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17th Century Timeline
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1. The Defenestration of Prague
1689
1606
1618
1640
2. As chief minister - Cardinal Richelieu centralises power in France.
1662
1695
1654
1624
3. The Second Anglo-Dutch War fought between England and the United Provinces.
1674
1682
1665
1672
4. Peter the Great becomes joint ruler of Russia (sole tsar in 1696).
1676
1624
1690
1682
5. France takes full political and military control over its colonial possessions in New France.
1634
1688
1663
1625
6. The Ottomans capture Crete from the Venetians after the Siege of Candia.
1660
1700
1618
1648
7. The Grand Alliance sought to stop French expansion during the Nine Years War.
1681
1641
1692
1688
8. A Habsburg council of war is held in Vienna.
1648
1660
1683
1611
9. Tokugawa Ieyasu seizes control of Japan and establishes the Tokugawa Shogunate - beginning the Edo period that lasts until 1869.
1603
1620
1663
1644
10. Treaty of Vienna ends anti-Habsburg uprising in Royal Hungary.
1606
1682
1661
1700
11. The 1700 Cascadia earthquake (magnitude 9) occurs off the coast of the Pacific Northwest; Japan is struck by a tsunami.
1697
1700
1670
1639
12. The death of Miyamoto Musashi - legendary Japanese Samurai warrior - of natural causes.
1652
1668
1627
1645
13. The War of Devolution; France invades the Netherlands. The Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle (1668) brings this to a halt.
1660
1667
1633
1632
14. English Civil War ends with the Parliamentarian victory at the Battle of Worcester.
1636
1642
1651
1661
15. Ottoman war with Venice. The Ottomans invade Crete and capture Canea.
1672
1645
1660
1606
16. The College of William and Mary is founded in Williamsburg - Virginia by a royal charter.
1683
1603
1624
1693
17. Maffeo Barberini is elected Pope Urban VIII at the Papal conclave of 1623.
1603
1623
1601
1640
18. The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War.
1602
1644
1627
1700
19. 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.
1664
1601
1689
1648
20. Jamestown massacre - Algonquian natives kill 347 English settlers outside Jamestown - Virginia (1/3 of the colony's population) and burn the Henricus settlement.
1664
1670
1622
1695
21. Battle of N
1634
1682
1695
1672
22. The Manchu conquer China ending the Ming Dynasty. The subsequent Qing Dynasty rules until 1912.
1605
1619
1644
1667
23. The Pueblo Revolt drives the Spanish out of New Mexico until 1692.
1667
1606
1680
1616
24. The Russian famine of 1601
1672
1688
1616
1601
25. Flight of the Earls (the fleeing of most of the native Gaelic aristocracy) occurs from County Donegal in the west of Ulster in Ireland.
1630
1601
1607
1620
26. Quebec City founded by Samuel de Champlain in New France (present-day Canada).
1608
1667
1682
1666
27. The War of the Two Kings in Ireland.
1696
1688
1613
1689
28. The Great Fire of London.
1666
1634
1667
1644
29. Louis XIV accepts the Spanish crown on behalf of his grandson Philip of Anjou - triggering the War of the Spanish Succession
1647
1642
1700
1648
30. Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.
1641
1687
1618
1667
31. Jamestown - Virginia - is settled as what would become the first permanent English colony in North America.
1607
1634
1641
1688
32. Mehmed K
1654
1641
1636
1667
33. The Dutch WestIndia Company invades the Portuguese colony of Pernambuco and founds Dutch Brazil.
1603
1630
1690
1665
34. Seven-year-old Mehmed IV becomes sultan.
1609
1647
1682
1601
35. The Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.
1652
1649
1689
1689
36. The Bank of England is established.
1672
1632
1645
1694
37. Peace Treaty of Lisbon between Spain and Portugal recognizes Portugal as independent country.
1668
1609
1631
1689
38. St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican completed.
1610
1655
1639
1626
39. Russia and the Ottoman Empire commence the Russo-Turkish Wars.
1676
1624
1663
1683
40. La Salle explores the length of the Mississippi River and claims Louisiana for France.
1601
1601
1645
1682
41. The earliest known first-class cricket match took place in Sussex.
1682
1683
1601
1697
42. English poet and playwright William Shakespeare dies.
1672
1616
1688
1640
43. Assassination of Stephen Bocskay of Transylvania.
1663
1644
1618
1606
44. The Battle of Chocim - Poles and Cossacks under Jan Karol Chodkiewicz defeat the Ottomans.
1622
1621
1668
1639
45. Harvard University is founded in Cambridge - Massachusetts.
1627
1623
1636
1639
46. The Raid on the Medway during the Second Anglo-Dutch War.
1624
1620
1667
1665
47. Ren
1645
1700
1641
1661
48. The Netherlands and Spain agree to a Twelve Years' Truce in the Eighty Years' War.
1680
1610
1609
1662
49. Polish
1672
1613
1690
1624
50. 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.
1676
1627
1601
1648