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17th Century Timeline
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1. The Ottomans capture Crete.
1645
1616
1669
1664
2. Cardinal Richelieu allies with Swedish Protestant forces in the Thirty Years' War to counter Ferdinand II's expansion.
1692
1647
1670
1629
3. The War of the Two Kings in Ireland.
1613
1647
1688
1651
4. The Battle of Vienna finishes the Ottoman Empire's hegemony in south-eastern Europe.
1667
1633
1689
1683
5. Robert Hooke discovers cells using a microscope.
1663
1647
1620
1694
6. The Ottomans make camp at Adrianople.
1672
1647
1682
1618
7. Time of Troubles - Vasili IV becomes Tzar of Russia.
1697
1606
1619
1649
8. The Pueblo Revolt drives the Spanish out of New Mexico until 1692.
1676
1682
1601
1680
9. Cardinal Richelieu allies with Swedish Protestant forces in the Thirty Years' War to counter Ferdinand II's expansion.
1616
1629
1616
1631
10. Lithuanian Civil War
1660
1603
1665
1700
11. The Mughal Empire nearly bans the EastIndia Company in response to pirate Henry Every's capture of the Ganj-i-Sawai
1607
1683
1695
1620
12. Fronde civil war in France.
1699
1648
1667
1700
13. The Dutch WestIndia Company invades the Portuguese colony of Bahia in Brazil.
1624
1622
1627
1644
14. The earliest known first-class cricket match took place in Sussex.
1636
1697
1618
1680
15. Maffeo Barberini is elected Pope Urban VIII at the Papal conclave of 1623.
1626
1683
1665
1623
16. The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War.
1674
1644
1645
1622
17. Russia and the Ottoman Empire commence the Russo-Turkish Wars.
1627
1674
1676
1603
18. The Northern Wars cement Sweden's rise as a Great Power.
1655
1633
1662
1639
19. Jacques Aymar-Vernay - who later reintroduced Dowsing into popular use in Europe - is born.
1601
1662
1631
1648
20. Emperor Fasilides expels the Catholic Patriarch Afonso Mendes and several Jesuit missionaries from Ethiopia.
1634
1603
1674
1655
21. The Battle of St. Gotthard - Count Raimondo Montecuccoli defeats the Ottomans. The Peace of Vasvar
1664
1700
1622
1663
22. Ottoman war with Venice. The Ottomans invade Crete and capture Canea.
1648
1627
1645
1616
23. The Long War between the Ottoman Empire and Austria is ended with the Peace of Zsitvatorok - Austria abandons Transylvania.
1692
1639
1606
1663
24. The Dutch WestIndia Company invades the Portuguese colony of Pernambuco and founds Dutch Brazil.
1641
1644
1630
1625
25. Gunpowder Plot failed in England.
1605
1700
1690
1631
26. Quebec City founded by Samuel de Champlain in New France (present-day Canada).
1608
1613
1620
1673
27. Siamese revolution of 1688 ousted French influence and virtually severed all ties with the West until the 19th century.
1688
1682
1620
1678
28. The Treaty of Zurawno brings Polish-Ottoman hostilities to a halt.
1629
1676
1666
1648
29. Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.
1681
1687
1662
1625
30. The Treaty of Westminster ends the war between England and the Republic of the United Provinces.
1688
1695
1674
1672
31. Beginning of English Civil War - conflict will end in 1651 with the execution of King Charles I - abolishment of the monarchy and the establishment of the supremacy of Parliament over the king.
1626
1620
1642
1640
32. Pedro de Peralta - governor of New Mexico - establishes the settlement of Santa Fe.
1610
1672
1627
1667
33. The Treaty of Nerchinsk established a border between Russia and China.
1683
1689
1670
1608
34. As chief minister - Cardinal Richelieu centralises power in France.
1654
1624
1637
1660
35. The Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth army defeats combined Russian- Swedish forces at the Battle of Klushino and conquers Moscow.
1624
1688
1610
1668
36. Harvard University is founded in Cambridge - Massachusetts.
1668
1636
1694
1632
37. Flight of the Earls (the fleeing of most of the native Gaelic aristocracy) occurs from County Donegal in the west of Ulster in Ireland.
1607
1676
1661
1674
38. The earliest known first-class cricket match took place in Sussex.
1601
1697
1692
1611
39. 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.
1689
1648
1672
1606
40. Dutch explorer Abel Janszoon Tasman achieves the first recorded European sighting of New Zealand.
1663
1661
1619
1642
41. Robert Hooke discovers cells using a microscope.
1663
1683
1622
1606
42. The Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.
1611
1609
1649
1693
43. The Pasha of Buda supports Imre Th
1681
1663
1648
1624
44. Peace Treaty of Lisbon between Spain and Portugal recognizes Portugal as independent country.
1668
1601
1694
1676
45. The War of Devolution; France invades the Netherlands. The Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle (1668) brings this to a halt.
1618
1606
1667
1620
46. Maximilian of Bavaria establishes the Catholic League.
1623
1681
1610
1609
47. The 1700 Cascadia earthquake (magnitude 9) occurs off the coast of the Pacific Northwest; Japan is struck by a tsunami.
1700
1682
1697
1689
48. William ascends to the throne over England - Scotland - and Ireland.
1689
1661
1669
1661
49. The Dutch WestIndia Company invades the Portuguese colony of Pernambuco and founds Dutch Brazil.
1648
1663
1630
1700
50. Royal Society of London for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge founded.
1632
1640
1606
1660