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17th Century Timeline
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1. The College of William and Mary is founded in Williamsburg - Virginia by a royal charter.
1693
1692
1666
1688
2. La Salle explores the length of the Mississippi River and claims Louisiana for France.
1681
1682
1641
1634
3. Cape Town founded by the Dutch EastIndia Company in South Africa.
1661
1663
1652
1644
4. Robert Hooke discovers cells using a microscope.
1632
1663
1629
1683
5. The Great Fire of London.
1663
1666
1611
1625
6. English Civil War ends with the Parliamentarian victory at the Battle of Worcester.
1689
1651
1683
1644
7. Ren
1688
1636
1616
1641
8. Thomas Savery demonstrates his first steam engine to the Royal Society.
1699
1627
1631
1618
9. After modernizing his army - Abbas I expands the Persian Empire by capturing territory from the Ottomans and the Portuguese.
1682
1644
1603
1605
10. Bethlen Gabor allies with the Ottomans and an invasion of Moldavia takes place. The Polish suffer a disaster at Cecora on the River Prut.
1620
1639
1621
1627
11. Cardinal Richelieu allies with Swedish Protestant forces in the Thirty Years' War to counter Ferdinand II's expansion.
1700
1629
1605
1644
12. Mount Vesuvius erupts
1692
1631
1688
1608
13. Russia and the Ottoman Empire commence the Russo-Turkish Wars.
1699
1683
1641
1676
14. The 1700 Cascadia earthquake (magnitude 9) occurs off the coast of the Pacific Northwest; Japan is struck by a tsunami.
1672
1682
1682
1700
15. Disagreements between the Farnese and Barberini Pope Urban VIII escalate into the Wars of Castro and last until 1649.
1658
1660
1639
1682
16. Harvard University is founded in Cambridge - Massachusetts.
1609
1700
1603
1636
17. Battle of Kinsale - one of the most important battles in Irish history - fought.
1689
1601
1700
1623
18. Giovanni Battista Pamphili is elected PopeInnocent X at the Papal conclave of 1644.
1644
1645
1689
1672
19. The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War.
1644
1682
1616
1641
20. La Salle explores the length of the Mississippi River and claims Louisiana for France.
1699
1655
1664
1682
21. The Grand Alliance sought to stop French expansion during the Nine Years War.
1672
1678
1688
1648
22. The College of William and Mary is founded in Williamsburg - Virginia by a royal charter.
1693
1682
1688
1616
23. Aurochs go extinct.
1667
1627
1609
1689
24. The Manchu conquer China ending the Ming Dynasty. The subsequent Qing Dynasty rules until 1912.
1634
1696
1644
1640
25. Abbas I - the Safavids king - died.
1629
1667
1606
1694
26. Beginning of English Civil War - conflict will end in 1651 with the execution of King Charles I - abolishment of the monarchy and the establishment of the supremacy of Parliament over the king.
1618
1676
1620
1642
27. Battle of N
1634
1640
1633
1603
28. The Russian famine of 1601
1601
1689
1647
1607
29. The Great Plague of London.
1667
1620
1601
1665
30. Franco-Dutch War.
1694
1652
1672
1681
31. Jamestown massacre - Algonquian natives kill 347 English settlers outside Jamestown - Virginia (1/3 of the colony's population) and burn the Henricus settlement.
1676
1640
1622
1648
32. The Siege of Derry.
1669
1640
1688
1674
33. Bethlen Gabor - Prince of Transylvania joins Protestant Rebels.
1644
1618
1633
1694
34. Peace Treaty of Lisbon between Spain and Portugal recognizes Portugal as independent country.
1627
1668
1639
1676
35. Treaty of Vienna ends anti-Habsburg uprising in Royal Hungary.
1606
1700
1642
1689
36. The Long War between the Ottoman Empire and Austria is ended with the Peace of Zsitvatorok - Austria abandons Transylvania.
1663
1663
1606
1620
37. Jacques Aymar-Vernay - who later reintroduced Dowsing into popular use in Europe - is born.
1627
1692
1662
1651
38. 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
1688
1663
1652
1689
39. The Northern Wars cement Sweden's rise as a Great Power.
1629
1689
1655
1609
40. Bethlen Gabor is defeated outside Vienna.
1619
1630
1669
1639
41. Naval Battle of the Downs
1625
1689
1682
1639
42. The Portuguese Restoration War led to the end of the Iberian Union.
1681
1661
1605
1640
43. Seven-year-old Mehmed IV becomes sultan.
1678
1610
1699
1647
44. TheFirst Anglo-Dutch War begins.
1682
1652
1672
1609
45. Maximilian of Bavaria establishes the Catholic League.
1689
1609
1624
1662
46. The Pueblo Revolt drives the Spanish out of New Mexico until 1692.
1680
1613
1669
1606
47. Emperor Fasilides founds the city of Gondar - which becomes the capital of Ethiopia for the next two centuries.
1603
1636
1629
1672
48. King Charles was compelled to summon Parliament due to the revolt of the Scots.
1618
1640
1636
1602
49. Dutch explorer Abel Janszoon Tasman achieves the first recorded European sighting of New Zealand.
1664
1603
1642
1649
50. The Treaty of Karlowitz ends the Great Turkish War.
1665
1690
1601
1699