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17th Century Timeline
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1. Sultan Mehmed IV - advised by Kara Mustafa - decides to disregard the existing peace treaty with Leopold I - due to expire in 1684.
1682
1640
1697
1699
2. Louis XIV accepts the Spanish crown on behalf of his grandson Philip of Anjou - triggering the War of the Spanish Succession
1673
1661
1606
1700
3. Polish
1603
1613
1697
1645
4. Giovanni Battista Pamphili is elected PopeInnocent X at the Papal conclave of 1644.
1644
1618
1648
1689
5. Bethlen Gabor is defeated outside Vienna.
1645
1619
1667
1642
6. Assassination of Stephen Bocskay of Transylvania.
1620
1606
1670
1663
7. Peace Treaty of Lisbon between Spain and Portugal recognizes Portugal as independent country.
1693
1676
1654
1668
8. The Ottomans make camp at Adrianople.
1666
1636
1682
1687
9. Emperor Ferdinand II defeats the Bohemian rebels in the Battle of White Mountain.
1619
1620
1672
1683
10. Robert Hooke discovers cells using a microscope.
1633
1663
1618
1618
11. Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.
1618
1687
1603
1660
12. The 1700 Cascadia earthquake (magnitude 9) occurs off the coast of the Pacific Northwest; Japan is struck by a tsunami.
1651
1661
1700
1603
13. The Defenestration of Prague
1620
1694
1618
1696
14. Seven-year-old Mehmed IV becomes sultan.
1632
1622
1621
1647
15. Maratha Empire founded inIndia by Shivaji.
1667
1639
1674
1666
16. Emperor Fasilides expels the Catholic Patriarch Afonso Mendes and several Jesuit missionaries from Ethiopia.
1647
1693
1624
1634
17. The Netherlands and Spain agree to a Twelve Years' Truce in the Eighty Years' War.
1607
1639
1609
1688
18. Famine in Finland wipes out almost a third of the population.
1696
1639
1694
1669
19. Robert Hooke discovers cells using a microscope.
1632
1663
1619
1666
20. Thomas Savery demonstrates his first steam engine to the Royal Society.
1633
1699
1664
1607
21. Fronde civil war in France.
1624
1648
1647
1633
22. 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
1667
1672
1687
1689
23. As chief minister - Cardinal Richelieu centralises power in France.
1689
1665
1603
1624
24. The Battle of the Boyne in Ireland.
1648
1690
1605
1619
25. The Hudson's Bay Company is founded in Canada.
1670
1641
1694
1693
26. Polish-Ottoman War.
1685
1685
1672
1655
27. Treaty of Vienna ends anti-Habsburg uprising in Royal Hungary.
1688
1689
1606
1652
28. The Russian famine of 1601
1609
1682
1601
1616
29. British troops capture New Amsterdam and rename it New York.
1660
1690
1664
1620
30. Salem witch trials in Massachusetts.
1649
1624
1692
1622
31. 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
1601
1682
1625
1637
32. The Manchus start invading China. Their conquest eventually topples the Ming Dynasty.
1674
1672
1603
1618
33. The Bank of England is established.
1667
1620
1694
1674
34. Quebec City founded by Samuel de Champlain in New France (present-day Canada).
1627
1655
1688
1608
35. The Treaty of Karlowitz ends the Great Turkish War.
1648
1699
1700
1695
36. Mount Vesuvius erupts
1633
1667
1609
1631
37. The Russian famine of 1601
1692
1618
1697
1601
38. The Deluge wars leave Polish
1665
1648
1601
1620
39. 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
1631
1627
1689
40. The Irish Rebellion.
1610
1641
1629
1616
41. Emperor Fasilides expels the Catholic Patriarch Afonso Mendes and several Jesuit missionaries from Ethiopia.
1620
1634
1699
1606
42. Peter the Great becomes joint ruler of Russia (sole tsar in 1696).
1683
1661
1644
1682
43. Battle of N
1634
1652
1648
1622
44. The Second Anglo-Dutch War fought between England and the United Provinces.
1665
1678
1603
1601
45. Portugal defeats the Kongo Empire at the Battle of Mbwila.
1693
1665
1649
1654
46. The earliest known first-class cricket match took place in Sussex.
1700
1697
1611
1634
47. Flight of the Earls (the fleeing of most of the native Gaelic aristocracy) occurs from County Donegal in the west of Ulster in Ireland.
1603
1623
1663
1607
48. Capture of Ormuz; The island of Hormuz was captured by an Anglo-Persian force from Portuguese.
1672
1622
1620
1683
49. The Glorious Revolution starts with the Dutch Republic invading England - England becomes a constitutional monarchy.
1663
1664
1682
1688
50. The death of Miyamoto Musashi - legendary Japanese Samurai warrior - of natural causes.
1660
1645
1642
1689
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