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17th Century Timeline
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1. The Manchus start invading China. Their conquest eventually topples the Ming Dynasty.
1672
1618
1641
1603
2. The Tokugawa Shogunate institutes Sakoku- foreigners are expelled and no one is allowed to enter or leave Japan.
1609
1699
1680
1641
3. The Treaty of Nerchinsk established a border between Russia and China.
1608
1690
1654
1689
4. Gunpowder Plot failed in England.
1639
1649
1642
1605
5. The Brownist Pilgrims arrive in the Mayflower at Cape Cod
1663
1699
1620
1683
6. Aurochs go extinct.
1633
1692
1680
1627
7. Ottoman war with Venice. The Ottomans invade Crete and capture Canea.
1694
1645
1689
1620
8. The Great Plague of London.
1645
1665
1611
1682
9. The reign of the Kangxi Emperor of China begins.
1663
1661
1668
1664
10. Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.
1648
1662
1616
1687
11. The Manchu conquer China ending the Ming Dynasty. The subsequent Qing Dynasty rules until 1912.
1652
1644
1667
1685
12. Pedro de Peralta - governor of New Mexico - establishes the settlement of Santa Fe.
1699
1667
1606
1610
13. Mount Vesuvius erupts
1632
1689
1631
1688
14. The Great Turkish War halts the Ottoman Empire's expansion into Europe.
1667
1700
1616
1642
15. The fortresses of Veszpr
1670
1696
1689
1605
16. The Pueblo Revolt drives the Spanish out of New Mexico until 1692.
1618
1680
1634
1601
17. Treaty of Vienna ends anti-Habsburg uprising in Royal Hungary.
1606
1662
1676
1683
18. The Netherlands and Spain agree to a Twelve Years' Truce in the Eighty Years' War.
1609
1700
1688
1672
19. The 1700 Cascadia earthquake (magnitude 9) occurs off the coast of the Pacific Northwest; Japan is struck by a tsunami.
1663
1605
1700
1641
20. Galileo Galilei arrives in Rome for his trial before theInquisition.
1672
1622
1689
1633
21. The Raid on the Medway during the Second Anglo-Dutch War.
1606
1667
1693
1629
22. Ottoman campaign to help the Ukrainian Cossacks. John Sobieski defeats the Ottomans at the second battle of Khotyn (1673).
1601
1672
1647
1606
23. Harvard University is founded in Cambridge - Massachusetts.
1641
1689
1692
1636
24. St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican completed.
1626
1616
1700
1634
25. Robert Hooke discovers cells using a microscope.
1602
1663
1607
1682
26. Mehmed K
1682
1620
1654
1620
27. As chief minister - Cardinal Richelieu centralises power in France.
1696
1666
1624
1610
28. Dutch EastIndia Company founded. Its success contributes to the Dutch Golden Age.
1640
1663
1642
1602
29. The Netherlands and Spain agree to a Twelve Years' Truce in the Eighty Years' War.
1667
1633
1676
1609
30. Emperor Fasilides expels the Catholic Patriarch Afonso Mendes and several Jesuit missionaries from Ethiopia.
1606
1634
1672
1700
31. King Charles was compelled to summon Parliament due to the revolt of the Scots.
1632
1606
1640
1634
32. The Siege of Derry.
1647
1676
1622
1688
33. France takes full political and military control over its colonial possessions in New France.
1605
1663
1700
1641
34. The Grand Alliance sought to stop French expansion during the Nine Years War.
1623
1665
1688
1620
35. Disagreements between the Farnese and Barberini Pope Urban VIII escalate into the Wars of Castro and last until 1649.
1647
1682
1652
1639
36. The Treaty of Westminster ends the war between England and the Republic of the United Provinces.
1648
1695
1645
1674
37. Treaty of Vienna ends anti-Habsburg uprising in Royal Hungary.
1645
1610
1680
1606
38. Franco-Dutch War.
1674
1603
1672
1693
39. John Locke publishes his first 'Letter Concerning Toleration'.
1611
1693
1689
1633
40. The Ottomans make camp at Adrianople.
1688
1694
1682
1639
41. The Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.
1662
1664
1644
1649
42. Maximilian of Bavaria establishes the Catholic League.
1682
1624
1676
1609
43. Ottoman war against Habsburg Hungary.
1689
1609
1606
1663
44. Koxinga captures Taiwan from the Dutch and founds the Kingdom of Tungning which rules until 1683.
1606
1663
1662
1605
45. Royal Society of London for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge founded.
1660
1618
1613
1700
46. Salem witch trials in Massachusetts.
1680
1692
1693
1603
47. Polish
1688
1624
1613
1663
48. Kara Mustafa becomes Grand Vizier.
1610
1665
1606
1676
49. Bethlen Gabor allies with the Ottomans and an invasion of Moldavia takes place. The Polish suffer a disaster at Cecora on the River Prut.
1670
1644
1620
1608
50. The Battle of the Boyne in Ireland.
1613
1676
1690
1695