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17th Century Timeline
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1. Famine in France kills 2 million.
1692
1637
1640
1644
2. After his father Shah Jahan completes the Taj Mahal - his son Aurangzeb deposes him as ruler of the Mughal Empire.
1625
1688
1658
1700
3. Koxinga captures Taiwan from the Dutch and founds the Kingdom of Tungning which rules until 1683.
1636
1662
1665
1665
4. The War of Devolution; France invades the Netherlands. The Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle (1668) brings this to a halt.
1673
1667
1648
1605
5. 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.
1605
1664
1618
1606
6. As chief minister - Cardinal Richelieu centralises power in France.
1662
1660
1624
1640
7. The War of Devolution; France invades the Netherlands. The Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle (1668) brings this to a halt.
1667
1639
1618
1648
8. 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.
1647
1642
1660
1695
9. Aurochs go extinct.
1642
1627
1611
1667
10. The Irish Rebellion.
1664
1688
1641
1668
11. The College of William and Mary is founded in Williamsburg - Virginia by a royal charter.
1693
1603
1613
1699
12. Cardinal Richelieu allies with Swedish Protestant forces in the Thirty Years' War to counter Ferdinand II's expansion.
1629
1627
1662
1658
13. Lithuanian Civil War
1665
1683
1611
1700
14. A Habsburg council of war is held in Vienna.
1648
1683
1603
1616
15. Siamese revolution of 1688 ousted French influence and virtually severed all ties with the West until the 19th century.
1688
1665
1616
1667
16. Russia supplants Sweden as the dominant Baltic power after the Great Northern War.
1633
1668
1687
1700
17. Aurochs go extinct.
1627
1601
1689
1647
18. The Treaty of Nerchinsk established a border between Russia and China.
1632
1680
1689
1660
19. The Pueblo Revolt drives the Spanish out of New Mexico until 1692.
1670
1680
1621
1692
20. British troops capture New Amsterdam and rename it New York.
1664
1618
1644
1682
21. Tokugawa Ieyasu seizes control of Japan and establishes the Tokugawa Shogunate - beginning the Edo period that lasts until 1869.
1664
1603
1647
1672
22. The earliest known first-class cricket match took place in Sussex.
1645
1673
1620
1697
23. Ren
1641
1644
1668
1672
24. The earliest known first-class cricket match took place in Sussex.
1603
1660
1641
1697
25. Assassination of Stephen Bocskay of Transylvania.
1700
1682
1673
1606
26. The Bank of England is established.
1694
1676
1613
1665
27. The Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.
1618
1688
1649
1689
28. The Deluge wars leave Polish
1603
1606
1655
1648
29. France takes full political and military control over its colonial possessions in New France.
1663
1623
1636
1607
30. 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
1609
1606
1689
1662
31. Edict of Fontainebleau outlaws Protestantism in France. King Charles II dies
1685
1665
1620
1609
32. Kara Mustafa becomes Grand Vizier.
1630
1663
1667
1676
33. The Mughal Empire nearly bans the EastIndia Company in response to pirate Henry Every's capture of the Ganj-i-Sawai
1623
1618
1692
1695
34. Death of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu
1616
1672
1689
1603
35. Sultan Mehmed IV - advised by Kara Mustafa - decides to disregard the existing peace treaty with Leopold I - due to expire in 1684.
1622
1682
1636
1641
36. The Northern Wars cement Sweden's rise as a Great Power.
1655
1662
1681
1672
37. The death of Miyamoto Musashi - legendary Japanese Samurai warrior - of natural causes.
1663
1645
1616
1695
38. The Raid on the Medway during the Second Anglo-Dutch War.
1688
1606
1694
1667
39. Maximilian of Bavaria establishes the Catholic League.
1641
1639
1609
1700
40. Treaty of Vienna ends anti-Habsburg uprising in Royal Hungary.
1700
1606
1689
1689
41. The Manchu conquer China ending the Ming Dynasty. The subsequent Qing Dynasty rules until 1912.
1649
1664
1644
1682
42. The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War.
1629
1700
1644
1654
43. King Charles was compelled to summon Parliament due to the revolt of the Scots.
1639
1639
1607
1640
44. Gunpowder Plot failed in England.
1609
1681
1605
1683
45. Torture is outlawed in England.
1616
1640
1672
1647
46. Ottoman war with Venice. The Ottomans invade Crete and capture Canea.
1682
1654
1634
1645
47. Giovanni Battista Pamphili is elected PopeInnocent X at the Papal conclave of 1644.
1674
1644
1642
1606
48. Jacques Aymar-Vernay - who later reintroduced Dowsing into popular use in Europe - is born.
1662
1613
1688
1682
49. The Ottomans make camp at Adrianople.
1700
1606
1651
1682
50. The Battle of Chocim - Poles and Cossacks under Jan Karol Chodkiewicz defeat the Ottomans.
1629
1621
1613
1655