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17th Century Timeline
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1. Dutch EastIndia Company founded. Its success contributes to the Dutch Golden Age.
1647
1699
1639
1602
2. Portugal defeats the Kongo Empire at the Battle of Mbwila.
1606
1667
1640
1665
3. Flight of the Earls (the fleeing of most of the native Gaelic aristocracy) occurs from County Donegal in the west of Ulster in Ireland.
1629
1644
1672
1607
4. The Raid on the Medway during the Second Anglo-Dutch War.
1667
1700
1627
1700
5. Ren
1627
1641
1667
1637
6. British troops capture New Amsterdam and rename it New York.
1664
1648
1695
1693
7. Mehmed K
1661
1672
1606
1641
8. Seven-year-old Mehmed IV becomes sultan.
1689
1647
1631
1607
9. La Salle explores the length of the Mississippi River and claims Louisiana for France.
1682
1663
1640
1642
10. Treaty of Vienna ends anti-Habsburg uprising in Royal Hungary.
1608
1688
1699
1606
11. TheFirst Anglo-Dutch War begins.
1627
1697
1645
1652
12. Bethlen Gabor is defeated outside Vienna.
1602
1633
1619
1665
13. Dutch EastIndia Company founded. Its success contributes to the Dutch Golden Age.
1670
1648
1655
1602
14. Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.
1613
1687
1645
1665
15. The Ottomans make camp at Adrianople.
1664
1603
1631
1682
16. The Northern Wars cement Sweden's rise as a Great Power.
1602
1655
1632
1613
17. The Pueblo Revolt drives the Spanish out of New Mexico until 1692.
1688
1695
1688
1680
18. Kara Mustafa becomes Grand Vizier.
1676
1609
1689
1644
19. Polish-Ottoman War over Moldavia.
1620
1687
1606
1603
20. Aurochs go extinct.
1622
1640
1627
1644
21. The Time of Troubles in Russia ends with the establishment of the House of Romanov which rules until 1917.
1613
1664
1602
1667
22. The Irish Rebellion.
1681
1649
1648
1641
23. Ottoman campaign to help the Ukrainian Cossacks. John Sobieski defeats the Ottomans at the second battle of Khotyn (1673).
1672
1667
1620
1663
24. Battle of L
1632
1606
1645
1674
25. Salem witch trials in Massachusetts.
1692
1613
1606
1608
26. Lithuanian Civil War
1620
1700
1620
1619
27. The Bohemian Revolt precipitates the Thirty Years' War which devastates Europe in the years 1618
1618
1641
1664
1649
28. King Charles was compelled to summon Parliament due to the revolt of the Scots.
1680
1688
1622
1640
29. Bethlen Gabor is defeated outside Vienna.
1682
1700
1619
1644
30. The College of William and Mary is founded in Williamsburg - Virginia by a royal charter.
1664
1664
1693
1622
31. Naval Battle of the Downs
1639
1651
1616
1699
32. Dutch explorer Abel Janszoon Tasman achieves the first recorded European sighting of New Zealand.
1672
1689
1623
1642
33. The Treaty of Zurawno brings Polish-Ottoman hostilities to a halt.
1639
1678
1695
1676
34. English Civil War ends with the Parliamentarian victory at the Battle of Worcester.
1651
1663
1603
1626
35. After his father Shah Jahan completes the Taj Mahal - his son Aurangzeb deposes him as ruler of the Mughal Empire.
1606
1658
1673
1694
36. The Netherlands and Spain agree to a Twelve Years' Truce in the Eighty Years' War.
1609
1647
1623
1661
37. The Tokugawa Shogunate institutes Sakoku- foreigners are expelled and no one is allowed to enter or leave Japan.
1621
1639
1681
1641
38. Torture is outlawed in England.
1624
1640
1685
1689
39. The Northern Wars cement Sweden's rise as a Great Power.
1667
1622
1655
1668
40. The Treaty of Westminster ends the war between England and the Republic of the United Provinces.
1690
1674
1688
1665
41. Elizabeth I of England dies and is succeeded by her cousin King James VI of Scotland - uniting the crowns of Scotland and England.
1618
1647
1637
1603
42. 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.
1665
1648
1647
1624
43. Taj Mahal building work started in Agra -India
1632
1683
1616
1648
44. Emperor Fasilides expels the Catholic Patriarch Afonso Mendes and several Jesuit missionaries from Ethiopia.
1662
1688
1634
1633
45. The Hudson's Bay Company is founded in Canada.
1670
1689
1652
1601
46. The Brownist Pilgrims arrive in the Mayflower at Cape Cod
1636
1620
1626
1661
47. Robert Hooke discovers cells using a microscope.
1603
1621
1626
1663
48. British troops capture New Amsterdam and rename it New York.
1688
1664
1606
1640
49. Edict of Fontainebleau outlaws Protestantism in France. King Charles II dies
1664
1685
1641
1696
50. The earliest known first-class cricket match took place in Sussex.
1625
1697
1692
1672