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17th Century Timeline
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1. Polish
1644
1669
1660
1613
2. Polish-Ottoman War over Moldavia.
1674
1620
1664
1696
3. Disagreements between the Farnese and Barberini Pope Urban VIII escalate into the Wars of Castro and last until 1649.
1689
1639
1607
1644
4. Jamestown massacre - Algonquian natives kill 347 English settlers outside Jamestown - Virginia (1/3 of the colony's population) and burn the Henricus settlement.
1627
1622
1648
1627
5. Dutch EastIndia Company founded. Its success contributes to the Dutch Golden Age.
1630
1626
1667
1602
6. Pedro de Peralta - governor of New Mexico - establishes the settlement of Santa Fe.
1672
1610
1670
1693
7. The Treaty of Karlowitz ends the Great Turkish War.
1681
1629
1699
1606
8. The Netherlands and Spain agree to a Twelve Years' Truce in the Eighty Years' War.
1601
1609
1689
1633
9. 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.
1700
1667
1642
1648
10. Cardinal Richelieu allies with Swedish Protestant forces in the Thirty Years' War to counter Ferdinand II's expansion.
1682
1670
1629
1664
11. Royal Society of London for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge founded.
1689
1660
1661
1667
12. The Mughal Empire nearly bans the EastIndia Company in response to pirate Henry Every's capture of the Ganj-i-Sawai
1634
1608
1695
1644
13. Ottoman war with Venice. The Ottomans invade Crete and capture Canea.
1606
1662
1639
1645
14. The Treaty of Karlowitz ends the Great Turkish War.
1699
1700
1618
1689
15. Lithuanian Civil War
1603
1692
1622
1700
16. The Russian famine of 1601
1601
1648
1689
1654
17. Bethlen Gabor is defeated outside Vienna.
1674
1664
1619
1601
18. The reign of the Kangxi Emperor of China begins.
1624
1608
1618
1661
19. The Deluge wars leave Polish
1639
1639
1648
1700
20. The College of William and Mary is founded in Williamsburg - Virginia by a royal charter.
1669
1693
1664
1624
21. Wars of the Three Kingdoms - civil wars throughout Scotland - Ireland - and England.
1660
1639
1616
1622
22. The Ottomans capture Crete.
1669
1664
1652
1672
23. The Brownist Pilgrims arrive in the Mayflower at Cape Cod
1620
1609
1618
1672
24. English poet and playwright William Shakespeare dies.
1697
1603
1676
1616
25. Jamestown - Virginia - is settled as what would become the first permanent English colony in North America.
1652
1664
1607
1620
26. The Battle of Killiecrankie is fought between Jacobite and Williamite forces in Highland Perthshire
1674
1664
1683
1689
27. Portugal defeats the Kongo Empire at the Battle of Mbwila.
1603
1665
1647
1640
28. Ren
1688
1641
1613
1639
29. Mary II of England dies
1672
1694
1697
1636
30. Ottoman war with Venice. The Ottomans invade Crete and capture Canea.
1667
1645
1683
1636
31. Mehmed K
1609
1642
1639
1661
32. Edict of Fontainebleau outlaws Protestantism in France. King Charles II dies
1678
1685
1662
1610
33. Abbas I - the Safavids king - died.
1651
1699
1629
1610
34. La Salle explores the length of the Mississippi River and claims Louisiana for France.
1622
1682
1665
1680
35. Capture of Ormuz; The island of Hormuz was captured by an Anglo-Persian force from Portuguese.
1676
1664
1622
1640
36. The Siege of Derry.
1689
1610
1620
1688
37. The Dutch WestIndia Company invades the Portuguese colony of Pernambuco and founds Dutch Brazil.
1623
1630
1672
1647
38. Naval Battle of the Downs
1639
1667
1683
1662
39. Famine in Finland wipes out almost a third of the population.
1640
1689
1633
1696
40. Emperor Fasilides founds the city of Gondar - which becomes the capital of Ethiopia for the next two centuries.
1619
1636
1639
1639
41. The Bohemian Revolt precipitates the Thirty Years' War which devastates Europe in the years 1618
1633
1672
1618
1662
42. Torture is outlawed in England.
1623
1640
1634
1697
43. Time of Troubles - Vasili IV becomes Tzar of Russia.
1606
1665
1626
1601
44. 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
1667
1658
1696
45. The Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.
1613
1700
1622
1649
46. Bethlen Gabor - Prince of Transylvania joins Protestant Rebels.
1636
1618
1625
1616
47. Treaty of Vienna ends anti-Habsburg uprising in Royal Hungary.
1664
1654
1606
1689
48. Peter the Great becomes joint ruler of Russia (sole tsar in 1696).
1601
1606
1682
1640
49. Russia supplants Sweden as the dominant Baltic power after the Great Northern War.
1683
1620
1683
1700
50. China conquers the Kingdom of Tungning and annexes Taiwan.
1688
1609
1683
1622
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