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17th Century Timeline
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1. Flight of the Earls (the fleeing of most of the native Gaelic aristocracy) occurs from County Donegal in the west of Ulster in Ireland.
1607
1627
1634
1680
2. The Northern Wars cement Sweden's rise as a Great Power.
1655
1676
1631
1620
3. Ottoman campaign to help the Ukrainian Cossacks. John Sobieski defeats the Ottomans at the second battle of Khotyn (1673).
1683
1672
1694
1647
4. Death of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu
1655
1694
1639
1616
5. La Salle explores the length of the Mississippi River and claims Louisiana for France.
1682
1633
1664
1633
6. The Deluge wars leave Polish
1642
1620
1618
1648
7. Galileo Galilei arrives in Rome for his trial before theInquisition.
1633
1603
1676
1627
8. The Northern Wars cement Sweden's rise as a Great Power.
1696
1688
1655
1669
9. Polish-Ottoman War over Moldavia.
1667
1620
1613
1662
10. The earliest known first-class cricket match took place in Sussex.
1661
1622
1697
1619
11. After modernizing his army - Abbas I expands the Persian Empire by capturing territory from the Ottomans and the Portuguese.
1689
1676
1662
1603
12. Abbas I - the Safavids king - died.
1672
1700
1633
1629
13. Aurochs go extinct.
1683
1627
1694
1634
14. Ottoman war against Habsburg Hungary.
1663
1608
1660
1627
15. John Evelyn's forestry book - Sylva - is published in England.
1664
1639
1660
1613
16. Elizabeth I of England dies and is succeeded by her cousin King James VI of Scotland - uniting the crowns of Scotland and England.
1661
1625
1603
1637
17. Harvard University is founded in Cambridge - Massachusetts.
1693
1672
1683
1636
18. Polish-Ottoman War.
1632
1672
1611
1626
19. The College of William and Mary is founded in Williamsburg - Virginia by a royal charter.
1634
1616
1676
1693
20. 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.
1695
1637
1606
1642
21. The Battle of Killiecrankie is fought between Jacobite and Williamite forces in Highland Perthshire
1616
1670
1689
1637
22. Lithuanian Civil War
1682
1700
1647
1641
23. The Commonwealth of England ends and the monarchy is brought back during the English Restoration.
1652
1609
1660
1651
24. Mehmed K
1662
1654
1601
1672
25. Kara Mustafa becomes Grand Vizier.
1616
1678
1676
1689
26. William ascends to the throne over England - Scotland - and Ireland.
1641
1689
1634
1618
27. 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.'
1641
1673
1688
1687
28. The Great Plague of London.
1664
1620
1651
1665
29. The Treaty of Westminster ends the war between England and the Republic of the United Provinces.
1674
1631
1644
1665
30. Famine in Finland wipes out almost a third of the population.
1696
1688
1694
1645
31. The earliest known first-class cricket match took place in Sussex.
1606
1672
1697
1676
32. Time of Troubles - Vasili IV becomes Tzar of Russia.
1606
1661
1603
1683
33. Seven-year-old Mehmed IV becomes sultan.
1689
1647
1622
1667
34. Mehmed K
1652
1661
1622
1665
35. Sultan Mehmed IV - advised by Kara Mustafa - decides to disregard the existing peace treaty with Leopold I - due to expire in 1684.
1647
1620
1682
1688
36. The Pontifical and Royal University of Santo Tomas - the oldest existing university in Asia - established by the Dominican Order in Manila
1647
1632
1611
1648
37. The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War.
1608
1676
1644
1632
38. Franco-Dutch War.
1602
1618
1625
1672
39. The Netherlands and Spain agree to a Twelve Years' Truce in the Eighty Years' War.
1672
1644
1609
1601
40. The reign of the Kangxi Emperor of China begins.
1622
1632
1661
1673
41. 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
1623
1621
1606
42. The Ottomans make camp at Adrianople.
1667
1682
1672
1665
43. Fronde civil war in France.
1648
1674
1669
1680
44. The Mughal Empire nearly bans the EastIndia Company in response to pirate Henry Every's capture of the Ganj-i-Sawai
1683
1640
1695
1627
45. Time of Troubles - Vasili IV becomes Tzar of Russia.
1644
1689
1606
1619
46. TheFirst Anglo-Dutch War begins.
1636
1652
1665
1607
47. The Portuguese Restoration War led to the end of the Iberian Union.
1663
1694
1640
1606
48. Pedro de Peralta - governor of New Mexico - establishes the settlement of Santa Fe.
1610
1602
1603
1640
49. Jamestown - Virginia - is settled as what would become the first permanent English colony in North America.
1607
1683
1601
1609
50. Peter the Great becomes joint ruler of Russia (sole tsar in 1696).
1624
1682
1673
1676