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17th Century Timeline
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1. Polish-Ottoman War.
1652
1631
1672
1665
2. Portugal defeats the Kongo Empire at the Battle of Mbwila.
1687
1665
1602
1669
3. Treaty of Vienna ends anti-Habsburg uprising in Royal Hungary.
1606
1654
1694
1683
4. Elizabeth I of England dies and is succeeded by her cousin King James VI of Scotland - uniting the crowns of Scotland and England.
1610
1660
1682
1603
5. The Tokugawa Shogunate institutes Sakoku- foreigners are expelled and no one is allowed to enter or leave Japan.
1620
1641
1649
1699
6. Jamestown - Virginia - is settled as what would become the first permanent English colony in North America.
1607
1651
1630
1689
7. Dutch EastIndia Company founded. Its success contributes to the Dutch Golden Age.
1700
1641
1602
1640
8. Battle of L
1644
1681
1663
1632
9. The Ottomans make camp at Adrianople.
1603
1682
1606
1605
10. The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War.
1667
1664
1644
1694
11. The Treaty of Nijmegen ends the hostilities with France
1678
1603
1620
1639
12. Polish-Ottoman War.
1682
1672
1622
1694
13. Battle of N
1605
1634
1676
1616
14. The Great Plague of London.
1640
1688
1694
1665
15. 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.'
1673
1632
1601
1621
16. The 1700 Cascadia earthquake (magnitude 9) occurs off the coast of the Pacific Northwest; Japan is struck by a tsunami.
1636
1605
1609
1700
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.
1678
1640
1641
1642
18. The earliest known first-class cricket match took place in Sussex.
1697
1644
1667
1624
19. Peace Treaty of Lisbon between Spain and Portugal recognizes Portugal as independent country.
1668
1606
1664
1688
20. Taj Mahal building work started in Agra -India
1652
1616
1601
1632
21. English poet and playwright William Shakespeare dies.
1651
1688
1639
1616
22. The Pueblo Revolt drives the Spanish out of New Mexico until 1692.
1692
1606
1680
1689
23. The Pontifical and Royal University of Santo Tomas - the oldest existing university in Asia - established by the Dominican Order in Manila
1689
1611
1652
1609
24. Emperor Fasilides founds the city of Gondar - which becomes the capital of Ethiopia for the next two centuries.
1636
1693
1627
1699
25. La Salle explores the length of the Mississippi River and claims Louisiana for France.
1603
1682
1613
1629
26. The Treaty of Zurawno brings Polish-Ottoman hostilities to a halt.
1700
1676
1637
1688
27. The Battle of St. Gotthard - Count Raimondo Montecuccoli defeats the Ottomans. The Peace of Vasvar
1610
1606
1664
1622
28. Giovanni Battista Pamphili is elected PopeInnocent X at the Papal conclave of 1644.
1644
1690
1620
1681
29. Flight of the Earls (the fleeing of most of the native Gaelic aristocracy) occurs from County Donegal in the west of Ulster in Ireland.
1607
1662
1620
1642
30. Mehmed K
1660
1654
1621
1662
31. The Hudson's Bay Company is founded in Canada.
1682
1618
1639
1670
32. William ascends to the throne over England - Scotland - and Ireland.
1608
1689
1683
1622
33. The Mughal Empire nearly bans the EastIndia Company in response to pirate Henry Every's capture of the Ganj-i-Sawai
1618
1695
1665
1700
34. The Siege of Derry.
1670
1676
1618
1688
35. The Deluge wars leave Polish
1648
1674
1672
1661
36. John Locke publishes his first 'Letter Concerning Toleration'.
1689
1613
1606
1624
37. Bethlen Gabor - Prince of Transylvania joins Protestant Rebels.
1688
1663
1603
1618
38. The last remaining Moriscos (Moors who had nominally converted to Christianity) in Spain are expelled.
1674
1663
1616
1601
39. Jamestown massacre - Algonquian natives kill 347 English settlers outside Jamestown - Virginia (1/3 of the colony's population) and burn the Henricus settlement.
1622
1674
1692
1688
40. A Habsburg council of war is held in Vienna.
1674
1665
1668
1683
41. Ren
1681
1641
1623
1663
42. The Ottomans capture Crete from the Venetians after the Siege of Candia.
1661
1683
1648
1611
43. Battle of Kinsale - one of the most important battles in Irish history - fought.
1660
1601
1640
1625
44. The Second Anglo-Dutch War fought between England and the United Provinces.
1665
1663
1618
1639
45. Galileo Galilei arrives in Rome for his trial before theInquisition.
1648
1633
1613
1616
46. Aurochs go extinct.
1618
1627
1651
1688
47. The 1700 Cascadia earthquake (magnitude 9) occurs off the coast of the Pacific Northwest; Japan is struck by a tsunami.
1700
1624
1664
1616
48. The Great Turkish War halts the Ottoman Empire's expansion into Europe.
1652
1667
1641
1640
49. Thomas Savery demonstrates his first steam engine to the Royal Society.
1641
1699
1681
1616
50. 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
1633
1641
1639
1689