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17th Century Timeline
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1. Emperor Ferdinand II defeats the Bohemian rebels in the Battle of White Mountain.
1616
1603
1620
1664
2. Ottoman war against Habsburg Hungary.
1611
1605
1663
1688
3. The Pasha of Buda supports Imre Th
1658
1672
1681
1601
4. Pedro de Peralta - governor of New Mexico - establishes the settlement of Santa Fe.
1610
1674
1666
1676
5. King Charles was compelled to summon Parliament due to the revolt of the Scots.
1613
1640
1633
1688
6. Giovanni Battista Pamphili is elected PopeInnocent X at the Papal conclave of 1644.
1688
1606
1644
1606
7. British troops capture New Amsterdam and rename it New York.
1601
1609
1664
1641
8. Mount Vesuvius erupts
1652
1696
1631
1700
9. Maximilian of Bavaria establishes the Catholic League.
1665
1605
1609
1652
10. Treaty of Vienna ends anti-Habsburg uprising in Royal Hungary.
1629
1639
1606
1640
11. Cape Town founded by the Dutch EastIndia Company in South Africa.
1652
1692
1693
1611
12. Famine in France kills 2 million.
1606
1692
1605
1689
13. Emperor Fasilides expels the Catholic Patriarch Afonso Mendes and several Jesuit missionaries from Ethiopia.
1693
1607
1605
1634
14. Ren
1700
1688
1695
1641
15. Ottoman campaign to help the Ukrainian Cossacks. John Sobieski defeats the Ottomans at the second battle of Khotyn (1673).
1607
1603
1648
1672
16. Russia supplants Sweden as the dominant Baltic power after the Great Northern War.
1695
1630
1697
1700
17. France takes full political and military control over its colonial possessions in New France.
1683
1689
1663
1670
18. Japan transforms into 'locked country'.
1633
1627
1689
1664
19. China conquers the Kingdom of Tungning and annexes Taiwan.
1665
1688
1683
1624
20. After modernizing his army - Abbas I expands the Persian Empire by capturing territory from the Ottomans and the Portuguese.
1667
1603
1616
1661
21. Battle of N
1603
1665
1648
1634
22. The Hudson's Bay Company is founded in Canada.
1665
1670
1648
1647
23. Royal Society of London for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge founded.
1660
1696
1645
1603
24. Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.
1688
1654
1687
1662
25. 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.
1688
1606
1676
1647
26. The Pueblo Revolt drives the Spanish out of New Mexico until 1692.
1634
1680
1651
1649
27. The Treaty of Karlowitz ends the Great Turkish War.
1670
1699
1606
1672
28. The Brownist Pilgrims arrive in the Mayflower at Cape Cod
1620
1639
1644
1654
29. A Habsburg council of war is held in Vienna.
1620
1683
1660
1631
30. Russia and the Ottoman Empire commence the Russo-Turkish Wars.
1676
1649
1634
1622
31. British troops capture New Amsterdam and rename it New York.
1618
1674
1664
1689
32. Quebec City founded by Samuel de Champlain in New France (present-day Canada).
1688
1661
1683
1608
33. As chief minister - Cardinal Richelieu centralises power in France.
1683
1624
1655
1619
34. Pedro de Peralta - governor of New Mexico - establishes the settlement of Santa Fe.
1651
1610
1667
1669
35. Famine in Finland wipes out almost a third of the population.
1603
1687
1696
1683
36. Ottoman war against Habsburg Hungary.
1682
1644
1663
1610
37. Assassination of Stephen Bocskay of Transylvania.
1602
1642
1621
1606
38. Taj Mahal building work started in Agra -India
1633
1632
1700
1692
39. Mary II of England dies
1616
1694
1661
1605
40. The Battle of the Boyne in Ireland.
1640
1690
1649
1689
41. The Long War between the Ottoman Empire and Austria is ended with the Peace of Zsitvatorok - Austria abandons Transylvania.
1683
1700
1606
1621
42. Bethlen Gabor is defeated outside Vienna.
1619
1632
1663
1682
43. Wars of the Three Kingdoms - civil wars throughout Scotland - Ireland - and England.
1644
1603
1610
1639
44. The Battle of St. Gotthard - Count Raimondo Montecuccoli defeats the Ottomans. The Peace of Vasvar
1664
1669
1683
1606
45. English Civil War ends with the Parliamentarian victory at the Battle of Worcester.
1672
1603
1667
1651
46. The Northern Wars cement Sweden's rise as a Great Power.
1681
1603
1603
1655
47. The Bank of England is established.
1676
1694
1688
1700
48. Ottoman war with Venice. The Ottomans invade Crete and capture Canea.
1680
1645
1648
1632
49. Ottoman war with Venice. The Ottomans invade Crete and capture Canea.
1689
1606
1645
1640
50. 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.
1648
1618
1649
1611