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17th Century Timeline
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1. Portugal defeats the Kongo Empire at the Battle of Mbwila.
1665
1649
1688
1606
2. The Bohemian Revolt precipitates the Thirty Years' War which devastates Europe in the years 1618
1700
1688
1618
1603
3. The Commonwealth of England ends and the monarchy is brought back during the English Restoration.
1632
1605
1624
1660
4. The Battle of Chocim - Poles and Cossacks under Jan Karol Chodkiewicz defeat the Ottomans.
1606
1667
1630
1621
5. Shimabara Rebellion of Japanese Christians - ronin and peasants against Edo.
1696
1637
1670
1624
6. 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
1674
1605
1689
1632
7. Polish-Ottoman War over Moldavia.
1618
1637
1688
1620
8. John Locke publishes his first 'Letter Concerning Toleration'.
1689
1654
1682
1639
9. Ren
1606
1641
1694
1619
10. The earliest known first-class cricket match took place in Sussex.
1683
1692
1627
1697
11. Maximilian of Bavaria establishes the Catholic League.
1672
1683
1630
1609
12. TheFirst Anglo-Dutch War begins.
1605
1630
1652
1685
13. China conquers the Kingdom of Tungning and annexes Taiwan.
1683
1673
1672
1616
14. English poet and playwright William Shakespeare dies.
1641
1616
1668
1662
15. The Irish Rebellion.
1636
1622
1641
1689
16. The Ottomans make camp at Adrianople.
1682
1641
1652
1603
17. Mount Vesuvius erupts
1640
1692
1689
1631
18. Polish-Ottoman War.
1606
1625
1672
1644
19. The Portuguese Restoration War led to the end of the Iberian Union.
1640
1610
1689
1683
20. Seven-year-old Mehmed IV becomes sultan.
1647
1662
1695
1632
21. The Tokugawa Shogunate institutes Sakoku- foreigners are expelled and no one is allowed to enter or leave Japan.
1620
1661
1603
1641
22. The death of Miyamoto Musashi - legendary Japanese Samurai warrior - of natural causes.
1613
1672
1645
1619
23. TheFirst Anglo-Dutch War begins.
1632
1636
1680
1652
24. Peter the Great becomes joint ruler of Russia (sole tsar in 1696).
1680
1667
1682
1647
25. As chief minister - Cardinal Richelieu centralises power in France.
1607
1688
1624
1689
26. The Great Plague of Seville.
1606
1672
1647
1644
27. Maffeo Barberini is elected Pope Urban VIII at the Papal conclave of 1623.
1620
1623
1644
1605
28. Abbas I - the Safavids king - died.
1629
1673
1605
1645
29. The Irish Rebellion.
1648
1618
1641
1645
30. Torture is outlawed in England.
1692
1606
1662
1640
31. Bethlen Gabor is defeated outside Vienna.
1648
1663
1648
1619
32. The Ottomans capture Crete.
1624
1608
1669
1676
33. The Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth army defeats combined Russian- Swedish forces at the Battle of Klushino and conquers Moscow.
1688
1618
1610
1644
34. The Hudson's Bay Company is founded in Canada.
1606
1692
1670
1697
35. Jamestown massacre - Algonquian natives kill 347 English settlers outside Jamestown - Virginia (1/3 of the colony's population) and burn the Henricus settlement.
1609
1627
1629
1622
36. The Great Turkish War halts the Ottoman Empire's expansion into Europe.
1606
1667
1692
1644
37. John Evelyn's forestry book - Sylva - is published in England.
1618
1613
1682
1664
38. King Charles was compelled to summon Parliament due to the revolt of the Scots.
1689
1660
1651
1640
39. Salem witch trials in Massachusetts.
1670
1696
1692
1631
40. The Pueblo Revolt drives the Spanish out of New Mexico until 1692.
1634
1680
1697
1695
41. 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
1692
1618
1673
42. Franco-Dutch War.
1660
1690
1672
1618
43. The last remaining Moriscos (Moors who had nominally converted to Christianity) in Spain are expelled.
1654
1688
1616
1606
44. The Mughal Empire nearly bans the EastIndia Company in response to pirate Henry Every's capture of the Ganj-i-Sawai
1610
1695
1664
1622
45. The Pasha of Buda supports Imre Th
1681
1687
1626
1627
46. The Dutch WestIndia Company invades the Portuguese colony of Bahia in Brazil.
1666
1630
1622
1624
47. Polish-Ottoman War over Moldavia.
1601
1672
1689
1620
48. The Grand Alliance sought to stop French expansion during the Nine Years War.
1673
1676
1640
1688
49. Ottoman war against Habsburg Hungary.
1678
1660
1631
1663
50. Naval Battle of the Downs
1611
1624
1640
1639