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17th Century Timeline
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1. The Great Turkish War halts the Ottoman Empire's expansion into Europe.
1639
1618
1661
1667
2. As chief minister - Cardinal Richelieu centralises power in France.
1603
1661
1624
1642
3. The Great Plague of Seville.
1693
1633
1647
1664
4. The Dutch WestIndia Company invades the Portuguese colony of Pernambuco and founds Dutch Brazil.
1606
1667
1630
1682
5. The Ottomans make camp at Adrianople.
1616
1682
1688
1618
6. 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.
1606
1648
1606
1641
7. Death of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu
1634
1627
1616
1610
8. Taj Mahal building work started in Agra -India
1700
1668
1601
1632
9. Fronde civil war in France.
1672
1605
1687
1648
10. Royal Society of London for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge founded.
1648
1634
1660
1682
11. 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.'
1678
1688
1601
1673
12. The Manchus start invading China. Their conquest eventually topples the Ming Dynasty.
1664
1681
1618
1683
13. Battle of N
1634
1601
1648
1610
14. Mount Vesuvius erupts
1631
1634
1683
1683
15. The Treaty of Nerchinsk established a border between Russia and China.
1618
1689
1674
1641
16. Maratha Empire founded inIndia by Shivaji.
1613
1618
1688
1674
17. Famine in Finland wipes out almost a third of the population.
1696
1637
1613
1690
18. Ottoman campaign to help the Ukrainian Cossacks. John Sobieski defeats the Ottomans at the second battle of Khotyn (1673).
1610
1601
1672
1608
19. The War of Devolution; France invades the Netherlands. The Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle (1668) brings this to a halt.
1676
1647
1689
1667
20. Maffeo Barberini is elected Pope Urban VIII at the Papal conclave of 1623.
1623
1630
1672
1648
21. Ottoman war with Venice. The Ottomans invade Crete and capture Canea.
1622
1610
1645
1674
22. Capture of Ormuz; The island of Hormuz was captured by an Anglo-Persian force from Portuguese.
1621
1630
1606
1622
23. The fortresses of Veszpr
1605
1640
1688
1694
24. Salem witch trials in Massachusetts.
1692
1672
1695
1699
25. Harvard University is founded in Cambridge - Massachusetts.
1665
1683
1636
1682
26. After his father Shah Jahan completes the Taj Mahal - his son Aurangzeb deposes him as ruler of the Mughal Empire.
1689
1658
1631
1610
27. The 1700 Cascadia earthquake (magnitude 9) occurs off the coast of the Pacific Northwest; Japan is struck by a tsunami.
1610
1700
1602
1689
28. Time of Troubles - Vasili IV becomes Tzar of Russia.
1606
1632
1641
1692
29. A Habsburg council of war is held in Vienna.
1640
1683
1664
1621
30. Polish
1661
1683
1624
1613
31. Mehmed K
1667
1605
1654
1603
32. Beginning of English Civil War - conflict will end in 1651 with the execution of King Charles I - abolishment of the monarchy and the establishment of the supremacy of Parliament over the king.
1642
1667
1639
1667
33. The War of the Two Kings in Ireland.
1672
1688
1658
1667
34. Kara Mustafa becomes Grand Vizier.
1676
1633
1606
1603
35. The Grand Alliance sought to stop French expansion during the Nine Years War.
1692
1636
1688
1620
36. The Great Fire of London.
1666
1652
1699
1618
37. Sultan Mehmed IV - advised by Kara Mustafa - decides to disregard the existing peace treaty with Leopold I - due to expire in 1684.
1689
1682
1652
1613
38. Lithuanian Civil War
1668
1627
1692
1700
39. Seven-year-old Mehmed IV becomes sultan.
1647
1672
1616
1603
40. The War of the Two Kings in Ireland.
1640
1639
1688
1642
41. New Amsterdam founded by the Dutch WestIndia Company in North America.
1605
1652
1672
1625
42. The Long War between the Ottoman Empire and Austria is ended with the Peace of Zsitvatorok - Austria abandons Transylvania.
1689
1606
1641
1652
43. Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.
1687
1692
1634
1689
44. Flight of the Earls (the fleeing of most of the native Gaelic aristocracy) occurs from County Donegal in the west of Ulster in Ireland.
1623
1663
1642
1607
45. 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.
1634
1609
1606
1607
46. The Hudson's Bay Company is founded in Canada.
1670
1678
1616
1644
47. Assassination of Stephen Bocskay of Transylvania.
1621
1606
1603
1627
48. John Evelyn's forestry book - Sylva - is published in England.
1623
1639
1664
1663
49. Kara Mustafa becomes Grand Vizier.
1610
1676
1682
1674
50. Giovanni Battista Pamphili is elected PopeInnocent X at the Papal conclave of 1644.
1641
1689
1667
1644