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17th Century Timeline
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1. The Siege of Derry.
1636
1688
1618
1661
2. Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.
1626
1688
1687
1618
3. The Battle of St. Gotthard - Count Raimondo Montecuccoli defeats the Ottomans. The Peace of Vasvar
1645
1627
1601
1664
4. La Salle explores the length of the Mississippi River and claims Louisiana for France.
1682
1622
1605
1606
5. Cardinal Richelieu lays siege to Protestant La Rochelle which eventually capitulates.
1623
1627
1667
1663
6. The Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.
1685
1608
1649
1652
7. John Locke publishes his first 'Letter Concerning Toleration'.
1689
1692
1693
1664
8. New Amsterdam founded by the Dutch WestIndia Company in North America.
1625
1689
1642
1672
9. Assassination of Stephen Bocskay of Transylvania.
1627
1652
1606
1667
10. A Habsburg council of war is held in Vienna.
1672
1683
1647
1663
11. The Ottomans capture Crete from the Venetians after the Siege of Candia.
1642
1700
1648
1603
12. The Russian famine of 1601
1608
1634
1601
1689
13. The Mughal Empire nearly bans the EastIndia Company in response to pirate Henry Every's capture of the Ganj-i-Sawai
1688
1672
1666
1695
14. Bethlen Gabor - Prince of Transylvania joins Protestant Rebels.
1623
1636
1618
1664
15. After modernizing his army - Abbas I expands the Persian Empire by capturing territory from the Ottomans and the Portuguese.
1620
1682
1603
1676
16. The Ottomans capture Crete.
1669
1619
1603
1696
17. The Ottomans capture Crete from the Venetians after the Siege of Candia.
1672
1655
1605
1648
18. Emperor Fasilides expels the Catholic Patriarch Afonso Mendes and several Jesuit missionaries from Ethiopia.
1700
1634
1622
1678
19. Louis XIV accepts the Spanish crown on behalf of his grandson Philip of Anjou - triggering the War of the Spanish Succession
1619
1640
1700
1689
20. The Pontifical and Royal University of Santo Tomas - the oldest existing university in Asia - established by the Dominican Order in Manila
1639
1641
1611
1616
21. Disagreements between the Farnese and Barberini Pope Urban VIII escalate into the Wars of Castro and last until 1649.
1639
1647
1642
1627
22. Maffeo Barberini is elected Pope Urban VIII at the Papal conclave of 1623.
1647
1642
1601
1623
23. The War of the Two Kings in Ireland.
1689
1688
1676
1640
24. The Defenestration of Prague
1694
1618
1689
1644
25. Harvard University is founded in Cambridge - Massachusetts.
1692
1627
1639
1636
26. Russia supplants Sweden as the dominant Baltic power after the Great Northern War.
1664
1683
1621
1700
27. The Dutch WestIndia Company invades the Portuguese colony of Pernambuco and founds Dutch Brazil.
1616
1639
1688
1630
28. Wars of the Three Kingdoms - civil wars throughout Scotland - Ireland - and England.
1609
1620
1627
1639
29. The Ottomans capture Crete.
1636
1669
1640
1605
30. Kara Mustafa becomes Grand Vizier.
1676
1603
1668
1661
31. Ren
1633
1625
1620
1641
32. 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
1683
1689
1692
1626
33. The Tokugawa Shogunate institutes Sakoku- foreigners are expelled and no one is allowed to enter or leave Japan.
1682
1682
1666
1641
34. Bethlen Gabor is defeated outside Vienna.
1619
1603
1639
1680
35. The Commonwealth of England ends and the monarchy is brought back during the English Restoration.
1605
1697
1601
1660
36. The Pasha of Buda supports Imre Th
1627
1641
1630
1681
37. The Ottomans make camp at Adrianople.
1622
1641
1682
1648
38. Franco-Dutch War.
1606
1670
1603
1672
39. Gunpowder Plot failed in England.
1636
1634
1605
1647
40. 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
1664
1663
1601
1613
41. Siamese revolution of 1688 ousted French influence and virtually severed all ties with the West until the 19th century.
1697
1688
1637
1621
42. The Treaty of Zurawno brings Polish-Ottoman hostilities to a halt.
1700
1676
1666
1620
43. Pedro de Peralta - governor of New Mexico - establishes the settlement of Santa Fe.
1652
1610
1603
1648
44. The Manchu conquer China ending the Ming Dynasty. The subsequent Qing Dynasty rules until 1912.
1625
1672
1644
1613
45. The Ottomans make camp at Adrianople.
1601
1627
1640
1682
46. Torture is outlawed in England.
1640
1624
1676
1682
47. Koxinga captures Taiwan from the Dutch and founds the Kingdom of Tungning which rules until 1683.
1627
1663
1662
1672
48. Mary II of England dies
1699
1689
1689
1694
49. La Salle explores the length of the Mississippi River and claims Louisiana for France.
1665
1692
1623
1682
50. Mount Vesuvius erupts
1692
1639
1687
1631