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17th Century Timeline
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1. Battle of N
1695
1672
1616
1634
2. Lithuanian Civil War
1700
1676
1624
1683
3. The Treaty of Karlowitz ends the Great Turkish War.
1699
1620
1602
1652
4. The Great Fire of London.
1662
1602
1694
1666
5. The Treaty of Zurawno brings Polish-Ottoman hostilities to a halt.
1683
1676
1661
1626
6. The Hudson's Bay Company is founded in Canada.
1654
1620
1623
1670
7. Naval Battle of the Downs
1627
1639
1665
1626
8. 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.
1634
1611
1642
1606
9. The War of Devolution; France invades the Netherlands. The Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle (1668) brings this to a halt.
1642
1694
1648
1667
10. The Grand Alliance sought to stop French expansion during the Nine Years War.
1700
1688
1668
1662
11. The Mughal Empire nearly bans the EastIndia Company in response to pirate Henry Every's capture of the Ganj-i-Sawai
1670
1662
1672
1695
12. Robert Hooke discovers cells using a microscope.
1694
1631
1610
1663
13. Aurochs go extinct.
1622
1627
1658
1690
14. Mehmed K
1700
1631
1692
1661
15. Russia supplants Sweden as the dominant Baltic power after the Great Northern War.
1606
1606
1618
1700
16. Michael the Brave (first unificator of Romania) - voivode of Wallachia - Moldavia and Transylvania - is assassinated by the order of the Habsburg general Giorgio Basta at C
1624
1607
1681
1601
17. Bethlen Gabor allies with the Ottomans and an invasion of Moldavia takes place. The Polish suffer a disaster at Cecora on the River Prut.
1606
1620
1652
1630
18. Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.
1692
1687
1662
1620
19. La Salle explores the length of the Mississippi River and claims Louisiana for France.
1640
1682
1649
1683
20. The Battle of Killiecrankie is fought between Jacobite and Williamite forces in Highland Perthshire
1631
1636
1661
1689
21. Emperor Fasilides expels the Catholic Patriarch Afonso Mendes and several Jesuit missionaries from Ethiopia.
1683
1634
1603
1661
22. Ottoman campaign to help the Ukrainian Cossacks. John Sobieski defeats the Ottomans at the second battle of Khotyn (1673).
1674
1688
1693
1672
23. As chief minister - Cardinal Richelieu centralises power in France.
1672
1689
1699
1624
24. The Pueblo Revolt drives the Spanish out of New Mexico until 1692.
1680
1681
1629
1674
25. The Second Anglo-Dutch War fought between England and the United Provinces.
1672
1665
1636
1695
26. The Raid on the Medway during the Second Anglo-Dutch War.
1667
1689
1626
1647
27. 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
1664
1685
1629
28. The Long War between the Ottoman Empire and Austria is ended with the Peace of Zsitvatorok - Austria abandons Transylvania.
1632
1609
1699
1606
29. Famine in France kills 2 million.
1676
1647
1648
1692
30. The Battle of Vienna finishes the Ottoman Empire's hegemony in south-eastern Europe.
1665
1634
1605
1683
31. Mehmed K
1692
1654
1613
1648
32. The Irish Rebellion.
1641
1640
1605
1602
33. A Habsburg council of war is held in Vienna.
1690
1613
1683
1641
34. Disagreements between the Farnese and Barberini Pope Urban VIII escalate into the Wars of Castro and last until 1649.
1673
1639
1689
1690
35. The Battle of Vienna finishes the Ottoman Empire's hegemony in south-eastern Europe.
1607
1683
1661
1644
36. Bethlen Gabor is defeated outside Vienna.
1619
1623
1681
1665
37. Quebec City founded by Samuel de Champlain in New France (present-day Canada).
1613
1624
1663
1608
38. St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican completed.
1682
1626
1672
1620
39. Maximilian of Bavaria establishes the Catholic League.
1664
1648
1609
1660
40. Pedro de Peralta - governor of New Mexico - establishes the settlement of Santa Fe.
1610
1648
1633
1636
41. The Deluge wars leave Polish
1694
1667
1648
1651
42. Rampjaar in the Netherlands
1672
1622
1605
1601
43. The 1700 Cascadia earthquake (magnitude 9) occurs off the coast of the Pacific Northwest; Japan is struck by a tsunami.
1676
1606
1606
1700
44. John Locke publishes his first 'Letter Concerning Toleration'.
1689
1629
1700
1630
45. Koxinga captures Taiwan from the Dutch and founds the Kingdom of Tungning which rules until 1683.
1669
1606
1662
1634
46. Polish-Ottoman War over Moldavia.
1641
1644
1620
1678
47. Battle of Kinsale - one of the most important battles in Irish history - fought.
1616
1618
1601
1645
48. The Russian famine of 1601
1601
1682
1624
1606
49. The Netherlands and Spain agree to a Twelve Years' Truce in the Eighty Years' War.
1609
1689
1665
1613
50. The fortresses of Veszpr
1618
1605
1616
1636