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17th Century Timeline
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1. Assassination of Stephen Bocskay of Transylvania.
1606
1618
1689
1695
2. Assassination of Stephen Bocskay of Transylvania.
1605
1630
1606
1610
3. Emperor Fasilides founds the city of Gondar - which becomes the capital of Ethiopia for the next two centuries.
1636
1611
1607
1672
4. The Tokugawa Shogunate institutes Sakoku- foreigners are expelled and no one is allowed to enter or leave Japan.
1641
1672
1687
1685
5. Cape Town founded by the Dutch EastIndia Company in South Africa.
1652
1676
1688
1633
6. Seven-year-old Mehmed IV becomes sultan.
1647
1630
1624
1637
7. Torture is outlawed in England.
1644
1694
1640
1689
8. The Great Plague of Seville.
1664
1648
1692
1647
9. Emperor Fasilides expels the Catholic Patriarch Afonso Mendes and several Jesuit missionaries from Ethiopia.
1634
1660
1640
1601
10. Portugal defeats the Kongo Empire at the Battle of Mbwila.
1620
1609
1662
1665
11. King Charles was compelled to summon Parliament due to the revolt of the Scots.
1640
1652
1700
1663
12. The last remaining Moriscos (Moors who had nominally converted to Christianity) in Spain are expelled.
1689
1672
1616
1606
13. Maffeo Barberini is elected Pope Urban VIII at the Papal conclave of 1623.
1627
1661
1623
1683
14. China conquers the Kingdom of Tungning and annexes Taiwan.
1649
1676
1663
1683
15. The Second Anglo-Dutch War fought between England and the United Provinces.
1665
1639
1601
1692
16. Flight of the Earls (the fleeing of most of the native Gaelic aristocracy) occurs from County Donegal in the west of Ulster in Ireland.
1645
1607
1606
1603
17. Battle of N
1654
1694
1609
1634
18. Aurochs go extinct.
1644
1669
1700
1627
19. As chief minister - Cardinal Richelieu centralises power in France.
1700
1622
1664
1624
20. Taj Mahal building work started in Agra -India
1632
1692
1652
1640
21. Wars of the Three Kingdoms - civil wars throughout Scotland - Ireland - and England.
1631
1639
1664
1610
22. La Salle explores the length of the Mississippi River and claims Louisiana for France.
1640
1647
1682
1683
23. The Peace of Westphalia ends the Thirty Years' War and the Eighty Years' War and marks the ends of Spain and the Holy Roman Empire as major European powers.
1648
1622
1672
1605
24. Rampjaar in the Netherlands
1672
1695
1648
1622
25. TheFirst Anglo-Dutch War begins.
1672
1603
1690
1652
26. Taj Mahal building work started in Agra -India
1672
1688
1674
1632
27. John Evelyn's forestry book - Sylva - is published in England.
1664
1648
1641
1668
28. Jamestown massacre - Algonquian natives kill 347 English settlers outside Jamestown - Virginia (1/3 of the colony's population) and burn the Henricus settlement.
1664
1667
1622
1610
29. Jamestown massacre - Algonquian natives kill 347 English settlers outside Jamestown - Virginia (1/3 of the colony's population) and burn the Henricus settlement.
1658
1623
1622
1700
30. The Long War between the Ottoman Empire and Austria is ended with the Peace of Zsitvatorok - Austria abandons Transylvania.
1642
1624
1641
1606
31. The Battle of Chocim - Poles and Cossacks under Jan Karol Chodkiewicz defeat the Ottomans.
1672
1625
1630
1621
32. The Grand Alliance sought to stop French expansion during the Nine Years War.
1688
1630
1689
1662
33. 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.
1660
1699
1642
1680
34. 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
1665
1681
1667
1601
35. The Treaty of Nerchinsk established a border between Russia and China.
1611
1601
1689
1602
36. 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
1688
1616
1689
1605
37. Polish-Ottoman War over Moldavia.
1606
1606
1620
1670
38. Tokugawa Ieyasu seizes control of Japan and establishes the Tokugawa Shogunate - beginning the Edo period that lasts until 1869.
1603
1606
1644
1640
39. The Great Turkish War halts the Ottoman Empire's expansion into Europe.
1663
1606
1667
1696
40. The Bank of England is established.
1669
1618
1689
1694
41. British troops capture New Amsterdam and rename it New York.
1620
1700
1696
1664
42. Ottoman campaign to help the Ukrainian Cossacks. John Sobieski defeats the Ottomans at the second battle of Khotyn (1673).
1672
1641
1683
1697
43. Battle of N
1634
1610
1636
1644
44. Peter the Great becomes joint ruler of Russia (sole tsar in 1696).
1648
1682
1639
1700
45. Louis XIV accepts the Spanish crown on behalf of his grandson Philip of Anjou - triggering the War of the Spanish Succession
1674
1682
1700
1648
46. The Irish Rebellion.
1667
1674
1660
1641
47. Ottoman campaign to help the Ukrainian Cossacks. John Sobieski defeats the Ottomans at the second battle of Khotyn (1673).
1672
1689
1642
1601
48. 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.'
1696
1663
1636
1673
49. King Charles was compelled to summon Parliament due to the revolt of the Scots.
1640
1626
1622
1648
50. Franco-Dutch War.
1667
1672
1632
1620