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17th Century Timeline
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1. Flight of the Earls (the fleeing of most of the native Gaelic aristocracy) occurs from County Donegal in the west of Ulster in Ireland.
1618
1667
1607
1641
2. Battle of Kinsale - one of the most important battles in Irish history - fought.
1601
1665
1681
1689
3. The Hudson's Bay Company is founded in Canada.
1637
1694
1616
1670
4. The reign of the Kangxi Emperor of China begins.
1603
1639
1663
1661
5. The Time of Troubles in Russia ends with the establishment of the House of Romanov which rules until 1917.
1639
1700
1613
1694
6. Famine in Finland wipes out almost a third of the population.
1696
1689
1649
1699
7. The Treaty of Zurawno brings Polish-Ottoman hostilities to a halt.
1645
1676
1649
1622
8. The Portuguese Restoration War led to the end of the Iberian Union.
1603
1672
1640
1644
9. Giovanni Battista Pamphili is elected PopeInnocent X at the Papal conclave of 1644.
1688
1693
1644
1660
10. After modernizing his army - Abbas I expands the Persian Empire by capturing territory from the Ottomans and the Portuguese.
1603
1619
1672
1606
11. Taj Mahal building work started in Agra -India
1632
1683
1654
1647
12. The Pueblo Revolt drives the Spanish out of New Mexico until 1692.
1692
1692
1683
1680
13. 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
1601
1627
1672
1694
14. Mehmed K
1664
1661
1676
1609
15. The Dutch WestIndia Company invades the Portuguese colony of Bahia in Brazil.
1682
1624
1690
1688
16. The Great Turkish War halts the Ottoman Empire's expansion into Europe.
1642
1616
1694
1667
17. The Ottomans make camp at Adrianople.
1627
1688
1667
1682
18. The Treaty of Nerchinsk established a border between Russia and China.
1689
1652
1603
1634
19. Louis XIV accepts the Spanish crown on behalf of his grandson Philip of Anjou - triggering the War of the Spanish Succession
1611
1634
1700
1602
20. The Commonwealth of England ends and the monarchy is brought back during the English Restoration.
1676
1678
1700
1660
21. Treaty of Vienna ends anti-Habsburg uprising in Royal Hungary.
1606
1651
1605
1672
22. The Brownist Pilgrims arrive in the Mayflower at Cape Cod
1678
1699
1645
1620
23. The last remaining Moriscos (Moors who had nominally converted to Christianity) in Spain are expelled.
1700
1620
1672
1616
24. Russia and the Ottoman Empire commence the Russo-Turkish Wars.
1672
1676
1682
1678
25. Royal Society of London for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge founded.
1676
1672
1660
1642
26. The Treaty of Karlowitz ends the Great Turkish War.
1665
1683
1644
1699
27. The Dutch WestIndia Company invades the Portuguese colony of Pernambuco and founds Dutch Brazil.
1627
1630
1682
1639
28. The Glorious Revolution starts with the Dutch Republic invading England - England becomes a constitutional monarchy.
1688
1620
1634
1687
29. Rampjaar in the Netherlands
1632
1662
1672
1624
30. Aurochs go extinct.
1629
1606
1601
1627
31. Lynching of Johan de Witt and his brother Cornelis de Witt in the Hague
1699
1632
1658
1672
32. Gunpowder Plot failed in England.
1664
1603
1605
1607
33. Japan transforms into 'locked country'.
1689
1613
1676
1633
34. The Ottomans capture Crete.
1658
1645
1669
1676
35. The Commonwealth of England ends and the monarchy is brought back during the English Restoration.
1660
1648
1663
1662
36. Taj Mahal building work started in Agra -India
1660
1603
1601
1632
37. Harvard University is founded in Cambridge - Massachusetts.
1636
1603
1642
1669
38. Cape Town founded by the Dutch EastIndia Company in South Africa.
1689
1652
1601
1658
39. Ren
1672
1641
1644
1661
40. The War of Devolution; France invades the Netherlands. The Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle (1668) brings this to a halt.
1688
1667
1649
1601
41. The Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth army defeats combined Russian- Swedish forces at the Battle of Klushino and conquers Moscow.
1633
1601
1660
1610
42. Salem witch trials in Massachusetts.
1664
1636
1609
1692
43. Abbas I - the Safavids king - died.
1666
1658
1629
1700
44. 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.
1641
1693
1606
1685
45. Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.
1641
1688
1687
1620
46. The Pasha of Buda supports Imre Th
1676
1652
1640
1681
47. Ottoman war with Venice. The Ottomans invade Crete and capture Canea.
1682
1616
1700
1645
48. The Netherlands and Spain agree to a Twelve Years' Truce in the Eighty Years' War.
1621
1642
1692
1609
49. The Great Plague of London.
1641
1665
1692
1696
50. Pedro de Peralta - governor of New Mexico - establishes the settlement of Santa Fe.
1665
1610
1665
1644
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