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17th Century Timeline
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1. Bethlen Gabor - Prince of Transylvania joins Protestant Rebels.
1606
1661
1616
1618
2. 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
1642
1689
1610
1647
3. A Habsburg council of war is held in Vienna.
1673
1620
1683
1639
4. The Battle of Chocim - Poles and Cossacks under Jan Karol Chodkiewicz defeat the Ottomans.
1661
1664
1603
1621
5. Taj Mahal building work started in Agra -India
1621
1641
1632
1689
6. The Long War between the Ottoman Empire and Austria is ended with the Peace of Zsitvatorok - Austria abandons Transylvania.
1689
1606
1632
1647
7. Ren
1641
1631
1601
1629
8. The Hudson's Bay Company is founded in Canada.
1610
1606
1682
1670
9. Fronde civil war in France.
1622
1630
1648
1642
10. Giovanni Battista Pamphili is elected PopeInnocent X at the Papal conclave of 1644.
1626
1613
1690
1644
11. Bethlen Gabor - Prince of Transylvania joins Protestant Rebels.
1620
1672
1618
1660
12. A Habsburg council of war is held in Vienna.
1627
1651
1622
1683
13. The Ottomans make camp at Adrianople.
1631
1642
1662
1682
14. Emperor Ferdinand II defeats the Bohemian rebels in the Battle of White Mountain.
1601
1620
1692
1682
15. China conquers the Kingdom of Tungning and annexes Taiwan.
1639
1637
1683
1620
16. Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.
1618
1687
1602
1665
17. The Siege of Derry.
1688
1634
1663
1664
18. The Treaty of Nerchinsk established a border between Russia and China.
1666
1689
1682
1616
19. The Battle of the Boyne in Ireland.
1648
1633
1694
1690
20. The Pasha of Buda supports Imre Th
1681
1616
1607
1663
21. The Northern Wars cement Sweden's rise as a Great Power.
1655
1621
1641
1672
22. Thomas Savery demonstrates his first steam engine to the Royal Society.
1694
1699
1620
1622
23. Ottoman campaign to help the Ukrainian Cossacks. John Sobieski defeats the Ottomans at the second battle of Khotyn (1673).
1606
1665
1648
1672
24. The Dutch WestIndia Company invades the Portuguese colony of Pernambuco and founds Dutch Brazil.
1672
1605
1630
1610
25. Naval Battle of the Downs
1639
1688
1660
1618
26. The Russian famine of 1601
1622
1606
1601
1699
27. Fronde civil war in France.
1700
1648
1616
1603
28. After his father Shah Jahan completes the Taj Mahal - his son Aurangzeb deposes him as ruler of the Mughal Empire.
1665
1633
1618
1658
29. The Raid on the Medway during the Second Anglo-Dutch War.
1676
1667
1630
1682
30. Ottoman war against Habsburg Hungary.
1664
1663
1692
1668
31. Elizabeth I of England dies and is succeeded by her cousin King James VI of Scotland - uniting the crowns of Scotland and England.
1611
1603
1616
1690
32. The Battle of the Boyne in Ireland.
1690
1688
1688
1663
33. English Civil War ends with the Parliamentarian victory at the Battle of Worcester.
1636
1651
1603
1632
34. The Siege of Derry.
1644
1623
1661
1688
35. The Tokugawa Shogunate institutes Sakoku- foreigners are expelled and no one is allowed to enter or leave Japan.
1664
1601
1641
1663
36. Abbas I - the Safavids king - died.
1674
1603
1645
1629
37. La Salle explores the length of the Mississippi River and claims Louisiana for France.
1636
1682
1618
1618
38. The Grand Alliance sought to stop French expansion during the Nine Years War.
1639
1651
1693
1688
39. The Hudson's Bay Company is founded in Canada.
1689
1645
1670
1616
40. 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.'
1682
1610
1673
1655
41. English poet and playwright William Shakespeare dies.
1608
1700
1622
1616
42. The last remaining Moriscos (Moors who had nominally converted to Christianity) in Spain are expelled.
1621
1607
1601
1616
43. The Pueblo Revolt drives the Spanish out of New Mexico until 1692.
1676
1680
1672
1624
44. Shimabara Rebellion of Japanese Christians - ronin and peasants against Edo.
1676
1644
1637
1633
45. The Battle of St. Gotthard - Count Raimondo Montecuccoli defeats the Ottomans. The Peace of Vasvar
1664
1644
1700
1640
46. Captain Willem Janszoon and his crew aboard the Dutch EastIndia Company ship Duyfken becomes the first recorded Europeans to sight and make landfall in Australia.
1606
1639
1689
1688
47. Seven-year-old Mehmed IV becomes sultan.
1649
1647
1648
1700
48. The Battle of Vienna finishes the Ottoman Empire's hegemony in south-eastern Europe.
1683
1689
1640
1694
49. Flight of the Earls (the fleeing of most of the native Gaelic aristocracy) occurs from County Donegal in the west of Ulster in Ireland.
1681
1607
1688
1616
50. The Portuguese Restoration War led to the end of the Iberian Union.
1674
1601
1613
1640