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17th Century Timeline
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1. Cape Town founded by the Dutch EastIndia Company in South Africa.
1652
1601
1678
1639
2. The Great Plague of London.
1692
1634
1603
1665
3. The Defenestration of Prague
1618
1648
1616
1700
4. The Hudson's Bay Company is founded in Canada.
1670
1645
1631
1632
5. Abbas I - the Safavids king - died.
1629
1644
1689
1645
6. Mount Vesuvius erupts
1631
1685
1700
1660
7. Bethlen Gabor - Prince of Transylvania joins Protestant Rebels.
1618
1664
1667
1700
8. Jamestown - Virginia - is settled as what would become the first permanent English colony in North America.
1606
1669
1694
1607
9. The Time of Troubles in Russia ends with the establishment of the House of Romanov which rules until 1917.
1688
1613
1672
1681
10. Naval Battle of the Downs
1690
1639
1655
1672
11. The 1700 Cascadia earthquake (magnitude 9) occurs off the coast of the Pacific Northwest; Japan is struck by a tsunami.
1700
1620
1616
1636
12. Portugal defeats the Kongo Empire at the Battle of Mbwila.
1601
1654
1618
1665
13. The Great Plague of Seville.
1613
1667
1619
1647
14. Sultan Mehmed IV - advised by Kara Mustafa - decides to disregard the existing peace treaty with Leopold I - due to expire in 1684.
1606
1652
1694
1682
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.'
1647
1665
1673
1682
16. Robert Hooke discovers cells using a microscope.
1688
1603
1633
1663
17. The Portuguese Restoration War led to the end of the Iberian Union.
1606
1640
1642
1627
18. Emperor Ferdinand II defeats the Bohemian rebels in the Battle of White Mountain.
1620
1658
1602
1689
19. John Locke publishes his first 'Letter Concerning Toleration'.
1607
1689
1666
1623
20. Polish-Ottoman War.
1633
1624
1672
1620
21. Galileo Galilei arrives in Rome for his trial before theInquisition.
1682
1640
1661
1633
22. The Russian famine of 1601
1601
1663
1687
1688
23. Lynching of Johan de Witt and his brother Cornelis de Witt in the Hague
1672
1609
1674
1687
24. Emperor Fasilides founds the city of Gondar - which becomes the capital of Ethiopia for the next two centuries.
1616
1674
1636
1652
25. Bethlen Gabor is defeated outside Vienna.
1663
1619
1690
1601
26. Battle of Kinsale - one of the most important battles in Irish history - fought.
1694
1601
1616
1683
27. Cape Town founded by the Dutch EastIndia Company in South Africa.
1652
1603
1609
1680
28. Seven-year-old Mehmed IV becomes sultan.
1631
1700
1647
1641
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.
1665
1607
1616
1689
30. Maratha Empire founded inIndia by Shivaji.
1700
1674
1687
1662
31. Assassination of Stephen Bocskay of Transylvania.
1606
1688
1603
1648
32. Cardinal Richelieu allies with Swedish Protestant forces in the Thirty Years' War to counter Ferdinand II's expansion.
1689
1688
1629
1633
33. Cardinal Richelieu lays siege to Protestant La Rochelle which eventually capitulates.
1652
1682
1672
1627
34. Jamestown massacre - Algonquian natives kill 347 English settlers outside Jamestown - Virginia (1/3 of the colony's population) and burn the Henricus settlement.
1619
1622
1694
1688
35. Thomas Savery demonstrates his first steam engine to the Royal Society.
1699
1619
1608
1632
36. Jamestown massacre - Algonquian natives kill 347 English settlers outside Jamestown - Virginia (1/3 of the colony's population) and burn the Henricus settlement.
1624
1610
1622
1692
37. Rampjaar in the Netherlands
1690
1603
1606
1672
38. Dutch EastIndia Company founded. Its success contributes to the Dutch Golden Age.
1651
1688
1602
1689
39. English Civil War ends with the Parliamentarian victory at the Battle of Worcester.
1652
1695
1651
1687
40. Ottoman war with Venice. The Ottomans invade Crete and capture Canea.
1645
1642
1697
1693
41. Famine in Finland wipes out almost a third of the population.
1644
1613
1696
1692
42. Mehmed K
1669
1674
1661
1603
43. France takes full political and military control over its colonial possessions in New France.
1620
1611
1682
1663
44. The Irish Rebellion.
1641
1694
1672
1687
45. Japan transforms into 'locked country'.
1633
1627
1609
1648
46. The Second Anglo-Dutch War fought between England and the United Provinces.
1682
1672
1644
1665
47. Ottoman war with Venice. The Ottomans invade Crete and capture Canea.
1610
1700
1645
1688
48. The Pontifical and Royal University of Santo Tomas - the oldest existing university in Asia - established by the Dominican Order in Manila
1611
1606
1644
1652
49. Emperor Fasilides founds the city of Gondar - which becomes the capital of Ethiopia for the next two centuries.
1622
1636
1632
1678
50. The Siege of Derry.
1622
1665
1672
1688