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17th Century Timeline
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1. Emperor Fasilides expels the Catholic Patriarch Afonso Mendes and several Jesuit missionaries from Ethiopia.
1634
1670
1603
1633
2. The Battle of the Boyne in Ireland.
1690
1688
1637
1609
3. Bethlen Gabor allies with the Ottomans and an invasion of Moldavia takes place. The Polish suffer a disaster at Cecora on the River Prut.
1603
1697
1622
1620
4. Mary II of England dies
1688
1694
1633
1630
5. China conquers the Kingdom of Tungning and annexes Taiwan.
1620
1689
1688
1683
6. Ottoman war with Venice. The Ottomans invade Crete and capture Canea.
1645
1699
1672
1623
7. Wars of the Three Kingdoms - civil wars throughout Scotland - Ireland - and England.
1639
1616
1644
1634
8. The Ottomans capture Crete.
1669
1618
1688
1649
9. Pedro de Peralta - governor of New Mexico - establishes the settlement of Santa Fe.
1644
1636
1633
1610
10. The Treaty of Nerchinsk established a border between Russia and China.
1678
1700
1662
1689
11. The reign of the Kangxi Emperor of China begins.
1690
1661
1648
1641
12. Bethlen Gabor is defeated outside Vienna.
1660
1667
1619
1621
13. Emperor Ferdinand II defeats the Bohemian rebels in the Battle of White Mountain.
1603
1690
1620
1630
14. Ottoman war against Habsburg Hungary.
1687
1644
1616
1663
15. Mount Vesuvius erupts
1601
1676
1631
1605
16. The Ottomans make camp at Adrianople.
1687
1667
1651
1682
17. Giovanni Battista Pamphili is elected PopeInnocent X at the Papal conclave of 1644.
1700
1607
1644
1660
18. The Manchu conquer China ending the Ming Dynasty. The subsequent Qing Dynasty rules until 1912.
1676
1664
1644
1618
19. Torture is outlawed in England.
1640
1689
1603
1676
20. The Tokugawa Shogunate institutes Sakoku- foreigners are expelled and no one is allowed to enter or leave Japan.
1641
1660
1700
1694
21. The Treaty of Westminster ends the war between England and the Republic of the United Provinces.
1641
1616
1658
1674
22. The War of the Two Kings in Ireland.
1662
1664
1672
1688
23. 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.
1663
1688
1642
1603
24. The Russian famine of 1601
1601
1626
1666
1644
25. The Portuguese Restoration War led to the end of the Iberian Union.
1640
1651
1644
1610
26. The Ottomans make camp at Adrianople.
1661
1625
1682
1620
27. The War of Devolution; France invades the Netherlands. The Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle (1668) brings this to a halt.
1616
1680
1640
1667
28. Russia supplants Sweden as the dominant Baltic power after the Great Northern War.
1664
1640
1700
1606
29. 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.
1689
1620
1674
1606
30. The Brownist Pilgrims arrive in the Mayflower at Cape Cod
1676
1620
1663
1667
31. The Great Plague of Seville.
1647
1696
1649
1629
32. The Time of Troubles in Russia ends with the establishment of the House of Romanov which rules until 1917.
1613
1640
1642
1640
33. Emperor Fasilides expels the Catholic Patriarch Afonso Mendes and several Jesuit missionaries from Ethiopia.
1634
1699
1696
1694
34. The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War.
1640
1601
1644
1616
35. Battle of N
1676
1634
1667
1618
36. The Irish Rebellion.
1699
1641
1609
1678
37. The Grand Alliance sought to stop French expansion during the Nine Years War.
1673
1688
1642
1625
38. The Battle of St. Gotthard - Count Raimondo Montecuccoli defeats the Ottomans. The Peace of Vasvar
1664
1605
1696
1682
39. The Long War between the Ottoman Empire and Austria is ended with the Peace of Zsitvatorok - Austria abandons Transylvania.
1606
1655
1649
1645
40. Tokugawa Ieyasu seizes control of Japan and establishes the Tokugawa Shogunate - beginning the Edo period that lasts until 1869.
1658
1688
1603
1669
41. Louis XIV accepts the Spanish crown on behalf of his grandson Philip of Anjou - triggering the War of the Spanish Succession
1700
1606
1613
1613
42. The Deluge wars leave Polish
1683
1648
1649
1669
43. Japan transforms into 'locked country'.
1636
1648
1633
1644
44. Death of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu
1655
1640
1610
1616
45. The Great Fire of London.
1623
1665
1666
1649
46. Famine in France kills 2 million.
1632
1610
1692
1606
47. Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.
1687
1689
1611
1639
48. The College of William and Mary is founded in Williamsburg - Virginia by a royal charter.
1693
1682
1641
1642
49. The Battle of Vienna finishes the Ottoman Empire's hegemony in south-eastern Europe.
1688
1683
1662
1669
50. William ascends to the throne over England - Scotland - and Ireland.
1636
1629
1689
1616