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17th Century Timeline
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1. The Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth army defeats combined Russian- Swedish forces at the Battle of Klushino and conquers Moscow.
1610
1632
1690
1676
2. The Commonwealth of England ends and the monarchy is brought back during the English Restoration.
1674
1629
1700
1660
3. The fortresses of Veszpr
1605
1662
1696
1648
4. Naval Battle of the Downs
1639
1620
1634
1624
5. China conquers the Kingdom of Tungning and annexes Taiwan.
1683
1693
1700
1640
6. Jamestown massacre - Algonquian natives kill 347 English settlers outside Jamestown - Virginia (1/3 of the colony's population) and burn the Henricus settlement.
1682
1631
1622
1651
7. Emperor Fasilides expels the Catholic Patriarch Afonso Mendes and several Jesuit missionaries from Ethiopia.
1616
1634
1695
1639
8. Seven-year-old Mehmed IV becomes sultan.
1601
1605
1647
1618
9. John Evelyn's forestry book - Sylva - is published in England.
1606
1664
1699
1630
10. Mehmed K
1648
1654
1606
1693
11. Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.
1687
1688
1634
1700
12. The Bohemian Revolt precipitates the Thirty Years' War which devastates Europe in the years 1618
1663
1689
1636
1618
13. The Hudson's Bay Company is founded in Canada.
1618
1660
1670
1688
14. Salem witch trials in Massachusetts.
1607
1620
1692
1639
15. The Ottomans make camp at Adrianople.
1682
1647
1611
1601
16. Wars of the Three Kingdoms - civil wars throughout Scotland - Ireland - and England.
1651
1620
1639
1700
17. The Treaty of Zurawno brings Polish-Ottoman hostilities to a halt.
1672
1622
1633
1676
18. 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.
1663
1662
1689
1606
19. Cardinal Richelieu allies with Swedish Protestant forces in the Thirty Years' War to counter Ferdinand II's expansion.
1629
1672
1633
1619
20. The War of the Two Kings in Ireland.
1682
1620
1700
1688
21. The Grand Alliance sought to stop French expansion during the Nine Years War.
1700
1693
1688
1652
22. The Brownist Pilgrims arrive in the Mayflower at Cape Cod
1605
1608
1644
1620
23. Royal Society of London for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge founded.
1660
1672
1603
1648
24. A Habsburg council of war is held in Vienna.
1688
1683
1633
1648
25. Death of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu
1689
1636
1616
1658
26. Battle of N
1664
1634
1610
1607
27. King Charles was compelled to summon Parliament due to the revolt of the Scots.
1640
1632
1625
1601
28. Famine in France kills 2 million.
1640
1682
1636
1692
29. Bethlen Gabor allies with the Ottomans and an invasion of Moldavia takes place. The Polish suffer a disaster at Cecora on the River Prut.
1632
1620
1662
1610
30. Giovanni Battista Pamphili is elected PopeInnocent X at the Papal conclave of 1644.
1680
1670
1644
1655
31. The Portuguese Restoration War led to the end of the Iberian Union.
1640
1631
1630
1624
32. The Mughal Empire nearly bans the EastIndia Company in response to pirate Henry Every's capture of the Ganj-i-Sawai
1619
1676
1632
1695
33. The Tokugawa Shogunate institutes Sakoku- foreigners are expelled and no one is allowed to enter or leave Japan.
1641
1606
1618
1676
34. The Ottomans capture Crete from the Venetians after the Siege of Candia.
1606
1607
1648
1655
35. Mary II of England dies
1647
1620
1640
1694
36. The Battle of Chocim - Poles and Cossacks under Jan Karol Chodkiewicz defeat the Ottomans.
1621
1658
1619
1682
37. The reign of the Kangxi Emperor of China begins.
1645
1661
1636
1700
38. The Battle of Killiecrankie is fought between Jacobite and Williamite forces in Highland Perthshire
1689
1622
1654
1605
39. Assassination of Stephen Bocskay of Transylvania.
1606
1636
1627
1665
40. St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican completed.
1626
1644
1688
1678
41. Koxinga captures Taiwan from the Dutch and founds the Kingdom of Tungning which rules until 1683.
1662
1682
1685
1667
42. Franco-Dutch War.
1672
1626
1648
1603
43. The Dutch WestIndia Company invades the Portuguese colony of Bahia in Brazil.
1666
1624
1661
1690
44. China conquers the Kingdom of Tungning and annexes Taiwan.
1665
1692
1683
1601
45. English Civil War ends with the Parliamentarian victory at the Battle of Worcester.
1664
1648
1601
1651
46. The Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth army defeats combined Russian- Swedish forces at the Battle of Klushino and conquers Moscow.
1622
1610
1669
1627
47. The Deluge wars leave Polish
1648
1667
1601
1667
48. Capture of Ormuz; The island of Hormuz was captured by an Anglo-Persian force from Portuguese.
1683
1622
1640
1667
49. The Hudson's Bay Company is founded in Canada.
1670
1647
1688
1631
50. Polish-Ottoman War.
1672
1603
1674
1644
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