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17th Century Timeline
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1. Jamestown massacre - Algonquian natives kill 347 English settlers outside Jamestown - Virginia (1/3 of the colony's population) and burn the Henricus settlement.
1676
1622
1651
1688
2. Royal Society of London for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge founded.
1685
1663
1689
1660
3. Jamestown - Virginia - is settled as what would become the first permanent English colony in North America.
1607
1700
1624
1616
4. Russia supplants Sweden as the dominant Baltic power after the Great Northern War.
1634
1648
1700
1601
5. Bethlen Gabor is defeated outside Vienna.
1682
1651
1619
1689
6. 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.
1676
1603
1642
1624
7. Capture of Ormuz; The island of Hormuz was captured by an Anglo-Persian force from Portuguese.
1700
1690
1651
1622
8. TheFirst Anglo-Dutch War begins.
1616
1652
1607
1661
9. Time of Troubles - Vasili IV becomes Tzar of Russia.
1690
1606
1664
1689
10. Ren
1641
1663
1663
1605
11. Tokugawa Ieyasu seizes control of Japan and establishes the Tokugawa Shogunate - beginning the Edo period that lasts until 1869.
1637
1603
1609
1694
12. Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.
1687
1700
1637
1668
13. The Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.
1613
1649
1688
1630
14. The Raid on the Medway during the Second Anglo-Dutch War.
1682
1667
1639
1663
15. John Locke publishes his first 'Letter Concerning Toleration'.
1606
1606
1689
1616
16. The Siege of Derry.
1688
1621
1676
1640
17. Ottoman war with Venice. The Ottomans invade Crete and capture Canea.
1662
1700
1645
1674
18. The Grand Alliance sought to stop French expansion during the Nine Years War.
1625
1670
1688
1622
19. Franco-Dutch War.
1637
1672
1639
1639
20. Dutch explorer Abel Janszoon Tasman achieves the first recorded European sighting of New Zealand.
1642
1606
1663
1694
21. The Battle of St. Gotthard - Count Raimondo Montecuccoli defeats the Ottomans. The Peace of Vasvar
1680
1640
1664
1700
22. Mount Vesuvius erupts
1631
1619
1688
1641
23. As chief minister - Cardinal Richelieu centralises power in France.
1606
1603
1624
1687
24. Jacques Aymar-Vernay - who later reintroduced Dowsing into popular use in Europe - is born.
1673
1662
1663
1644
25. Bethlen Gabor - Prince of Transylvania joins Protestant Rebels.
1645
1606
1603
1618
26. Emperor Fasilides expels the Catholic Patriarch Afonso Mendes and several Jesuit missionaries from Ethiopia.
1616
1634
1680
1610
27. Seven-year-old Mehmed IV becomes sultan.
1647
1611
1644
1655
28. Assassination of Stephen Bocskay of Transylvania.
1665
1640
1606
1609
29. Treaty of Vienna ends anti-Habsburg uprising in Royal Hungary.
1651
1606
1639
1616
30. Ren
1641
1652
1644
1667
31. Torture is outlawed in England.
1661
1672
1616
1640
32. Tokugawa Ieyasu seizes control of Japan and establishes the Tokugawa Shogunate - beginning the Edo period that lasts until 1869.
1624
1603
1630
1654
33. Naval Battle of the Downs
1672
1639
1618
1690
34. Bethlen Gabor allies with the Ottomans and an invasion of Moldavia takes place. The Polish suffer a disaster at Cecora on the River Prut.
1683
1688
1632
1620
35. 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.
1623
1682
1648
1644
36. The Long War between the Ottoman Empire and Austria is ended with the Peace of Zsitvatorok - Austria abandons Transylvania.
1606
1639
1618
1651
37. Mehmed K
1641
1692
1688
1661
38. 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
1601
1666
1636
1645
39. Harvard University is founded in Cambridge - Massachusetts.
1616
1685
1636
1689
40. Thomas Savery demonstrates his first steam engine to the Royal Society.
1699
1683
1620
1658
41. After modernizing his army - Abbas I expands the Persian Empire by capturing territory from the Ottomans and the Portuguese.
1696
1603
1610
1632
42. The Ottomans make camp at Adrianople.
1682
1619
1660
1644
43. Taj Mahal building work started in Agra -India
1606
1632
1682
1608
44. Aurochs go extinct.
1660
1627
1693
1688
45. Peter the Great becomes joint ruler of Russia (sole tsar in 1696).
1641
1670
1626
1682
46. St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican completed.
1626
1685
1632
1633
47. Mehmed K
1602
1658
1654
1610
48. The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War.
1674
1608
1667
1644
49. Emperor Fasilides founds the city of Gondar - which becomes the capital of Ethiopia for the next two centuries.
1640
1627
1667
1636
50. The Glorious Revolution starts with the Dutch Republic invading England - England becomes a constitutional monarchy.
1610
1619
1666
1688
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