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17th Century Timeline
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1. The Bank of England is established.
1603
1687
1694
1618
2. The Treaty of Karlowitz ends the Great Turkish War.
1642
1625
1699
1667
3. The Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth army defeats combined Russian- Swedish forces at the Battle of Klushino and conquers Moscow.
1688
1610
1640
1629
4. The Peace of Westphalia ends the Thirty Years' War and the Eighty Years' War and marks the ends of Spain and the Holy Roman Empire as major European powers.
1637
1620
1648
1621
5. Torture is outlawed in England.
1664
1601
1640
1674
6. Emperor Fasilides expels the Catholic Patriarch Afonso Mendes and several Jesuit missionaries from Ethiopia.
1634
1678
1624
1652
7. British troops capture New Amsterdam and rename it New York.
1664
1681
1621
1680
8. Ren
1672
1641
1689
1603
9. The Dutch WestIndia Company invades the Portuguese colony of Bahia in Brazil.
1699
1636
1624
1603
10. Famine in France kills 2 million.
1609
1637
1694
1692
11. New Amsterdam founded by the Dutch WestIndia Company in North America.
1666
1663
1625
1700
12. Galileo Galilei arrives in Rome for his trial before theInquisition.
1644
1633
1660
1639
13. Seven-year-old Mehmed IV becomes sultan.
1606
1699
1647
1652
14. The War of the Two Kings in Ireland.
1688
1672
1606
1619
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
1689
1616
1683
1618
16. Maratha Empire founded inIndia by Shivaji.
1629
1648
1674
1620
17. The Portuguese Restoration War led to the end of the Iberian Union.
1661
1640
1682
1667
18. Rampjaar in the Netherlands
1666
1641
1641
1672
19. Elizabeth I of England dies and is succeeded by her cousin King James VI of Scotland - uniting the crowns of Scotland and England.
1603
1636
1640
1667
20. John Locke publishes his first 'Letter Concerning Toleration'.
1644
1624
1681
1689
21. 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
1700
1607
1601
1692
22. Polish-Ottoman War over Moldavia.
1670
1680
1697
1620
23. Royal Society of London for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge founded.
1642
1676
1660
1695
24. The Hudson's Bay Company is founded in Canada.
1661
1665
1670
1627
25. The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War.
1606
1642
1694
1644
26. The Peace of Westphalia ends the Thirty Years' War and the Eighty Years' War and marks the ends of Spain and the Holy Roman Empire as major European powers.
1682
1620
1610
1648
27. Taj Mahal building work started in Agra -India
1694
1601
1632
1694
28. Maximilian of Bavaria establishes the Catholic League.
1609
1682
1631
1661
29. The Ottomans make camp at Adrianople.
1629
1665
1682
1661
30. The Battle of Vienna finishes the Ottoman Empire's hegemony in south-eastern Europe.
1618
1683
1624
1640
31. Treaty of Vienna ends anti-Habsburg uprising in Royal Hungary.
1619
1624
1606
1682
32. Mary II of England dies
1695
1694
1607
1606
33. The Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.
1682
1644
1665
1649
34. Lithuanian Civil War
1624
1632
1629
1700
35. The Time of Troubles in Russia ends with the establishment of the House of Romanov which rules until 1917.
1609
1613
1678
1632
36. Russia supplants Sweden as the dominant Baltic power after the Great Northern War.
1640
1607
1700
1641
37. Peter the Great becomes joint ruler of Russia (sole tsar in 1696).
1613
1682
1687
1663
38. English Civil War ends with the Parliamentarian victory at the Battle of Worcester.
1632
1651
1606
1603
39. Russia and the Ottoman Empire commence the Russo-Turkish Wars.
1639
1676
1672
1687
40. Bethlen Gabor allies with the Ottomans and an invasion of Moldavia takes place. The Polish suffer a disaster at Cecora on the River Prut.
1676
1639
1629
1620
41. The Raid on the Medway during the Second Anglo-Dutch War.
1606
1636
1667
1663
42. Fronde civil war in France.
1688
1648
1606
1662
43. Mehmed K
1700
1652
1654
1622
44. English Civil War ends with the Parliamentarian victory at the Battle of Worcester.
1618
1651
1688
1662
45. The Treaty of Nijmegen ends the hostilities with France
1637
1623
1689
1678
46. The Ottomans capture Crete from the Venetians after the Siege of Candia.
1655
1700
1648
1661
47. Emperor Ferdinand II defeats the Bohemian rebels in the Battle of White Mountain.
1688
1620
1700
1606
48. Koxinga captures Taiwan from the Dutch and founds the Kingdom of Tungning which rules until 1683.
1662
1647
1672
1700
49. Lynching of Johan de Witt and his brother Cornelis de Witt in the Hague
1662
1672
1632
1664
50. The death of Miyamoto Musashi - legendary Japanese Samurai warrior - of natural causes.
1660
1645
1689
1664