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17th Century Timeline
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1. Famine in Finland wipes out almost a third of the population.
1696
1662
1700
1647
2. The Pasha of Buda supports Imre Th
1618
1637
1681
1664
3. The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War.
1632
1662
1664
1644
4. St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican completed.
1690
1672
1688
1626
5. Time of Troubles - Vasili IV becomes Tzar of Russia.
1689
1688
1676
1606
6. La Salle explores the length of the Mississippi River and claims Louisiana for France.
1624
1672
1682
1663
7. Lynching of Johan de Witt and his brother Cornelis de Witt in the Hague
1632
1672
1610
1624
8. The Irish Rebellion.
1648
1632
1641
1642
9. Robert Hooke discovers cells using a microscope.
1641
1622
1624
1663
10. Bethlen Gabor - Prince of Transylvania joins Protestant Rebels.
1606
1663
1672
1618
11. Ottoman war against Habsburg Hungary.
1601
1663
1641
1620
12. Mehmed K
1619
1661
1602
1610
13. The Siege of Derry.
1688
1663
1661
1689
14. The Great Plague of London.
1632
1693
1667
1665
15. 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
1601
1680
1627
1689
16. John Evelyn's forestry book - Sylva - is published in England.
1607
1627
1664
1694
17. Robert Hooke discovers cells using a microscope.
1672
1642
1609
1663
18. New Amsterdam founded by the Dutch WestIndia Company in North America.
1661
1620
1625
1642
19. 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
1621
1689
1682
1663
20. Giovanni Battista Pamphili is elected PopeInnocent X at the Papal conclave of 1644.
1610
1694
1620
1644
21. The Ottomans capture Crete from the Venetians after the Siege of Candia.
1648
1639
1667
1682
22. Polish-Ottoman War.
1672
1601
1669
1660
23. Siamese revolution of 1688 ousted French influence and virtually severed all ties with the West until the 19th century.
1688
1673
1640
1683
24. The Pasha of Buda supports Imre Th
1664
1606
1682
1681
25. Portugal defeats the Kongo Empire at the Battle of Mbwila.
1683
1665
1626
1683
26. Maratha Empire founded inIndia by Shivaji.
1620
1674
1603
1639
27. Cape Town founded by the Dutch EastIndia Company in South Africa.
1700
1631
1620
1652
28. The Treaty of Westminster ends the war between England and the Republic of the United Provinces.
1683
1641
1689
1674
29. Ren
1669
1641
1632
1655
30. The death of Miyamoto Musashi - legendary Japanese Samurai warrior - of natural causes.
1692
1683
1658
1645
31. New Amsterdam founded by the Dutch WestIndia Company in North America.
1688
1625
1608
1667
32. Mary II of England dies
1694
1654
1629
1672
33. Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.
1685
1629
1607
1687
34. Assassination of Stephen Bocskay of Transylvania.
1606
1619
1603
1651
35. The Treaty of Nijmegen ends the hostilities with France
1678
1689
1663
1666
36. Portugal defeats the Kongo Empire at the Battle of Mbwila.
1688
1606
1665
1689
37. The Great Fire of London.
1601
1645
1666
1606
38. 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.
1639
1606
1634
1613
39. The Battle of Vienna finishes the Ottoman Empire's hegemony in south-eastern Europe.
1694
1611
1640
1683
40. The Long War between the Ottoman Empire and Austria is ended with the Peace of Zsitvatorok - Austria abandons Transylvania.
1629
1641
1682
1606
41. Emperor Fasilides founds the city of Gondar - which becomes the capital of Ethiopia for the next two centuries.
1636
1700
1632
1640
42. The Deluge wars leave Polish
1648
1689
1655
1699
43. The Tokugawa Shogunate institutes Sakoku- foreigners are expelled and no one is allowed to enter or leave Japan.
1647
1685
1641
1688
44. Gunpowder Plot failed in England.
1629
1616
1682
1605
45. The Russian famine of 1601
1601
1613
1681
1676
46. Thomas Savery demonstrates his first steam engine to the Royal Society.
1699
1667
1676
1690
47. China conquers the Kingdom of Tungning and annexes Taiwan.
1683
1610
1680
1642
48. 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
1682
1601
1700
1664
49. A Habsburg council of war is held in Vienna.
1631
1683
1645
1618
50. Abbas I - the Safavids king - died.
1629
1665
1668
1636