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17th Century Timeline
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1. The Pasha of Buda supports Imre Th
1676
1681
1640
1648
2. The Great Fire of London.
1666
1603
1633
1694
3. Peace Treaty of Lisbon between Spain and Portugal recognizes Portugal as independent country.
1668
1680
1640
1636
4. The Second Anglo-Dutch War fought between England and the United Provinces.
1665
1692
1672
1660
5. Death of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu
1683
1616
1682
1648
6. English poet and playwright William Shakespeare dies.
1641
1689
1616
1601
7. Shimabara Rebellion of Japanese Christians - ronin and peasants against Edo.
1674
1637
1627
1606
8. Japan transforms into 'locked country'.
1692
1622
1633
1683
9. The Mughal Empire nearly bans the EastIndia Company in response to pirate Henry Every's capture of the Ganj-i-Sawai
1682
1601
1637
1695
10. The Defenestration of Prague
1693
1618
1663
1674
11. As chief minister - Cardinal Richelieu centralises power in France.
1624
1694
1644
1639
12. Ottoman campaign to help the Ukrainian Cossacks. John Sobieski defeats the Ottomans at the second battle of Khotyn (1673).
1688
1665
1672
1627
13. Franco-Dutch War.
1664
1692
1672
1692
14. France takes full political and military control over its colonial possessions in New France.
1667
1663
1636
1629
15. The Russian famine of 1601
1692
1620
1601
1618
16. The Mughal Empire nearly bans the EastIndia Company in response to pirate Henry Every's capture of the Ganj-i-Sawai
1664
1663
1695
1700
17. After his father Shah Jahan completes the Taj Mahal - his son Aurangzeb deposes him as ruler of the Mughal Empire.
1658
1639
1601
1654
18. The Pueblo Revolt drives the Spanish out of New Mexico until 1692.
1680
1601
1654
1648
19. Salem witch trials in Massachusetts.
1682
1688
1692
1634
20. The Battle of Killiecrankie is fought between Jacobite and Williamite forces in Highland Perthshire
1618
1649
1689
1633
21. The War of Devolution; France invades the Netherlands. The Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle (1668) brings this to a halt.
1602
1667
1632
1685
22. The earliest known first-class cricket match took place in Sussex.
1697
1648
1683
1640
23. The Northern Wars cement Sweden's rise as a Great Power.
1668
1688
1655
1644
24. The Netherlands and Spain agree to a Twelve Years' Truce in the Eighty Years' War.
1681
1694
1613
1609
25. Flight of the Earls (the fleeing of most of the native Gaelic aristocracy) occurs from County Donegal in the west of Ulster in Ireland.
1697
1696
1683
1607
26. Emperor Ferdinand II defeats the Bohemian rebels in the Battle of White Mountain.
1669
1649
1700
1620
27. The Treaty of Westminster ends the war between England and the Republic of the United Provinces.
1652
1694
1607
1674
28. The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War.
1672
1644
1640
1645
29. The Bohemian Revolt precipitates the Thirty Years' War which devastates Europe in the years 1618
1641
1645
1683
1618
30. 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.
1690
1658
1689
1648
31. Kara Mustafa becomes Grand Vizier.
1696
1676
1620
1652
32. Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.
1607
1645
1687
1674
33. Lynching of Johan de Witt and his brother Cornelis de Witt in the Hague
1660
1666
1683
1672
34. The Time of Troubles in Russia ends with the establishment of the House of Romanov which rules until 1917.
1618
1601
1613
1607
35. Mehmed K
1654
1685
1663
1651
36. Mary II of England dies
1620
1654
1660
1694
37. Pedro de Peralta - governor of New Mexico - establishes the settlement of Santa Fe.
1648
1610
1694
1606
38. The fortresses of Veszpr
1605
1700
1674
1688
39. The Ottomans capture Crete.
1652
1700
1626
1669
40. The Dutch WestIndia Company invades the Portuguese colony of Bahia in Brazil.
1601
1641
1624
1655
41. Louis XIV accepts the Spanish crown on behalf of his grandson Philip of Anjou - triggering the War of the Spanish Succession
1644
1652
1601
1700
42. Emperor Fasilides expels the Catholic Patriarch Afonso Mendes and several Jesuit missionaries from Ethiopia.
1606
1607
1634
1681
43. 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
1662
1603
1676
1689
44. Capture of Ormuz; The island of Hormuz was captured by an Anglo-Persian force from Portuguese.
1668
1622
1647
1639
45. The Brownist Pilgrims arrive in the Mayflower at Cape Cod
1697
1601
1665
1620
46. 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
1687
1695
1601
1647
47. The Manchu conquer China ending the Ming Dynasty. The subsequent Qing Dynasty rules until 1912.
1664
1663
1623
1644
48. Mary II of England dies
1618
1666
1622
1694
49. The Treaty of Nijmegen ends the hostilities with France
1688
1609
1700
1678
50. Wars of the Three Kingdoms - civil wars throughout Scotland - Ireland - and England.
1639
1690
1644
1662