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17th Century Timeline
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1. Japan transforms into 'locked country'.
1607
1620
1633
1700
2. Antoni van Leeuwenhoek is the first to observe microbes with a homemade microscope - using samples he collected from his teeth scrapings - raindrops - and his own feces. He calls them 'animalcules.'
1699
1673
1601
1663
3. Tokugawa Ieyasu seizes control of Japan and establishes the Tokugawa Shogunate - beginning the Edo period that lasts until 1869.
1603
1640
1618
1647
4. Ottoman campaign to help the Ukrainian Cossacks. John Sobieski defeats the Ottomans at the second battle of Khotyn (1673).
1672
1661
1641
1641
5. The Raid on the Medway during the Second Anglo-Dutch War.
1669
1667
1689
1618
6. Taj Mahal building work started in Agra -India
1658
1666
1664
1632
7. Aurochs go extinct.
1627
1629
1680
1652
8. Fronde civil war in France.
1618
1648
1672
1629
9. Tokugawa Ieyasu seizes control of Japan and establishes the Tokugawa Shogunate - beginning the Edo period that lasts until 1869.
1610
1665
1620
1603
10. 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.
1636
1647
1648
1676
11. The last remaining Moriscos (Moors who had nominally converted to Christianity) in Spain are expelled.
1620
1687
1661
1616
12. Ottoman war against Habsburg Hungary.
1663
1682
1696
1603
13. Thomas Savery demonstrates his first steam engine to the Royal Society.
1636
1642
1662
1699
14. The Dutch WestIndia Company invades the Portuguese colony of Pernambuco and founds Dutch Brazil.
1648
1610
1609
1630
15. The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War.
1611
1644
1648
1629
16. Ottoman war with Venice. The Ottomans invade Crete and capture Canea.
1682
1618
1645
1644
17. Pedro de Peralta - governor of New Mexico - establishes the settlement of Santa Fe.
1694
1660
1610
1676
18. Emperor Fasilides expels the Catholic Patriarch Afonso Mendes and several Jesuit missionaries from Ethiopia.
1634
1669
1651
1648
19. Cardinal Richelieu lays siege to Protestant La Rochelle which eventually capitulates.
1700
1627
1630
1682
20. The Treaty of Westminster ends the war between England and the Republic of the United Provinces.
1685
1644
1674
1669
21. Jamestown massacre - Algonquian natives kill 347 English settlers outside Jamestown - Virginia (1/3 of the colony's population) and burn the Henricus settlement.
1620
1665
1622
1616
22. Jacques Aymar-Vernay - who later reintroduced Dowsing into popular use in Europe - is born.
1664
1637
1620
1662
23. The Netherlands and Spain agree to a Twelve Years' Truce in the Eighty Years' War.
1601
1609
1607
1633
24. William ascends to the throne over England - Scotland - and Ireland.
1610
1695
1689
1669
25. The Dutch WestIndia Company invades the Portuguese colony of Bahia in Brazil.
1672
1662
1624
1672
26. Galileo Galilei arrives in Rome for his trial before theInquisition.
1633
1641
1682
1641
27. Mehmed K
1616
1654
1667
1661
28. Peace Treaty of Lisbon between Spain and Portugal recognizes Portugal as independent country.
1640
1668
1692
1655
29. The Ottomans capture Crete from the Venetians after the Siege of Candia.
1648
1640
1647
1606
30. Maffeo Barberini is elected Pope Urban VIII at the Papal conclave of 1623.
1601
1601
1623
1606
31. Bethlen Gabor - Prince of Transylvania joins Protestant Rebels.
1618
1683
1624
1606
32. The Second Anglo-Dutch War fought between England and the United Provinces.
1648
1661
1618
1665
33. Ren
1641
1601
1606
1602
34. The Northern Wars cement Sweden's rise as a Great Power.
1655
1644
1692
1674
35. Harvard University is founded in Cambridge - Massachusetts.
1636
1624
1609
1602
36. Portugal defeats the Kongo Empire at the Battle of Mbwila.
1605
1637
1665
1636
37. Giovanni Battista Pamphili is elected PopeInnocent X at the Papal conclave of 1644.
1676
1664
1644
1606
38. The fortresses of Veszpr
1610
1620
1605
1676
39. Mount Vesuvius erupts
1644
1634
1700
1631
40. The Pueblo Revolt drives the Spanish out of New Mexico until 1692.
1688
1680
1658
1664
41. Peter the Great becomes joint ruler of Russia (sole tsar in 1696).
1682
1632
1609
1644
42. Salem witch trials in Massachusetts.
1664
1655
1692
1689
43. China conquers the Kingdom of Tungning and annexes Taiwan.
1683
1606
1689
1689
44. As chief minister - Cardinal Richelieu centralises power in France.
1682
1672
1624
1660
45. Thomas Savery demonstrates his first steam engine to the Royal Society.
1683
1660
1682
1699
46. The Great Plague of London.
1676
1693
1620
1665
47. Galileo Galilei arrives in Rome for his trial before theInquisition.
1661
1610
1664
1633
48. 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.
1606
1649
1641
1645
49. The Manchu conquer China ending the Ming Dynasty. The subsequent Qing Dynasty rules until 1912.
1689
1644
1700
1690
50. Shimabara Rebellion of Japanese Christians - ronin and peasants against Edo.
1631
1637
1647
1682
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