
1639
1613
1607
6. The Battle of St. Gotthard - Count Raimondo Montecuccoli defeats the Ottomans. The Peace of Vasvar
1664
1688
1642
1672
7. Famine in Finland wipes out almost a third of the population.
1618
1629
1688
1696
8. The Pueblo Revolt drives the Spanish out of New Mexico until 1692.
1606
1644
1690
1680
9. Maximilian of Bavaria establishes the Catholic League.
1641
1687
1655
1609
10. The Long War between the Ottoman Empire and Austria is ended with the Peace of Zsitvatorok - Austria abandons Transylvania.
1648
1640
1647
1606
11. The Northern Wars cement Sweden's rise as a Great Power.
1644
1624
1699
1655
12. Tokugawa Ieyasu seizes control of Japan and establishes the Tokugawa Shogunate - beginning the Edo period that lasts until 1869.
1636
1674
1601
1603
13. 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.'
1694
1688
1673
1658
14. English poet and playwright William Shakespeare dies.
1658
1700
1616
1652
15. The Treaty of Nerchinsk established a border between Russia and China.
1640
1678
1641
1689
16. Maximilian of Bavaria establishes the Catholic League.
1674
1609
1672
1602
17. The Commonwealth of England ends and the monarchy is brought back during the English Restoration.
1660
1683
1699
1662
18. Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.
1692
1618
1687
1644
19. The Treaty of Westminster ends the war between England and the Republic of the United Provinces.
1601
1603
1666
1674
20. Russia supplants Sweden as the dominant Baltic power after the Great Northern War.
1618
1621
1700
1662
21. Famine in Finland wipes out almost a third of the population.
1696
1620
1610
1605
22. New Amsterdam founded by the Dutch WestIndia Company in North America.
1623
1625
1613
1673
23. Emperor Fasilides expels the Catholic Patriarch Afonso Mendes and several Jesuit missionaries from Ethiopia.
1655
1616
1700
1634
24. The Dutch WestIndia Company invades the Portuguese colony of Bahia in Brazil.
1624
1661
1667
1660
25. The earliest known first-class cricket match took place in Sussex.
1676
1613
1661
1697
26. Dutch explorer Abel Janszoon Tasman achieves the first recorded European sighting of New Zealand.
1639
1644
1613
1642
27. The Portuguese Restoration War led to the end of the Iberian Union.
1624
1672
1620
1640
28. The reign of the Kangxi Emperor of China begins.
1622
1601
1661
1665
29. Lithuanian Civil War
1632
1662
1700
1676
30. The College of William and Mary is founded in Williamsburg - Virginia by a royal charter.
1692
1693
1631
1636
31. Bethlen Gabor is defeated outside Vienna.
1619
1645
1640
1616
32. Seven-year-old Mehmed IV becomes sultan.
1674
1647
1652
1641
33. The Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth army defeats combined Russian- Swedish forces at the Battle of Klushino and conquers Moscow.
1624
1634
1610
1644
34. The Second Anglo-Dutch War fought between England and the United Provinces.
1633
1606
1665
1663
35. The Treaty of Westminster ends the war between England and the Republic of the United Provinces.
1665
1666
1645
1674
36. Famine in France kills 2 million.
1644
1664
1620
1692
37. Louis XIV accepts the Spanish crown on behalf of his grandson Philip of Anjou - triggering the War of the Spanish Succession
1700
1633
1634
1648
38. Gunpowder Plot failed in England.
1627
1648
1699
1605
39. Robert Hooke discovers cells using a microscope.
1661
1606
1663
1664
40. The Battle of the Boyne in Ireland.
1641
1674
1690
1682
41. The Defenestration of Prague
1652
1618
1654
1606
42. Peace Treaty of Lisbon between Spain and Portugal recognizes Portugal as independent country.
1674
1688
1689
1668
43. 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
1641
1689
1647
1660
44. The Bank of England is established.
1606
1627
1694
1670
45. British troops capture New Amsterdam and rename it New York.
1696
1610
1689
1664
46. St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican completed.
1626
1620
1689
1613
47. The Battle of Vienna finishes the Ottoman Empire's hegemony in south-eastern Europe.
1678
1683
1603
1661
48. Royal Society of London for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge founded.
1681
1660
1624
1699
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.
1642
1606
1609
1668
50. Cardinal Richelieu allies with Swedish Protestant forces in the Thirty Years' War to counter Ferdinand II's expansion.
1700
1630
1629
1669