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17th Century Timeline
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1. Death of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu
1633
1627
1647
1616
2. Quebec City founded by Samuel de Champlain in New France (present-day Canada).
1619
1608
1601
1605
3. Dutch explorer Abel Janszoon Tasman achieves the first recorded European sighting of New Zealand.
1631
1669
1664
1642
4. Fronde civil war in France.
1661
1608
1669
1648
5. Japan transforms into 'locked country'.
1633
1682
1616
1682
6. Jamestown massacre - Algonquian natives kill 347 English settlers outside Jamestown - Virginia (1/3 of the colony's population) and burn the Henricus settlement.
1622
1620
1631
1662
7. The Treaty of Westminster ends the war between England and the Republic of the United Provinces.
1674
1616
1620
1616
8. Cape Town founded by the Dutch EastIndia Company in South Africa.
1649
1607
1618
1652
9. The Manchus start invading China. Their conquest eventually topples the Ming Dynasty.
1663
1618
1640
1648
10. Russia supplants Sweden as the dominant Baltic power after the Great Northern War.
1672
1652
1700
1641
11. The Battle of Killiecrankie is fought between Jacobite and Williamite forces in Highland Perthshire
1610
1699
1689
1618
12. Mary II of England dies
1694
1700
1625
1640
13. Emperor Fasilides expels the Catholic Patriarch Afonso Mendes and several Jesuit missionaries from Ethiopia.
1603
1662
1634
1660
14. The death of Miyamoto Musashi - legendary Japanese Samurai warrior - of natural causes.
1648
1603
1645
1700
15. Wars of the Three Kingdoms - civil wars throughout Scotland - Ireland - and England.
1700
1665
1652
1639
16. Ren
1644
1692
1641
1621
17. The Battle of Killiecrankie is fought between Jacobite and Williamite forces in Highland Perthshire
1690
1689
1694
1692
18. Tokugawa Ieyasu seizes control of Japan and establishes the Tokugawa Shogunate - beginning the Edo period that lasts until 1869.
1603
1700
1672
1700
19. Lynching of Johan de Witt and his brother Cornelis de Witt in the Hague
1683
1689
1672
1685
20. Abbas I - the Safavids king - died.
1652
1629
1660
1676
21. Shimabara Rebellion of Japanese Christians - ronin and peasants against Edo.
1676
1692
1637
1619
22. The 1700 Cascadia earthquake (magnitude 9) occurs off the coast of the Pacific Northwest; Japan is struck by a tsunami.
1667
1682
1690
1700
23. The Treaty of Zurawno brings Polish-Ottoman hostilities to a halt.
1629
1618
1683
1676
24. Gunpowder Plot failed in England.
1639
1644
1689
1605
25. The Ottomans make camp at Adrianople.
1682
1613
1690
1618
26. Wars of the Three Kingdoms - civil wars throughout Scotland - Ireland - and England.
1664
1682
1639
1620
27. Taj Mahal building work started in Agra -India
1666
1606
1632
1672
28. Elizabeth I of England dies and is succeeded by her cousin King James VI of Scotland - uniting the crowns of Scotland and England.
1606
1633
1603
1651
29. Bethlen Gabor allies with the Ottomans and an invasion of Moldavia takes place. The Polish suffer a disaster at Cecora on the River Prut.
1620
1616
1680
1606
30. Royal Society of London for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge founded.
1648
1660
1674
1688
31. Robert Hooke discovers cells using a microscope.
1606
1663
1609
1661
32. Polish-Ottoman War over Moldavia.
1700
1649
1667
1620
33. Naval Battle of the Downs
1639
1689
1676
1621
34. The War of Devolution; France invades the Netherlands. The Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle (1668) brings this to a halt.
1662
1667
1641
1620
35. Death of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu
1606
1616
1605
1672
36. Maximilian of Bavaria establishes the Catholic League.
1609
1661
1663
1664
37. Polish-Ottoman War.
1616
1669
1672
1665
38. Koxinga captures Taiwan from the Dutch and founds the Kingdom of Tungning which rules until 1683.
1662
1603
1692
1620
39. The 1700 Cascadia earthquake (magnitude 9) occurs off the coast of the Pacific Northwest; Japan is struck by a tsunami.
1700
1632
1602
1618
40. The Tokugawa Shogunate institutes Sakoku- foreigners are expelled and no one is allowed to enter or leave Japan.
1626
1618
1642
1641
41. The Great Fire of London.
1613
1618
1674
1666
42. Dutch EastIndia Company founded. Its success contributes to the Dutch Golden Age.
1602
1689
1689
1648
43. Bethlen Gabor is defeated outside Vienna.
1662
1641
1630
1619
44. Royal Society of London for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge founded.
1601
1618
1660
1606
45. The Battle of Chocim - Poles and Cossacks under Jan Karol Chodkiewicz defeat the Ottomans.
1619
1621
1609
1624
46. The Grand Alliance sought to stop French expansion during the Nine Years War.
1697
1608
1688
1676
47. La Salle explores the length of the Mississippi River and claims Louisiana for France.
1655
1682
1680
1688
48. The Ottomans capture Crete from the Venetians after the Siege of Candia.
1620
1699
1694
1648
49. The Siege of Derry.
1666
1633
1603
1688
50. Louis XIV accepts the Spanish crown on behalf of his grandson Philip of Anjou - triggering the War of the Spanish Succession
1685
1700
1658
1610