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17th Century Timeline
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1. Polish-Ottoman War over Moldavia.
1670
1693
1620
1674
2. John Locke publishes his first 'Letter Concerning Toleration'.
1663
1672
1631
1689
3. Maffeo Barberini is elected Pope Urban VIII at the Papal conclave of 1623.
1700
1690
1623
1630
4. British troops capture New Amsterdam and rename it New York.
1658
1692
1664
1602
5. Polish
1613
1699
1652
1644
6. China conquers the Kingdom of Tungning and annexes Taiwan.
1683
1613
1696
1663
7. Cape Town founded by the Dutch EastIndia Company in South Africa.
1649
1652
1689
1648
8. English poet and playwright William Shakespeare dies.
1607
1700
1616
1601
9. Aurochs go extinct.
1627
1649
1688
1633
10. The Battle of Vienna finishes the Ottoman Empire's hegemony in south-eastern Europe.
1660
1683
1663
1621
11. TheFirst Anglo-Dutch War begins.
1652
1616
1667
1620
12. The Ottomans capture Crete from the Venetians after the Siege of Candia.
1606
1601
1648
1689
13. The Tokugawa Shogunate institutes Sakoku- foreigners are expelled and no one is allowed to enter or leave Japan.
1641
1672
1613
1674
14. The Bohemian Revolt precipitates the Thirty Years' War which devastates Europe in the years 1618
1683
1606
1672
1618
15. Bethlen Gabor is defeated outside Vienna.
1619
1606
1678
1667
16. Bethlen Gabor is defeated outside Vienna.
1683
1619
1690
1664
17. Robert Hooke discovers cells using a microscope.
1700
1661
1603
1663
18. The Long War between the Ottoman Empire and Austria is ended with the Peace of Zsitvatorok - Austria abandons Transylvania.
1606
1700
1639
1603
19. 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.'
1633
1673
1633
1632
20. Salem witch trials in Massachusetts.
1652
1631
1692
1613
21. John Locke publishes his first 'Letter Concerning Toleration'.
1700
1640
1689
1648
22. Japan transforms into 'locked country'.
1641
1636
1636
1633
23. The Raid on the Medway during the Second Anglo-Dutch War.
1622
1667
1672
1700
24. English Civil War ends with the Parliamentarian victory at the Battle of Worcester.
1651
1689
1667
1640
25. Ottoman war against Habsburg Hungary.
1700
1663
1689
1688
26. The Grand Alliance sought to stop French expansion during the Nine Years War.
1682
1683
1682
1688
27. The Ottomans capture Crete.
1648
1630
1644
1669
28. Michael the Brave (first unificator of Romania) - voivode of Wallachia - Moldavia and Transylvania - is assassinated by the order of the Habsburg general Giorgio Basta at C
1648
1620
1601
1663
29. Giovanni Battista Pamphili is elected PopeInnocent X at the Papal conclave of 1644.
1655
1641
1644
1608
30. The Second Anglo-Dutch War fought between England and the United Provinces.
1680
1608
1613
1665
31. The Siege of Derry.
1662
1688
1641
1670
32. Dutch EastIndia Company founded. Its success contributes to the Dutch Golden Age.
1697
1689
1688
1602
33. The Ottomans capture Crete from the Venetians after the Siege of Candia.
1634
1648
1667
1665
34. France takes full political and military control over its colonial possessions in New France.
1651
1665
1642
1663
35. The Great Turkish War halts the Ottoman Empire's expansion into Europe.
1662
1667
1618
1609
36. The Karposh rebellion is crushed in present-day Republic of Macedonia - Skopje is retaken by the Ottoman Turks. Karposh is killed - and the rebels are defeated. Giles Cory was pressed to death during the Salem witch trials in the 1690s
1688
1665
1689
1641
37. Pedro de Peralta - governor of New Mexico - establishes the settlement of Santa Fe.
1685
1674
1610
1676
38. Tokugawa Ieyasu seizes control of Japan and establishes the Tokugawa Shogunate - beginning the Edo period that lasts until 1869.
1605
1609
1700
1603
39. The Great Fire of London.
1636
1666
1634
1645
40. Dutch explorer Abel Janszoon Tasman achieves the first recorded European sighting of New Zealand.
1642
1688
1694
1619
41. Treaty of Vienna ends anti-Habsburg uprising in Royal Hungary.
1627
1616
1609
1606
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.
1648
1606
1625
1690
43. The death of Miyamoto Musashi - legendary Japanese Samurai warrior - of natural causes.
1644
1645
1699
1641
44. Emperor Fasilides founds the city of Gondar - which becomes the capital of Ethiopia for the next two centuries.
1631
1662
1636
1640
45. Franco-Dutch War.
1606
1633
1618
1672
46. As chief minister - Cardinal Richelieu centralises power in France.
1624
1688
1634
1694
47. Portugal defeats the Kongo Empire at the Battle of Mbwila.
1639
1665
1647
1672
48. Ottoman war against Habsburg Hungary.
1663
1618
1623
1682
49. The Russian famine of 1601
1644
1699
1601
1632
50. Ottoman campaign to help the Ukrainian Cossacks. John Sobieski defeats the Ottomans at the second battle of Khotyn (1673).
1647
1620
1633
1672