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17th Century Timeline
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1. The Russian famine of 1601
1601
1627
1699
1610
2. Taj Mahal building work started in Agra -India
1632
1644
1607
1620
3. Torture is outlawed in England.
1689
1640
1682
1606
4. Russia and the Ottoman Empire commence the Russo-Turkish Wars.
1642
1651
1620
1676
5. The Great Turkish War halts the Ottoman Empire's expansion into Europe.
1667
1601
1618
1644
6. Famine in France kills 2 million.
1692
1658
1609
1690
7. Emperor Fasilides expels the Catholic Patriarch Afonso Mendes and several Jesuit missionaries from Ethiopia.
1609
1693
1634
1613
8. Russia supplants Sweden as the dominant Baltic power after the Great Northern War.
1654
1652
1688
1700
9. Tokugawa Ieyasu seizes control of Japan and establishes the Tokugawa Shogunate - beginning the Edo period that lasts until 1869.
1648
1688
1603
1695
10. Aurochs go extinct.
1627
1624
1620
1689
11. Ren
1676
1663
1665
1641
12. 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
1623
1648
1644
13. The last remaining Moriscos (Moors who had nominally converted to Christianity) in Spain are expelled.
1654
1665
1622
1616
14. Jamestown massacre - Algonquian natives kill 347 English settlers outside Jamestown - Virginia (1/3 of the colony's population) and burn the Henricus settlement.
1605
1622
1689
1613
15. Cape Town founded by the Dutch EastIndia Company in South Africa.
1610
1652
1642
1618
16. Polish
1613
1673
1661
1605
17. John Locke publishes his first 'Letter Concerning Toleration'.
1689
1620
1692
1676
18. The Great Fire of London.
1700
1682
1666
1688
19. The Treaty of Karlowitz ends the Great Turkish War.
1676
1623
1699
1661
20. 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
1667
1688
1606
1689
21. Battle of N
1670
1634
1688
1663
22. Death of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu
1616
1688
1633
1622
23. Battle of Kinsale - one of the most important battles in Irish history - fought.
1601
1606
1609
1641
24. The War of Devolution; France invades the Netherlands. The Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle (1668) brings this to a halt.
1636
1667
1634
1636
25. Battle of N
1689
1700
1629
1634
26. Lynching of Johan de Witt and his brother Cornelis de Witt in the Hague
1672
1620
1655
1648
27. Mount Vesuvius erupts
1648
1640
1631
1693
28. After modernizing his army - Abbas I expands the Persian Empire by capturing territory from the Ottomans and the Portuguese.
1634
1603
1676
1616
29. The Battle of Vienna finishes the Ottoman Empire's hegemony in south-eastern Europe.
1689
1639
1647
1683
30. Famine in Finland wipes out almost a third of the population.
1619
1689
1696
1640
31. Cardinal Richelieu lays siege to Protestant La Rochelle which eventually capitulates.
1678
1667
1627
1644
32. Dutch EastIndia Company founded. Its success contributes to the Dutch Golden Age.
1611
1602
1603
1683
33. Flight of the Earls (the fleeing of most of the native Gaelic aristocracy) occurs from County Donegal in the west of Ulster in Ireland.
1611
1699
1602
1607
34. The Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.
1647
1644
1649
1605
35. China conquers the Kingdom of Tungning and annexes Taiwan.
1661
1622
1683
1662
36. The Raid on the Medway during the Second Anglo-Dutch War.
1667
1640
1606
1644
37. The Tokugawa Shogunate institutes Sakoku- foreigners are expelled and no one is allowed to enter or leave Japan.
1603
1618
1606
1641
38. Siamese revolution of 1688 ousted French influence and virtually severed all ties with the West until the 19th century.
1663
1620
1688
1644
39. The War of the Two Kings in Ireland.
1601
1688
1692
1674
40. The Second Anglo-Dutch War fought between England and the United Provinces.
1665
1620
1639
1673
41. King Charles was compelled to summon Parliament due to the revolt of the Scots.
1620
1640
1700
1665
42. Disagreements between the Farnese and Barberini Pope Urban VIII escalate into the Wars of Castro and last until 1649.
1682
1608
1639
1633
43. Rampjaar in the Netherlands
1663
1610
1672
1696
44. TheFirst Anglo-Dutch War begins.
1682
1664
1693
1652
45. St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican completed.
1605
1611
1626
1644
46. The War of Devolution; France invades the Netherlands. The Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle (1668) brings this to a halt.
1689
1664
1667
1676
47. Naval Battle of the Downs
1664
1670
1639
1606
48. Time of Troubles - Vasili IV becomes Tzar of Russia.
1606
1667
1693
1629
49. 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
1681
1689
1696
1606
50. Fronde civil war in France.
1648
1632
1694
1664